《论语》学研究的一部力作——评《魏晋南北朝“论语学”研究》

学术界对魏晋南北朝《论语》学研究较少,《魏晋南北朝"论语学"研究》一书弥补了此缺憾。此书的特色在于从学术的层面对魏晋南北朝时期《论语》诠释方式的发展与演变予以全方面、多角度地论述,注意吸收学界研究成果进行综合比较研究,探讨《论语》在政治、教育、社会风尚与宗教方面发生的作用和价值。     

关于安徽皖南紫砂资源调查分析及工艺试验探讨

本文对安徽皖南及周边地区蕴藏的丰富的紫砂矿资源通过实地调查,证明安徽皖南及周边地区紫砂矿源储量丰富,并对紫砂土做过多次化学分析,取得化验报告,证实皖南及周边地区蕴藏的紫砂土质量上乘,是生产紫砂陶艺的上等原材料。该文还对皖南及周边地区紫砂土的特性在生产紫砂陶加工工艺及泥土配方进行了深入的探究,提岀了具体的配方比例要求和工艺流程。本文作者杨绎成先生原是安徽省紫砂陶项目研究领军人物,有着丰富的第一手资料和生产经验。     

岭南武术的地域文化特征研究

岭南地区北依南岭,南傍南海,加上南岭万山叠嶂,使岭南地区构成一个相对独立的自然地理单元,孕育于其中的岭南文化形成了迥异于岭北中原大地的文化特质,发源于此的南派拳系在中国武术中也独树一帜,称之岭南武术文化。文章通过对岭南武术形成的主要因素来阐述岭南文化及它的地域特征对南派武术在形成和发展中所产生的影响。     

韩国体育发展模式探究

对韩国体育发展的基本情况及其发展模式形成的历史背景进行了简要概括,在此基础上对韩国体育基本组织的功能和作用进行了细致分析。研究发现,基于特定的历史背景和特殊的发展诉求,韩国体育发展模式既具有＂举国体制＂的优点,又具有职业化体育的特点,是一种混合式的体育发展模式。     

Opening a Window on Early Twentieth-Century School Sport in Cape Town Society

An attempt was made at recording structured sport in non-White schools in Cape Town, South Africa, prior to 1956. The study was introduced with a historical presentation of sport at mission schools. It was shown how these schools inherited a legacy of deprivation and neglect that impacted upon sport participation. Yet, champion sportspersons at these schools gained some recognition in a racist and hostile society. This was possible due to the efforts of a few Teachers' League of South Africa (TLSA) campaigners who saw sport development as part of their mission of uplifting children in their charge. The TLSA attempted organising athletic meetings from 1916 onwards. Teachers belonging to this organisation were instrumental in establishing the first mass-based school sport organisation in Cape Town in 1928, the Central School Sports Union (CSU). This organisation was the only avenue of meaningful sport participation for most of Cape Town's marginalised children. A study of the CSU enables historians to open a window not only on social and political complexities of school sport but also on the broader early twentieth-century Cape society.     

An assessment of non-formal education and training centres’ linkages with role-players for adult employment in South Africa

This article outlines the results of a qualitative study, which investigated the adult non-formal education and education (NFET) centre linkages with external role-players in providing post-training support for the employment of graduates. The concern that informed this article is that adults who face long-term unemployment remain unemployed after completing the NFET programmes in South Africa. The article reports on an empirical study conducted to investigate what constitutes NFET enabling environments for employment. The findings reveal that most managers did not create institutional centre linkages that could enable graduates having access to essential post-training support, community resources, public goods and services. The author concludes that without linking the NFET programmes to external stakeholders, graduates will continue finding it difficult to be integrated in the labour market which perpetuates unemployment and chronic poverty in South Africa.     

‘It's more flexible’: persistence of women engineers in the academy

The under-representation of women in engineering is an issue of concern for policy-makers. While much of the existing literature has focussed on understanding reasons for women's under-representation in engineering and related technical fields, there is a paucity of research that examines why women who are already in engineering persist. This study aims to answer the question, why do women engineers in academe persist in a discipline that is generally perceived to be inhospitable to women. Three main challenges, namely gender discrimination, lack of institutional and disciplinary support, and the rigid nature of the workplace, emerged as key impediments to women engineers in the private sector. In contrast, women engineers in the academy identified the flexibility offered by academic environments, the presence of personal support networks, and a passion for teaching and students as critical factors that influenced their decision to remain in academia.     

A Post/Decolonial View of Race and Identity Through the Narratives of U.S. International Students from the Global South

Using postcolonial and decolonial theory as a framework, this study focuses on the lived experiences of international students of color entering the United States for the first time in their lives from the global South. Our goal was to understand how they communicate/perform their dis/located identities in relation to “race” when immersed for the first time in a White settler society context. Findings from this qualitative study underscore discomfort with U.S.-centric race logics, production of ambiguity in relation to identity and race, and the growth of compassion for cultural Others as a result of becoming racial Other. The decolonial implications of such dis-identification with U.S. colonial race categories are discussed.     

Learning through South–South development: Cuban-African partnerships in sport and physical education

Since the 1990s, Cuba has offered scholarships to students from low-resource countries to attend the Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (EIEFD) for a six-year degree in sport, physical education, and coaching. Drawing on the experiences of EIEFD graduates from four Southern African countries (Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, and Lesotho) the authors discuss the meanings that this South–South cooperation through education holds for international students and for the self-sufficiency of sport and physical-education systems within partner countries. The authors also show that upon returning home, many EIEFD graduates are left to negotiate insular job markets and inconsistent domestic commitments to public sport and physical education. The implications for South–South development through international education, and the place of sport and physical education therein, are discussed.     

Gender,dialogue and discursive psychology: a pilot sexuality intervention with South African High-School learners

Good-quality sexuality education can be effective in reducing sexual health risks, but may also be disconnected from the lived realities of learners’ lives and reinforce gendered stereotypes. In line with the trend towards ‘empowerment’ in and through sexuality education, we implemented a pilot sexuality intervention with Grade 10 participants following a rigorous consultation process. Nine weekly group dialogues were held with 11 participants, with 2 follow-up sessions the next year. Freirian principles of critical consciousness and dialogical pedagogy, infused with discursive psychological understandings, were used to foreground gendered/sexual norms and to provide recognition for participants in a variety of gendered and sexual subject positions. Sessions were recorded, the facilitator kept a diary, and participants were asked to evaluate the intervention. The dialogical format of the group generated curiosity and engagement, and some participants took up a ‘responsible’ sexual subject position in a reflexive manner. A partial normalisation of some ‘hidden’ aspects of sex was enabled, and critical consciousness around some gendered inequities was promoted. We argue, first, that it is not so much sexuality education that young people need, but sexuality dialogues, and second, that a discursive psychology framework provides a nuanced and fruitful dimension to Freirean inspired ‘empowerment’ sexuality interventions.