What Can Clients Tell Us about Seeking Counselling and Their Experience of It?

Research on counselling is often unknown to or ignored by counsellors. Research that explores counselling from the client’s perspective is even less familiar to most counsellors, perhaps because there is far less of it compared to the quantity of research investigating the process from the counsellor’s point of view. Nevertheless, research presenting the client’s perspective can be a useful guide to both counsellors and their clients. With this aim in mind, this article summarises some of the research that has been conducted from the client’s point of view and suggests implications for counselling practice.     

Personally driven professional development: reflective self-study as a way for teachers to take control of their own professional development

This article is about personally driven professional development through the use of reflective self-study. The argument that teachers need to take responsibility for their own learning while also taking decisions on how and in what areas to develop is strongly made throughout the article. Data for this article were gathered over a 10-year period where the author engaged in several studies using self-study as methodology. Between studies, the author kept using reflective self-study as a professional development tool, and it is these data between various studies that were analysed using thematic and reflective analysis. Such analysis resulted in various overarching themes that show how reflective self-study can be of benefit if used by teachers researching their own classrooms. Benefits include teachers taking full ownership of their learning, relevance of learning, learning that is ongoing and not restricted to specific times and places, taking problematic situations as learning opportunities and how other sources take on new relevance through reflective self-study. Some implications for teacher-education programmes and current school structures are also discussed.     

Anti-racist moral education: A review of approaches,impact and theoretical underpinnings from 2000 to 2015

Racism is a moral issue and of concern for moral educators, with recent social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter highlighting how far we are from obliterating racial oppression and the unearned privilege whiteness confers. To contribute to a more formalised approach to anti-racist moral education, this article systematically reviews 15 years of peer-reviewed scholarship concerned with anti-racist education, to establish the definitions and aims of anti-racist education drawn on, the theoretical frameworks underpinning these, the methods used in education efforts, and their intended impact. It also considers the geo-political aspects of knowledge production in the field, such as author country location and implementation context of empirical studies. It concludes with implications for moral education in classroom and community contexts and advocates for anti-racist moral education that comprise three interconnected components—making visible systemic oppression (visibilising), recognising personal complicity in oppression through unearned privilege (recognising) and developing strategies to transform structural inequalities (strategising).     

Flipping the Coin: Towards a Double-Faced Approach to Teaching Black Literature in Secondary English Classrooms

Critiquing two approaches that English teachers use to teach Black, or African-American, literature in the secondary classroom – one that centralises races and the other that ignores it – this article proposes a hybrid approach that combines both. This double-faced approach recognises the culturally specific themes that give the text and the Black author their unique voice while also recognising commonalities that bridge the text to others – despite the race of the authors. To demonstrate the feasibility of the double-faced approach, the article concludes with an examination of three texts through the lens of this ‘race both matters and doesn’t matter’ perspective.     

大众传媒与文学消亡

随着图像信息时代的到来,大众传媒对纯文学的强烈冲击引起了文学消亡话题的重提。大众传媒以其自身的优势弥补了纯文学的不足,但同时,纯文学也对大众传媒有意识或无意识地渗透,文学性的存在丰富了大众传媒的精神内涵。大众传媒与纯文学相互融合,形成良好的互动关系,在文化研究的新领域中,文学找到了新的出路。     

李清照文学成就探因

李清照是中国古代文学史上为数不多的女性作家中的佼佼者，她多才多能，文学成就斐然，尤以词著称。她能成为中国历史上文学成就最高的女词人，诚非偶然之事。社会环境的影响，家学氛围的濡染，坎坷的人生经历，再加上她聪颖的天资和女性独有的情感，这一切造就了才女李清照卓越辉煌的文学成就。     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

新世纪江南文学与文化研究简述

江南文学与文化研究自上世纪90年代起被学术界密切关注,近年来更是成为学术热点。研究者对江南文学与文化的诸多层面进行了细致且深入的探讨,成果丰硕,不仅涌现出为数众多的学术专著及论文①,更是在江浙沪等地建立了多所研究机构和高校研究专业。2010年12月25～26日"从江南看中国——文学与历史学术研讨会"在华东师范大学的召开、2011年7月22～25日"首届江南文化论坛"在浙江师范大学举行。江南文学与文化研究、当前的"江南学"研究日益呈现出深刻性、专门化及学科交叉性等特征。经过十年来的积淀和发展,江南学研究以独特的文化视角实现了对中国文学发展的多侧面、多维度的深入观照,在历史、文化、文学等方面取得了丰硕的成果。     

文学理论教学是马克思主义文艺学的重要内容

从目前我国研究现状看,人们在观念上认为马克思主义文艺学研究只是一个学术问题,而相关的教材建设和教学研究是教学问题.其实,一本系统的文艺理论教材涵盖了马克思主义文艺学的体系,从教材入手可最集中地对马克思主义文艺学进行横向和纵向研究,对文艺理论教材能够更好地体现马克思主义文艺学的新体系将具有指导作用.     

欧美后现代主义与中国新潮文学发展趋势

第二次世界大战后，西方出现的文学主潮－后现代主义形成了一个多元化的格局，推动了世界文学的繁荣。欧美后现代主义文艺思潮和流派对我国新文学也有较大影响。后现代主义的兴起，意味着传统美学的终结，意味着美学领域的一场大危机。