A PUBLIC JOURNALISM RESPONSE TO ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS VIOLATIONS

In summer 2001, residents of a small Midwestern town in the United States were confronted with an incomprehensible trauma, thrusting them into a national public health crisis involving toxic mold contamination. The conflict centered on an infected high school campus, fearful and angry community members, and an intractable school board. Assertive coverage by the local press not only provided substantial investigative reporting, but gave focus and voice to an oppressed public. Written from personal experience, this research narrative critiques the ethics of public servants and identifies three significant windows of illumination when local press coverage made alternative viewpoints known, built understanding and stimulated deliberation, helping to lead the community through this period of crisis. As a consequence of this practice of public journalism, the local press demonstrated its vital role in cultivating good citizenship when public stewardship fails.     

CRISIS JOURNALISM AT A CROSSROADS?

The ongoing changes in journalism in Finland have forced the profession to consider its position and practices. This need for reflection was particularly clear after the recent school shooting cases in Jokela in 2007 and in Kauhajoki in 2008 that gave rise to a public debate about journalists’ actions. Using qualitative content analysis and the idea of reflective practice as its methods, this study investigates how 45 Finnish journalists reflected on their and their profession's work after the two cases. The study focuses on journalists’ views of reporting on the shooters and victims, and reveals a shift in journalists’ thinking from a strong deontological ethos towards a more teleological stance. It also highlights the need for further research to determine whether the change observed is a permanent one.     

高校危机管理理念下的安防建设

大学校园危机管理是一个系统工程,关键在于预防和控制,既要对"人"这一主体加强安全教育,又要在预防载体"物"上加强技术防范,其中重要一环是加强校园安防建设。本文通过对大学校园危机特征和安防建设发展现状分析,对安防建设中引发问题的归因剖析,提出校园安防建设投资多元化、系统数字化、监控网络智能化、运维管理专业化的发展策略。     

HALDANE'S GAMBIT

This article considers the body of work which Andrew Haldane has published since the onset of financial crisis. It draws a distinction between two kinds of criticism in that work: Haldane's interference through political arithmetic on the costs of finance and Haldane's big concept of the financial network using metaphors drawn from the life sciences. His readers have mainly focused on Haldane's innovation through concept and network metaphor while neglecting his political arithmetic and empirics on the costs of finance. But this article argues that Haldane's political arithmetic on costs is an important radical intervention when the finance sector is deflecting reform with a trade narrative about the social benefits of finance.     

开放教育成人学生流失危机警管理研究

生源数量是电大成人教育的生命线,而成人学生的高流失率已成为成人学校生存的危机和发展中的重大难题。控制学生流失已经成为保证成人在校规模发展的重要手段。本文通过对珠海城市职业技术学院成教学院的开放教育的成人学生为研究对象,通过问卷、访谈等方法,分析学生流失的态势,归纳出学生流失前的先兆表现,以启动学生流失危机预警方案加强助学工作,来降低成人学生的流失率。     

试论后金融危机时代大学毕业生就业核心竞争力的培养

世界经济进入后金融危机时代,经济形势的严峻性和就业环境的复杂性,给大学毕业生就业带来严峻挑战。大学生就业既面临着经济环境不佳,就业教育缺乏针对性等挑战,同时,国家对就业工作的高度重视以及我国产业转型升级对高层次人才的需求,又给大学生就业带来了无限的机遇和巨大的空间。本文从大学生就业核心竞争力培养的精神动力、工作载体、咨询保障和实践平台等四个方面,探讨在后金融危机时代抓住机遇应对挑战,实现大学毕业生充分优质就业的对策建议。     

职业学校学生心理危机干预初探

本文从职业院校学生心理危机产生的原因分析入手,对职业院校学生心理危机干预中的若干理论和实践问题进行了初步探讨,为提高职业院校学生心理危机干预的专业化水平有较好的现实指导意义。     

美国1929经济危机发生的原因探析

造成美国1929年那场经济危机的主要原因,不是由于市场调控经济运行的"看不见的手"不灵了,而是由于对经济活动进行了不恰当的干预造成的。     

Teacher education budget cuts in Romania and the US: points of contrast and comparison

Background

Budgets for teacher education programmes have been substantially reduced as a result of the global economic crisis.

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to compare the teacher education budget cutting processes and procedures for universities in Romania versus one university in the United States.

Sample

The data were collected from six Romanian universities that all have teacher education programmes. These universities represent the range of higher education quality in the country as indicated by their publication rates. Data from these universities were compared with those from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). UNR is the flagship university in the Nevada System of Higher Education, and Nevada has been harder hit by the recent global economic crisis than any other state in the United States and cuts to teacher education there have been substantial.

Design and methods

Data about the budget cutting processes and decisions in the teacher education programmes of six Romanian universities were collected through an electronic survey. These data were compared with the processes and decisions made at the UNR.

Results

The budget cutting processes in Romania were less transparent, and involved less input from stakeholders such as faculty and staff. Most decisions were made at a higher level of authority in Romania, and cuts in Romania were more likely to be across the board rather than more strategically targeted as they were in Nevada.

Conclusions

These differences are discussed in terms of the historical legacy of structures and policies in Romania, and the resistance to reform inherent in those structures and policies.     

Cues To Reading

In recent years, the roles of cognitive and emotional processes in student demoralization have become important research topics. Drawing from the educational and sport psychology research literature, this paper (a) presents an attributional analysis of chronic failure experiences in physical education settings, (b) identifies and describes two important antecedents of student demoralization; namely, the competitive achievement structures of our traditional school systems and reactive teaching behaviors, and (c) outlines equity teaching approaches, proactive teaching styles, and reattribution training as potential remedies for chronic student failure experiences. The suggestion is made that teachers of physical education need to be sensitized to attribution theory if they are to fully understand both the adaptive and maladaptive implications of their own teaching behaviors, and that they should enhance the motivation of all students, not just those who currently excel.