基于应用型人才培养的外贸英语函电教学思考——以开发信一节为例

应用型本科高校是以应用性人才培养为突出特征的一种新型高校。国际贸易专业的目标是培养具有国际商务技能的应用型人才,而外贸英语函电写作能力是外贸人员基本专业技能之一。开发信是开发新客户的重要工具,本文以开发信为例,探讨在应用型本科高校的平台上,如何优化外贸英语函电课程教学,提高学生的专业素养,以满足新时期外贸业务发展的需要。     

高职学生留学倾向的调查与分析

了解高职学生留学倾向,可以促进高职院校更好地开展留学工作。通过对温州职业技术学院学生留学倾向进行随机调查,结果表明,学生入学时有明确留学倾向的较少,学生在留学途径与留学国家、专业对口度、留学费用与留学时间、留学障碍上都有较明显的倾向。因此,应通过提升高职教育国际化水平,谨慎选择合作专业,提高留学性价比,加强英语教学,为高职学生创造良好的留学环境。     

从整合到聚合：国内数字资源再组织模式的变革

针对数字资源再组织问题,对比经典的“数字资源整合”模式和新兴的“数字资源聚合”模式之间在背景、目标、理念、内容和方法等方面的异同,剖析数字资源再组织模式从整合到聚合的变革路径,并指出了数字资源再组织模式发展的精细化、体系化、可视化和立体化趋势。     

发展中国家开放存取发展现状

从开放存取期刊和开放存取知识库两方面,比较分析了发展中国家开放存取资源的数量、质量、发展速度和学科分布,提出了促进我国开放存取进一步发展的策略,如加大国家层面支持、提升开放获取认同度、整合开放获取资源等.     

网络围观“黑幕倾向”的负面效应及对策

作为一种基于互联网技术平台的新型政治参与方式,网络围观在技术手段上提高了网络民意在政府政策执行运作中的分量,然而网络广场对现实社会的揭示和质问总是呈现出一种“黑幕倾向”。从某种程度上讲揭露社会“黑幕”更能彰显网络围观的警示功能和监督功能,但另一方面网民热衷围观“黑幕”也容易招致负面的社会影响,分析网络围观“黑幕倾向”现象的成因并采取科学的应对措施将有助于消解中国的互联网治理困局。     

Managing indigenous knowledge for sustainable agricultural development in developing countries: Knowledge management approaches in the social context

This paper is based on a PhD study (Lwoga, 2009) that sought to assess the application of knowledge management (KM) approaches in managing indigenous knowledge (IK) for sustainable agricultural practices in developing countries, with a specific focus on Tanzania. This study used a mixed-research method which was conducted in six districts of Tanzania. Non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups were used to collect primary data from small-scale farmers in the selected districts. A total of 181 farmers participated in the semi-structured interviews, where the respondents ranged between 27 and 37 per district. Twelve focus group discussions were conducted in the selected districts. The study revealed that IK was acquired and shared within a small, weak and spontaneous network, and thus knowledge loss was prevalent in the surveyed communities. There were distinct variations in the acquisition of agricultural IK both in different locations and between genders. Information and communication technologies (ICT), culture, trust, and status influenced the sharing and distribution of IK in the surveyed communities. The research findings showed that KM models can be used to manage and integrate IK with other knowledge systems, taking the differences into account (for example, gender, location, culture, infrastructure). The paper concludes with recommendations for the application of KM approaches for the management of IK and its integration with other knowledge systems for agricultural development in developing countries, including Tanzania.     

Teachers' Beliefs and Self-Reported Use of Inquiry in Science Education in Public Primary Schools

This paper describes Ecuadorian in-service teachers and their science teaching practices in public primary schools. We wanted to find out to what extent teachers implement inquiry activities in science teaching, the level of support they provide, and what type of inquiry they implement. Four questionnaires applied to 173 teachers resulted in the identification of high context beliefs and moderately high self-efficacy beliefs. Teachers declared to implement activities mostly to develop understanding of the material, as contrast to actual manipulation of data and/or coming to conclusions. They adopt rather a strictly guided approach in contrast to giving autonomy to learners to work on their own. Finally, teachers keep control with regard to question formulation and choice in solution procedures, which constrains the development of real inquiry. When comparing teacher beliefs, we found that teachers' context beliefs make a difference in the level of support that teachers provide to their students. Teachers with lower context beliefs ask students to perform inquiry activities on their own to a lesser extent when compared with teachers with higher context beliefs. This implies that further research on the implementation of inquiry in science teaching should take into account teachers' differences in their context beliefs. We also found out that the use of high or low support in inquiry activities remained the same for teachers with either higher or lower self-efficacy beliefs.     

The assessment of the readiness of five countries to implement child maltreatment prevention programs on a large scale

This study aimed to systematically assess the readiness of five countries – Brazil, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa – to implement evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs on a large scale. To this end, it applied a recently developed method called Readiness Assessment for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment based on two parallel 100-item instruments. The first measures the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs concerning child maltreatment prevention of key informants; the second, completed by child maltreatment prevention experts using all available data in the country, produces a more objective assessment readiness. The instruments cover all of the main aspects of readiness including, for instance, availability of scientific data on the problem, legislation and policies, will to address the problem, and material resources. Key informant scores ranged from 31.2 (Brazil) to 45.8/100 (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and expert scores, from 35.2 (Brazil) to 56/100 (Malaysia). Major gaps identified in almost all countries included a lack of professionals with the skills, knowledge, and expertise to implement evidence-based child maltreatment programs and of institutions to train them; inadequate funding, infrastructure, and equipment; extreme rarity of outcome evaluations of prevention programs; and lack of national prevalence surveys of child maltreatment. In sum, the five countries are in a low to moderate state of readiness to implement evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs on a large scale. Such an assessment of readiness – the first of its kind – allows gaps to be identified and then addressed to increase the likelihood of program success.     

论康有为的物质救国思想

1905年康有为写了《物质救国论》一书,系统地阐述了物质救国思想,提出了一系列发展科技和实业的策略,以拯救垂危的国家,体现了康有为炽热的爱国激情,实事求是的开放精神,对科技的作用和意义的深邃认识。他的物质救国思想不仅对现代中国人仍有启迪,而且让人们更完整更具体地认识这位杰出的历史人物。     

芦荟的开发利用

本文对芦荟的形态特征、习性进行了概述,从观赏、药用、美容、保健作用四方面论述了它的开发利用。