A critical cultural inquiry into insider issues in South Korean art education

Over the past decades, many art advocates have argued for the intrinsic value of learning in the arts. Nevertheless, the arts continue to struggle to find a secure place within the school curriculum. Concerned about the arts’ impact on classroom practice, this paper aims to cast light on diverse realities constructed by art teachers as insiders in marginal contexts. This will be done by reviewing a critical cultural inquiry into art education practice in South Korea. Two interpretive analyses of individual teachers’ life stories have disclosed the practitioners’ relationships to established power dynamics between the dominant practice and a developing alternative practice network within the system. The discussion focuses on the inherent contradictions and opportunities identified within the context of Korean education. This paper provides cultural resources for conscious professional transformation of practitioners and contributes to broader discussions on the socio-educational status of art in education.     

Qualitative Outcomes of a Homestay Immersion With Critical Reflection

The authors explore the impact of a 3‐week homestay cultural immersion on 10 counselor trainees by analyzing their 210 structured journals using consensual qualitative research. Findings suggest that establishing meaningful relationships and engaging in critical reflection are central to increasing multicultural awareness. Implications for multicultural counseling training and research are provided.     

A critical discourse analysis of Gisela's family story: a construal of deportation,illegal immigrants,and literacy

In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze a student's narrative about the arrest, incarceration, and deportation of her mother to Mexico. The student, Gisela, was a fifth grader in my classroom during the 2008/2009 school year, and I encouraged the students to collect family stories from their relatives. Gisela created this story, and she wrote and illustrated this with the help of her father, student peers, and me. I draw on Gloria Anzaldúa's constructs of nepantla and nepantlera, narrative analysis, and systemic functional linguistics to show how Gisela's construed this story to create a powerful and creative narrative that disrupted autonomous forms of literacy along with the excluding and damaging discourses circulating about immigrants in our community.     

Neoliberal common sense and race-neutral discourses: a critique of “evidence-based” policy-making in school policing

The author of this paper uses critical discourse analysis and draws on critical social theory and policy studies to analyze the interdiscursivity between neoliberal common sense discourses around crime and safety and race-neutral discourses, “evidence-based” policy, and the research that supports school policing programs. The author offers a macro-sociological analysis of how neoliberal common sense and race-neutral discourses shape crime policy. Next, the author discusses the rise of “evidence-based” policy formation. She argues that evidence-based policy serves to narrow the scope of what constitutes “scientific” research and delegitimize research that uses race as an analytical lens. Then, through textual analysis of samples of the “evidence” supporting school policing, the author illustrates the ways in which neoliberal common sense discourses around crime and safety and race-neutral discourses become the ideological starting point for the research and internalized within research documents. The result is the creation of a hegemonic “evidence-loop” that privileges ideologically driven research that assumes a “scientific” stance and obscures racial bias while it excludes the critical research on the school policing.     

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.     

油酸三乙醇胺皂化物的合成

采用单因素控制变量法,以扣除酸值后的皂化值为评价指标,研究了反应配比、反应温度、反应时间对合成油酸三乙醇胺皂化物的影响。结果表明,油酸和三乙醇胺配比为1.2∶1(mol/mol)、温度为130℃、反应时间为3h时,反应达到平衡时体系中油酸三乙醇胺皂化物的含量最多。利用合成的油酸三乙醇胺皂化物调配成的水基润滑油符合相关要求。     

延迟焦化过程抑制镍钒脱氢反应的初步研究

延迟焦化在原油深度加工中地位日益突出,其工艺技术进展的主要目标是最大限度地提高液体油收率。文章针对镍钒存在形态、脱氢反应的影响、抑制脱氢反应展开讨论,并提出钝化镍钒作用的对策,从理论研究找出切实可行的方法来指导生产实践。     

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。     

突破电极反应式的书写

原电池反应或电解池反应的本质都是氧化还原反应,因此无论是原电池还是电解池的电极反应都要遵循氧化还原反应的规律,特别是得失电子总数与化合价降低或升高的总值相等。原电池反应或电解池反应本质上又都是离子反应,电极反应式通常情况下也是以类似离子方程式的形式出现,因此电极反应式也要遵循离子方程式的电荷守恒和原子守恒。灵活运用这些守恒规律就能突破高考难点中电极反应式的书写。