不同教育背景母亲在亲子会话中词汇运用的差异比较

为探讨不同教育背景的母亲在母子会话中词汇运用水平的差异,本研究对40对母子在自发会话时母亲的词汇运用水平进行了研究,其中40位母亲具有不同的教育背景,其子女年龄分别在18个月、24个月、30个月、36个月四个年龄段。结果表明:在词汇的整体运用水平上,高教育背景母亲的词汇运用水平高于低教育背景母亲,且在基本词汇频次和丰富性等方面呈显著差异;在影响关系上,高教育背景母亲的母子双方词汇运用水平相关程度较高,二者多数为显著或极其显著,而低教育背景母子双方词汇运用水平相关程度低,甚至出现负相关,显示高教育背景母亲对儿童指向言语更为敏感。但研究结果同时显示:两类母亲在运用词汇时均对儿童词汇的年龄发展规律不敏感,因此两类母亲对儿童指向言语的年龄变化的敏感度都不高。     

汉藏“二母争子”故事浅析

＂二母争子＂故事在汉藏两族人民中广泛流传。虽然两族人民所处地域不同,文化与教育相异,然而这一题材的故事不同之中却存在诸多相同。本文将对汉藏两族此类故事进行比较,发掘其中的异同。     

从《姑妇曲》看蒲松龄的“婆媳观”

在蒲松龄创作的十五种俚曲中,《姑妇曲》是描写婆媳关系的名篇。它以家庭关系中普遍存在的婆媳关系为基本内容,歌颂了孝妇的善行,抨击了不孝之妇的恶行,进而指出,作为婆婆也要尊重、体贴、呵护儿媳,体现了蒲松龄较为开明的＂婆媳观＂。     

城市新移民家庭教育问题及其对策研究——基于郫县犀浦镇的调研与改革尝试

本项研究选择郫县犀浦镇为实验区域,在全面分析城市新移民家庭教育问题及其原因的基础上,设计并实施由学校组织的、以＂榜样在身边＂为主题的城市新移民家庭教育提升活动。从实际效果来看,这是一个解决城市新移民家庭教育问题的鲜活样本。     

农民角色转变对全国农运会的影响及对策

文章简述了农民运动会发展中出现的一些问题,特别是重点关注了农民角色转换的现象及其对农运会可能产生的深远影响。随着我国进入社会转型期,农民阶层发生巨大变化,大量的青壮年农民进城务工转化为农民工,而农运会却是以传统农民为参与主体,以往的项目设置和运动员审查方案将不能反映出这种巨大的社会阶层转变的要求,并可能导致无法达到举办农运会的真正目的。通过分析社会转型期农民角色的转变对全国农民运动会的影响,探讨了今后农运会从项目设置和参与方式上可能面临的改革需求及对策。     

美国阿米什文化新探

阿米什在美国积极实践其宗教理念,坚持传统价值观念并顽强抵制现代性的侵袭。坚定的宗教信仰、独特的群体标识和灵活的生存战略使他们在传统和现代的夹击中保持着一种微妙平衡,在高度发达的美国维护了其传统文化,分享着大量现代物质文明却成功避免了现代社会的许多弊病,并且在20世纪兴旺发展。     

¡No cierren nuestra escuela! farm worker mothers as cultural citizens in an educational community mobilization effort

Mexican immigrant farm-worker mothers’ class, race, citizenship status, and jurisdictional status of their town in a Northern California community rendered them invisible. However, when the school board decided to close the elementary school the mothers mobilized. Drawing on these mothers’ fototestimonios we examine how they, as cultural citizens, resisted local practices of educational inequity. They wanted to ensure an education for their children. The fototestimonios reveal how farm-worker mothers: (1) negotiated as a collective with the school board; (2) sought negotiation and schooling alternatives; and (3) expressed cultural citizenship through collective efforts to be included within the US polity.     

Suffering in Silence: The Resilience of Pakistan’s Female Journalists to Combat Sexual Harassment,Threats and Discrimination

ABSTRACT

Pakistan’s journalists confront severe safety risks across the country and impunity to crimes against them allows the perpetrators to go unpunished. Now the country is recognized as one of the deadliest places for working journalists in the world. Given this situation, the Pakistani female journalists are more vulnerable because they are not only prone to safety risks and sexual harassment, but also they face gender discrimination when it comes to their recruitment and equal pay-scale. In the past decade, there has been an alarming increase in attacks on female journalists and incidents of their sexual harassment in Pakistan. Notwithstanding the growing plague of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the country, the resilience of female journalists to work within a threatening and prejudiced environment has not yet fully explored and analysed. Therefore, drawing on the postcolonial feminist theory, this study aims to investigate the Pakistani female journalists’ lived experiences of sexual harassment, threats and discrimination. The study also analyses the impacts of sexual harassment, threats and gender discrimination on the country’s female journalists. To achieve the aforementioned aims, this study uses the qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and focus groups discussion, and offers a thematic analysis of qualitative data.     

Complicating the entrepreneurial self: professional Chinese immigrant women negotiating occupations in Canada

A core mode of governance in the era of neoliberalism is through the production of ‘entrepreneurial self’. This paper explores how the ‘entrepreneurial self’ is produced for 21 Chinese immigrant women in Canada. The women displayed extraordinary entrepreneurialism by investing in Canadian education. Becoming entrepreneurial, however, is more than an individualised ‘choice’. It is imbricated with the ideology of meritocracy cultivated in China, the ‘credential and certificate regime’ in Canada, and the gendered expectations in the host labour market and at home. Given the ideological confluence, and the material conditions the women lived, a feminized and racialized labour is reproduced.     

Otherness ‘without ostracism or levelling’: towards fresh orientations to teacher foreigners in early childhood education

Abstract

This article attempts to conceptualise the notion of the foreigner in relation to immigrant early childhood teachers. Sparked by Kristeva’s challenge, to live with and as others without ostracism or levelling, it highlights tensions that arise in a juxtaposition of the Aotearoa/New Zealand early childhood curriculum document, Te Whāriki and other guidelines for cross-cultural practices, with perspectives on the foreigner and foreignness. Situated in the neoliberal sociopolitical and cultural landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand, the analysis foregrounds and re-frames orientations towards immigrant teachers as they may play out in the early childhood realm. Kristeva’s insights into foreigners’ raw and intimate experiences provide a freeing lens to emphasise influences on and consequences of a foreigner’s otherness. While Kristeva’s challenge may be a never-ending story of a utopian future in education, its use in this analysis is intended to provoke an awareness of complex conceptualisations of foreignness and of tensions that could subvert the aim of working towards this, possibly elusive, ideal.