Mapping Folklore Concepts in Bilingual Processing:Cognitive Analysis

The present study applies Dr.He Yuanjian’s CMT(Conceptual Mapping Theory) to focus on the strategy use of translating Chinese folklore concepts in Hong Lou Meng(i.e.indigenous concepts related to etiquettes and customs) by Yang Xianyi and his wife Gladys Yang on the observations of the translators’strategies and the distributional tendencies of translation strategies so as to testify CMT on empirical grounds.Whether it holds true that the preservation of the alien source concepts through translation depends on how successfully they are mapped into the target conceptual system leads to the attempts to study on the distributional tendency of translation strategies of translation tasks,especially,of translating folkloric concepts in this paper.As a result,the tentative outcome of the data observed supports that the concept-mediation theoretic approach to translation process seems able to account for how cognitive constraints affect the production of mapping the unshared concepts.     

基础理论批判：泛法治主义

在依法治国的大背景下,泛法治主义在我国已呈一种发展的态势,但这种将法律视为至高无上的利器,甚至是第二个上帝的想法无疑是违背历史发展的趋势的。我们在法律的应用上要宽严相济,在适当的领域放权给法律之外的调控手段,掌握法治的“度”。     

公私观念与传统中国农民的行为逻辑

引入"大私"的分析观念,将乡土社会里的宗族或自然村赋之以"大私"的属性,以此重构理解农民公私观念的理想图式。研究发现,宗族、自然村是农民认同的一个重要的"自己人单位"。受此影响,传统农民的行为逻辑是"以群为重,以己为轻"的群我主义,以农民认同的"大私"单位为界限,其内遵循个体利益服从群体利益的整体主义行为逻辑,其外则遵循截然相反的特殊主义的陌生化的人际交往逻辑。在此基础上,重新审视"崇公抑私"等公与私的价值性术语的实践效能就会有新的发现。     

Introducing Torres Strait Island dance to the Australian high school physical education curriculum

This study was carried out within the context of a requirement for every Australian Capital Territory Education and Training Directorate (ACT ETD) high school to include Indigenous perspectives across all areas of the curriculum. For the first time ever in the case study school reported in this article, two Torres Strait Island dances were taught to students from Year 7 to Year 9. Traditionally dance within Physical Education (PE) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has been informed by British and American influences. This paper seeks to problematize the inclusion of Indigenous dance into a Westernized PE curriculum and considers the challenges faced by non-Indigenous Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers in relation to this, as well as what support is available. It is argued from the findings of this study that it is possible for schools to move beyond traditional PE content and include Indigenous perspectives in a non-tokenistic way. However, it is also argued that such an approach requires Indigenous people to have a central role, and for non-Indigenous teachers to challenge taken for granted mainstream Westernized and racialized teaching practices and discourses.     

外来说与本土说：理由与问题--盘古创世神话研究述评

百年来,大多数学者有关这个神话的研究成果,显在或潜在地围绕着这个神话是外来还是本土的这一焦点展开,外来说中印度说最早且影响最大,本土说中有多种观点,其中南方说影响最大。不管是外来说还是本土说,都存在一些困难。猜想多于实证,都缺少无可争议的铁证,这是它们共同的问题。     

“根”之教育——谈乡土文化教育与地方民俗传承

民俗是乡土文化的表征,是地方性知识和生活方式文化的统合。在全球化的语境下,传承地方民俗以弘扬优秀传统文化日益凸显其独特的意义和价值。重视青少年群体的乡土文化教育,透过学校教育的途径,引导他们认知、体验和传承地方民俗并在这一过程中寻找和体认自己的文化身份,形成对乡土文化的认同感和归属感,建立起对家乡的感情,是推行乡土文化教育的着眼点和目标。     

产学研结合相关概念辨析

从高等教育的内部视角来看,产学研结合作为一种教育活动,其存在形式是产学研合作教育,人才培养是其最终目的。从政治论的外部视角来看,产学研结合作为一种经济活动,其最终目的在于经济利益与政治利益。尽管产学研结合相关概念在侧重点上有所不同,但都是围绕知识而产生的社会活动,＂产学研＂三者是其核心。产学研结合是高等教育发展的必然,而产学研合作则是有价值取向的。     

Doctoral conceptual thresholds in cellular and molecular biology

ABSTRACT

In the biological sciences, very little is known about the mechanisms by which doctoral students acquire the skills they need to become independent scientists. In the postsecondary biology education literature, identification of specific skills and effective methods for helping students to acquire them are limited to undergraduate education. To establish a foundation from which to investigate the developmental trajectory of biologists’ research skills, it is necessary to identify those skills which are integral to doctoral study and distinct from skills acquired earlier in students’ educational pathways. In this context, the current study engages the framework of threshold concepts to identify candidate skills that are both obstacles and significant opportunities for developing proficiency in conducting research. Such threshold concepts are typically characterised as transformative, integrative, irreversible, and challenging. The results from interviews and focus groups with current and former doctoral students in cellular and molecular biology suggest two such threshold concepts relevant to their subfield: the first is an ability to effectively engage primary research literature from the biological sciences in a way that is critical without dismissing the value of its contributions. The second is the ability to conceptualise appropriate control conditions necessary to design and interpret the results of experiments in an efficient and effective manner for research in the biological sciences as a discipline. Implications for prioritising and sequencing graduate training experiences are discussed on the basis of the identified thresholds.     

Indigenous knowledge and the machinist metaphors of the bricoleur researcher

This paper explores the intersection between critical methodologies and Indigenous knowledge. It is especially concerned with the ways in which the metaphors associated with the bricoleur researcher – tools and production – conceptualize Indigenous knowledge to that of an ecology and environmental work. This limits the appreciation for and engagement with narrative, and the ways in which “ecological” knowledge is embedded in narrative practices and interpretive processes. The author puts the work of Anishinaabe novelist and theorist Gerald Vizenor in conversation with the writings of J. Kincheloe as a way not only to contrast the central metaphors in critical and Indigenous methodologies, but similarly to highlight the differences between a bricoleur language of research and an Aboriginal language of survivance.     

Reconciliation—a rhetorical concept/ion

What is reconciliation? A source of historical puzzlement and contemporary controversy over how to make history, this question asks after those words which constitute a beginning (again), that moment in which endless cycles of conflict give way to the hope for “unity in difference.” Concerned with the dynamics of its operation, the present essay contends that reconciliation is a rhetorical concept, a performance and norm of rhetorical practice that transcends violence less than it turns its historical justification toward mutual oppositions that call for(th) the character (ethos) of understanding. A challenge to both the logic and politics of identity, an opposing and relating of that which is held to be exclusive, reconciliation is thus difficult to define. From a reading of the concept's history, I investigate this definitional puzzle through consideration of how the substance of reconciliation appears within its potential, the capacity to open a time for expression, invent the grounds for speech-action, and abide in the risks that attend the power to name. To make new in relation, reconciliation's promise demands significant faith in the works of words.