A Modern Royal Family

1 In certain countries of the world,the king or queen is still considered to be a demi-god.The UK is not one of those countries.It’s true that up until the 17th century,the British king or queen was believed to rule by"divine right",which was the idea that God chose the king or queen to rule and that he or she was therefore above the law.The idea that the monarch was above the     

The Family Portrait

Christmas day,1977 my family posed for apicture,taken by Mr.Bellows,our next door neigh-bor.That photo has become the benchmark for allfamily portraits taken of my family since,not a singleone has equaled its magnificence.In that wonderfulpicture my family is much smaller than it is today,there are no sons-in-law,daughters-in-law,or grand-children,just my father,my mother,my brother,my     

美国《亚洲学者公报》(1976)“中国革命文学专号”绪言

过去的６０年间，世界上最伟大的文化之一──中国文化在一场实质触及社会各方面的深刻革命中得到了改造，目前，当中国为完全掌握其命运、实现其革命理想而继续奋斗时，世界的其余部分，以妒忌、残存的误解、怀疑和钦佩相交织的心情，出神地注视着她。 或许，中国革命最不为世界其余部分所理解和赞赏的就是中国新文学艺术的发展。即使在对当前中华人民共和国的文艺状况感兴趣的外界观察家中，对革命的文学艺术也有着截然不同的反应，从完全的敌视到谄媚的赞扬，什么都有，但最典型的反应就是迷惘地耸耸肩膀。甚至在专攻中国文学的西方学者…     

透析美国私立教育

美国私立教育的悠久历史中,富于各种戏剧性的变化。19世纪早期兴起的公共学校运动(common school movement),标志着教育决策权力从私人向政府的重要转移。私立教育与公立或政府教育并存的情况,在政府与私人存在较大张力的情况下发展非常艰难,一些学校因此被社会淘汰出局。到现在为止,公立学校保持着在幼儿园到初中阶段的资源优势,但是私立教育仍将适度增长,从而满足希望获得比公立学校可能提供的更多或不同的教育需求。私立教育不仅仍将是公立学校的有力竞争对手,并且是教育改革与革新的积极动力,同时还为那些与主流社会不同的宗教或教育理念者提供安全保障。私立教育作为社会的公共机构所发挥的积极作用是绝对不容忽视的。     

校长必须自修

[编译者写在前面的话]每当大家谈到提高教学质量,总不免立即联想到提高师资水平的问题,同时也就自然而然地考虑到教师进修的重要性;而不大有人想到校领导要不要进修。那么校领导需要不需要、应该不应该进修呢?苏联教育科学院一级研究员杰文纳的这篇文章明确地回答了这个问题。     

谈英语教师反思型教学

教师是影响教学改革的关键因素之一。英语教师不能仅凭所学的语言知识和基本教学技能从事教学,必须在具体的教学环境中不断地进行反思,才能把理论和实践有效地结合起来,成为问题的解决者和决策的制定者,并且借此可加强教师职业的专业化,进一步提高专业技能。     

Superwoman in the third world

Women play crucial roles in both production and reproduction, but development planners have focused on women as childbearers and homemakers rather than as individuals with their own needs and problems. Women are vehicles to achieve a project's ends. As a result, many ambitious development programs have failed. Women's health, necessary for their participation in programs, and traditional women's tasks have been neglected. Planners frequently disregard the demands and inflexibility of women's existing responsibilities. Most rural women work 10 to 12 hours per week and can not set aside family survival tasks to participate in classes, clinic visits or demonstrations. The 1st step in designing successful programs is to recognize the realities of poor women's lives, and to focus on the women themselves, their basic needs, health and responsibilities. Women must participate in planning their own development. Women's voices must be heard for programs that depend on their participation to succeed.     

What is good?

“What is the real good?”I ask in musing mood.“Order,”said the law court;“Knowledge,”said the school;     

社区服务--新型的社会保障模式

社区服务是一种新型的社会保障模式,社区服务的兴起为我国城乡社会保障事业注入了新的活力.笔者从社区服务的兴起和发展、社区服务的内容和特征、社区服务的功能与作用以及我国社区服务存在的问题与对策四个方面对此问题作出了系统论述.     

阁楼里的潘(5)

事情有时显得很复杂, 有时显得很简单——当我们每个人都还是光屁股的小孩儿时,就差不多明白这个道理了。时间总是喜欢在我们