Teachers’ negative experiences and expressions of emotion: being true to yourself or keeping you in your place?

A discourse of marketisation prevails in recent publications on higher education in Ireland. Higher education is urged to heed the call to the markets and to become the driver of Ireland's future economic success, as Ireland seeks to build a knowledge-based economy. This article questions the dominant marketisation discourse in higher education. It explores the arguments for and against a market-led approach to education and argues that there can be no pure markets in education. It suggests that the real discourse is one of urging universities to follow government- or corporate-led agendas. It proposes a wider-encompassing discourse on higher education's role in society rather than one confined to the socially constructed language of performativity.     

论布尔巴基结构主义范式的双重性:宏大叙事中的后现代线索

20世纪30年代之后,基础主义三大流派已成强弩之末,布尔巴基结构主义运动开始崭露头角并迅猛发展,成为20世纪纯粹数学发展的一种重要范式。从哲学的视角看,结构主义运动虽仍具有宏大叙事性,但也开始显露出若干后现代思想的迹象,如关联与多样的理论样态、对象实体的弱化与关系结构的生成性与延异性。这种集现代性与后现代性于一身的双重性见证了当代数学复杂多样的范式革命。从“集合-结构”到“层级-结构”的转换和以范畴论引领的数学时代值得期待。     

市场中国个人化写作的演变

市场中国的个人化叙事起初有诗性方向,后来被现实生存的反诗性冲动所扭转,它们不断排除宏大历史并降低人性高度,由最初对抗理性思考而坠落至对生命自由的歪曲,个人生存被简单等同于不为历史承担责任的庸常生活,以至演变成一种伪个人化的类型化公共写作.     

The Findings of the 9‐13 Middle School Survey: a local authority view

This paper presents an illustration of how the regression‐discontinuity design can be used to obtain an unbiased estimate of the causal effect of participating in a university remedial English program on first‐year grade point average. First‐year grade point averages were collected for 197 first‐time, full‐time university students, along with the scores they received on an English placement examination, and a measure of remedial program assignment. Regression discontinuities indicate that first‐year grade point averages were approximately 0.392 points higher for students who participated in a remedial English program as compared to equivalent students who did not participate in the remedial program. We also present various threats to validity and limitations of the regression‐discontinuity design.     

Working-class boys’ relationships with reading: contextual systems that support working-class boys’ engagement with,and enjoyment of,reading

Drawing on interviews with 15 boys attending schools in low socioeconomic communities in Australia, this paper examines the multiplicity of contextual influences on boys’ everyday reading experiences. Implementing an ecological metaphor, boys’ narratives about (i) their attitudes towards reading at school (microsystem); (ii) parental beliefs about reading (mesosystem); (iii) masculinities within low socioeconomic communities (exosystem), and; (iv) reading as socially valued knowledge (macrosystem) are explored. The paper illustrates the textured nature of immediate and broader influences on boys’ engagement with, and positioning of, reading. In particular, the paper challenges dominant discourses about working-class boys’ reading practices, contributing to research into literacy in-situ to make visible the immediate and broader contextual systems that influence the ways working-class boys engage with, and enjoy, reading.     

Young people’s and parent’s perceptions of managed moves

The current research aimed to increase understanding of the experiences of young people and their parents of managed moves, what contributed to success and the nature of the challenges experienced. The study was conducted in one English Local Authority, where five young people and their parents were interviewed. Five superordinate themes emerged from the interviews, relating to: the initial process (people, trail period, managed moves as a positive solution); the reasons for the move (bullying/social isolation, breakdown in relationships with staff); conceptions of success (happiness, improved self-perceptions, learning and progress), factors contributing to success (fresh start/clean slate; home–school communication; pastoral support, school suitability) and problems arising (moving a problem, narratives around young people, timing and family stress). The findings are discussed in relation to implications for practice.     

从反殖民到自我殖民?

本文认为,美国学者阿尔特巴赫《学术殖民主义在行动：美国认证他国大学》一文延续了其以依附理论和新殖民主义视角研究中国家高等教育问题的立场与风格,尽管其有关发展中国家高等教育依附发展的理论与方法值得商榷,但该文对我们仍有很大的借鉴意义。本文指出,在全球化背景下,必须正视发展中国家高等教育面临的危机,在中国高等教育国际化潮流中,进一步提升民族文化认同,推动中国高等教育现代化。     

圣迹:大生命力的强劲传达——浅论昌耀世纪年代中前期诗歌

从1982年至1985年,昌耀写就了气势恢弘的大西部诗,其精神实质是用强烈的生命意识张扬生命力。诗人把视线投注到了整个大西部及其陈列其间的事象、物象和景象上,强劲地传达了“大生命”意象的“大生命力”。根据诗歌视线投注点的不同,诗人分整个荒原高地、具体物象、民族三个不同对象分别传达了这种“大生命力”。     

《娘惹与峇峇》中华人身份的迷失与重构

方北方的《娘惹与峇峇》通过叙述马来西亚父、子、孙三代华人家庭从鼎盛走向衰落的过程,控诉了殖民主义文化对马来西亚华人的思想、文化所造成的严重毒害。在殖民文化影响下,以娘惹为代表的华族社会内部形成了畸形的、扭曲的殖民文化观,这种畸形殖民文化观念挤压并扭曲了华人本土文化。作为对殖民主义文化的反抗策略,小说展望通过加强华文文化教育,从而使华人摆脱殖民思想文化的牢笼。     

制度排斥视角下农民工城市融入问题研究

当前,农民工在城市融入的过程中,遭受着户籍、就业等多方面的制度排斥,这种制度性排斥极大地阻碍了农民工的城市融入进程。运用“社会排斥”理论,探讨对农民工的不同制度性排斥的运作机制,并据此提出反社会排斥的对策,最终促进农民工真正融入城市,实现流动人口全面发展及和谐社会建设。     

We don’t play with gays,they’re not real boys … they can’t fight: Hegemonic masculinity and (homophobic) violence in the primary years of schooling

Whenever masculinity and school violence are considered in South African research, the focus is often on the high school. In this paper, we consider a different direction by drawing on Connell’s (1995) concept of hegemonic masculinity to understand the workings of power and violence amongst a group of South African primary school boys. Little is known about how forces of hegemonic masculinity operate to shape every day gender relations amongst younger boys. Against this background, this paper focuses on a particular group of boys, between 10 and 13 years old, who attend a ‘black’, working-class primary school in South Africa. In addition, they identify themselves as ‘real boys’, where being a ‘real boy’ is inextricably linked to violent ‘performances’ of hegemonic masculinity on the school playground during break time. The paper explores how these boys use forms of violence to claim control of the playground space and to exclude, marginalise and denigrate the other group of boys whom they construct as ‘unmasculine’ and ‘gay’. The findings raise implications for ways of curbing the violence, such as working with the boys to promote non-violent interpretations of performing, being and becoming a ‘real boy’.     

逻辑起点与核心主题；现代性议题与社会学理论的研究

作为现代性产物之一的社会学,其理论研究的逻辑起点就是现代性。不仅如此,从其诞生之时起,社会学理论研究的命运就与现代性紧紧拴在一起了。无论是古典社会学,还是现代社会学和当代社会学理论研究,其核心主题都是围绕现代性而展开的。同时,其形成的研究范式也是一种以民族国家中心论、西方中心论和人类主体中心论为特征的现代性研究范式。     

从回族的伊斯兰汉译看文明对话及中华文化的多元一体性

在中华文化多元一体格局形成过程中,佛教翻译和民族翻译都起到举足轻重的作用。而回族的伊斯兰汉译既属于宗教翻译,又属于民族翻译,地位非常独特。针对一些西方学者将中国内部文化关系视为内部殖民主义,本文以回族的伊斯兰汉译为例论述伊斯兰汉译对中华文化多元一体性的贡献,并藉此辨析多元一体与内部殖民的区别,不以泯灭多元性为前提的一体性不属于内部殖民之列。     

Masculinity Politics, Myths and Boys' Schooling: A Review Essay

This essay reviews two recently published American books about masculinity politics—Michael Kimmel's pro-feminist Manhood in America and his edited collection The Politics of Manhood —in order to comment critically on the current debate underway in various parts of the world on 'boys' and their schooling which sees them as the 'new victims' of the educational process.     

Examining Boys’ Readings of Gender in the English Classroom

As an opinionated and often challenging class of year 10 boys, they demonstrated a strong sense of their identity as a group of ‘bright boys’. One of their English teachers described the class as ‘boisterous, but very motivated – they love discussing texts’, but she also recognised their tendency to ‘descend into testosterone fuelled competitiveness’. I became interested in the ways these boys read and responded to literature and in particular how their strong view of themselves as ‘bright boys’ influenced their reading of gender in literature. I examine two lessons with this year 10 class in which they discussed representations of gender in two literary texts. I was interested in the ways they constructed and asserted their masculine identities through class discussions about gender in literature and I found myself wondering: how do these boys read gender, and why do they read gender in these ways?     

影响普通高校男生参与健美操课程的因素分析

健美操运动作为学校体育的基础项目早已纳入各高校体育教学中,并深受广大学生喜欢。为了促进健美操更深入广泛的开展,针对男生在参与健美操运动中存在的差异,分析总结出影响男生健美操学习兴趣的原因,并提出相应对策。期待对促进学生全面发展,推动学校体育中健美操教学的改革和完善提供参考依据。