The struggle to technicise in education policy

In contemporary education policy, simplified technical accounts of policy problems and solutions are being produced with the use of numeric calculations. These calculations are seen as clear and unbiased, capable of revealing “what works” and identifying “best practices.” In this piece, the authors use resources from the material-semiotic approach of actor-network theory to discuss how calculations have begun to serve as a subtle infrastructure underpinning the way we understand and organise our world. They demonstrate the usefulness of the approach in tracing the technicisation of policy by deploying it to qualitative studies of like-school comparisons in the two unexpectedly linked locations—New York City and Australia. The authors reveal how technical accounts are precarious and need constant maintenance to endure, even as they increasingly becoming routine, curtailing the policy imagination and limiting the spaces of contestation. It is for this reason, they argue, that a deeper understanding and sustained critique of such accounts is of pressing importance.     

Adult Education,Social Action and the IBA: the sixties to the eighties

The article describes the arrival and organisation of adult education on ITV. The author describes the development of social action programming and the arrival on the scene of the Community Education Officers in the ITV companies. The author contends that while the formal networked adult education output was only partially successful, the development of social action, fitting as it does the federal structure of ITV, opened up a rich new vein in British public service broadcasting.     

略论大学生面试中需谨记的问题

笔者根据工作实际,谈了大学生应聘过程中应注意的几个问题,帮助大学生在就业的路途中少走弯路,引导大学生端正就业心态,尽快实现就业.     

爱与死的挣扎——悲剧的本体意义解析

文章通过对“生命起源”的探讨,引出“人的存在本身”这个问题,指出“存在”是一个从“无——有——无”的生命历程,而“无”为其真正的哲学基础。对“无”的对抗而形成“灵”与“肉”的交错与混杂的结果才是真正的悲剧;“爱”是对“悲剧宿命”的最有力的反抗,同时又是对方最有效地确证自己的方式。正是通过“爱”与“死”的挣扎才显示出生命的本质,而生命的真实意义就表现为在悲剧中,在毁灭中获得享受与重生。     

《醉翁亭记》及英译的短语识别与句法研究

本文首先介绍英汉短语及英汉语言的整体特点,基于《醉翁亭记》及英译,对比分析英汉句法特点,集中在汉语中排比,对偶,对照句式的翻译,汉译英中添加介词,及文化负载词的处理。     

如何记英语单词及扩大词汇量

词汇学习是英语学习中一项最基本、最重要的内容。识记单词、扩大词汇量对于提高英语水平至关重要。根据英语词汇的语音、词形、词义,以科学的方法记单词,采用广泛阅读的方法扩大词汇量,并以良好的情绪、十分自信的心情来进行这些识记活动,记单词、扩大词汇量就能达到事半功倍的效果。     

高职院校继任班级辅导员应如何开展工作

继任班级辅导员工作的开展是学生管理工作的难点,本文探讨了继任班级辅导员工作开展的四条有效途径,既是经验的总结,又具有一定的理论指导意义。     

The sixties and the seventies: Aspects of student activism in West Germany

The fundamental differences between the student movement in West Germany in the 1960s and the 1970s are analysed and the personal, social, political and organizational factors influencing these changes are described. Information from surveys of student opinion is used to illustrate the argument.     

被湮没的抗争：抗战时期国民政府的对敌宣传

在抗日战争中,作为抗战最主要的组织者,国民政府发挥自己作为中央政府的角色,开展了积极有效的对敌宣传工作。国民政府的对敌宣传斗争是中国人民抗日战争的组成部分。     

The Neighbourhood House: site of struggle,site of learning

Adult education research has tended to concentrate on the pragmatics of facilitating learning and developing educational programmes in institutionalised settings. Critical, contextual analysis of adult learning, and studies of informal learning, are both relatively neglected in the adult education literature. Applying concepts drawn from contestation theory to data from two Australian women's learning centres, this paper suggests that, while women gain considerable knowledge from adult education courses conducted in community centres, the informal, incidental or embedded learning that takes place as women participate in these centres is also very significant. This experiential learning enables women to make sense of and act on their environment, and to come to understand themselves as knowledge‐creating, acting being. It appears that much of this informal learning is generated by conflict between people within the centres.     

Predictors of foster parents' satisfaction and intent to continue to foster

OBJECTIVE: The United States General Accounting Office (United States General Accounting Office [USGAO], 1989) report on out-of-home care affirmed that the foster care system is in crisis. To shed light on some factors that influence retention, the study reported here asked "What factors influence the satisfaction of foster parents?" and "What factors influence the intent of licensed foster parents to continue to foster?" METHOD: A sample of 539 foster parents in eight urban counties in a large Midwestern state completed questionnaires aimed at addressing these questions. RESULTS: Some of the factors exerting the strongest influence on satisfaction were: feeling competent to handle the children who were placed; wanting to take in children who needed loving parents; no regrets about investment in foster children; foster mother's age; and agency social worker providing information and showing approval for a job well done. An example of factors exerting influence on intent to continue to foster include overall satisfaction, readiness to phone the social worker, number of foster boys in the home, being treated like one needed help oneself, and agency affiliation (private). CONCLUSIONS: Efforts to increase the supply of foster homes through recruitment is not enough. The support, training, and professional regard given to parents after they have begun the fostering task is of greater need. Based on analysis of the findings, implications for practice, programming, and policy are offered.     

The road to collaborative and integrated education: Success and struggle in a university classroom

Abstract

Although much of the contemporary discourse on collaborative teaching is positive, there is a dearth of information about and research on the practical issues of undertaking such an endeavor at the university level. The authors of this article team taught a course that combined three educational methods classes (Instruction in Elementary Language Arts, Instruction in Elementary Reading, and Instruction in Elementary Social Studies). This undertaking evoked positive experiences for the instructors and students but also evinced areas that caused conflict and concern, including conflicts regarding student assessment, amount of time required, and lack of administrative support. As we continue to incorporate and refine collaborative teaching at the university level, economics, recognition, and status issues also need to be examined.     

Children exposed to obscene phone calls: what they remember and tell

OBJECTIVE: This case study examined children's reports from an obscene phone call (i.e., a verbal sexual abuse). We investigated which type of information the children reported, the completeness and accuracy of the children's statements, and whether there were systematic patterns in terms of memory distortions and omissions. METHOD: The completeness and the accuracy of the children's statements were examined by matching 64 children's statements given during police interviews with a detailed documentation of each phone call, made by the perpetrator during the actual phone calls. RESULTS: All children remembered the phone call per se, but they were found to omit almost all of the sexual and sensitive information (perpetrator's questions and statements) and about 70% of the neutral information given by the perpetrator. However, the children were accurate in the information they did report. CONCLUSIONS: The fact that the children did remember more of the neutral information suggests that they actually remembered the sexual information as well, but that they chose not to report it. Results indicate that children who have been sexually abused may remember more than they report in an initial interview. One possible underlying reason is that children experience shame or embarrassment.     

树立以人为本的思想传承创新学校文化

学校文化是一棵生命之树．是学校的生命和灵魂，是学校可持续发展的重要因素。用高雅的学校文化去科学管理学校是现代化学校的标志。建设学校文化，要树立科学的发展观，坚持以人为本的人文思想，积淀、传承和创新学校文化上．精心构建优质、高品位的学校文化，充分发挥其育人功能，让学校文化实现独有的价值，焕发生命的活力。营建和谐的氛围，从而推进学校可持续发展。     

If it happened, I would remember it: strategic use of event memorability in the rejection of false autobiographical events

The present research investigated the link between perceived event memorability and false-event rejection. In 2 studies, event salience, plausibility, and recency were manipulated. Study 1 showed that high-salience events elicited higher memorability ratings than low-salience events for 5-, 7-, 9-year-olds and adults. Plausibility and recency affected only 9-year-olds' and adults' judgments. Study 2 demonstrated that younger versus older children and adults were less likely to reject false events, and that older children and adults were more likely to reject false events based on salience than were younger children. High-recency false events were more likely to be rejected than low-recency false events. Consistent with prediction, recency moderated the effect of salience. The development of metamemorial awareness and rejection strategies is discussed.     

钓鱼岛问题的由来与中国人民的保钓斗争

钓鱼列岛自古就是中国的领土.1895年,钓鱼列岛被日本帝国主义掠夺而去,进行了长达50年的殖民统治.第二次世界大战后,钓鱼岛主权之争从此就变得错综复杂起来.但是钓鱼列岛是中国的领土,这是不可否认的历史事实,也是中国政府和中国人民坚定不移的立场.     

保护耕地与我国农业可持续发展

我国耕地存在的主要问题是数量减少 ,质量下降 ,其原因可归结为掠夺式经营 ,制度安排不合理 ,生产、经济发展与土地资源协调不力。结果导致粮食总产减少 ,危及农业可持续发展。因此应创造良好的政策环境和保障制度 ,推动农业技术进步 ,提高耕地的产出能力 ,认真贯彻执行新的《基本农田保护条例》 ,从生产技术和生产方式上保证农业的可持续发展。