‘It doesn’t speak to me’: understanding student of color resistance to critical race pedagogy

Scholars maintain that when race and racism are addressed as factors that continue to shape inequality in the classroom, white students often deny the validity of these claims, while Students of Color tend to feel empowered by them. However, drawing on open-ended interviews, focus group discussions, and survey data, we argue that some Students of Color resist critical race pedagogy and curriculum. Specifically, we identify and analyze how this push back is articulated through three triggers: (1) an entrenchment in majoritarian ideologies; (2) a disavowal of racialized oppression; and (3) a disinclination to scrutinize personal experiences marred by race. These dynamics illustrate what we call ‘resisting decolonization’ – a reluctance to grapple with pedagogies that destabilize dominant ideologies about race and racism in schools and disrupt mainstream ideas regarding ethnic or racial identity. We introduce this concept in an attempt to hone critical race pedagogy to better address the needs of Students of Color who sometimes unknowingly participate in the marginalization of Populations of Color through deficit thinking or through the denial of the continuing significance of race.     

Powerful knowledge: insights from music's case

This paper examines Young and Muller's elaboration of Michael Young's concept of powerful knowledge and considers music's alignment with the characteristics theorised as distinguishing this type of knowledge. Consideration of the concept in relation to music may be timely as music teachers continue to grapple with the problem of knowing what knowledge to include within the parameters of a school curriculum. The concept of powerful knowledge may provide us with a fresh way of considering what school music may have to offer in such a noisy and musically heterogeneous world. This curricular challenge, however, is by no means unique to music, even though it may be exacerbated in music which is so open to the forces of cultural change. I argue that access to this knowledge occurs by placing abstract concepts at the centre of curriculum conception as the means to mediate the space between everyday knowledge and the more vertical discourse of school knowledge. It is in this ‘academic’ space that students can come to understand and utilise music as a form of powerful knowledge, when epistemic understanding illuminates the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of musical experiences.     

关于积分概念认识的统一性

针对积分认识的特点,将重积分、曲线积分和曲面积分的认识统一到一元函数的定积分,归纳为定义在上的“点函数”(P)的统一积分形式:lim∑(Pi)△Vi=(P)dV。对积分定义、性质、计算和应用等方面的统一性作了系统的论述,给出了应用上较方便的积分微元法定义,并运用实例对积分认识的统一性进行佐证。     

从认知角度诠释“情态”意义和功能

情态作为一个语义范畴,它反映了说话人对所阐述内容的评价或态度。作为人际功能的语义载体,情态具有调节,维系和发展人际关系的特殊作用。本文在前人研究的基础上,重点从认知角度探讨认知因素对情态意义和功能的解释力,这不但可以丰富认知语言学的内容,而且也为情态的研究提供了一条新的思路,使我们对情态的发展及其前景有一个较为科学、系统的认识,从而超越逻辑和传统语法对情态研究注重语法形式研究的局面。     

论理想和信念及其在认识中的功能——主体认识结构中的非理性要素研究

理想和信念是与人的认识活动密切相关的精神现象。人们通常认为它们只同理性认识相联系,实际上它们是既同理性认识相联系,又同非理性认识相联系。经过理性思考而形成的理想、信念是理性的;未经过理性思考而盲目接受的理想、信念就是非理性的。     

合作研究及其认识论评价

在现代科学中,合作研究是一种普遍的社会现象。如何对这种社会现象作出认识论评价,而不是新一代科学社会学的描述,这是当代科学哲学和社会认识论所面对的一个现实问题。本文试图做出这种尝试。     

Concept Proliferation as an Educational Good: Epistemic Injustice,Conceptual Revolutions,and Human Flourishing

This article presents a pedagogical approach for disrupting epistemic injustice. In it, A. C. Nikolaidis first demonstrates that different forms of epistemic injustice — testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory — are the result of limited or distorted conceptual resources and then argues that concept proliferation can be a promising educational means for overcoming such limitations and distortions. Concept proliferation involves a combination of increasing exposure to diverse, especially marginalized, concepts and providing students with necessary critical tools for questioning harmful and erroneous concepts. Concept proliferation is beneficial for both individual students and society at large. It liberates students from the confines of harmful concepts that limit their self-understanding, but also provides them with skills necessary to challenge hegemonic concepts that distort collective (social) understanding and contribute to epistemic and systemic injustice.     

基于学习者英汉平行语料库的情态动词研究——以情态动词“must”为例

学习者英汉平行语料库为情态动词等中介语研究提供了两个考察视角,即中介语视角和相应的学习者母语视角。以情态动词“must”为例,从中介语视角考察,通过检索自建的学习者英汉平行语料库,发现中国英语学习者较多使用情态动词“must”的义务情态意义及其序列,认识情态意义及其序列的使用频率则相对较少且错误较多。从学习者母语视角考察既包括分析与情态动词“must”相对应的汉语部分,也包括检索汉语“必须”这一情态表达的相应英语。调查发现,双语转换时母语思维对英语情态动词“must”的习得有影响,但并不显著,对相关情态动词或情态性的运用掌握不足可能是更重要的原因。调查展示了学习者英汉平行语料库对中介语研究的巨大潜能。     

集群中认知共同体的涌现及其进化过程研究

讨论集群知识创新研究是集群知识系统研究的重要组成部分,而集群中的知识创新活动总是在一定的认知共同体中进行的。分析认知共同体的自组织特征,提出认知共同体的涌现过程就是互等结构的形成过程,并分析知识门户设计对认知共同体涌现机制的影响,并对认知共同体的进化过程进行分析,这对认识集群中的知识共享及创新活动具有重要意义。     

一个刻画理解的认知逻辑

通过两次问卷调查可以发现,绝大多数调查对象直观上都认为：理解一个命题就是知道它的意义。然后我们认为,在认知逻辑中,理解,作为一个模态算子,可以在一个较弱的意义上用知道算子来刻画：理解一个命题就是知道它的真假。由此,我们给出一个刻画理解的认知逻辑来揭示理解与知道之间的联系与区别。