Popular Media Portrayals of Inequity and School Reform in The Wire and Waiting for “Superman”

Two popular media forms are examined—the documentary film Waiting for “Superman” and the HBO television series, The Wire—that present distinct, and at times conflicting, depictions of how to address educational inequity. Qualitative media content analysis was used to analyze the two media documents and to situate them within broader popular media representations of school failure. Waiting for “Superman” depicted school choice and dismantling unions as one way to address school failure. The Wire, in contrast, suggested a more complex and uncomfortable portrayal of school failure where blame is not directed at teachers and schools exclusively, but instead encompasses a complex web of inequity due to bureaucracy, economics, culture, politics, and media coverage. The analysis suggests that media sources such as film and television can play a role informing the public on issues of school reform and should be critically examined as pieces of the larger puzzle of improving schools and addressing school inequity.     

Boston Public as Public Pedagogy: Implications for Teacher Preparation and School Leadership

The media play a major role in the construction of popular cultural “texts,” such as films and television programs. These media forms are conceptualized as “public pedagogies”—i.e., as texts that have great potential to teach the public about a wide range of educational issues. This article focuses attention on the representation of teachers and principals in the popular television series Boston Public. Specifically, the authors provide two complimentary accounts of how the representations of teachers and principals can be engaged through critical analyses or “readings.” One account develops a deconstructive reading of how Boston Public treats teacher preparation, teacher competence, and principal leadership. The second account examines how preservice teachers were engaged in multiple readings of the program. The article concludes by suggesting that analyzing popular representations of teachers and educational leaders in film and television can become one important strategy, among others, for developing critically reflective educational leaders and teachers.     

A Fish Out of Water: New Articulations of U.S.–Latino Identity on Ugly Betty

This essay examines representations of U.S.–Latino identity on the ABC television program Ugly Betty. The analysis argues that the show articulates a tension between ethnic “otherness” and cultural assimilation that symbolizes current negotiations of individual and collective identities among young, English-speaking Latinos in the United States. Furthermore, the essay argues that Ugly Betty symbolically endorses a new conceptualization of Latino identity in the United States. The conceptual framework of the analysis is the relationship between media representation and identity.     

Introduction to the Special International Issue

To understand the role the media play in educational politics, it useful to consider the media's role in a participatory democracy. The concept of the news media as “thin” public sphere serves as a pragmatic theoretical lens through which to examine the possibility that the media might play a critical but limited role in participatory democracy. The focus of this special issue is not to enter the fray in the debate over media bias but instead to draw attention to the important role that the media play in educational politics and to make a case for research that is attentive to the intersection of educational politics and media coverage.     

开放教育课程管理机制研究述评

开放教育课程管理机制分为课程准入机制和课程清理机制两部分。课程准入机制包括课程来源和课程准入方式两方面,课程准入方式又分为课程的“实体性”准入标准和“程序性”准入标准;课程清理机制包括课程的“实体性”评价和“程序性”清理机制。目前,我国开放教育课程管理机制的框架已经形成,但某些管理的细节研究有待深入,如课程来源渠道需要拓宽,课程准入把关不严,课程退出机制还远未形成等。     

大众媒介的叙事策略

大众媒介涵括了电视、电影、网络、音乐等。内容上,它在人与人之间传递着纷繁多彩的信息,承载着所有使用它的人的思想情感;形式上,它采用复杂的叙事技巧,为人们提供思考现实生活的方式。随着现代媒介技术快速发展的潮流,人们的“个性”引导了创作的趋势,无论是电视、电影还是网络音乐,都慢慢改变了单向度的展示,它们在展示的同时与观众产生了交流。人们的“填充”使这些传达信息的工具不再是冰冷的机器,而成为了与人对话的“机器人”。大众传媒的叙事策略锻炼着人的理解力,同时也遵循了人的审美需要,使现代人在机器的包围中,感受着人与机器交流的温度。     

法象与性情:子张之儒的从政之道

子张之儒是先秦儒家重要一派,将出土文献、传世文献和相关的理论作品串联成篇,可窥其思想演变之脉络。具体讲,该学派在孔子殁后致力于发扬孔门从政思想,逐渐构造出一套较为完善的政治哲学理论。其核心纲领可用“居敬而行简”概括,其中“居敬”属于从政者自身修养方面,以追求君子“威仪”为目标;“行简”则属于从政者莅民为政方面,以治理百姓为内容。在此理论框架之下,子张及其后学还概括出“虑以下人”“五美四恶”“敬刑为德”“明于礼乐”“知民之性”等理念,并试图回答“政治是什么”“政治何以可能”等哲学问题,客观上促成了当时学界关于人性善恶之讨论。     

我国创新创业教育政策的价值取向研究

以罗森布鲁姆的公共行政“管理、政治、法律”三种途径为理论基础,借鉴相关学者的价值结构模式作为本研究的理论框架,选择部分创新创业教育政策文本作为分析样本,根据变量操作型定义对政策文本进行编码,分析我国创新创业教育政策的价值取向。结果发现:管理价值是我国创新创业教育政策的主要价值属性;“效果”、“回应性”和“公平公正”是创新创业教育政策关注的主要价值维度;管理价值属性中“效率”和“经济”维度的价值并没有得到重视;法律价值属性中“个人权利”和“正当程序”的重要性没有提高,“公平公正”显得尤为重要。     

中共对外新闻传播思想史初探

通过考察中共对外传播活动、研究中共领导人有关论述、分析中共有关宣传会议材料等途径,梳理不同历史时期中共对外传播思想概貌,并在此基础上运用有关理论工具作出分析和思考。文章认为中共对外新闻传播的动力是与生俱来的,并一直将其定位为党的事业的一部分,因而特别强调其政治属性和宣传功能。进入改革开放新时期后,中共对外传播思想逐步经历由宣传本位向传播本位的转变,巩固并强化对外传播的受众观点和“内外有别”、“外外有别”的针对性原则,注意发扬对外传播“见缝插针、细水长流”的方式方法,倡导“大外宣”传播理念,重视对外传播技术设备作用,并初步提出对外传播的“产业化”发展方向。     

出于事件哲学的主体教育

现今,主体教育研究需要转向事件哲学视域,重识主体教育的“危”“机”。在事件哲学中,主体是以弱的、开放的和有风险的方式被重识为“分裂的主体”“缺失的主体”“空的主体”;相应地,主体教育“朝向事件本身”,揭示教育在绝对的差异、否定、缝隙关系中呈现事件,以独一的、机缘的和行动的方式,让“新来者”“入场”到多元、异质的可能世界。主体出于事件的“美丽风险”,追寻“不可能中的可能”,处于产生和逃避“死亡驱力”的矛盾中,需要不断地介入、命名、调研和力迫。主体教育强调教育主体从本质的、封闭的、同质的关系中解放出来,确立其存在的优先性,保持开放、包容,并在求异创新中,呈现政治主体、艺术主体、爱的主体、科学主体等多元主体。总之,只有在出于事件的行动及其义不容辞的责任中,主体教育能发挥积极的影响。     

政经混声、多元博弈的历史与现实——台湾当代电视文化现状及批评总体特征研究

台湾电视业的发展深受当代台湾社会政治、经济与地理环境等因素影响,徘徊于以政经为主导的各种社会力量的角力中,形成了其政经混声、多元博弈的特殊风貌。台湾电视批评根据电视文化在政治与经济之间的位移可区分为三个各具差异性的历史阶段,当下其受文化转向影响,开始关注电视对日常经验的建构、性别问题以及城市空间问题等议题。因此,当代台湾电视文化与电视批评都是随着台湾社会的现代性进程而不断获得新的发展。     

Language,Africanisation, and Identity Politics at a South African University

After centuries of “Eurocentric” linguistic ideology, the South African government has formulated African language development and multilingualism as one priority in the education system. While only English, and decreasingly Afrikaans, are the only “established” languages of instruction at tertiary level, most universities in the country have revised their language policies in order to show commitment to South Africa’s evident multilingualism. This article provides a critical analysis of particular language and identity politics in one of the leading tertiary institutions of the country. The theoretical framework is based on a critical sociolinguistic approach that draws attention to polarizing identity politics in relation to language policy, planning and implementation. Methodologically grounded in ethnography, the article has a two-fold perspective. First, it analyses particular language policy rhetoric at the University on focus and argues that its essentialist approach to Africanisation triggers contested identity politics. Second, the article provides insights into the developments of specific implementations, pointing to ideological as well as practical challenges at the university on focus.     

MAKING THE CONNECTION THROUGH STAFFING: MECHANISMS TO INCREASE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN UNIVERSITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COURSES AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB SCHOOL PRACTICES

Abstract

A team of early childhood teacher education faculty developed the 3‐D talent development model of teacher education, blending theory and research from many sources. These sources include research on talent development, nonuniversal development, and roles of teachers and their professional growth. The faculty integrated constructs from these sources into a program rooted in principles of social constructivism. Using the 3‐D model, the faculty team identified their task as taking students of teaching through the phases of discovery, discipline, and divergence. Assessments that we developed needed to correspond to this conceptual framework, moving us away from traditional types of student assessment. In this article we offer a synopsis of the talent development model; review five of the approaches to student assessment we use, including alternative assessment activities, “Employmee” feedback forms, electronic portfolios, state teacher evaluation frameworks, and action research projects; and articulate the linkages between our approach to assessment and the talent development model of teacher education.     

THE ACQUISITION OF SPECIALIZED INFORMATION BY OLDER ADULTS THROUGH UTILIZATION OF NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

Older adults have been identified as heavy consumers of information delivered via the electronic media. They appear to have established a dependency on television in excess of other viewing populations. The major preference of the older viewer is for news and public affairs programming. This implies a utility value of television for this audience as an information system, a link to the common pool of knowledge, and as a “window to the world.”

The present explosion of new communications technology will result in a major change in information transmission. The expected proliferation of cable systems, interactive television, and concepts of specialized programming will result in a deliberately frationated audience. It can be projected that this will have impact on the older viewing population. The potential for specialized information targeting the interests of older adults in a variety of program formats is in the immediate future. Educators and advertisers alike have the opportunity to capitalize on the new broadcast technology for influencing the lives of older people.     

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TV PRODUCTION VARIABLES

This article initially considers varied categories that previous authors have formulated either for survey compilations or studies of television and related media production variable effects. A revised classification is developed from investigations confined specifically to television; extensive review is given to research conducted within the various divisions. Practical implications emerging from the residue of “interpretable” studies are extended to television production teams and suggestions are made for continued research activity.     

互文性：文本社会学的理论之核

文本社会学是奥地利学者皮埃尔·V·齐马提出的社会学批评理论。他充分地汲取了巴赫金的对话理论、克里斯特娃的符号学,在文本与社会之间、文本各层次之间、文本生产与接受之同、文类体系与社会体系之间构建了互文性。文本社会学将“互文性”作为其理论核心,不仅给我们提供了一种既经验又批判的社会学批评方法,可以成为中国21世纪文学理论多元化中的一元,而且还能为文学研究和文化研究的和谐沟通提供一种精致而有效的理论范式。     

台湾宗教电视台的运营特色＼影响及启示——以佛光山“人间卫视”为例

台湾宗教电视台的发展有较强的代表性且形成了自己的特色。台湾较有影响力的宗教电视台——佛光山“人间卫视”（原“佛光卫星电视台”）的运营特色和运营效果,对社会具有较大的影响力,对大陆宗教传媒事业的发展也具有一定的借鉴作用。     

Cripping Human Rights Education with Disability Studies: An Undergraduate Reading List

Aiming to place disability studies in conversation with other antioppressive educational frameworks, this article “crips” human rights education (HRE), a field that, by definition, teaches people about equality, dignity, and respect. A theoretical sampling of HRE journals and an online library database uncovers that human rights scholarship largely overlooks disability outside a medical or legal framework, though disability scholars consistently reference human rights in their work. We argue that these absences exemplify the active erasure of disability at the ontological level, and in response we urge scholars to reconceptualize where and how politics, activism, and social change take place. This “visibilizing” project follows Baxi's dictum that HRE must constantly adapt to people’s localized experiences and the needs of future generations. We offer a reading list to begin this “visibilizing” project in undergraduate university settings, proposing that teachers use “Disability and Human Rights Praxis: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary Readings for Educators” to conceptualize how they might pair disability studies in education and HRE texts to facilitate interdisciplinary class discussions and student projects.     

新媒体环境下中国电视栏目互动营销研究

在新媒体时代,随着新型传播媒介不断涌现,电视媒体面临的竞争越来越激烈,电视媒体传统的霸主地位受到了挑战。对于电视栏目而言,要迅速适应新媒体时代的激烈竞争,就要对节目的理念和形式不断进行创新,同时也要积极加强电视栏目的营销和推广。唯有如此,才能在众多的电视栏目中脱颖而出,形成核心竞争力。     

网络时代高职学生主旋律教育阵地建设的思考--以网络文明志愿者队伍建设为例

高职院校在网络文明志愿者队伍建设方面下功夫、出实招,成为了弘扬和传播主旋律的有效抓手。在实践中,网络文明志愿者队伍建设面临着诸多挑战,应该精准定位,争取成为网络谣言的辟谣者、黑恶信息的智斗士、正面能量的宣传员。高职院校要以“学”为起点,设立网络文明志愿者学院;以“练”为基础,组建新媒体联动矩阵;以“做”为落脚,实行网络文明志愿者认证。通过这些有力措施,构建“学?练?做”为一体的网络文明志愿者队伍建设机制,为巩固大学生主旋律教育阵地作出积极努力。