任务驱动式教育游戏设计

针对国内高职院校教育游戏开发匮乏的现状,提出了以RPG为载体的任务驱动式教育游戏系统——《计算机信息技术基础》教育游戏的设计方案。系统从课程教学的内容和目标出发,实现在虚拟现实环境中对不同基础的学生进行有针对性的优化学习。     

温州市公民社会发展与县级政府建设

县级政府作为最贴近群众、贴近公民社会的政府机构,与公民社会有着密切关系。公民社会与县级政府的关系主要体现在精神纽带、民主参与和经济发展方面。温州市公民社会作为发展较为成熟的地区,具有经济、政治、社会等特点,在县级政府建设实践中有创新并积累了经验。温州市县级政府建设与转型应抓住公民社会起步早的良好契机,加快政府职能转型,加强与公民社会有效互劝,提高行政效率。     

Prisons of the mind: Lessons learned from home confinement

As conservative political ideologies have shifted U.S. correctional policies toward a justice model orientation, efforts to escalate the “pains of imprisonment” have become increasingly prevalent. Although these attempts to enhance the punishing aspects of incarceration are primarily driven by political grandstanding and emotional appeal, it is not uncommon for today's postsecondary students to enter the classroom with punitive attitudes similarly based on rhetoric and emotion. Yet correctional students cannot be expected to develop an empathetic appreciation for the intrinsically punishing nature of confinement itself through traditional classroom techniques that rely exclusively on the cognitive dimensions of learning. In an effort to broaden personal perspectives on punishment by engaging the affective domain, students in an introductory corrections class participated in a simulated 48-hour confinement exercise. The intent was to enhance empathy for the intrinsic discomfort of imprisonment through experiential learning. The results not only point clearly in that direction, but also manifest parallels with the actual pains of confinement experienced by inmates in the real world.     

Teaching about violence prevention: A bridge between public health and criminal justice educators

Public health perspectives on violence-related injuries have become increasingly important over the past two decades, yet they are rarely mentioned in criminal justice educational texts or articles. Here we provide a brief overview of the public health approach to the prevention of violence and related injuries and compare it to an approach to crime prevention commonly associated with the criminal justice approach: deterrence. The prevention of sexual assault on college and university campuses is used as an illustration of the two approaches. Finally, given the similarities between the manner in which these two multi-disciplinary fields approach violence prevention, we explore how and why criminal justice educators might want to teach a bridge between public health and criminal justice.     

Forgotten History: Mexican American School Segregation in Arizona from 1900–1951 1

This article documents the efforts by Mexican Americans to challenge school segregation in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. As in Texas and California, although state law never formally mandated the segregation of Mexican American students, school districts in Arizona often established separate “Mexican Schools” for Mexican American students. While districts argued that segregation was necessary because of students' poor English skills, the segregation of Mexican American students in Arizona's public schools was not an isolated practice but occurred in tandem with other discriminatory practices that restricted the social rights of Mexican Americans, many of whom were American citizens. However, Mexican Americans challenged segregation in the courts. Notably, in Gonzales v. Sheely, a case heard in the United States District Court of Arizona in 1950, Judge Dave Ling declared segregation unconstitutional over three years before the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board (1954).     

Spelling,Reading Abilities and Speech Perception in Deaf Children with a Cochlear Implant

ABSTRACT

This study aims to compare word spelling outcomes for French-speaking deaf children with a cochlear implant (CI) with hearing children who matched for age, level of education and gender. A picture written naming task controlling for word frequency, word length, and phoneme-to-grapheme predictability was designed to analyze spelling productions. A generalized linear mixed model on the percentage of correct spelling revealed an effect of participant’s reading abilities, but no effect of hearing status. Word frequency and word length, but not phoneme-to-grapheme predictability, contributed to explaining the spelling variance. Deaf children with a CI made significantly less phonologically plausible errors and more phonologically unacceptable errors when compared to their hearing peers. Age at implantation and speech perception scores were related to deaf children’s errors. A good word spelling level can be achieved by deaf children with a CI, who nonetheless use less efficiently the phoneme-to-grapheme strategy than do hearing children.     

High-Quality Preschool: The Socioeconomic Composition of Preschool Classrooms and Children's Learning

Research Findings: As policymakers expand access to preschool, the sociodemographic composition of preschool classrooms will become increasingly important. These efforts may create programs that increase the concentration of children from low-income families or, alternatively, foster the creation of socioeconomically diverse preschool classrooms. What effect the creation of such contexts would have on very young children remains unclear. Using multilevel methods and data on 2,966 children in 704 prekindergarten classrooms, this study explores the relationship between socioeconomic classroom composition and children's social and cognitive development. The results indicate positive associations between the mean socioeconomic status (SES) of the class and children's receptive language, expressive language, and mathematics learning, regardless of children's own sociodemographic backgrounds and the characteristics of their classrooms. However, the analyses indicate no association between the development of social competence and class mean SES. Practice or Policy: The links between classroom SES and language and mathematics development were comparable in size to those associated with instructional quality and even children's own SES. Neither structural nor instructional characteristics of prekindergarten classrooms explained these relationships, suggesting the possibility of direct peer effects. The findings indicate that the composition of children's classrooms should be considered an important aspect of preschool quality.     

浅谈案例法在经济法教学中的应用

在高职高专院校财经类专业中,经济法是一门重要的专业基础课程。但是在教学实践中,教学效果并不明显。文章在对江西省有关院校经济法教学进行调查的基础上,分析了案例教学在经济法当中的应用,提出了以案例教学带动经济法课堂教学的一种思路。     

高职高专院校经济法案例教学现状的调查与研究

经济法是高职高专院校财经类专业的一门重要基础课程,但是目前很多院校的经济法课程教学效果不佳。文章分析了江西省高职高专院校经济法教学中存在的一些问题,提出了以案例教学为突破点,提高课程的教学效果的有效措施。     

传统家文化视角下家族企业文化演化路径分析

在传统家文化的影响下,中国家族企业是一种特殊的经济现象和文化现象。我国家族企业大部分形成了以家族式管理为特色的血缘文化或者是由企业家个人说了算的独裁式企业文化。随着企业内外环境的变化,这种文化的弊端也充分暴露出来,制约家族企业的发展和壮大。家族企业必须通过加强对企业文化的认识并将其上升到决策和战略上、以人为本、冲破血缘和家族观念等演化路径,以发展和壮大家族企业。