Performers and postulates: the role of evolving socio-historical contexts in shaping new teacher professional identities

In this article we investigate the generative causes of variation in the professional identity of new teachers. Building on previous work that has shown a link between professional identity and socio-political context, we argue that the context experienced in late adolescence and early adulthood is particularly significant in shaping how beginning teachers think of themselves as teachers. This finding suggests that the linear response to neoliberal education reform described in much of the critical literature may be too simple to account for the range of ways teachers interact with the system. There is, therefore, a need for greater diversity in research approaches to work with the complexity of social systems in and around schools. To support this call for methodological diversity, we borrow the life story model of identity as a theoretical framework and use a computer-assisted phenomenographic analysis technique to find new ways into the research data.     

Antenarrative and managerial practice

An antenarrative approach to organizational communication acknowledges the fragmented, collective, situated, and performative nature of organizational stories and storytelling. Adopting an antenarrative approach to managerial practice focuses our attention on the ways individuals manage the multi‐voiced nonlinear character of organizfitional life. Antenarrative theory and its significance for managerial practice is overviewed followed by an explication of how an organizational consultancy firm has developed systemic story making as a core practice for managing the multiple, often conflicting stories comprising organizational experience. Systemic story making raises significant issues regarding how antenarrative theory may consider the relationships among stories, inquiry, and change.     

Case Study

Although the concept of browsing rooms or enrichment collections is not a new one in academic libraries, there is very little recent literature regarding the nature of such collections and a dearth of literature addressing thc importance of collection development policies for such collections. This paper describes the development of a collection development policy for a specific university library enrichment collection and discusses guidelines and procedures developed to complement and implement the policy.     

Collection Development in School Library/Media Centers:

No abstract available for this article.     

Books,Children, Dogs,Artists: Library Programs for the Entire Family

The promotion of library resources and services is a continuous process for all libraries, especially hospital family resource center libraries. Like public libraries, a family resource center can utilize programs as a pathway for connecting with and developing awareness of library resources and services available to patient families. This column describes the programs currently offered for All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine patient families, marketing initiatives to promote these programs, and utilization of grant funding to supplement a program.     

Mobile Devices Offer Little In-depth News: Sensational,Breaking and Entertainment News Dominate Mobile News Sites

ABSTRACT

The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news. Mobile devices on the mobile web also provide significantly less public affairs content as top stories. Analyzing a sample of 50 U.S. newspapers over a six-month period, this content analysis quantifies the heterogeneity of news content in print, online, and mobile platforms.     

历史演义小说“尚文”“崇史”特征比较——兼论李杨故事在历史演义小说中的传承

唐玄宗李隆基与贵妃杨玉环的故事传承千年,在各类文学形式上都有体现,历史演义小说中涉及李杨故事的主要有褚人获《隋唐演义》及蔡东藩《中国历史通俗演义·唐史》,细加比较,两者在创作态度、材料取舍、结构安排、人物形象塑造等方面存在明显的差别,各自体现了鲜明、典型的“尚文”“崇史”特征。     

试论《黑暗中心》的主要叙事特色

约瑟夫·康拉德是2 0世纪英国现代主义文坛的先驱之一。他的短篇小说《黑暗中心》叙事手法独特,意蕴深刻,是英国小说史上的经典之作。小说中两个人物叙述者分置于不同结构层次,有效地相互作用,构成精巧的框型叙事结构,让读者在阅读的同时一步步发掘认识故事所提示的殖民主义的“黑暗”本质。     

北宋词人王观生平事迹考

本文勾稽有关方志、文集等资料,对北宋著名词人王观的家世、籍贯、字号、仕履详作考订,最后推断王观约生于明道元年(1032)前后,略长苏轼几岁,享年五十岁以上。     

《野蔷薇》：混沌社会里平凡者的悲剧

茅盾早期短篇小说集《野蔷薇》中的主要女性形象可分为两大类：一类是敢于大胆反抗封建礼教,追求民主与自由的“五四”新女性形象;另一类是软弱的反抗者,既向往美好的未来,又有着这样或者那样的性格缺陷,最后只有退缩、屈服、失败。他们的悲剧是社会的悲剧,时代的悲剧,茅盾通过刻画这些女性形象,揭露了在时代变革过程中旧的封建势力的根深蒂固和一些小资产阶级知识分子的苦闷与分化,抒发了对旧道德旧社会的愤懑之情。