A pillar of the Youngstown community: The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County engages in the Harwood practice

ABSTRACT

The Harwood Institute arrived in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1999; and today, over 18 years later, its teachings have made a profound effect upon the city. The Youngstown Public Library, through the leadership of Carlton Sears and Heidi Daniel, has wholeheartedly embraced the methods and ideology of the Harwood Institute, helping to reinvigorate and power a city working its way back to prosperity.     

Strength in Numbers: Encouraging Every Staff Member to Work to Capacity

Libraries play a critical role in enhancing the learning landscape of the schools they support. In order for any library to become a powerhouse and a community meeting place, all library team members need to align with the library's vision, own it and begin to add their own strengths and talents purposefully. This article explores practical strategies for developing a visionary team, including supportive leadership, daily stand-up meetings, weekly staff meetings, special-focus teams, rostering and the “five conversations” approach. These effective strategies can be implemented across a broad range of library workforce contexts in order to ensure the most effective workforce teams are built.     

Community College Counseling: Why Are Research Outcomes So Elusive?

This article focuses on counseling research in the community college context. The article suggests the need for a robust community college knowledge base, describes some limitations of the current community college literature, and suggests a framework for more effective work in this area. The authors’ own experiences and selected examples of published studies are used as illustrations of the hurdles encountered and solutions available when examining counseling theories, practices, and outcomes in 2‐year settings.     

School context and instructional capacity: A comparative study of professional learning communities in rural and urban schools in China

This study examines the teaching gap between rural and urban schools in China from the perspective of teacher professional learning communities (PLCs). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 36 primary school teachers, the study finds striking disparities between rural and urban schools in the working of Teaching and Research Groups (TRGs). These disparities in TRGs result in divergent patterns of instructional capacity building in rural and urban schools. The evidence shows that teaching and teachers are strongly shaped by the school organizational context. It suggests that strengthening school-wide PLCs is an important way of narrowing the rural-urban teaching and learning gaps.     

Community sport and social inclusion: international perspectives

Abstract

This opening article examines the relationship between community sport and social inclusion in research and practice. We discuss the notion of community sport, its multifarious meanings and diverse applications in different parts of the world. We further explore the conceptual and practical links between community sport and different conceptions of social inclusion. In doing so, the article draws together key themes, issues and debates addressed in the collection of articles in this special issue. We conclude by formulating implications and directions for future research and practice.     

城市化视角下的城市社区治理创新研究——以合肥市为例

近年来,随着城市化的加快推进,城市规模越来越大,这给城市治理提出了极大的挑战. 社区是城市的细胞,城市社区治理的好坏直接影响城市的形象和发展. 文章通过对合肥市城市社区治理进行深入调研,了解社会转型期城市社区治理存在的问题,分析其原因,探索新的解决方案和举措,以期进一步完善当前的城市社区治理存在的不足之处.     

金元时期山东词人入声韵分部问题新考

数理统计的方法表明，金元山东词人入声韵应该分为月帖部、药铎部、屋烛部、昔职部、质物部5部，而不是像李爱平、宋洪民所分的3部。     

"为天强派作诗人"--袁枚散馆外放的"前因"及其婉拒乾隆临幸随园考论

袁枚由翰林散馆外放江南知县,因其试清书最下等,更有其前馆课作《清说》等原因;但是,袁枚却归之于乾隆“强派”其如此。其33岁致仕,实与失望于乾隆皇帝有关。进而有在乾隆第二次南巡时,袁枚婉拒尹继善葺随园接驾之议。就出处大节而论,袁枚不愧是我国封建社会晚期一位尚有独立人格的知识分子。     

关于将礼仪教育列入文明社区建设的几个问题

在机关、企业、学校的礼仪教育中忽视了一个重要环节，就是文明社区建设中的礼仪教育和规范。社区成员的言行规范直接反映着该社区乃至该城市的文明程度高低。走向世界的中国人应有哪些涵养，应掌握哪些礼仪规范，应引起各级组织和各界人士的高度重视。礼仪与文明都属于文化现象，这是构成社会主义精神文明的基本要素，它可以从社会的角度陶冶社会成员的心灵，规范社区居民的行为，培养高尚的审美情趣。用礼仪教育来营造良好的社会秩序和社会风气，用礼仪文化促进文明社区的发展，是提升文明社区形象的一大举措。     

Moving beyond the anthropos and reclaiming the geo in intercultural communication: The transculturation of the martial art practice of Aikido

This ethnographic study examines the practice of Aikido, a martial art style originating from Japan, by a community of non-Japanese practitioners in the southwestern region of the United States. This paper recounts the second nature-making of the art's skillful responsiveness as a thing to be explained from the ground, rather than leaving its cultural dynamics and their appropriative relations unchallenged as a relatively homogenous process of globalization and increased contact. In the case of Shining Energy (a pseudonym), the “taking” of another's cultural elements and “making” it a fully habituated and naturalized way of moving and being (second nature) are predicated on geo-making, the production of ontologizing resources (first nature) that enable culturally sanctioned modes of somatic engagements with the world. The process of appropriating Aikido entails an inversion between the figure and ground that foregrounds the geo-making of the ground/field for activity itself.