A limited,apolitical, and open Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire’s work is often characterized and used in terms that seek to produce widespread political and economic changes across societies. Peter Roberts, however, in his book Paulo Freire in the twenty-first Century, offers readers a much different way of approaching Freire’s work. Throughout his book, Roberts presents Freire as recognizing the limitations of educational initiatives, as not seeking specific macro-political objectives, and as emphasizing openness to alternative discourses. These themes weave throughout each chapter of the book, in which Roberts examines a wide range of topics, from Freire and Dostoevsky to reason and emotion to political correctness to Freire and the Tao Te Ching. In this review essay, I engage a number of purposes. I elucidate and trace these three themes as they weave throughout and support the various topics that Roberts examines in his book. I illustrate how Roberts’s treatment of these themes challenges many of the interpretations of Freire’s work found within the critical literature, and, through this critique, it offers readers new ways of thinking about Freire’s thinking. Lastly, I discuss how Roberts’s thoughts suggest new ways that Freire’s work, and critical education in general, might begin to make more meaningful and practical inroads into public education and might develop new avenues of scholarship on Freire’s work.     

Everything is at stake; yet nothing is at stake: exploring meaning-making in game-centred approaches

While not wishing to cover old ground in articulating the promise or continued promise of phenomenology within the physical education and sports domains, this paper aims to explore the ‘human’ nature of the game-centred approach (GCA) from an existential-phenomenological perspective. In a recent review of literature on the current state of research on GCAs, Harvey and Jarrett made the call for phenomenological-oriented empirical studies. Urging the academic fraternity to embrace such ‘participatory epistemologies’ is an extremely positive and important step by the authors. This is because, although they do not explicitly make the point, to call for the embrace of phenomenological-oriented research into GCAs, the authors are accepting the fundamental importance of individual experience and meaning in games teaching. If we focus on the individual it then becomes a distinct possibility of structuring increasingly meaningful game-centred practice. In this respect we analyze Martin Heidegger's notion of ‘being-in-the-world’ and illustrate how Arnold's three categories of meaningful movement—primordial, contextual and existential—can help facilitate ideas for pedagogical practice and provide an appropriate interpretive lens for future research into GCAs.     

Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult education

Abstract

Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in the study of adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This paper sets out his intellectual and professional biography, maps the main contours of his work and introduces fourteen papers by leading scholars devoted to his work. Five broad phases in Jarvis’ life are identified: (a) youth, self-education, Methodist ministry and early teaching and research; (b) founding of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, authorship of important textbooks on adult and professional education and linking of academic communities in different countries; (c) early research on and theorisation of learning; (d) engagement from the early 1990s with debates on lifelong learning and the learning society; and (e) return to theorisation of learning, particularly from the perspective of globalisation, from around 2000. Recurring themes include ethics and responsibility, the essentially social nature of learning, democracy, and authenticity in human relationships.     

麦克莱伦的多元文化教育观及其启示

麦克莱伦的多元文化教育观强调培养学生的批判意识与实践能力,并以学生的自由与解放为根本旨归。他以社会批判理论、后现代主义、马克思主义、弗莱雷和吉鲁的文化研究等为理论来源,对多元文化教育的教育目标、教育内容、教育方法、教师角色做了深刻阐释。     

19世纪上半叶美国人觊觎占据中国台湾的图谋

台湾是中国的宝岛,美国觊觎占据中国台湾由来已久。在19世纪四五十年代,美国商人汤森·哈里斯、美国海军准将马修·佩里和美国驻华公使伯驾分别向美国政府提出占领台湾的各种主张和计划,他们在台湾的一系列活动,成为日后美国制定对台湾政策的重要依据。美国觊觎台湾以及后来制订一个个侵台计划,正是美国亚太政策的缩影。     

德鲁克眼中的管理任务与激励

彼得·德鲁克(Peter F. Drucker)先生是位管理大师,其管理观点有很强的哲学性、前瞻性.本文引用德鲁克的管理观点,对管理者比较关心的"管理的任务"和"激励"问题做了剖析和阐述.侧重于分析、讨论为什么将"培养员工和履行社会责任"均视为管理的任务;结合近100年来,对人的管理历程,分析了德鲁克先生对激励的看法.即"绩效本身就是激励".以期对管理者和学者有一定的参考价值.     

艺术对生活的介入：比格尔先锋派理论解读

德国学者比格尔的先锋派理论以唯美主义为批判对象,对现代主义美学的艺术自律观念作了全面反攻,深刻揭示了艺术的意识形态性质。它注重开放艺术与生活的联系,以充分发挥艺术所具有的文化批判功能,有效对抗资本主义的工具理性。比格尔先锋派理论给当今的文艺学学科建设提供了重要启示。     

从纽马克的交际翻译理论看公示语的翻译

该文从纽马克的交际翻译理论出发,就公示语翻译的现状以及存在的问题进行讨论,并提出在公示语翻译中如何在译语中体现源语的交际策略。笔者认为在翻译公示语时,译者应该熟知公示语的语言特点及其功能意义,了解中外文化差异,并将译文读者的文化习惯放在首位,使公示语的译文起到与源语的相似的公示作用,从而促进汉语公示语的英译工作,更好地发挥公示语在全球化的当今世界中的国际文化交流作用。     

Embracing the humanistic vision: Recurrent themes in Peter Roberts’ recent writings

Running like a leitmotif through Peter Roberts’ recently published philosophico-educational writings there is a humanistic thread, which this article picks out. In order to ascertain the quality of this humanism, Roberts is positioned in relation to a pair of extant humanisms: radical and integral. Points of comparability and contrast are identified in several of the writer’s genre-crossing essays. These texts, it is argued, rectify deficiencies in how the two humanisms envision alternatives to capitalism. Roberts skilfully teases out the non-obvious futurological implications of the work of a diverse array of authors, spanning the boundaries of philosophy, social criticism, and literature. In so doing, he underscores the intimate connection between personal self-transformation and ideal-driven social transformation. Further, Roberts challenges humanists of both radical and integral stripes to reconsider the moral grounds of their critique of capitalism.     

The Seven Deadly Sins of Disaster Recovery

SUMMARY

Disaster response is largely about managing people. Human failings and vice can delay or derail library and archives recovery activities, causing irreparable damage to irreplaceable cultural property. Peter Waters' seven requirements for conducting successful disaster recoveries are contrasted with the Seven Deadly Sins to demonstrate the timeless nature of subversive factors at work in the disaster domain. Disaster planning is recommended as an indispensable alternative to running in circles.