The Catholic school advantage and common school effect examined: a comparison between Muslim immigrant and native pupils in Flanders

This study investigates the impact of Catholic schooling on academic achievement of native Belgian and Muslim immigrant pupils. The distinctive characteristics of Catholic schools in Belgium (Flanders) form an exceptionally suitable context to study this. Multilevel latent growth curve analyses are conducted with data from approximately 5,000 pupils across 200 primary schools. No support was found for the Catholic school advantage hypothesis as the overall achievement growth for math and reading was not significantly better in Catholic schools than in public schools. Likewise, no evidence was found for the so-called “common school effect” hypothesis: The learning growth of Muslim pupils was not significantly better in Catholic schools. In fact, the initial achievement gap was found to be higher in Catholic schools than in public schools. Implications of these findings are discussed.     

Liana’s learning in a democratized classroom

In usual understandings of learning, youths’ development in classrooms is portrayed as a move from being a novice to an expert. However, findings of the present anthropologically framed study support us to argue that learning, rather, can be characterized as youths’ simultaneous occupation of novice and expert roles. We refer to this simultaneous occupation as “mutual reliance”. We make this assertion within the context of a multilingual, transnational classroom, where the presence of heightened diversity led teachers to put in place a structure (“autonomous learning groups”) that supported youth to rely on one another to learn. In a video-based case study that tracks one group of students over 33 hours and engages micro-ethnographic analysis of a student named Liana, we found that autonomous learning groups created a democratization of the learning space – everyone contributed from his or her knowledge base because no single person, including the teachers, could ever be an expert.     

Early Childhood Intervention in China from the Families’ Perspective

Research highlights the importance of early childhood intervention (ECI) for children with disabilities, and there is an increasing interest in China with respect to research on ECI. However, little research exists exploring the experience of families of young children with disabilities receiving ECI services and supports in China. The purpose of this study was to understand the ECI experiences of families of such children. A qualitative research design was used, and data were collected through interviews with six families in southwest China. This study indicated that, although China has made some progress in ECI for young children with disabilities, progress in this area is still at an early stage of development. Many issues still need to be addressed, including knowledge about typical and atypical development, early identification, professional development, increased government investment, and better implementation of existing laws.     

浅析高等学校在国家助学贷款中的责任范围

目前国家助学贷款实施过程中，存在着银行要求高等学校承担一定的连带责任而学校不愿承担的问题。究其原因，这是由于国家助学贷款中的几个主体——政府、银行、高校、学生之间的权利与责任界定不清晰所致。从高等学校的功能和权利义务对等两个角度对问题的成因进行分析，有助于廓清高等学校在国家助学贷款中的责任范围，并提出解决问题的政策建议。     

Migrating selves: reconstructing and renegotiating Black immigrant academic identities

ABSTRACT

This study set out to explore how Black immigrant academics (BIAs) reconstruct their identities within academe. Utilising the research methodology of narrative inquiry, this article explores how BIAs came to see themselves across those communities, which were of primary importance to them in the reformation of their identities. Through the construction of narratives of experience, their lived and told stories emphasised the diversity of their identities that were negotiated with others within personal, historical and situational contexts. The study of BIAs’ lives from their perspective, in which they actively and socially develop their identities, not only provides a lens through which they can be understood as shifting constructions of identity but allows them to rethink who they are and have become and what influence power relations have in promoting or negating their sense of academic self.     

庐山植物区系的特征和植被的分布

本文通过对庐山植物区系成分的分析，指出庐山植物区系特征是：以亚热带植物成分为主，还有热带和温带植物成分的亚热带低山植被，具有古热带和冷北极两大植物区系成分的相互渗透、相互交融的一种过渡性自然景观．在植被分布上，明显地反映出亚热带低山植被的垂直地带性分布规律．     

客籍文人与贵州文化开发

贵州建省以来,游宦、游幕或贬谪来黔的客籍文人络绎不绝,他们或兴办官学、书院,或琢育黔中人才,或创作文学艺术作品,或传布宗教文化,为贵州文化的开发作出了巨大贡献。     

高校助学贷款的实施现状与对策分析

助学贷款是帮助贫困生完成学业的最重要的措施之一，但政策性贷款与商业运作之间的矛盾、银行成本投入过高、助学贷款信息渠道不畅、学校对毕业生逾期不还贷款现象缺乏有效的约束机制等因素，阻碍了国家助学贷款计划的有效实施。对此进行分析并采取相应对策，可以保证国家助学贷款工作能健康有效地开展，可以让更多的贫困生在党和政府的关心帮助下顺利完成学业。     

伊犁汉语方言调查琐记

由于清代以来，陕甘移民，伊犁汉语方言在语言，词汇，语法三方面不可避免地受到陕甘方言的影响。     

上海市外来农民工的体育参与现状调查

体育参与是当今社会人们与生俱有的一项基本权利,上海作为一个经济实力和文明程度高度发展的城市,亟需重视解决外来农民工的体育参与这一社会问题。运用文献资料法、专家访谈法、问卷调查法等研究方法,对上海市外来农民工体育参与的现状进行调查,分析了上海市外来农民工在体育参与方面存在的各类问题。