Revisiting the occupational aspirations and destinations of Anglo-Australian and Chinese-Australian high school students

Evidence from Australia lends support to the “Asian high achieving syndrome” in Chinese-Australian students and “self-deprivation syndrome” in Anglo-Australian students. Applying ethnographic case studies approach for doctoral thesis the author collected data on a longitudinal basis from homes and school of these students. All of these students attended the same school located in a predominantly middle class suburb of Perth Metropolitan area in Western Australia. Chinese-Australian families had settled in Perth from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, whereas Anglo-Australian families had been residing in Perth for three generations. Impetus to revisit these students (now young adults with their own families) 10 years later came from an urge to test the validity of the prediction the author had made in the concluding chapter of his doctoral thesis. The author had claimed that “if Anglo-Australian parents keep on dwelling in the era of 1950s and 1960s and do not change their laid-back attitude about education, their children could eventually be under-privileged in their own country”. Ten years later, the author undertook a follow-up study on these young adults from six of the eight original families in order to find out their occupational destinations and future aspirations. Data for the follow-up study were collected from these young adults and their parents. These research cases were interviewed twice, each time approximately for two hours and their parents were interviewed once for two to three hours. The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of the follow-up study which reveals a remarkable relationship between the attitude towards schooling and academic performance with their subsequent occupational destination.     

毛泽东《讲话》对中国文化发展的价值研究

《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》（以下简称《讲话》）是毛泽东文化思想的集中体现,是马克思主义理论中国化的典范。《讲话》所构建的文化理论体系,对70年来中国文化的建设与发展产生了重要而深远的影响,具有重大的理论价值和应用价值。《讲话》的理论价值体现于：在马克思主义的指导下,确定了中国共产党对中国文化建设的领导权,成为中国特色社会主义文化的重要理论渊源。《讲话》的应用价值体现于：在文化为人民、表现丰富生动的现实生活、文化的继承借鉴与创新、“文艺大众化”这四个方面,为中国特色社会主义文化的发展奠定了坚实的基础。     

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.     

Translating Ovide Decroly’s ideas to Brazilian teachers

This article seeks to analyse, comprehend and apprehend the appropriation processes of Ovide Decroly’s ideas in Brazil through the translation of his books and that of Amélie Hamaïde into Portuguese. The article discusses the following questions. Why did Brazilian intellectuals and teachers need to import Decroly’s ideas to be applied in Brazilian schools? Did the translation of Decroly’s and Hamaïde’s books play an innovative role in Brazilian society? Did the release of these books bring about changes, and did it stabilise and legitimise discourses that were already present in Brazil? Who were the translation agents of those books? First, discussions concerning travelling knowledge and cultural translation, as well as translation and the role of translation agents, are introduced. The translated books and their (production) contexts are then presented, comparing and analysing the source books and the translations. The analyses aim at understanding this journey and answering these questions, and it will be shown that Decroly’s ideas were torn apart into “pieces of knowledge” gaining life and autonomy throughout the journey, and turning into facts. It is advocated that his ideas were appropriated as “indigenous foreigners” in Brazil.     

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.     

安徽乡村文化生活现状的调查与思考--以枞阳县与颖上县的村落调查为基础

从调查的结果来看,目前安徽乡村文化生活在省民生工程的支持之下,广播电视“村村通”、农家书屋、基层文化馆站等纷纷展开,农村数字化电影放映与文化信息资源共享等建设项目在逐步进展之中,文化基础设施局部得到明显地改善,但文化投入不足、文化设施利用率不高、文化发展不平衡的现象广泛存在,农村文化事业队伍与管理体制不健全,乡村常住人员日益减少,传统乡村文化面临着无人传承的困局;从文化建设立场上来说,要在以尊重乡村为主体的基础上并以借鉴与汲取其他优秀文化成果来进行,新农村文化生活建设的主力军应该是农民,要充分调动其积极性与主体性来进行乡村文化生活的建设;从国家管理者来说,管理者要做到整合、协调乡村文化生活资源,充分发挥乡民创造与享受文化生活的积极性与主动性。     

‘Twilight or Middlemarch?’ A Teacher’s Refusal to Choose

What should children and young adolescents read? Recent changes in the English curriculum have once again shifted the focus towards more canonical texts, but does featuring such texts on the course necessarily equate to rigorous teaching and in-depth learning? Through a self-examination of her own reading history, the author argues for a dialogic approach to reading and text selection instead, so that students may negotiate better understandings of themselves and their own socio-cultural contexts.     

Let’s Meet in Nepantla: The Possibility of Thirdspace as a Place “Others” Call Home

This autoethnography posits that my presence as a working-class Chicana obtaining an education in the United States consequently created a Thirdspace environment I recognize as Nepantla. Thirdspace allowed me to navigate urban schooling and elite institutions of higher education. Two narratives demonstrate opposing forms of acquired dominant and nondominant forms of cultural capital to interrogate the value of Thirdspace when considering unique knowledge generated by an insider along the margins. This article articulates that strategic construction of bridges into Nepantla may assist Latino students to successfully navigate the schooling experience and offer the potential to reframe educational discourse.     

艺术视角下文学作品的意义和价值--对长篇小说《山乡巨变》、《三里湾》和《创业史》的解读

在文学创作中,艺术视角的选择具有重要的意义。同是描写农业合作化运动的《山乡巨变》、《三里湾》和《创业史》,因为作家采用了不同的艺术视角,所以这三部作品也就具有了不同的思想意蕴,它们的意义和价值也就不同。文学作品的最大意义和价值是在文化上,而不是在政治上。纵观中外的文学史可以发现,艺术视角既具有个人性,也具有时代性和作家个人的反叛性。