A world-class archival achievement: the People’s Republic of China archivists’ success in opening the Ming-Qing central-government archives, 1949–1998

This article describes the first half century of the Communist government’s supervision and management of the central-government archives of the last two dynasties. Immediately with the Communist ascent to power in 1949, the new government took great interest in assembling and protecting the country’s archival documents, readying the Ming-Qing archives for access to scholars, and preparing for publication of selected materials. By the 1980s Beijing’s Number One Historical Archives, in charge of the largest holding of Ming-Qing documents, had become the first Chinese authority to complete a full sorting and preliminary catalogues for such a collection. Moreover, to facilitate searches, an attempt has recently begun to create a subject-heading system for these and other holdings in the country. In the first half century’s final decades, foreign researchers were admitted for the first time and tours and international exchanges began to take place.

ICPSR meets OAIS: applying the OAIS reference model to the social science archive context

This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. The paper also assesses ICPSR’s conformance with the archival responsibilities of “trusted” OAIS repositories, with the proviso that audit criteria for archival certification are still under development. The ICPSR to OAIS mapping exercise has benefits for the larger social science archiving community because it provides an interpretation of the reference model in the quantitative social science environment and points to preservation-related issues that may be salient for other social science archives. Building on the archives’ long tradition of shared norms and cooperation, we may ultimately be able to design a federated system of trusted social science repositories that provides access to the global heritage.

Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: towards a new culture of archival format specialists

The emergence of the new format of electronic/digital records provides the opportunity for archivists to reconsider the presumed format-neutrality of professional practice. As research in electronic records has served to re-emphasise, without an understanding of the needs and forms of material, then the work of archivists can have a profound impact on the evidential value and long-term research potential of the material. This paper attempts to broaden the debate about the requirements of all archival formats, and to build a new regime of 21st-century format specialists.

浅谈家庭档案

文章从建立家庭档案的必要性出发,阐述了家庭档案的内容,并介绍了如何建立家庭档案及有效的管理家庭档案.     

Phonological processing and emergent literacy in younger and older preschool children

Phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPA) in 389 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the validity of each PPA as separate from general cognitive ability and separate from each other. Multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM) with mean structure demonstrated that older preschoolers have better developed latent PPA than younger preschoolers but that the structure of PPA is equivalent. RAN was found uniquely associated with letter knowledge and text discrimination in younger preschoolers, and PA was found uniquely associated with word reading skills in older preschoolers. Finally, general cognitive ability was only indirectly associated with emergent literacy via PPA. These results highlight the importance of PPA in the early literacy development of English-speaking preschool children.     

Screening of phonological awareness in the early elementary grades: an IRT approach

The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in phonological awareness of children in kindergarten and first grade. Phonological awareness was measured using four sets of items involving rhyming, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. The results of an exploratory factor analysis and analyses conducted within the framework of item response theory showed one latent ability to underlie the different sets of items, which nevertheless differed in difficulty. Analyses in terms of the children’s ability further showed the phonological awareness measures to be sensitive to growth. The amount of information supplied by the different sets of items depended on the children’s level of ability. The conclusion that it is possible to accurately monitor the development of children’s phonological awareness in the early elementary grades appears to be justified, and this possibility opens up new perspectives for the early screening for reading problems and dyslexia.     

文化的“无用之用”与儒学未来发展的契机和天命

文化乃通一切界而又不限于一界,因此,文化是一种渗透并体现于不同实存领域中的“柔性的”创生力。文化的这种“无用之用”特性折射出了文化发展的功利性。从深层次看,文化的“无用之用”表现为一个由某种地方性和特殊性而不断趋向于不同层级的普世化的展开过程。文化所取义普世化实质上就是文化的“共通性”,由文化的这种“通”性义来重新审视“全球化”,“全球化”进程实质上已铸成了社会发展和人类存在趋向于无节制的“消费性”,而儒家文化的生存节制意识正可对目前“全球化”的过度“消费性”偏向起到补救作用。建设现代意义上的儒学和文化形态必须走出两个误区:1.偏执于文化的普遍性、共时性的层面,而忽略其个性和历时性的意义;2.关注儒学的教化和实践特性和功能的同时,倡导重建制度化的儒学,倡导建立儒教并定为国教。要培育三种文化意识:1.要努力创造儒学的当代形态;2.致力于重建儒学与民众生活的联系;3.注重“以身体道”群体的养成。     

学校育人过程中文化自觉性的培养

文化自觉性是指生活在一定文化中的人对其文化有自知之明,理解所接触到的多种文化,通过自主的适应,取长补短,确立一个共同认可的基本秩序。加强文化自觉性培养是育人规律的基本要求,是主体文化人格养成的基本要求,也是文化自身发展传承的基本要求,更是使中华民族在国际竞争中立于不败之地的必要保证。培养青年学生的文化自觉性,就是培养其对于当今时代先进文化的自觉意识。文化自觉性培养的路径包括传播全面的知识,突出教育的主体性,加强制度建设和重视优秀文化的传承和发扬。     

加强服务意识提高服务质量

鉴于高校设备管理工作涉及面广、工作量大,高校设备管理人员一方面要进一步提高自身的政治和业务素质,另一方要不断增强服务意识、提高服务质量。提出了加强高校仪器设备管理人员的服务意识并提高服务质量具体措施:强化管理职能,做好仪器设备管理工作;与院系团结协作努力做好服务工作;提高管理队伍素质,稳定设备管理队伍;创建学习型组织,建立良好和谐的工作环境。     

公共意识培育:思想政治教育的新基点

公共意识是当代生活世界中使用较频繁的一个词汇,培育现代公共意识,促进社会和谐发展,既是改善公共生活、建构公共秩序的基础和关键,也是现代思想政治教育的本质要求和其保持与时俱进的理论品格的重要体现。因此,在新时期,作为中国社会所特有的社会化模式,现代思想政治教育如何顺应社会发展的需要,培育当代中国公民的公共意识,促进人的社会化,夯实社会和谐发展的人学基础,基于此,分析和探讨文章对现代思想政治教育在公共意识培育中的价值、应把握的原则及应然路径是亟待探讨的问题域。