‘Feeling bad’ or ‘being bad?’ The trapping effect of effort in academic failure in a Confucian cultural context

A predicament faced by students who fail academically in East Asian Confucian societies, such as Taiwan, is being obscured by students’ outstanding performances in international academic assessments. This article proposes that there is a trapping effect of effort for these students. They are trapped in a dilemma between ‘feeling bad’ (emotional distress) for exerting too much effort and ‘being bad’ (negative image) for making little effort. Such a dilemma may be worse in the domain of academic achievement than in non-academic domains like the arts, with the former being more directly related to children’s dutiful fulfilment of parental expectations. Two consecutive studies – a scenario experiment with 700 subjects and a survey on past experiences of failure with a sample of 190 – were conducted. The results supported our hypothesis that effort becomes a double-edged sword for students who failed. They are more likely to either ‘feel bad’ or ‘be bad’ after failing academically compared to performing poorly on non-academic activities. Implications of the findings are further discussed.     

再论教育创新与教师素质

教育创新是教育改革与发展的战略选择，是马克思主义教育思想在中国的新发展，它是时代赋予教育事业新的历史使命。作为教育创新主体的教师，要从贯彻落实“三个代表”要求的高度，提高自身素质，增强推进教育创新的自觉性和坚定性。     

浅谈职业教育如何面对知识经济时代的挑战

面对知识经济时代的到来，高职教育必须在更新观念的基础上，认清知识经济时代对人才的要求标准，摒弃传统的教育观念，迎接知识时代的挑战。     

论诗歌形象的创造

诗歌通过形象反映现实。诗歌的形象有其独具的特征,跳跃性、主观性使诗歌更具启示性、感情性和感染力。在诗歌的创作欣赏中,注重形象的选择,提炼和塑造,恰到好处地“分布”形象,恰如其分地理解、再创造形象,使诗歌向人们昭示出丰富的美学价值和独特深厚的意境,正是本文所力图探讨的主旨。     

School monitoring and quality assurance in the New Zealand school system

This article reports on the New Zealand education quality assurance and school monitoring system, including its framework, and responsibilities of agencies. It first gives an outline of the education system in New Zealand, and then introduces the role of school charters and levels of schooling. To ensure the quality of schools, the methods of school self-review and external reviews of schools are used by the New Zealand government. Schools are given a list of obligations that they have to follow. Assessment policies and the school curriculum are designed to support learning. Fubuki Sakura formerly called William Leung     

试论报告文学特质的美学内涵

报告文学的活动是一种审美活动。报告文学文本的现实美来源于现实生活,表现在直接的无功利与间接隐伏着的功利性上;形象美在文本结构的巧妙安排、合理的想象和文学语言的运用等艺术感性形式中得以实现;新颖美要求文本在内容和形式上不断地创新;感染美既来自文本内容的真实,又来自文本具体生动的艺术形式,是文本真实的内容和完美、和谐的形式在审美高度上的统一。     

浅议我国环境影响评价中的公众参与存在的问题及完善办法

阐述了我国环境影响评价中公众参与的发展现状,分析了我国环境影响评价中公众参与存在的问题,并提出了完善公众参与制度的措施.     

物体表面不同角度采集的三维图像配准的一种新算法

提出了一种能有效实现物体表面三维图像数据配准的算法.该算法利用了三维数据采集时的三维点的阵列信息,这些三维点的阵列信息在采集原始三维数据时可以很容易获得,同时,还利用了三维数据矢量/顶点相似特征作为数据匹配的基础.采用迭代最小均方误差算法来自适应优化变换矩阵参数.这些方法可以有效地提高三维图像配准的性能,加快匹配过程的运算速度.实验结果表明该算法可以获得较好的配准后三维图像的主观效果.尽管该方法主要针对人头模型,但经过少许修改后即可适用于其他物体.     

区域红色旅游品牌整合问题探析

红色旅游是近两年在我国兴起的一种新的旅游形式。在今天品牌竞争日益激烈和品牌整合不断加剧的大背景下,红色旅游要在旅游市场中争得一席之地,实现健康、持续、快速的发展,品牌化与品牌整合是其发展的必经之路和必然趋势。品牌化与品牌整合有利于红色旅游全面参与旅游市场竞争和提升市场竞争力。文章从区域的角度对我国红色旅游品牌整合的动因、障碍、目标与运作模式等进行了探析。     

文艺阐释中的不确定性原则及其在现实语境中的意义

文艺以审美幻象整体地反映与把握社会生活,艺术形象的整体性使得艺术意义与功用充满了不确定性;对文艺意义与功用的阐释,不是以求索作家与文本原旨为目的,而是以读者为中心,由于读者的差异性,导致在文艺功用与意义的阐释中也充满了不确定性。不确定性原则在文艺意义与功用的阐释中应得以遵循,并用以反对文艺阐释中的贵族化倾向与极权化思想。