A cultural look at information and communication technologies in Eastern education

The Eastern cultural tradition, together with other social factors, has shaped a group-based, teacher-dominated, and centrally organized pedagogical culture. Drawing upon this cultural perspective, this article reviews the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Eastern schools, including ICT planning and management, hardware infrastructures, software resources and services, professional development, and ICT-supported educational practices. It highlights the impact of the pedagogical culture on technology use, as well as the role of technology in pedagogical change. The review suggests a number of critical challenges Eastern educators need to address.     

A future for speech communication

William Work's assessment of a technologically rich communication environment stresses a need for developing comprehensive literacy. The failure of education in producing such skills may be due to a time‐bias favoring the present and past in curricular programs. Four developments must take place in order for the field of speech communication to contribute to the future development of high levels of consciousness in human communication. Speech communication must be futurized, civilized, politicized, and globalized.     

A closer look at the Mulliken-Barker test

Qualitative analysis of unknown organic compounds is an essential part of the core curriculum for BSc and MSc students in chemistry. The functional group detection is a significant component of qualitative analysis. The present work describes the reason for the failure of Mulliken-Barker test for nitro compounds having carboxylic acid functionality and suggests a possible remedy.     

旅游文化的社会学探讨

文章以社会学为视角,观察旅游文化现象。作者运用人类文化学和社会学理论和方法,指出旅游的本质是人类的文化需求,社会学的许多分支学科都能解释旅游文化现象,并有助于旅游学科的完善。     

百年回眸“想亲亲”——20世纪中国情歌创作初探

以现代作曲技术进行情歌创作是20世纪中国音乐艺术的重要现象。通过历史回顾、技术解析和理性认识三个方面,对这一重要的音乐创作进行总结与探讨。     

A look at the present — A step to the future: An analysis of career and employment counselling in Canada

This paper reports the findings from a major survey of career and employment counselling in Canada. It describes the current state of career and employment counselling in Canada and outlines several emerging issues for future consideration.Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation     

A new look at the age of technology

Dr Margaret Mead received the Kalinga Prize for 1970 on 2 December 1971, at a ceremony presided over by René Maheu, Director-General of Unesco.The Kalinga Prize is awarded annually by Unesco to a scientist, writer, editor, speaker or radio programme editor whose work has significantly contributed to the interpretation of science as an instrument for improving the welfare of mankind, enriching the culture of nations and answering human and social problems. It was established in 1951, and is based on a grant made by B. Patnaïk, from the State of Orissa, India. Prospects reprints here the text of Dr Mead's speech: Margaret Mead is a prominent anthropologist and author of many works, including Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, Male and Female, Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap,and A Rap on Race (with James Baldwin).     

A new look at racial prejudice

An analysis of racial prejudice employing the learning processes of discrimination and generalization is presented. It is suggested that the generalization process can help to explain the problem involved in racial prejudice. Implications of this proposal are extended to the forced school busing issue and related matters, with the conclusion that voluntary interaction between the races is necessary for prejudice to be overcome. Some suggestions are made for encouraging this voluntary interaction via the use of reinforcement procedures.     

A developmental look at award-winning software

Daniel D. Shade is Assistant Professor, Department of Individual and Family Studies and Director of the Computers As Partners Project, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.     

A new look at big history

As the education for citizenship agenda continues to impact on schools in the UK and with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in conjunction with the Scottish Government introducing its Lessons From Auschwitz (LFA) project for students and teachers in Scotland, this article focuses on the Scottish context and investigates the school processes by which students are chosen to participate in the LFA project, the impact the LFA project has on student personal growth, and the range of follow‐up activities in their schools and communities. The methodology employed online questionnaires and face‐to‐face interviews which were designed to ascertain student perceptions of the LFA project and the impact that this project had on student participants, their schools, and their communities. Findings demonstrate that the student cohort were highly academic students who took their responsibilities on return to their schools very seriously and organized a wide range of events, both in their schools and in their communities. There was clear evidence that the LFA project had led to extra teaching and awareness of the Holocaust, racism, and human rights; and that students’ citizenship values had been enhanced.     

A new look at infant pointing

The current article proposes a new theory of infant pointing involving multiple layers of intentionality and shared intentionality. In the context of this theory, evidence is presented for a rich interpretation of prelinguistic communication, that is, one that posits that when 12-month-old infants point for an adult they are in some sense trying to influence her mental states. Moreover, evidence is also presented for a deeply social view in which infant pointing is best understood--on many levels and in many ways--as depending on uniquely human skills and motivations for cooperation and shared intentionality (e.g., joint intentions and attention with others). Children's early linguistic skills are built on this already existing platform of prelinguistic communication.     

Another look at the relative impact of workplace design on training transfer for supervisory communication skills

This ethnographic study extends the findings of earlier research that authenticated the impact of workplace design features on newly acquired communication skills back on the job. The qualitative nature of the earlier study, however, limited quantitative measurement of workplace design features that may have an impact on learned skills. This study examined supervisor perceptions about the relative importance of organizational factors that affect transfer and prioritized the importance of specific design features to support learned communication skills. Research findings validate earlier research that workplace design is another work environment influence that may facilitate or impede the ultimate success of a training intervention for performance improvement.