The 39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit(TESOL 2005)

The 39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit will be held at the Henry B.Gonzalez Convention Center,San Anto- nio,Texas USA.Join TESOL in San Antonio for an opportu- nity to learn with more than 7,000 English language teaching professionals representing more than 113 countries.More than 800 concurrent sessions and 200 publisher/exhibitor sessions will provide TESOL professionals with opportunities to learn     

The Rochester Convention

This article identifies different types of religious education, as different countries and cultures provide different rationales for the appearance or non-appearance of religion in the curriculum of their public schools. It examines the nature of indoctrination and four principal ways in which indoctrination operates. The possibility of secular indoctrination is identified, along with the extent to which one type of religious education might be conceived as an antidote against it. It concludes that education about religion(s), as one type of religious education, is entirely consistent with democratic education in the public square.     

The Davi 1969 Convention

Any European attempting to report on an American convention tends to have two major problems: firstly confusion, resulting from the large scale of the convention; and, secondly, an inability to identify himself closely with the social background against which the convention is set. This second problem was particularly apparent at this year's DAVI National Convention at Portland, Oregon, which had as it's pervading theme ‘Media and Social Crisis’: the ways in which the new communications media could help in coping with the ‘educational-social crisis’ which America faces. Certainly the problem of student alienation is one which we too have experienced (though one gathers the problem is more serious in America), but the way in which this is compounded by tensions between racial groups is outside European experience. However one cannot but admire the blunt, head-on manner in which the situation was put to the Convention members during the five general sessions, and the genuine attempts which were made to look deeply into the causes of the problems and see how the DAVI membership might move to alleviate the situation.     

20世纪以来的宗族义庄研究

义庄肇始于北宋,兴盛于清中后期,在土改运动中衰熄.作为传统宗族社会的赈恤组织,义庄关涉绅权、族权、庄产运营、族内救助、社会控制等诸多环节.20世纪上半期,中外学人开始涉足这一领域;新中国成立后,族产被界定为封建制度的核心要素,国内义庄研究一度中断;直至80年代始,义庄问题才引起学界的持续关注.目前,学界对义庄的研究,主要集中在义庄的功能、性质、兴盛缘由、地理分布等方面,而在义庄宗族结构、保障机制、义庄与地方政治经济的互动及对当下发展社会慈善事业的启示等领域,尚显薄弱,有待学界继续耕耘.