Entering the occupational category of ‘Farmer’: new pathways through professional agricultural education in Ireland

Purpose: Understand the emergence of new potential career trajectories in the liberalised Irish dairy farming sector through analysis of the narratives of students of a Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management

Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights that entry to a working life in agriculture has been characterised by protracted farm succession processes; a strong association between being a farmer and owning land in the family name; lingering male identities esteeming manual labour; and a pragmatic need at farm level for manual work. The abolition of milk quota in 2015 was predicted to catalyse expansion of production on dairy farms with an increase in milk production; accompanied by a demand for qualified personnel. The BNIM method was employed.

Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance. The students’ narratives evidenced managerial identities, being strongly influenced by encountering management approaches through their agricultural education. All students desired to eventually own a farm someday and to be to employed as a professional dairy farm manager was a perceived as an intermediary goal.

Practical implication: Discontinuation of the traditional family farming model based on family farm/land ownership is not imminent even among a cohort qualified to become employed dairy farm managers.

Theoretical implication: This paper contributes to theoretical framework which highlights the shift in farmer masculine identity and the career trajectory of graduates of specialised agricultural education programmes.     

藏族大学生数学学习心理及其相关因素调查报告

对甘南合作民族师范高等专科学校藏汉双语理科教育系的藏汉双语数学教育专业8个年级的153名学生,就数学学习的动机、情感、兴趣、态度、意志和认识6方面进行问卷调查,发现大学生与中小学生具有基本相同的心理特征,在部分动机因素、认识、意志和态度等方面大学生比中小学生有所提高。应增加中小学课程中的应用性知识、突出师范性、教师变换角色．体现学生主体、教师主导的作用,用书面语施教、加强教师的继续教育和促使学生家长了解社会。     

聋人大学生职业生涯辅导探析

职业生涯辅导在我国的高等特殊教育中具有独特的价值。本文从促进聋人大学生职业成长和终身发展的视角,分析了聋人大学生职业生涯辅导的缺失与问题,探讨了聋人大学生的心理特点及对其职业生涯发展的消极影响,提出了对聋人大学生进行科学职业生涯辅导的内容、方法和途径。     

谈思想政治课的兴趣培养

兴趣是学生学习活动的心理动机，积极而持续的学习兴趣能促进学生的学习。因此，在思想政治课教学中，教师应重视对学生学习兴趣的培养、巩固和提高。基本上可通过三个途径予以培养：一是艺术导课；二是创设情景；三是课外活动，以此来培养、巩固、提高学生对思想政治课的学习兴趣，并进而树立正确的信念，形成良好的行为习惯，从而提高思想政治课的实效性。     

Creating a distinctive business career outcome programme

This article describes how a small private business school, accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, reengineered its career services programme to become a premier programme in the United States. Drawing on theory of involvement, the research gives business schools a strategy to improve business career placement through capital support, student engagement, corporate engagement, alumni engagement, faculty engagement and continuous improvement initiatives. Further, two major outcome categories (i.e. supportive outcomes and end outcomes) are identified and various measures are discussed. Supportive outcomes indicate growth in the number of on-campus business recruiting career events, high internship evaluations by internship supervisors and significant increase in students’ satisfaction with career services. End outcomes provide strong evidence for placement rate success with a 98% career placement rate for the past four years, significant increase on mean starting salaries of graduates across the years following the implementation of the strategic changes, improved quality of positions attained by graduates, and professional success of alumni in their positions. The impact of strategic changes on school ranking, enrolment and donor support are also discussed. The research proposes a model of student career success and identifies various elements influencing the success of such programmes.     

培里价值理论的基本特征

美国现代哲学家培里创立了一般价值论——价值兴趣论。其价值兴趣论具有以下特征：生存论的思维方式，兴趣中心的理论主旨，自然主义的哲学倾向和经验描述的研究方法。     

天光云影共徘徊——申跃中创作命运思考(上)

申跃中几十年起伏多变的创作命运,始终没有离开过中国当代这一特定历史时期时代因素的缠绕。这一因素既把他涌向潮头,也把他推向低谷,使他与时代、与社会结下了永远的不解之缘。在这一过程中,作家对创作道路的自觉选择和对艺术境界的自觉追求对创作命运具有重要意义,时代感召和主体抉择的共同作用,使作家走上了一条成功之路。     

Identifying core competencies to advance female professors’ careers: an exploratory study in United States academia

This exploratory study aims to identify the core competencies necessary to successfully advance the careers of female associate professors in higher education. To ascertain these core career competencies, a critical incident interview technique was employed. One-to-one semi-structured interviews with six female full professors at a major research university in the Midwestern region of the United States were conducted. Based on participants’ career advancement experiences, the following competencies were identified: (1) making important connections, (2) fulfilling responsibilities in academia, (3) being politically savvy, (4) managing personal and professional obligations, (5) developing a sense of self-agency for one’s career, and (6) believing in one’s self in the work environment. The action-oriented findings of this research, rather than skill-based, can be easily adapted by faculty and institutions, both domestically and internationally, to improve current practices. These findings offer a unique contribution for improving the research and practice of career development among female faculty in higher education.     

情感·兴趣与数学课堂教学

对情感、兴趣等非智力因素在数学学习中动力性作用作了一定的阐述和探讨.     

对抗性竞争与协商合作——多元主义与合作主义的利益集团观比较

多元主义和合作主义是两种重要的有关利益集团的理论。多元主义利益集团观的核心是对抗性竞争,合作主义利益集团观的核心是协商合作,二者的争论集中于对抗与合作、冲突与秩序。这两种利益集团观对当代中国处理利益群体问题有一定启示,即综合两者的优势,以协商竞争的原则解决利益群体问题。