《说文解字》“心”部字的文化阐释

《说文解字》的“心”部字在一定程度上反映了汉民族的思想文化传统。通过对“心”与思维、情感的关系以及古代哲学对“心”认识的阐释,我们可以管窥中华思想的独特性与传承性。     

New mode of universal access and Global Memory Net

INTRODUCTION During 1998~2002, I was privileged to serve as a member of the US President’s Information Technol- ogy Advisory Committee (PITAC), and all members were deeply involved in the drafting of several PITAC Reports to the President. The one related to digital libraries was the 2001 Report of the PITAC Digital Library Panel, entitled Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge (PITAC, 2001). It offers an ambitious vision: “All citizens anywhere anytime c…     

强化新时期图书馆的社会职能

图书馆的社会职能随着社会的发展而不断变化,在人类文化、思想的交流中有着重要的地位和作用.新时期应强化图书馆的社会职能,努力推进图书馆事业的社会化发展.     

试析中西方建筑文化交流的非对称性

17世纪以来,中西方开始了大规模的文化交流。从建筑领域文化交流来看,中国的园林艺术、家具、瓷器等造型工艺对西方产生了重要影响,形成了所谓"中国艺术风格"。但是近现代以来,由于历史的原因,文化积淀与现代化进程的冲突,在建筑文化的中西方双向交流过程中越来越呈现出非对称特性,越来越多带有西方现代风格的建筑在中国拔地而起。在中西方建筑文化交流中,中国的"洋房子"首先从"教堂"开始,由于历史的原因和科学技术发展的过程制约,导致近现代以来中方建筑的思维"追随"西方建筑文化的理念,西方建筑文化仅仅接受、吸收和融合了中方建筑文化历史中的"园林""、亭台楼阁"等精致建筑文化这一极小部分。     

Distinction through visual art

Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. Within the Bourdieusian framework, cultural engagements with paintings are interpreted as indicators of social position, since appreciation depends on a trained capacity in the family and the educational system, which is often inaccessible to less powerful sections of the population. This would imply that the sorts of paintings favoured by working-class people differ from those preferred by the middle or upper classes. More recent studies have contested the view that a gulf exists between the art tastes of different classes in ways that reproduce the class structure. The argument of the omnivore thesis that distinctions between more popular and legitimate tastes have become blurred has predominantly been based on empirical references in the field of music. This article explores this thesis on the basis of data about visual arts in the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion project. While some differences continue to be connected to social divisions of income, education and occupational groups, important similarities are found across the board, and certain significant differences appear to relate to factors other than social class, such as ethnicity, age and gender. It is also significant that some people appear disconnected from and disinterested in paintings.     

Predicting multicultural effectiveness of international students: the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire

The present study considered the reliability and validity of the 78-item revised version of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, a multidimensional instrument aimed at measuring multicultural effectiveness of expatriate employees and students. The questionnaire includes scales for cultural empathy, open-mindedness, emotional stability, social initiative and flexibility. Participants were native and foreign students of an international business school (N=171) in the Netherlands. The MPQ scales appeared to be more strongly predictive of adjustment of international students as compared to native students. Moreover, the instrument was able to explain variance in students’ adjustment beyond self-efficacy.     

浅析美国政党与大众传媒在政治社会化与政治动员过程中的互动

政党与大众传媒在政治社会化与政治动员中起着重要的作用,而且两者在这一过程中相互影响、相互作用。以美国为例,在政党政治与大众传媒都比较发达的社会中,政党总是利用和控制大众传媒来为它的政治社会化与政治动员服务,并由此给大众传媒造成相当的影响,而大众传媒参与又导致政党在自身意识形态、政党组织的动员力量和动员逻辑等方面发生着变化。     

文化资源的分层结构:惠州文化竞争力的一个解读框架

本文通过构造一个文化资源的分层结构框架, 相对简便地解读了惠州的文化竞争力源泉和     

课程改革与文化心理检视

文化心理是指经过长期文化积淀和文化熏陶而形成的一种心理习惯，它像基因一样潜藏在人的体内和心底，影响人的价值追求和人格品味。笔者从剖析文化心理入手，检视了当前课程改革中的观念障碍，并揭示了这样一个观点：课程改革乃至整个教育改革的薄弱环节应该从人们的文化心理中去发现，重塑文化心理是我们新课程改革中的首要任务。     

The Relation between the Frequency and the Universality of Teaching Activities

ABSTRACT

The author empirically tests the conceptual model of academic socialization, which suggests that parental cognitions about schooling influence parenting practices and child outcomes during the transition to school (Taylor, Clayton, &; Rowley, 2004). More specifically, the author examines associations among parents’ conceptions of school readiness, transition practices, and children's academic achievement in reading and mathematics from kindergarten through Grade 1 using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 12,622). A latent growth curve model was estimated, and results show that parents’ school readiness beliefs were positively associated with children's beginning achievement and growth. Parents’ transition practices were positively associated with children's achievement at the onset of kindergarten. Parents’ beliefs also positively predicted their use of transition practices. The analysis largely confirmed the conceptual model of academic socialization. Furthermore, findings suggest that early interventions seeking to change parenting practices should consider parents’ school readiness beliefs and expectations.