Strength in Numbers: Encouraging Every Staff Member to Work to Capacity

Libraries play a critical role in enhancing the learning landscape of the schools they support. In order for any library to become a powerhouse and a community meeting place, all library team members need to align with the library's vision, own it and begin to add their own strengths and talents purposefully. This article explores practical strategies for developing a visionary team, including supportive leadership, daily stand-up meetings, weekly staff meetings, special-focus teams, rostering and the “five conversations” approach. These effective strategies can be implemented across a broad range of library workforce contexts in order to ensure the most effective workforce teams are built.     

Community College Counseling: Why Are Research Outcomes So Elusive?

This article focuses on counseling research in the community college context. The article suggests the need for a robust community college knowledge base, describes some limitations of the current community college literature, and suggests a framework for more effective work in this area. The authors’ own experiences and selected examples of published studies are used as illustrations of the hurdles encountered and solutions available when examining counseling theories, practices, and outcomes in 2‐year settings.     

School context and instructional capacity: A comparative study of professional learning communities in rural and urban schools in China

This study examines the teaching gap between rural and urban schools in China from the perspective of teacher professional learning communities (PLCs). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 36 primary school teachers, the study finds striking disparities between rural and urban schools in the working of Teaching and Research Groups (TRGs). These disparities in TRGs result in divergent patterns of instructional capacity building in rural and urban schools. The evidence shows that teaching and teachers are strongly shaped by the school organizational context. It suggests that strengthening school-wide PLCs is an important way of narrowing the rural-urban teaching and learning gaps.     

Community sport and social inclusion: international perspectives

Abstract

This opening article examines the relationship between community sport and social inclusion in research and practice. We discuss the notion of community sport, its multifarious meanings and diverse applications in different parts of the world. We further explore the conceptual and practical links between community sport and different conceptions of social inclusion. In doing so, the article draws together key themes, issues and debates addressed in the collection of articles in this special issue. We conclude by formulating implications and directions for future research and practice.     

城市化视角下的城市社区治理创新研究——以合肥市为例

近年来,随着城市化的加快推进,城市规模越来越大,这给城市治理提出了极大的挑战. 社区是城市的细胞,城市社区治理的好坏直接影响城市的形象和发展. 文章通过对合肥市城市社区治理进行深入调研,了解社会转型期城市社区治理存在的问题,分析其原因,探索新的解决方案和举措,以期进一步完善当前的城市社区治理存在的不足之处.     

饮食的内涵与外延

中国的饮食,在世界上享有盛誉,称为世界三大美食之一。饮食是人类赖以生存和繁衍的最基本的物质条件之一,民以食为天,饮食已经深深影响我们生活的各个方面,与我们的生活、政治、文化、文明和社会之间存在很大的关系。饮食所涉及的全部科学、艺术等方面的内容,已成为人类文明的标志之一。     

城市化的意义和困局

在人类文明演进的深层结构中,城市化在不同阶段扮演着不同的角色。在"二阶文明"中,城市化具有基础性地位,而土地资源是城市化的根本"约束",是城市发展的制约"瓶颈"。据此,文章从社会、经济、金融、能源泉和生态环境等角度,对城市化的意义和问题给予了宏观揭示,并对城市化和未来文明的关系略作展望。     

关于将礼仪教育列入文明社区建设的几个问题

在机关、企业、学校的礼仪教育中忽视了一个重要环节，就是文明社区建设中的礼仪教育和规范。社区成员的言行规范直接反映着该社区乃至该城市的文明程度高低。走向世界的中国人应有哪些涵养，应掌握哪些礼仪规范，应引起各级组织和各界人士的高度重视。礼仪与文明都属于文化现象，这是构成社会主义精神文明的基本要素，它可以从社会的角度陶冶社会成员的心灵，规范社区居民的行为，培养高尚的审美情趣。用礼仪教育来营造良好的社会秩序和社会风气，用礼仪文化促进文明社区的发展，是提升文明社区形象的一大举措。     

浅谈古代文学教学的当代意义

中国古代文学教学作为人文教育的重要学科之一,其教学对大学生的社会责任感、审美精神、健全的人格塑造都具有重要的当代意义。     

中原古代文明起源新解——从伏羲文化的地位和作用谈起

综合考察文明要素 ,中原地区是中华文明起源的中心与发祥地。伏羲以其超人的智慧创造了辉煌的文化 ,伏羲文化时期文明因素如城址、铜器、文字的出现 ,为解决中原文明起源问题提供了重要线索。据此推测中原文明起源已有 6千年历史 ,“炎黄”子孙应改为“羲黄”子孙