Border (In)Securities: Normative and Differential Belonging in LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourse

This essay demonstrates the ways in which some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) rights and immigrant rights organizations enact a form of cultural citizenship that relies upon normative belonging with their depiction of LGBTQ and immigrant rights. It also shows how other groups engender what Aimee Carrillo Rowe refers to as “differential belonging,” by directly confronting normative and exclusionary discourses. This paper first justifies linking these two issues by establishing the notion of the “stranger” as a way to describe how both migrants and queers threaten the way the nation state sees itself. It then unpacks both the normative and differential discourses of belonging in relation to two prominent neoliberal values: family values and good citizenship. Finally, this essay considers the implications of differential belonging as a strategy of cultural citizenship that may confront the exclusions that currently constitute the way the US nation-state imagines belonging.     

Mothers of Soldiers in Wartime: A National News Narrative

National news media represent mothers of US combat soldiers in the Iraq War as archetypal good mothers, that is, mothers who continue their maternal work even after their children are deployed. However, not all mothers are depicted as the archetypal patriotic mother, i.e., a good mother who is also stoic and silent about the war and her child's role in it. Mothers of soldiers are portrayed as good mothers who sometimes also voice their attitudes about the war effort. The maternal attitudes ranged from complete support for the war to opposition to the war but support for the soldiers. The findings suggest a picture of wartime motherhood that is more nuanced than the historical image of the patriotic mother suggests.     

孟子“性善论”与道德建设

孟子认为人性本善,性由天成。而善性虽是天之所赋却非常容易失去,只要人不断进行自我反省,努力加强自身修养,“寡欲养心”,其存善之心就一定能够得到满足。     

90年代以来鲁迅《祝福》研究述评

纵观20世纪90年代以来学术界对鲁迅小说《祝福》研究,研究方法呈现出多元化的倾向。大体来说,90年代以来《祝福》的研究方法可归纳为叙事学研究、文化研究和比较研究三种。每一种研究视角都相应地丰富了《祝福》的研究,同时也有所限制。     

论高职辅导员角色定位

高职辅导员是学生管理工作中的一个重要角色。高职辅导员要做好严父、慈母、良师、益友四种角色定位，并善于根据不同的具体情况做好角色的转换，以充分发挥辅导员在学生管理工作中的重要作用。     

《物权法》带来的伦理启示

《物权法》所带来的伦理启示在于：它以法律的形式确认了一种新的道德范式即“常人道德”，以这种新的道德范式作为民事立法的伦理基础，使得法律本身无悖于道德情感，法律的运行也由此具有现实性。尽管《物权法》的颁布实施引发不少的学术论争，但是，从长远来看，《物权法》无疑是我国立法史上的一个里程碑，它的颁布和实施标志着我国立法开始进入自觉追求“良法”的时代。     

从“治理”到“善治”:新时期大学管理的话语逻辑与变革路径——基于复杂性思维理论的分析

复杂性思维是非线性的认识论,强调通过全局性、整体性和背景性的思维方式认知世界。用复杂性思维审视现代大学管理,现代大学是一个复杂的运行系统:大学不仅要协调政府、市场、社会和学校的四位关系,更要处理好教育体制、教育机制、教育活动以及各种教育要素的关系,同时还要平衡校内党政机构、学术组织、社团组织、学生群体的权力分享机制和利益诉求。因此,大学从“治理”走向“善治”,是时代发展的必然要求。善治大学的路径在于:从外部而言,要重塑关系,明晰权责边界,形成大学、政府、社会与市场之间的共生性关系;从内部而言,要不断完善制度,大力推动改革,激发活力,真正实现学术本位,教授治校。     

孔子"德治"思想刍议--为人表率与尚贤重才

孔子的“德治”思想要求为政者必须承担起领导责任,以身作则,为臣民之表率。为政者必须气量宽宏,慧眼独具,礼贤下士,尚贤重才。为人表率,尚贤重才,乃是为政者良好德行的体现。     

Becoming a ‘good coach’

The purpose of this paper was to gain insight into how coaches problematized their coaching practices and the process in which they engaged to become what they perceived to be better coaches using a course based on critical reflective practice. We assumed that constant critical self-reflection would enable coaches to move closer to their individual idea of a ‘good coach.’ Scholars and coaches collaborated to develop course content. The course was built on principles of rational-emotive education. We drew on Foucault's conceptualization of self-constitution or modes of subjectivation and confessional practice and Knaus' approach to teaching for our analytical framework. Thirty-five coaches participated in this study. The data consisted of semistructured interviews, field notes, open-ended questionnaires and focus group. The results are presented per mode of change or transformation. We explored how coaches wanted to transform their coaching practice (ethical substance), how they defined a good coach (mode of subjection), how they worked on change (ethical work) and how they transformed themselves (telos). To gain further insight into this process, we also examined narratives of three coaches as they described why and how they changed. The practice of critical reflection seemed to meet the needs of the coaches involved in the study. They used it to continually examine their behavior and their normalized taken-for-granted beliefs and to transform themselves in the direction of their idea of a ‘good coach.’ Ontological reflection was seen as a tool and a process that requires continual practice.     

Teaching in higher education: Good teaching through students’ lens

This study explored 2475 Israeli students’ conceptions of good teaching and examined the relationship between these conceptions and students’ background characteristics. Data were collected using an internet survey designed to measure students’ conceptions regarding five teaching dimensions referring to goals to be achieved, long-term student development, teaching methods, relations with students, and assessment. Results indicate that students perceived assessment as the most important of the five teaching dimensions and long-term student development as least important. Only gender and field of study made a salient difference in students’ perceptions of good teaching. Implications for the evaluation of teaching are discussed.