Getting good at small talk: student-directed learning of social conversation skills

For students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), learning social skills is an intricate but essential task to facilitate social inclusion and participation. Limited research is available on social skills interventions for adolescents with ASD and intellectual disabilities (ID). This article presents a case study that illustrates how the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction was used to improve self-chosen social conversation skills in a Norwegian 14-year old student with ASD and mild ID. This case study illustrates that, also for students with ASD and ID, giving them the opportunity to set personally relevant goals may improve their autonomous motivation, thereby increasing the likelihood of goal attainment.     

概念合成理论视角下青岩古镇翻译的形象学研究

比较文学形象学研究的重点是异国形象。青岩古镇是一座具有悠久历史和深厚文化底蕴的古镇,是国家历史文化名镇。为了增进国际交流,让世界了解贵州,应该要进行自我形象的塑造,打造地方本土文化。英语翻译就是让世界了解贵州的方式。概念合成理论与翻译结合,从认知语言学的角度研究青岩古镇的翻译。通过英语的译介,可以塑造良好的贵州形象,让世界了解贵州。     

初中历史课堂中渗透国学之有效策略研究

历史作为一门人文类学科,有着显著的教育功能。在学校开展国学项目的过程中,如何把历史和国学联系起来,值得思考。通过教学过程中的总结反思,得出以下三个有效策略:(1)诵读并讲授国学;(2)引用国学为史料;(3)用活动装饰国学。     

基于组织学习的图书馆组织结构创新

传统图书馆组织结构存在层次过多、条块分割、系统阻塞等弊端,不利于组织学习,必须进行组织结构创新.文章提出基于组织学习的图书馆组织结构创新的原则和方法.     

文化研究视域中的教学设计研究

文化研究整合了后现代主义、女性主义、后殖民主义等不同的“声音”。从文化研究视域审视教学设计,其重要目的在于跨越批判到行动。本文在追踪国外相关研究的基础上,从概念内涵和对教学设计的实践意义两大方面,对教学设计中的文化研究进行了概要分析,并以女性主义、审美经验论为例展开了相关阐释与论述。     

Training in culture: the case of aikido education and meaning-making outcomes in Japan and the United States

This study investigated whether a relationship existed between instructional style and points of emphasis in the training context of the martial art aikido and the perceptions which practitioners of aikido generated for aikido-related concepts. The findings were gathered within and compared across aikido training settings in two cultures — Japan and the United States. Analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data gathered for this investigation revealed several potent differences between the manner in which Japanese and American aikido practitioners represented their understandings of aikido-related concepts. Differences in the manner in which aikido practitioners in Japan and the United States represented their understandings of aikido reflected the teaching emphasis observed in the respective cultures. It was concluded that aikido instructors represented the values of their own culture in the context of aikido training, and thus served as important mediating forces influencing the meaning which practitioners generated for aikido. An additional finding revealed that in neither culture were participants able to accurately represent how practitioners in the “other” culture structured their understandings of aikido. It was reasoned that both cultural groups generated faulty perceptions of how the “other” group understood aikido because they utilized a similar pattern of projection, using their own meanings of aikido to represent the understandings of practitioners in the “other” cultural group.     

Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation of minzoku in the Japanese empire

Focusing on the work of the Japanese sociologist Koyama Eizō, this paper critically explores the development of Japanese race studies from the late 1920s to the 1940s. During this period, Japanese intellectual discourses on race developed in the context of the need to manage heterogeneous populations within the Japanese empire and contain the growing mobility of populations in and outside of the territory. Reflecting Koyama’s keen interest in racial/ethnic contacts and interdisciplinary perspectives, his intellectual work symptomatically exemplifies not only the convergence of knowledge production and the dominant imperial regime but also the transpacific implications of Japanese race studies. On the one hand, my study examines Koyama’s preoccupation with racial/ethnic contacts in relation to imperial security and also traces how his study intersected with the discourse of American social scientists who were also interested in Japanese migrations. On the other hand, the study examines how the development of the idea of minzoku in Koyama’s discourse coincided with contemporaneous attempts to mobilize diverse populations in the empire. Thus, my research reveals a complex dynamic of integration and differentiation in discourse on Japanese race studies in the interwar era.     

East Asian pop culture and the trajectory of Asian consumption

This article focuses on Chua Beng Huat’s work on the East Asian pop culture that became more prominent in East and Southeast Asia from the 1990s, when the circulation of multilingual and multi-format pop culture started to exceed linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries. It argues that Chua’s work indicates that the pop-cultural production and innovation that support the globalisation and regionalisation processes in East Asia need not be national in origin but can hail from different national origins – and this despite the existing political realities of the region and its history of political fractures. Chua Beng Huat cautions, though, that the national popular can also be marshalled to defeat the border-crossing potential of an inter-Asian pop culture. What is the “Asia” imagined or being represented in such cultural production? Chua’s work is also distinctive in that it deals with the political and economic conditions that underpin mainstream pop consumption as a socio-cultural phenomenon, instead of examining consumption as identity politics. The article concludes by noting the significance that Chua as an institutional builder has played in enabling the study of East Asian pop culture in the region.     

20世纪以前的《周礼》学述论

20世纪以前的<周礼>学研究在文字解诂、音义注疏、文献辨伪、有关名物制度的考证及对前人学术成果的总结、整理与评判等方面取得了较为显著的成就,诸多微观研究成果具有较高学术价值.由于理论视野狭窄,研究方法缺乏创新,该阶段的<周礼>学研究也存在一系列突出的问题.关于<周礼>一书的真伪、作者和著作时代等基本问题长期未得到很好的解决,不仅直接影响到相关问题的可信度,同时也使得该书的史料价值未能得到充分的发掘.同时,由于缺乏对该书主体思想等一系列问题作宏观的理论分析,制约着<周礼>学研究向纵深方向发展.     

20世纪20-30年代中国留学教育问题的争论

20世纪20年代至30年代,中国教育界有过一场关于留学教育问题的争论。争论由弹劾清华学制对留学美国学生的遴选公平问题引起。争论的焦点是:中国是否应该继续派送留学生及留学教育的国别选择问题。争论的实质是:留学教育是中国教育发展的助力还是阻力?造成留学教育问题的原因是社会的还是个人的?争论目的是:探索中国留学教育的方向与道路。争论的结果是:留学教育的宗旨、方向和政策发生了变化,留学教育因此得以改进。争论提供的历史借鉴是:留学教育与国内教育的关系问题以及留学生归国的教育价值与教育服务问题,这些问题其实也是当代留学教育研究的重大命题,需要我们做出时代的回答。