Neoliberal practices amidst social justice orientations: global citizenship education in South Korea

Abstract

Global citizenship education (GCE) positions itself on the global arena as a transformative social justice oriented educational curriculum that addresses the political, social, economic and cultural inequalities brought about through colonisation and neoliberalism on the global and local levels. Through an exploration of the discourse, design and delivery of GCE in the young nation-state of South Korea, we argue that, in fact, GCE reinforces and maintains the hegemonic ideals of global capitalism; core-periphery global and local relationships; and dichotomous views of poverty and inequalities. We argue that these approaches reflect South Korea’s geopolitical realities, but that attitudes towards GCE in South Korea also reflect its cultural norms and values towards working together towards a common good. Ultimately, we call for a more nuanced approach to GCE scholarship in which we move away from theoretical divisions to practical applications of social justice that work within increasingly capitalist/neoliberal interests for a more inclusive world.     

卡克鲁理论研究范式下的世界英语变体分析

文章旨在运用语言学家卡克鲁的三大同轴圈理论及其研究范式分析世界英语的类别和特征,并基于其语言变体的标准化和本土化特征,探究世界英语的语言功能和作用,从而客观阐释世界英语对全球交流与合作产生的重大影响。     

共产主义国家论

共产主义国家特征可以归结为＂高度发达的生产力＂以及被它决定的＂生产资料公有制＂、＂按劳分配＂＂、没有政府指挥的市场经济＂、＂只有一个主权和一个世界政府的全球国家＂和＂宪政民主＂。＂高度发达的生产力＂和＂没有政府指挥的市场经济＂意味着共产主义国家物质财富极大丰富,每个人的物质需要都可以得到充分满足,因而实现自己创造性潜能的劳动可能成为每个人的生活第一需要;＂公有制＂和＂按劳分配＂意味着共产主义国家消除了阶级与剥削,因而使国家的实然目的与应然目的完全一致：为每个人谋利益。＂只有一个主权和一个世界政府的全球国家＂意味着共产主义国家消除了战争和常备军,实现了世界大同;＂宪政民主＂意味着完全符合公正与人道以及平等和自由制度道德的理想国家之实现。     

教师的文化知识:创造教学的当下意义及其改进的无限可能——密西根大学Kathryn M.Anderson-Levitt教授访谈

凯瑟琳M.安德森-莱维特教授从教育人类学的视角研究教师知识及其教学。她将教师的文化知识定义为教师所具有的知识、信念、态度,以及教师用以完成教学的实践中的知识;它包括教师从教育学院和实际工作中获得的专业知识,也包含了对课堂、儿童和教学的常识性理解和想当然的知识。她通过人类学的田野研究,得出教师文化知识的五个类别:安排学年课程的知识、组织教学活动的知识、评价学生学习的知识,解释并补救学业失败的知识,以及实践中的知识。她发现,存在着一种对学校教育的跨国理解,或者说,存在着全球化的共同的教育话语,但是在本土层面,学校教学和改革却存在深刻的文化差异。     

时延双向联想记忆器的全局指数稳定性

利用Lyapunov泛涵方法并结合一些不等式技巧获得了一类具自连接的双向联想记忆时延系统平衡点的存在性和全局指数稳定的充分条件.     

‘Upturned participation’ and youth work: using a Critical Utopian Action Research approach to foster engagement

ABSTRACT

This article reflects on how participatory processes inspired by action research hold a genuine potential for developing social educational work in a more democratic way. We present our concept of ‘Upturned Participation’, which is built upon the methodological framework of Critical Utopian Action Research. First Critical Utopian Action Research is introduced briefly, including a presentation of the core method of the action research approach. We then present an extract from an action research project aimed at creating space for participation for marginalized young people in the area of Copenhagen. On this basis, we reflect on how the ideas of the young people could influence the field of social work. The article addresses contemporary challenges and opportunities for creating development in the field of youth work or social work through participatory processes with marginalized young people.     

凹透镜的会聚与发散

本文研究了影响凹透镜成像而产生会聚作用的几种因素，如介质折射率、透镜球面曲率半径等；给出了薄凹透镜发散／会来临界角；辅助透镜临界物距与两透镜焦距、两透镜距离的关系，从而澄清了凹透镜不能会聚产生实像的概念及产生实像的实质。     

Matters of Form: Questions of Race,Identity, Design,and the U.S. Census

This case examines how functionalist approaches manifest culturally based on users’ contexts. The authors conduct a critical visual semiotic analysis of the race and Hispanic origin questions on the 2010 U.S. Census form, demonstrating how incongruities in design potentially harm people. This demonstrates a need for adding critical analyses to design and research and it refocuses the Society for Technical Communication’s value of promoting the public good on to design and documentation in order to fight injustice.     

The one-in-ten: quantitative Critical Race Theory and the education of the ‘new (white) oppressed’

ABSTRACT

This paper challenges the notion that quantitative data – as a numeric truth – exist independent of a nation’s political and racial landscape. Utilising large-scale national attainment data, the analysis challenges the belief that ‘White working class’ children in England, especially boys, are ‘the new oppressed’ – as a former equality adviser has publicly claimed. The analysis applies Quantitative Critical Race Theory, or ‘QuantCrit’, an emerging quantitative sub-field of Critical Race Theory in education. The paper argues that far from being ‘oppressed’, White boys continue to enjoy achievement advantages over numerous minoritised groups; especially their peers of Black Caribbean ethnic origin. Additionally, the analysis uniquely exposes racialised trends of ‘equivalency’ in core subject qualifications, whereby minority ethnic children are over-represented in certain lower-status qualifications that are counted as equivalent in education statistics but not in the real world labour market. The analysis concludes that knowing misrepresentations of quantitative data are at the heart of an institutional process through which race and racism are produced, legitimised and perpetuated in education.     

优化问题的新步长法则

The step-size procedure is very important for solving optimization problems. The Armijo step-size rule, the Armijo-Goldstein step-size rule and the Wolfe-Powell step-size rule are three well-known line search methods. On the basis of the above three types of line search methods and the idea of the proximal point methods, a new class of step-size rules was proposed. Instead of a single objective function f, f ＋1/2（x - xk）^TBk（x-Xk） was used as the merit function in iteration k, where Sk is a given symmetric positive definite matrix. The existence of the steplength for the new rules was proved. Some convergence properties were also discussed.