Negotiating meanings of gender justice: Critical reflections on dialogs and debates in a non-governmental organization (NGO)

In this paper, we reflect upon how dialogs and debates in a non-governmental organization (NGO) – CARE India in the context of a girls’ education project shaped staff members’ understandings of gender justice. As CARE India staff shared their experiences in the field, in the organization, and in domestic spaces during gender training sessions and other forums, their different politics in these spaces shaped how they translated global discourses of gender justice to produce fluid, contested, and contextual understandings. While these dialogs included the voices of diverse social actors in identifying the capabilities needed for gender justice in education, they were often reframed by local NGO actors.     

续航能力需求、创新能力与新能源汽车产业链协同创新

考虑消费者对新能源汽车的续航能力需求和企业的创新能力,建立包含产业链上下游企业的技术创新决策模型,研究了分散决策和一体化决策两种决策方式,分析续航能力需求和企业的创新能力对电池供应商和汽车生产企业研发决策的影响,并设计了可以使产业链协同创新的机制,为产业链协同创新提供参考。结果表明：企业的创新能力和消费者的续航能力需求交互影响新能源汽车的续航能力；一体化决策可以实现产业链收益最大化,更能促进新能源汽车续航里程的提升和产业链的发展；创新成本分摊机制和创新补贴机制满足一定的条件就可以实现产业链一体化决策。     

信息系统(IS)能力与企业竞争优势研究——基于动态能力理论(DCV)视角

在综述动态能力理论(Dynam ic Capab ilities V iew,DCV)和信息系统(Inform ation System s,IS)/IT能力研究发展的基础上,提出了IS对于企业竞争优势的影响(IS-DCV)模型,认为IS主要是通过管理过程对企业产生影响,并通过案例的方式论述了模型的合理性。     

构建企业知识网络的思考

企业知识网络知识网络是一种获取、共享根植于组织内外社会网络中的知识和情报资源,以创造知识,提升组织知识竞争力和情报能力为目的的网络结构。企业知识网络的构建由知识网络需求分析,确定知识网络的结构模式,建立知识网络以及拓展知识网络等几个重要环节组成。开发、利用知识网络对我国情报工作和情报学的发展具有重要意义。     

What do growing early-stage digital start-ups look like? A mixed-methods approach

Digital entrepreneurship is one of the most important and impactful forms of entrepreneurship. However, the majority of digital start-ups fail to scale, despite their potential to achieve growth. Moreover, what constitutes growth is significantly different for start-ups as compared with established firms: they have limited financial performance, and their growth cannot be accurately measured by metrics such as customers, revenues, profits, and turnover at the early stages of the new venture creation process or before the start-up has reached sustainability. Therefore, the first objective of this research is to contribute to the definition of growth by examining less tangible dimensions of growth. Moreover, the second objective is to identify the characteristics of early-stage digital start-ups experiencing growth. Based on a mixed-methods approach, which combines an adapted Delphi study, a questionnaire-based survey, and a comparative case study, our results suggest that growing digital start-ups exhibit a set of characteristics that include: an agile culture combining clan with adhocracy; the ability to nurture their absorptive, innovative, and adaptive capabilities effectively; and a human capital with adequate entrepreneurial skills, emotional attachment to and fitness with the start-up.     

Literacy inequalities in theory and practice: The power to name and define

I analyse what exactly is being addressed when the notion of ‘literacy inequalities’ is cited in the context of international policy with regard to education in general and literacy in particular. Whilst literacy statistics are used as indicators of social inequality and as a basis for policy in improving rights, educational attainment, etc., I question to what extent literacy levels (or various accounts of ‘lack of literacy’) can be taken as offering a valid account of ‘inequality’ in the larger international context. Recent work on literacy from an ethnographic perspective has questioned the international categorisation of a single uniform thing called ‘literacy’, from which consequences can be drawn and has instead focused on local meanings and cultural variations in what counts. In particular I take issue with arguments rooted in economic generalisation on the one hand, by such authors as Amartya Sen, and on the other in moral universalism, in the work of such authors as Nussbaum.     

Cultivating engineers’ humanity: Fostering cosmopolitanism in a Technical University

This paper aims to explore the potential of a curriculum designed to develop Nussbaum's cosmopolitan abilities through two elective subjects offered to future engineers in a Spanish Technical University. To this end, Nussbaum's proposition of cosmopolitan abilities is presented in relation to the broader academic literature on cosmopolitanism and higher education. From this perspective, the origin, context and pedagogical rationale of the curriculum are described including the discussion of an exploratory study based on discourse analysis and how it has informed our pedagogical practice. Finally we argue for the importance of electives that develop cosmopolitan values for students of technical programmes in Higher Education and the need to consider the implications of their cessation as a consequence of the Bologna Process.     

“四人制”篮球教学比赛法对提高学生技、战术能力的实验研究

本文通过将“四人制”教学比赛法纳入篮球战术教学中,经过实验对比研究表明:学生对篮球的战术理论理解、基本技、战术的掌握及过渡到全场战术运用能力都优于传统的“三人制”等教学比赛法,更适合作为篮球选修提高课提高技、战术能力最佳的教学方法之一。     

Education on an Equal Basis: A Comparison of Persons With and Without Disabilities in South Africa

The South African education crisis is well documented in the literature. While strides have been made to rectify the inequalities in education arising from apartheid era policies, and while South Africa ratified the United Nations Conventions for the Rights of People with Disabilities, these actions have yet to translate into meaningful changes for persons with disabilities. To investigate the status of educational attainment, this article uses South Africa’s National Income Dynamics Study to analyse the disparities in education for adults with and without disabilities. Education is a key mechanism of leverage for functionings. The findings show that persons with disabilities fare worse in educational attainment than persons without disabilities, but that race and geographic location play a larger role in predicting educational attainment than disabilities. In addition, age also contributes to educational disparities. The findings of this study are integral in the call from the Presidency to ‘strengthen the country’s response to the needs of [persons with disabilities] … and to monitor progress’ of educational attainment for persons with disabilities (20-year review, 2014, p. 73).     

Capability Through Participatory Democracy: Sen,Freire, and Dewey

This paper explores possible important relationships and sympathies between Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach framework for understanding the human condition and the educational ideas of John Dewey and Paolo Freire. All three focus on the importance of democratic values in a fair, well-functioning society, while Sen and Freire especially explore the difficulties and possibilities of oppressed populations. Sen suggests that all humans have a right to choice in determining their life trajectories and should be provided with the tools that allow them to flourish. Both education and democratic values play important roles in creating the types of context that allow individuals and communities to recognize a wide array of human capabilities. We suggest here that the theories of Dewey and Freire offer avenues through educational processes for developing these contexts for expanded human capability. Dewey suggests an educational approach that stresses democratic values and the ability and willingness of individuals to reach out towards new possibilities. Freire stresses the idea of praxis playing a central role in education—a focus on the cycle of everyday action, reflection, and re-creation of action that leads to productive changes in life trajectories. We argue that Sen, Dewey, and Freire together help to offer a new way of understanding education in the twenty-first century.