Defining moments: Developing culturally responsive dispositions and teaching practices in early childhood preservice teachers

This paper reports the results of a study that examined preservice teachers’ perceptions of which program experiences contributed to shifts in their culturally responsive dispositions and teaching practices. At the time of the study, participants were engaged in a teacher preparation program designed to prepare teachers to work with culturally, linguistically, socio-economically, and ability diverse young children and their families. The findings suggest that five types of experiences, interacting with each other, were instrumental in effecting changes in dispositions and teaching practiced. The experiences included material resources, diverse internship experiences, interactions with diverse families, critical reflection, and discussion and dialogue.     

对西安市城镇高中生批判性思维的初步调查

This paper reports the development of critical thinking of urban high school students in the Chinese city of Xi’an. It presents the assessment of the students’ two components of critical thinking: dispositions towards critical thinking and critical thinking skills, using the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the California Critical Thinking Skills Test. Results show that the students’ dispositions toward critical thinking are at an average level while their critical thinking skills are very low. This research also shows that there is no significant difference between students from science classes and arts classes in their critical thinking dispositions while science students have a higher level of critical thinking skills. Students from advanced classes have a higher level of the two components of critical thinking than their counterparts from general classes. There are no differences between male students and female students in both components.      

对预期违约制度的几点思考

预期违约制度是英美法系重要的法律制度,在保护合同交易安全,维护公共秩序方面发挥着重大作用。通过就预期违约制度的渊源、内容及其相关的法律制度进行研究,并就预期违约制度中国化进行理论性探讨,为在中国确立完善的预期违约制度提供可行性建议。     

Discovering Expert Perspectives on Dispositions and Remediation: A Qualitative Study

The authors used a qualitative approach to discover the perceptions of 19 experts on dispositions and remediation for counseling students. Analysis revealed 4 dispositional domains related to context, severity, amenability to change, and cultural sensitivity. Counselor educators should consider dispositions at admission and examine their program’s ability to remediate severe tenacious dispositions.     

浅谈PCI与PCI Express技术

PCI、PCI Express都是一种总线技术标准.其中,PCI替代了ISA,PCI Express替代了PCI,每一次的替代,每一次的推陈出新,既有技术的进步,更有利益的驱动和竞争.今天,笔者就时下流行的PCI Express和与之相关的PCI技术标准向大家作一介绍,目的在于普及更新的、流行的、前沿的技术知识.     

Priorities for primary education? From subjects to life-skills and children's social and emotional development

To what needs and purposes should the primary curriculum be chiefly directed in the coming decades? In a first step towards revising the primary curriculum, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) invited responses to an open online call to ‘have your say’ on priorities for primary education. Respondents were asked to share their views in 100 words or less. Six priorities for primary education were identified across the 960 responses. These focused on developing children's life-skills; communication skills; well-being; literacy and numeracy skills; motivation and engagement; and their sense of identity and belonging. Across the priorities, there is recognition that skills learned in the primary years are related to one another and the extent to which children develop these is likely to have wide-ranging effects on their future experience as learners. Findings call for a revision of traditional, content-based curriculum subjects towards a better alignment with the needs of today's primary school children beginning with a more explicit focus on life-skills, and children's social and emotional development. Finally, we note the common ground across early childhood, primary and post-primary sectors and highlight the potential to align our values and vision for children and young people's education from the earliest years through adulthood.     

对不平社会的呐喊——爱米莉通过希斯克利夫表达的对社会的态度(英文)

《呼啸山庄》是爱米莉的代表作,在作品中,她刻画了希斯克利夫这样一个饱受苦难,忠于爱情的主人公形象。通过希斯克利夫的性格发展过程———从一味忍让到被逼反抗到最后的绝望,作者表明了她对社会的态度。希斯克利夫的悲惨境遇及他的忍受、他的失败,说明作者并不赞同对不平社会的妥协。作者用事实说明希斯克利夫的反抗是被迫的,是被压迫者对压迫者的反抗。对希斯克利夫的悲惨结局的安排则表现了她对现实社会的绝望,是她消极人生观的体现。     

《孙子兵法》“势”论的理解及其应用

《孙子兵法》中对“势”的论述对商战有着很强的指导意义。必须结合其对“形”与“奇正”的论述,才能对“势”有正确全面的了解。从商战实践出发,从静态、动态、应用三个方面对“势”进行分类,并结合具体商战实例进行分析,认为“势”的应用千变万化,掌握好以“形”“正”,“以正合”,以“势”“奇”,“以奇胜”,就会在竞争中立于不败之地。     

Rural dispositions of floating children within the field of Beijing schools: can disadvantaged rural habitus turn into recognised cultural capital?

The rapid pace of urbanisation in China has seen a massive increase in the movement of the rural population to work and live in urban regions. In this large-scale migration context, the educational, health, and psychological problems of floating children are becoming increasingly visible. Different from extant studies, we focus our investigation on the rural dispositions of floating children through interviews with leaders, teachers, and students in four schools in Beijing. Drawing on Bourdieu’s key notions of habitus, capital, and field, our study indicates that the rural habitus of floating children can differentiate these children from their urban peers. This habitus can be marginalised and stigmatised in certain fields but can be recognised and valued as capital in other fields. Our paper offers some implications for research and practice in relation to the schooling of floating children.     

Noetic dispositions: A model for intellectual excellence

ABSTRACT

A burgeoning body of literature discusses the process of being and becoming a doctoral scholar, suggesting that graduate students should move beyond performing the role of ‘good student’ and transform into doctoral scholars and stewards of the profession. More recently, research has been conducted to identify more commonly held competencies and attributes doctoral scholars should develop. Even so, clear models for developing scholarly identity and specific habits-of-mind are more difficult to identify. The literature ranges from discussing this process as a form of transformation or identity development, as a form of socialisation, as regulative epistemology, or as the development of a scholarly habitus. While it would be fruitful to derive a new model for scholarly dispositions, we look to perennial wisdom and metaphors of intellectual excellence and lifelong learning that already exist. In this paper we illuminate three Confucian notions, elaborating the development of scholarly dispositions and cultivating particular habits of mind, values, and ways of being. Confucian philosophy sets forth ideal ways of being, valuing, and knowing that are highly developed in their own right and add a more holistic understanding to the conversation of scholarly identity development.