DEVELOPING TALENTED CHILDREN: PROBLEMS AND EXPERIENCES

A project in the 7th and 8th grades aimed at providing the best possible school conditions to promote development of the abilities of children aged 13–14. The children's activity was founded on two main psychological and pedagogical principles: adequate motivation, and individual differentiation. The children's development was monitored by means of intelligence and personality tests. The main results were as follows: there was a pronounced improvement in the performance tasks, but no significant development in verbal tasks; the role of inner motives had greatly increased but the pupils had become more tense and impatient by the end of the school year. Necessary alterations in the project are outlined.     

PROBLEMS OF THE AUTONOMY AND FINANCING OF THE ALBANIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Although founded in 1972, the Albanian Academy of Sciences was subjected to strong political and ideological control until after 1990. Its academic freedom and autonomy were recognized by law in 1994. The Academy has been very much concerned with rehabilitating the fields of the social sciences, particularly Albanian history and Albanian studies in general.     

高校内部教育供给中存在的主要问题及对策研究

部分专业师资紧缺,专业老化,层次偏低,管理效益差,观念落后是当前高校内部教育供给中存在的主要问题.为此,需要加强教师队伍建设,正确定位专业、学科的类型和层次,更新办学观念,提高管理效益.     

THE HETEROGENEITY OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES ‐ COMMON PROBLEMS AND DIFFERENCES

We present below an abbreviated version of the speech delivered on 15 November 1977 during Dies Academicus of the University of Lausanne by Professor Dominique Rivier, Rector of the University of Lausanne, which analyses the overall present picture of higher education in Europe. On the one hand, this analysis presents a framework for international cooperation in the field of higher education and on the other hand, identifies a number of common problems the solution of which could require international co‐operation.     

西部开发中的基础设施建设及几个相关问题

笔者对有关基础设施建设的经济学原理作了简要介绍;在此基础上,提出西部地区在具体进行基础设施建设中应把握的两条基本原则。同时,对几个既关系到西部开发战略又关系到经济体制改革的重点和前沿问题作了初步分析。最后试给出具有一定理论意义的“广义西部开发”的提法。     

当代我国心理问题的社会心理根源剖析与对策

随着社会的快速发展 ,心理问题已逐渐成为全社会普遍关注的问题。心理问题的产生与蔓延 ,并非偶然 ,有一定的社会与心理基础。笔者着重探讨了当代我国心理问题的社会心理根源 ,并在此基础上论述了我们应采取的对策     

蒙汉幼儿美术审美偏爱心理特点研究

笔者运用实验法和谈话法,对内蒙古呼和浩特市133名蒙古族和汉族幼儿的美术审美偏爱心理特点进行研究。结果表明,蒙汉幼儿对不同风格、色彩、题材和形式的美术作品的审美偏爱是非艺术鉴赏水平的,既表现出共同的特点,又在色彩偏爱方面显示出一定的差异性。     

THE INSTITUTES OF THE LATVIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATION

Since achieving independence in 1991, the Republic of Latvia has taken radical measures to reform its system of science on a western model. The funding system has been overhauled, the Academy of Sciences, that used to be a kind of Ministry of Science, has become an academy of the classical type, and the advanced degrees of scientists inherited from the USSR‐era have been nostrificated. The big problem has been that of enacting the decision made to integrate the former institutes that were subordinated to the Latvian Academy of Sciences into the university system. The process has been resisted by university teachers who do not want to do research and by institute scientists who do not want to teach students, particularly undergraduate students. The article describes several measures that have been taken to deal with this problem which still remains unresolved.     

公司制与国家财产所有权的法律问题

将传统的国有企业逐步改造为有限责任公司或股份有限公司，用公司这种财产组织形式，进一步明确出资人权利和义务。公司制可以最好的体现公有制形式多样化，因为国家财产权最终仍在公司制里完整的依法享有最终权益。     

INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES AND THE USE OF METAPHORS IN SOLVING PROBLEMS

Little is known about the use of metaphors in problem solving. In this study, a group of 20 year olds attempted to solve problems with the help of different kinds of metaphors (apt vs. nonapt; remote vs. literal). Different kinds of metaphors were valuable for different aspects of problem solving and for people of differing levels of creativity, but the use of metaphor did not depend on level of intelligence. Literal metaphors did not impede creative thinking, as long as they were apt.

     

PUSHING THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM: QUEERNESS, CHILDREN, AND THE FUTURE

A bstract .  In this essay, Cris Mayo describes a tension between recognizing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) people by law and giving (or denying) them certain legal rights on the basis of identity, on the one hand, and enabling queer people, not always fully recognizable as inhabiting particular identity categories, to live their potentials, on the other. Laws and rights regulate particular kinds of people, and while lgbt people have pursued civil rights energetically for the last sixty years or so, their queerness continues to complicate their attempts to gain legitimacy. Beyond civil rights claims, queer liberationist claims push the limits of the understanding of identity, sexual practices, and political life, because they prompt us to consider not just abstract possibilities and freedoms but the freedoms and possibilities of people barely recognizable. Mayo shows how these queer claims are often hard to frame in terms of liberal theory and actual law.     

THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF CHILDREN

Silence needs to be shown to be taught. This is because the nonverbal, which is a different way of referencing the world than symbols, cannot be translated into words. Teaching silence is of special importance today because of the connection between silence and the creation of existential meaning, as well as the functioning of the creative process itself. The loss of silence in our culture will result in the loss of religious meaning and the impairment of creativity. Without deep meaning and the creative process the human species is at risk.