The problems with a ‘fact’-focused approach in environmental communication: the case of environmental risk information about tidal flat developments in Japan

One of the main approaches used in communicating environmental issues to citizens is conveying ‘factual’ information about a particular environment. However, despite previous research and recommendations made by critical environmental educators, there still seems to be a belief that the more ‘factual’ information one can convey, the more citizens will become aware of the issue, and this will prompt them to change their behaviours. In this article, I will argue that continuing with a ‘fact’-focused practice in Japan and elsewhere could be problematic for three key reasons: (1) it ignores diversity in the ‘facts’ provided to people; (2) it reinforces the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’; and (3) it ignores the ‘myth of nature’ among information receivers and senders. Key recommendations for incorporating a critical environmental education approach include utilising locally available environmental information on contentious environmental issues; investigating particular terminology used and missing information (including tacit knowledge); and encouraging critical learning about statistics and pictorial representations.     

广告图像序列的涌现叙事分析

近年来对广告语篇的多模态研究成了语言学领域中的一个重要话题。相关研究多围绕单个广告画面,未发现对某一主题广告图像序列进行的研究。本文运用Lim研究连环画中图像序列的方法,分析一则公益广告图像序列中的涌现叙事进行探讨。结果表明,Lim提出的视觉语义层次理论可以运用于对广告图像序列的分析,同时证明该理论对汉语语篇进行分析的可行性。     

综合英语人文化课堂教学模式探讨--以综合英语第五册第一课《七月四日》为例

综合英语作为英语专业的核心课程,既要训练学生的综合语言技能,又要培养学生的人文素养。该文探讨提出人文化课堂教学新模式：课堂教学进行人文内容拓展结合课外人文教学的研究型任务拓展,进而深化英语专业改革。     

如何培养本科翻译专业学生的批判性思维--以两堂汉译英翻译赏析课为例

近年来,不少外语界专家认为外语专业的学生缺乏批判性思维。在本科笔译教学中,笔者发现刚接触翻译的学生尤其如此。他们容易相信网上的译文,把外教和教师的话当做权威,做翻译的过程中缺乏批判性思维。因此,该文中探讨两节汉英翻译赏析课中如何采用案例教学和数据驱动方法帮助学生培养批判性思维。     

国外批判性思维研究概述

批判性思维是理性和创造性的核心能力,没有批判性思维教育就没有真正的素质教育。本文从心理学和教育领域对国外批判性思维的研究进行了总结,并对我国批判性思维的发展提出了建议。     

表面活性剂对荧光涂料色浆性能的影响

研究表面活性剂的表面特性对荧光涂料色浆性能的影响,发现使用大分子量阴离子表面活性剂可以得到性能良好的分散体系,单一使用非离子表面活性剂也能得到均匀的分散体系,但颗粒有一定的聚集现象;将阴-非离子表面活性剂复配后,色浆的分散性及牢度等性能均有提高,非-非离子表面活性剂复配后,体系的分散性能改善不明显。三元复配后情况复杂,有待进一步研究。     

On the elephant in the room: toward a generative politics of place on race in academic discourse

Abstract

In our conceptual essay, we draw on an exchange between a White scholar and a group of panelists on Critical Race Theory at an international conference. Taking up this exchange as our point of departure, we work in dialectical and multidimensional ways between the essentialized politics of place on race and critical anti-essentializing foundations in recent Critical Race Feminism and Critical White Studies’ literatures. Working the dialectics and multidimensionality of the place that race makes in academic discourse, we recognize and ethically work through the essentialized politics of place in advancing anti-essentializing understandings of race. In articulating these anti-essentializing understandings, our conceptual essay drives at the notion of a generative politics of place on race in academic discourse. A generative politics of place holds essentialized realities and anti-essentializing foundations of race in dialectical and multidimensional tension for teaching, learning, and discussing race in local, national, and international contexts.     

Sports-based Text Sets: Fostering Critical Literacy at the Intersections of Sport and Society

Sports culture is central to the lives of many students, whether they participate in athletic competitions or sports fandom. Unfortunately, sports culture also reflects many sociopolitical issues and inequities that impinge upon our greater society in the present day (e.g., domestic violence, racism). For those reasons, sports-based text sets—diverse collections of texts about figures, events, and happenings in sports culture—stand to support teachers in honoring students' knowledge of and interests in sports culture while also facilitating critical literacy practices through the investigation of inequities that ail both sport and society. This article introduces the notion of a sports-based text set, addresses the types of texts that might be featured in such a set, and presents ideas for exploring specific texts with students, using the issue of inequitable compensation for male and female athletes as an example.     

独立学院非英语专业大学生的批判性思维能力培养

培养和提高大学生的思辨能力是当前我国外语教学改革关注的热点问题。本文从批判性思维的内涵入手,调查了我院非英语专业学生批判性思维能力的现状,论述了批判性思维能力的重要性并探讨了如何培养学生的批判性思维能力。     

Partnership,conflict and gaming

Government policy stresses partnership as a critical organizational form of the future to support the development of schooling. This article uses intergroup conflict and gaming theory to analyse data from one partnership. The views of young people and staff are explored to establish the nature and extent of conflict and its impact on the partnership. Gaming theory is used to investigate the engagement and expectations of organizations in the partnership. The article challenges Government rhetoric that suggests that as experience and trust grow, partnership will overcome the barriers which exist as a legacy from previous more competitive and isolationist cultures, to the benefit of service users. It further suggests that the availability of adequate resources alone, if ever achieved, would not in itself create the conditions for successful partnership. Far more attention is required to be given to the complex range of conditions which might support partnership and increase the possibility that the interests of learners would not be subordinated to those of organizations.