自行车——最环保的交通工具(英文)

人类历史发展至今,已经脱离了刀耕火种的原始生存状态,步入了一段前所未有的文明时期。人类利用日渐发达的聪明才智,制造出汽车、飞机等交通工具,并登上了月球,在火星和深遂的海洋中安排机器人进行勘测……然而,随着这种文明的发展,也出现了很多环境问题。既然历史的车轮无法让我们再回到从前简单的生活方式当中,就只有认识且反省人类曾经对环境犯下的错误,并在将来的日子里竭力纠正——无论这是一项多么艰巨的任务。     

Making Friends with Foreigners on the Internet

交个外国网友到底靠不靠谱？友谊在他们心中又占多大份量？这些问题一直在困扰着Rose。身为加拿大人的Brad会给她什么样的建议？     

视角

为进一步增加《英语沙龙·阅读版》的可读性和与广大读者的互动,本刊从今年起增设一纯英语栏目“专家在线”,并特邀加拿大人Brad Franklin主持本栏目。Brad是一位年近70的加拿大老先生,曾经长期担任电台播音员,后长期在政府部门从事公共关系方面的工作,还曾在中国当过外教,游览过中国的很多地方。“专家在线”栏目设有两个专栏：视角、与Brad对话。前者是Brad和他的夫人Wendy写的一些有关生活感悟、旅游见闻、时事见解等方面的随笔文章;后者由Brad与市刊读者以电子邮件对话的形式进行交流．就大家来信提出的学习和日常生活中遇到的种种问题（成长的烦恼）谈谈看法,同时也以长者的身份提出一些建议。广大读者如有什么问题或想法要与Brad对话,可以通过contriprim@gmail．com和askbrad@shaw．ca这两个信箱与Brad用英语交流,本刊将酌情选登一些读者的来信及Brad的答复。     

Putting “the system” into a school autonomy reform: the case of the Independent Public Schools program

The Australian Federal and state governments have been introducing neoliberal reforms to the governance of their education systems for a number of decades. One of the most recent programs of reform is the Western Australian Independent Public Schools (IPS) initiative. Similar to decentralizing reforms around the world, the IPS program seeks greater school autonomy from the state education bureaucracy by providing selected principals and school communities with a range of responsibilities. This paper seeks to better understand the kind of post-welfare form of government IPS enacts. Using concepts from the governmentality literature, this paper analyses documents related to the program, and interview data collected from key government officials responsible for the initiative. It finds that while IPS renders operable a neoliberal critique of the public sector by implementing the processes of contractualization, it also diverges from the ideal schema of neoliberalism. Analysis reveals that a number of strategic, pragmatic and political concerns have resulted in what some may view as a contradictory rationality of “the system” being instituted as a key element in this autonomizing reform. The paper calls for attention to the actual operationalizing of neoliberal reform projects to gain a nuanced understanding of modern regimes of rule.     

做自己的老板(英文)

Brad年轻时也像很多年青人一样,曾经梦想将来能自己做生意发大财,这样就能买豪宅和好车了。事实上,他这一辈子都是在给别人打工,尽管没有实现做老板的目标,但他觉得自己的工作还不错,生活质量也一直在不断改善,总之,他感觉自己的生活是幸福的。