Self and the other in the Confucian cultural context: Implications of China’s higher education development for comparative studies

The central purpose of China’s modern higher education has been to combine Chinese and Western elements at all levels including institutional arrangements, research methodologies, educational ideals and cultural spirit, a combination that brings together aspects of Chinese and Western philosophical heritages. This, however, has not been achieved. There is an urgent need for critical examination of the long-term consequences of grafting American academic practices onto a Chinese base. This article examines the tensions in the interactions in higher education between the traditional Chinese and the imposed Western modes of thinking. Borrowing a definition of the structure of culture, this paper reveals the various extents to which layers of Chinese higher education have achieved any degree of success. It finds that with a strong catch-up mentality, China’s contemporary higher education policies are responsive to Western influences. These are however only applied as panic-stricken and expedient band-aid remedies, rather than as strategies based on systematic understanding of cultural contexts. Accordingly, Chinese universities are uncritical towards the European-American model and its variants. This article warns that without an infusion of traditional education values, universities in China risk losing touch with their cultural contexts in their quest for world-class status.     

公共教育服务体制创新:治理的视角

为了满足多元化的公共教育需求,解决公共教育产品短缺和公共教育服务不到位等问题,有必要从治理的视角重新思考政府在公共教育产品与服务中的角色和作用,运用治理的理念和精神变革公共教育服务体制,实现公共教育服务供给主体的多元化、公共教育治理权力的多中心化和公共教育服务结构的多样化。     

Progressive failure analysis of slope with strain-softening behaviour based on strength reduction method

Based on the strength reduction method and strain-softening model,a method for progressive failure analysis of strain-softening slopes was presented in this paper.The mutation is more pronounced in strain-softening analysis,and the mutation of displacement at slope crest was taken as critical failure criterion.An engineering example was provided to demonstrate the validity of the present method.This method was applied to a cut slope in an industry site.The results are as follows:(1) The factor of safety and the critical slip surface obtained by the present method are between those by peak and residual strength.The analysis with peak strength would lead to non-conservative results,but that with residual strength tends to be overly conservative.(2) The thickness of the shear zone considering strain-softening behaviour is narrower than that with non-softening analysis.(3) The failure of slope is the process of the initiation,propagation and connection of potential failure surface.The strength parameters are mobilized to a non-uniform degree while progressive failure occurs in the slope.(4) The factor of safety increases with the increase of residual shear strain threshold and elastic modulus.The failure mode of slope changes from shallow slip to deep slip.Poisson’s ratio and dilation angle have little effect on the results.     

中国高校二语动机策略实证研究

动机被视为影响二语学习成效的一个重要的情感因素。本文用定量研究方法对62位高校英语教师进行了调查,旨在研究动机策略重要性的认识程度以及具体运用程度,并探讨两者之间是否存在显著差异。研究结果表明：教师总体上在动机策略的重要性认识程度和实际课堂运用频率上保持很高的一致性,但在实际教学中也存在策略运用不足,主要体现在学生自主能力、课堂任务及教师层面等策略上。传统的以教师为中心的教学方法、应试教育、基础差和大班教学很大程度上影响和制约了教师的动机策略,并限制了学生动机的形成与维持。     

以项目为载体的高职英语听说教学探索与实践

近年来,社会对具有较强英语综合能力的高素质技能型人才有着迫切的需求,在英语培养目标当中,提高高职学生听说技能也成为重中之重。本文以职业需求为出发点,通过现状分析,对高职英语听说教学体系的改革做了初步探讨,并用教学实例来展现项目教学法在高职英语听说教学中的必要性。     

环境史作为世界史新编纂模式的演进

环境史开创了世界史新的领域,搭建起一条由传统全球视野向更宏大叙事的生态环境视野的世界史编纂方法的演进路径.二十世纪下半叶,人类步入“生态学时代”,一方面全球史学家突破传统世界史体系,将生态史作为全球史重点研究领域之一;另一方面环境史家关注“跨越国界”的生物圈,以世界史作为研究范围,两种研究取向的结合使得人与环境关系的变化和影响成为世界史编纂的核心.     

加快我国期货市场法制化建设的探讨

期货市场既是套期保值者规避风险的市场,也是投机者风险投机的市场.法制化的期货市场才能保证其对市场风险的兼容性.交易公平、市场公正、信息公开、风险管控彰显了期货市场的本源性价值,是期货市场法制化建设的价值追求,是构建期货市场法律法规体系的基石.在当前形势下,为破解影响我国期货市场持续发展的制度性障碍,促进我国期货市场实现从量的扩张向质的提升转变,必须结合发达国家期货市场的经验,重构我国期货市场法律法规体系,加快期货市场法制化建设进程,尽快制定出台期货基本法.     

论银行侵犯客户金融隐私权的归责原则

归责原则是确定责任成立的前提和基础,它直接影响责任的构成要件和举证责任的分配等侵权责任法中的重要问题。首先介绍了归责原则的形成、发展和重要性,然后对银行客户给予特别保护的观点进行了理论解释,最后得出结论,即适用无过错责任原则认定银行侵犯客户金融隐私权的责任。同时,为了平衡双方的利益,对银行在这一归责原则下的免责事由进行讨论。这样的制度设计加重了银行一方的责任而对客户进行倾斜保护,在一定程度上矫正了现实中双方的强弱对比关系,对目前随处可见的银行泄露客户隐私的现象起到一定的遏制作用。     

信息优势与投资者地缘效应的关系研究

投资者偏爱地理位置近的上市公司的现象被称为地缘效应,其成因一直是资本市场中的一个未解之谜。本文以上海、天津、大连的3710名投资者为研究样本,从信息优势角度解释了地缘效应。研究发现,中国资本市场内部存在地缘效应;信息优势与地缘效应之间存在倒U型关系,即当信息优势小于临界值时,地缘效应随着信息优势的增强而增强;当信息优势大于临界值时,地缘效应随着信息优势的增强而减弱。研究认为随着信息优势强度的增加,信息目标由少到多,信息涉及的上市公司由近及远,由此使得投资者投资的分散程度不断提高,这是信息优势与地缘效应之间呈现倒U型关系的主要原因。     

运用ASM描述安全协议

介绍了抽象状态机（ASM）,建立了基于这种形式化方法的协议描述于验证的环境,并建立了一般意义上的入侵者模型.作为应用实例,给出了 Helsinki协议的 ASM规约,说明利用这个规约可以直观的演绎 Horng-Hsu攻击.