《英美报刊阅读》选材的多维视角

英美报刊阅读是为高等学校英语专业学生开设的一门必修课程,其教学目的是使学生熟悉并掌握新闻英语的特点,积累阅读英文报刊所需要的社会和文化背景知识。为此,报刊应从多维视角进行选材,做到融思想性、趣味性、知识性、时效性、文化性为一体,这样才能提高学生的综合素质。     

Re-mythologizing mathematics through attention to classroom positioning

With our conceptualization of Harré and van Langenhove’s (1999) positioning theory, we draw attention to immanent experience and read transcendent discursive practices through the moment of interaction. We use a series of spatial images as metaphors to analyze the way positioning is conceptualized in current mathematics education literature and the way it may be alternatively conceptualized. This leads us to claim that changing the way mathematics is talked about and changing the stories (or myths) told about mathematics is necessary for efforts to change the way mathematics is done and the way it is taught.

Media portrayal of a hidden problem: An analysis of Hong Kong newspaper coverage of child maltreatment in 2016

The news media plays a vital role in providing child protection information and resources, shaping the public’s understanding and perceptions of child maltreatment, and exposing system failures and setting policy agendas. To date, little is known about how child maltreatment is portrayed in the media in societies where these issues remain largely hidden and under-recognized. The purpose of the present study was to systematically examine newspaper coverage on child abuse and neglect in Hong Kong in order to assess how child maltreatment is currently presented and framed within public discourse.A total of 579 newspaper reports relevant to child maltreatment from four local newspapers in 2016 were reviewed. Similar to prior findings, cases involving sexual abuse received disproportionately more attention compared with other maltreatment types. The vast majority of news reports focused on specific cases or events, and seldom discussed child maltreatment as a broader social issue. Differences in reporting style and media framing were also compared by newspaper credibility, and for free versus paid newspapers.As a mass communication tool, more guidelines are needed to formulate public messages about child maltreatment that can improve individual, community, and structural capacities to prevent, identify, and respond to children who are victimized by abuse and neglect. This is especially important in jurisdictions where no mandatory reporting framework exists to help identify vulnerable children, and where the majority of child maltreatment is brought to the attention of authorities by families and those living within the child’s community.     

An Agency Theory Perspective on Student Performance Evaluation

The emphasis in recent research on the responsibility of college and university business instructors to prepare students for future employment underscores a need to refine the evaluation of student performance. In this article, an agency theory framework is used to understand the trade‐offs that may be involved in the selection of various approaches to student evaluation. Understanding these trade‐offs may be particularly important as faculty members seek to balance competing obligations, such as research and service requirements, while ensuring instructional effectiveness. This article presents propositions for examining how various institutional, instructor, and student characteristics influence the selection and use of student performance evaluation techniques (i.e., exams, papers, and group assignments). In conclusion, we suggest that agency theory may serve as a foundation for understanding current evaluation practices and guiding instructors in their selection of appropriate evaluation mechanisms.     

Deliberative academic development: the potential and challenge of agency

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we explore possibilities and challenges for deliberative academic development. Deliberative academic development refers to a practice that engages members of the university in dialogue about its purposes, ways of organizing and leading higher education, as well as teaching and learning. The paper critically analyses data from focus group interviews with academic developers from four universities within two national contexts. Combining sociological conceptualizations of agency and the framework of ‘epistemic living spaces’, the paper offers insights into challenges and opportunities for deliberative academic development, as well as a framework for studying agency in other contexts.     

澳大利亚扶持安置残疾学徒工的成功举措初探

近十年来,澳大利亚在残疾人就业安置方面先后进行了三个研究项目:1999年的西澳大利亚项目,2002的联邦集团培训机构最佳实践项目,2003的联邦集体培训机构合作企业项目。本文分别从背景、研究设计、成果介绍这三个研究,通过比较发现,提供"先安置,后培训"开放式就业服务模式成功促进了残疾学徒工的就业率,其成功的经验值得我们学习和借鉴。     

《湘报》及其转载新闻报道研究

为分析《湘报》及其转载各类新闻报道的内容及其意义,对原始文献进行考证和统计,结果表明,《湘报》是戊戌维新运动时期资产阶级维新派在湖南长沙创办的一份以言论为主的报纸,同时也大量转载了国内外其他权威媒体的新闻消息和评论,主要包括时事政治新闻、新闻时事评论、自然科技新闻和商务经济新闻等。《湘报》转载的新闻报道对当时湖南整个社会风气的开化和推动湖南近代化进程起到了重要的作用。     

从五部《顺宁府志·艺文》看清代临沧地区的社会生活

诗歌不单是可以用于表达个人的思想和抒发情感,也可以描述复杂的社会生活。临沧历史上因开发较晚,文化兴起也较晚。不过,从清代民国的五部《顺宁府志》的诗文中,我们依然能够窥见清代这一地区的一些社会生活剪影。     

Creative Imagination and Subjective Agency in Wynne-Jones’ The Maestro

The Canadian young adult novel The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones foregrounds the relationship between imagination and subjective agency. While Burl uses his imagination at the beginning to protect himself from his abusive father, his fantasies become dress rehearsals for small performances that allow him to try on new identities and exercise autonomy through conscious choice of possible actions. The protagonist’s imagination, nurtured by reading fairy tales, allows him to move out of his lonely private realm into intersubjective relationships with others, particularly with parental figures who support his developing sense of agency.

Inter-agency cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational education: challenges and opportunities

This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by the United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), with support from the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), aimed at investigating the challenges and limits to cross-border cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational education. The study builds on the outcomes of the recently concluded Erasmus Mundus project Quality Assurance of Cross-Border Higher Education (QACHE) and in particular the QACHE Toolkit developed as part of the project to foster cooperation between quality assurance agencies in quality assuring transnational education. Based on the responses to a survey sent to QAA’s partner agencies in key sending and receiving countries of transnational education, the study extract recommendations to agencies to help them developing viable strategies for inter-agency cooperation, identifying concrete ways in which they might or might not cooperate across borders.