Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge

Information system research that recognizes, supports, and enables access of diverse knowledge communities online has become a major concern. Of particular concern is how these digital resources can support and preserve local identities and promote grass-roots involvement in creating the infrastructure of devolved governance. The aim of this article is to expose some of the conceptual obstacles to programs of devolved and local knowledge resources, and to provide an account of agency that recognizes that online communities, and community identity, are essential for eliciting, managing, and sharing local knowledges. Further, this article demonstrates how the implications of these issues impact institutions for managing knowledge that may be extended to all sorts of knowledge communities.     

The micro-determinants of meso-level learning and innovation: evidence from a Chilean wine cluster

Most analyses of the relationship between spatial clustering and the technological learning of firms have emphasised the influence of the former on the latter, and have focused on intra-cluster learning as the driver of innovative performance. This paper reverses those perspectives. It examines the influence of individual firms’ absorptive capacities on both the functioning of the intra-cluster knowledge system and its interconnection with extra-cluster knowledge. It applies social network analysis to identify different cognitive roles played by cluster firms and the overall structure of the knowledge system of a wine cluster in Chile. The results show that knowledge is not diffused evenly ‘in the air’, but flows within a core group of firms characterised by advanced absorptive capacities. Firms’ different cognitive roles include some—as in the case of technological gatekeepers—that contribute actively to the acquisition, creation and diffusion of knowledge. Others remain cognitively isolated from the cluster, though in some cases strongly linked to extra-cluster knowledge. Possible implications for policy are noted.     

高校英语教师学术能力发展模式研究

首先提出优秀英语教师的素质框架中应包括有较强的科研能力,能做到科研与教学相互促进,然后剖析学术和学术能力的内涵,特别是界定高校英语教师的学术能力,最后提出构建一个"以网络为平台,以群体为动力,以行动和探究为法则,以培养批判性思维为核心,以专业归档为监控"的学术能力发展模式。     

Negotiating knowledges abroad: non-Western students and the global mobility of knowledge

Taking the Institute for Housing Studies in Rotterdam as a case study, this paper aims to theorise the ways non-Western, international students construct and negotiate knowledges in Western institutions of higher education. It describes the types of knowledges these students identify as characteristic of their learning abroad, distinguishing between the curriculum, knowledge of cultural Others and ‘critical thinking’, and the strategies of incorporation, avoidance and resistance with which students negotiate these knowledges. These knowledges, if contested, are then theorised to facilitate these students’ entry into, and mobility within, globally dispersed epistemic communities.     

A Visiting Scholar Report of the Writing Center at the University of Kansas

This article introduces the Writing Center of the University of Kansas on levels of administration, training, hiring and practicing.     

Health information,what happens when there isn't any? Information literacy and the challenges for rare and orphan diseases

This feature looks at the challenges for information literacy in rare and orphan diseases. In particular, it focuses on the information difficulties faced by those living with a rare condition or awaiting a diagnosis, and also those of the health professionals in charge of their care. The feature also highlights some of the key issues that library and information professionals need to be aware of when providing information support in such circumstances. H.S.     

中国近现代工程史研究的若干问题

科学史、技术史、经济史和工程史有不同的研究对象和内容特征。工程史的基本内容是人类造物和用物、通过具体劳动创造使用价值的历史。文章简要分析了中国近现代工程史的时间范围、历史分期、研究范式等问题;指出从1840年至2010年的中国近现代工程史是中国从古代工程形态和体系向近现代工程形态和体系转型和发展的历史,是中国近现代工程共同体形成和发展的历史,是中国在170年中经过四个阶段的曲折发展而成为世界第二经济大国的历史。     

浅谈山东省农村新型社区建设目前存在的问题及对策

目前山东省各个地区都在积极推行农村新型社区建设,将农民集约居住（住楼）,对腾出的宅基地进行复垦,用增加的耕地置换城镇建设用地指标。其初衷：一是改善农民居住条件;二是集约用地并解决城镇用地指标;三是有利于推进城乡结合。在实施中部分地方政府由于利益驱使导致政策走样,盲目“大跃进”和违背农民意愿,使农民利益受到严重损坏。针对上述问题,建议建立科学规划体系、农民权益保障体系以及责任追究体系来保障这项工作的顺利进行。     

Taking the Helm: Physical Educators Managing Change through Professional Learning Communities

ABSTRACT

Change in education is inevitable. Physical educators are being positioned to effectively manage change and control their own destiny. In order to manage and facilitate positive change, physical educators should clearly embrace and accept physical education as a public health tool, understand the educational change process in schools, and know how to manage change through the strategic utilization of Professional Learning Communities. Physical educators can shape the culture of schools by increasing physical activity levels for students in physical education while facilitating physical activity opportunities for students and faculty across the school day. Given that physical education is a subsystem of the larger school system, each physical educator must understand the nature of change in schools and how to successfully influence it. Professional Learning Communities provide a structure for physical educators to take the helm by influencing positive and systemic change, shaping culture, and advocating for increased physical activity in schools.     

农村社区养老支持体系的构建

随着我国老龄化进程的加快,现有的农村家庭养老模式面临严峻挑战,必须加快建立适合中国国情的农村社区养老支持体系。而要建立农村社区养老支持体系,应该结合新农村建设的现状,加大对农村社区养老支持体系建设的资金筹措力度,加强农村社区养老支持体系的组织建设,强调农村社区养老支持体系的个性化服务,以确保农村社区老人"老无所忧,老有所养"。