Accelerated Christian Education: a case study of the use of race in voucher-funded private Christian schools

President Donald Trump has promised an expansion of voucher programs for private schools in the United States. Private Christian schools are likely beneficiaries of such an expansion, but little research has been conducted about the curricula they use or their suitability for public funds. This article describes and critiques the depiction of race in Accelerated Christian Education, a curriculum used in some voucher-funded schools in the United States, as well as in private schools in 140 countries. It employs content analysis and qualitative documentary analysis of the curriculum workbooks, and builds on Christian Smith and Michael Emerson’s theoretical framework of white evangelicals’ ‘cultural toolkit’ to explain the ideas about race in the curriculum. The paper finds that in addition to some overt racism, the system promulgates a worldview which does not have the capacity to recognize or oppose systemic injustice. It is argued that such a curriculum is not a suitable recipient of federal funding.     

皖西白鹅公鹅生殖器官的解剖观察

本试验研究了皖西白鹅公鹅生殖器官的形态特征。试验应用 40只成年皖西白鹅 ,颈动脉放血致死后 ,用 10 %福尔马林溶液固定一个月左右 ,通过肉眼和放大镜观察公鹅生殖器官的形态位置和结构特征。结果表明成年皖西白鹅公鹅的生殖器官由睾丸、睾丸旁导管系统、输精管和交媾器等器官组成 ,缺少哺乳动物特有的副性腺和精索等器官。     

皖西白鹅内分泌器官的形态学研究

本试验研究了皖西白鹅内分泌器官的形态学特征。试验应用20只成年皖西白鹅(公母各10只),进行新鲜标本和10％福尔马林溶液固定标本的观察,同时比较公母鹅间内分泌器官的差异。结果表明成年皖西白鹅的体重为:公鹅5.05±0.72千克,母鹅4.88±0.68千克,公鹅的内分泌器官量值较母鹅略大。     

《白鹿原》：回归传统的平庸

本文通过对于黄土坡塬上的精神哲学－“白鹿精魂”－及其理想人格范型的解读,从一个侧面论述了回归传统是《白鹿原》的文化本性。文章指出,《白鹿原》并没有提供富有现代人文价值的文化观念,并没有最大可能地开掘人物灵魂的深度,它的成功在于以貌似丰厚沉静的鲁钝品性回应了九十年代文化民族主义的主潮。回归传统既成就了它,也埋葬了它。从这一角度言,《白鹿原》无疑是一部资质平庸的作品。     

“狼”与“狗”之间的转化:进化还是退化?

杰克·伦敦是美国杰出的批判现实主义作家,被誉为"美国无产阶级文学之父"。但他不是一位真正的无产阶级作家,因为他在接受马克思主义的同时,也接受了达尔文的进化论、斯宾塞的社会进化论和尼采的"超人"哲学。世界观的矛盾和思想的撞击充分体现在他的两部动物小说《野性的呼唤》和《白牙》中。     

华裔女儿成长的困惑和艰辛 --解读汤亭亭的《女勇士》

通过解读华裔作家汤亭亭的《女勇士》，探索华裔在成长的过程中所承受的来自中华传统化的重负和美国化的排斥，揭示华裔少女在两种化夹缝中成长的困惑和艰辛，展现华裔在民族融合过程中所付出的代价与得到的收获。     

《白噪音》中的异化消费

美国当代著名作家唐·德里罗的小说《白噪音》艺术地再现了后现代美国人的生存环境和生存状态。美国消费社会建构的三个关键领域——媒介影像、消费行为和大众文化,成为美国后现代社会的景观。《白噪音》展示了后现代美国社会的两大消费行为——看电视和购物,同时,揭示了美国大众文化甚至学术研究也趋向商业化。这些异化消费使得人们丧失了主体性,陷入了精神空虚、焦虑、孤独与异化,并导致垃圾激增、环境污染和生态灾难。     

An exploration of educative praxis: Reflections on Marx’s concept praxis,informed by the Lacanian concepts act and event

This article explores an aspect of Karl Marx’s concept, praxis. Praxis is meaningful work, through which we fulfil ourselves by fulfilling others. The discussion draws on the author’s work with postgraduate student teachers, where both students and author were researching their own practice. Reflecting Marx’s conception of praxis as subjective fulfilment in the objective world, this activity was intended to trouble and complicate the categories ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’, whilst enabling students to become both more autonomous and other-oriented. The intention behind this article is to develop the theoretical vocabulary of praxis available to educational researchers and practitioners. Some ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis are introduced, followed by extensive discussion of Slavoj ?i?ek’s concepts, ‘act’ and ‘event’. The key argument is that in a nascent educative praxis, ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ perspectives can be understood not as fixed points of reference, but as dual orientations on a flow of signification. These ideas are developed alongside detailed examination of two university-based research sessions with student teachers. With reference to session activities, a rationale is provided for an emerging educative praxis, in which students explore creative tensions between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ perspectives on school-based practice.     

Sport and Racial Discrimination in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Reanalysis

The British colony of Southern Rhodesia, later governed by a white settler minority as unilaterally-independent Rhodesia, practiced racial segregation in many spheres, including education, health care access and political participation. Though racial segregation tended to exist on a less formal level than in Rhodesia's neighbour, apartheid South Africa, segregationist policies were nonetheless invasive and virtually complete in some areas. Sport was a heavily contested sphere, in which pockets of black African autonomy and advancement existed alongside near-complete white domination, largely, but not entirely, free of government intrusion. This article is an effort to develop a working hypothesis of racial discrimination in Rhodesian sport, discrimination that was never as formal or complete as in South Africa but which nonetheless provided a firm foundation for Rhodesia's exclusion from international sporting competition in the 1970s.