Activating Aesthetics: Working with Heidegger and Bourdieu for engaged pedagogy

Abstract

This article seeks to investigate art in public urban space via a process of activating aesthetics as a way of enhancing pedagogies of engagement. It does this firstly by addressing the question of aesthetics in Enlightenment and twentieth-century frames; then it seeks to understand how artworks may be approached ontologically and epistemologically. The discussion works with the philosophical lenses of two different thinkers: Heidegger, in ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ and ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, and Marxist sociologist, Bourdieu with his work on a theory of practice and habitus. It asks how art may work in the meaning-making processes of place and the human subject in terms of ontological difference (Heidegger) and dispositional capital (Bourdieu). In bringing these different organising principles of interpretation to specific works of art, the discussion draws from locational research undertaken in Newcastle/Gateshead and Melbourne.     

高中生技术素养的维度与水平--基于北京的调查

技术素养已经成为公民必备的基本素养,与科学素养并列,关系到国家的综合实力和科技竞争力。本研究整合国外成果将技术素养分成知识、能力、批判性思维和决策、态度四个维度,横向领域结构包括技术和社会、设计与系统、信息与通信技术,具体分为4个一级指标,12个二级指标和36个三级指标。对北京1520名高中生进行了实证调查,从技术素养的知识、能力、批判性思维和决策、态度这4个一级指标进行了基本水平的统计,具体涉及三级指标的描述性分析、典型指标的频率分析等。调查研究结果表明：在知识维度,学生对于核心产品、形式产品、附加产品、核心概念、故障诊断、工具、材料的知识掌握很好,这7项的得分都达到高分的类别,但是学生在设计系统和其他资源的知识掌握欠佳。整体来看,高中生技术素养整体水平薄弱,尤其在技术素养的核心维度表现不佳,对于学生技术素养的培养不仅需要在政策层面得以重视,也应该在实际教学中显化。     

感戴与心理幸福感的关系——基于大学生感戴现状的分析

采用《感戴问卷》和《心理幸福感问卷》对274名大学生进行测试,研究大学生感戴状况及感戴与心理幸福感之间的关系.结果表明：大学生感戴水平在年级、专业、生源地、是否独生子女、家庭结构等人口学变量上存在显著性差异;大学生感戴与心理幸福感呈显著正相关系,并存在线性关系.因此,感戴可以在一定程度上对心理幸福感做出预测.     

逻辑—历史方法考量下的贝叶斯主义

逻辑—历史方法是当代西方科学方法论中的一种重要方法。它将逻辑主义的"逻辑重建"和历史主义的"历史再现"相结合,实现了逻辑与历史的统一,是一种合理的方法。一方面,贝叶斯主义作为逻辑经验主义的重要推理模型,必然体现了逻辑—历史方法中的逻辑特征;另一方面,贝叶斯推理模型中的归纳意义,包含了历史主义的描述性特征。从方法论角度而言,贝叶斯主义研究纲领本质上是逻辑—历史方法,充分表现了实际科学活动的合理性和经验性。     

科学数据监管及其在专业图书馆的应用

介绍了科学数据监管（Data Curation）的概念和国外应用状况,针对专业图书馆目前所面临的科研用户整体需求变化和发展,分析和探讨了Data Curation在专业图书馆开展数据服务的切入点及存在的问题。     

Classification method for detecting coercive self-citation in journals

Journal self-citations strongly affect journal evaluation indicators (such as impact factors) at the meso- and micro-levels, and therefore they are often increased artificially to inflate the evaluation indicators in journal evaluation systems. This coercive self-citation is a form of scientific misconduct that severely undermines the objective authenticity of these indicators. In this study, we developed the feature space for describing journal citation behavior and conducted feature selection by combining GA-Wrapper with RelifF. We also constructed a journal classification model using the logistic regression method to identify normal and abnormal journals. We evaluated the performance of the classification model using journals in three subject areas (BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS and CHEMISTRY, APPLIED) during 2002–2011 as the test samples and good results were achieved in our experiments. Thus, we developed an effective method for the accurate identification of coercive self-citations.     

What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide

Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014) have introduced a web application (www.excellencemapping.net) which is linked to both academic ranking lists published hitherto (e.g. the Academic Ranking of World Universities) as well as spatial visualization approaches. The web application visualizes institutional performance within specific subject areas as ranking lists and on custom tile-based maps. The new, substantially enhanced version of the web application and the generalized linear mixed model for binomial data on which it is based are described in this paper. Scopus data are used which have been collected for the SCImago Institutions Ranking. Only those universities and research-focused institutions are considered that have published at least 500 articles, reviews and conference papers in the period 2006–2010 in a certain Scopus subject area. In the enhanced version, the effect of single covariates (such as the per capita GDP of a country in which an institution is located) on two performance metrics (best paper rate and best journal rate) is examined and visualized. A covariate-adjusted ranking and mapping of the institutions is produced in which the single covariates are held constant. The results on the performance of institutions can then be interpreted as if the institutions all had the same value (reference point) for the covariate in question. For example, those institutions can be identified worldwide showing a very good performance despite a bad financial situation in the corresponding country.     

庄子与海德格尔死亡观之比较

作为人生终结的死亡问题,无论在庄子还是在海德格尔那里都占据重要的地位。在他们的哲学思想中,死亡既具有相同的一面即存在者在世沉沦中对于死亡的逃避,又具有不同的一面即庄子的死亡观是依乎天道、顺其自然的、洒脱的,“以道观死”面向“道”;而海德格尔的死亡观是凝重的、有责任的,人应该听从“良知”的呼声并具有“畏”的勇气,不能总沉沦于常人,是“向死而在”面向“在”。     

建设“创新湖北”的科技金融人才培养研究

科技金融人才的培养关系到“创新湖北”建设的成败,目前湖北省科技金融人才的培养与现实需要之间存在巨大的差距。因此,需要结合当前人才培养的不足进行创新,充分发挥各种社会力量来促进科技金融人才培养的改进与提升,打造湖北科技金融人才培养的品牌,从而推动湖北省科技金融的发展,推动“创新湖北”的建设。     

统筹区域发展视角下的中部地区崛起战略述要

新时期,基于邓小平提出的"两个大局"重要思想,我国的改革开放从沿海到内地波浪式地展开。但通过改革开放,我国各个地区在取得不同程度成就的同时,区域经济社会发展差距却一度不断扩大,区域发展严重失衡。依统筹兼顾这一科学发展观的根本方法,中共中央国务院制定了包括"促进中部地区崛起"在内的一系列各有侧重的区域发展战略。中部崛起战略的实施,初步遏制了中部和东部地区发展差距继续扩大的趋势。