La Parte Chusca of a Pedagogical Here and Now: Oaxacan Teachers’ Heteroglossic Joking About State Repression and Educational Reform

Faced with repression and reform, humor has become tactical for public school teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, engaged in a decades-old movement that after 2006 involved intensified street- and school-based pedagogies. This piece explores how humor adds to a political project via mocking names, images, and dictates of elite leaders to bring a here and now to what is taken as inaccessible in the teachers’ political lives. Humor forms part of an (e)sc(h)atology in which critical practices are part eschatological, a call for definite transformation, and part scatological, embodied vulgarity. La parte chusca (the funny part), its (e)sc(h)atological contribution, angles toward critical literacies in Oaxaca and beyond.     

Enacting Informal Science Learning: Exploring the Battle for Informal Learning

Informal Science Learning (ISL) is a policy narrative of interest in the United Kingdom and abroad. This paper explores how a group of English secondary school science teachers, enacted ISL science clubs through employing the Periodic Table of Videos. It examines how these teachers ‘battled’ to enact ISL policy in performative conditions at the micro-scale, and how this battle reflected macro-scale epistemological and political considerations. Data from the study suggests that for some, ISL was low stakes as it was seen to have negligible impact upon performance data. As a result, there was some resistance towards enacting ISL and conflict between the formal and informal curriculum processes. Nonetheless, analysis indicates that the informants highly valued ISL despite the requirement for them to justify it over more formal and ‘effective’ approaches to learning science.     

李清照漫议

李清照是中国古代最负盛名的女词人,其生活、创作经历以"靖康之难"为分水岭,分为前、后两个时期.她的词能将个性化的抒情和完美的意境结合在一起,自成一家,被后人誉为"易安体"、"婉约正宗".     

非正式意识形态概念辨析

通过引入“正式意识形态”和“非正式意识形态”概念,以美国为例,试图揭示非正式意识形态的特征、非正式意识形态与正式意识形态的关系,以及非正式意识形态的现实意义。     

Exit cards: creating a dialogue for continuous evaluation

This study explored the use of Exit Cards, which are formative evaluations of student knowledge and instruction undertaken at every class meeting. Its results are based on Exit Card data from two undergraduate research methods courses. Thematic analysis indicated that students used Exit Cards to communicate (1) what they learned, (2) challenges with course material, (3) experiences with peers, (4) requests for help, (5) challenges with coping, and (6) successes. While the present study is an initial exploration of the use of Exit Cards, it contributes to knowledge on the utilization of informal formative assessments.     

Mentoring of Women Faculty: The Role of Organizational Politics and Culture

This article reports on a key finding of a phenomenological study on the mentoring experiences of women faculty. The study revealed the political climate of the organization as an essential attribute of this experience. Women faculty identified organizational culture and gender issues that affected the mentoring they received. This study suggests the need for human resource and organization development initiatives to facilitate the provision of academic mentoring for women faculty—individually, departmentally, and culturally—as a means to foster transformation and change in academic institutions.Sharon K. Gibson is an Assistant Professor of organization learning and development at the University of St. Thomas. She received her Ph.D. in adult education from the University of Minnesota. She holds an M.S.W. degree and graduate certificate in labor and industrial relations from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from Cornell University. Her research interests focus on developmental relationships including mentoring and coaching, strategic human resource and organization development, and adult learning.     

论批判性思维的逻辑特性

集中体现了人类理性和智慧的逻辑,不仅是批判性思维的精髓之所在,而且它的重要表现形式——逻辑思维也构成了批判性思维的本质内容。这一点正是批判性思维的逻辑学科性的表现之一。它的第二个表现便是批判性思维所体现的理性精神从根本上说是逻辑作用的结果。除此之外,批判性思维的逻辑学科性还表现在批判性思维既需要非形式逻辑,也需要形式逻辑,只有将二者结合起来共同发挥作用,才能使批判性思维的优秀品质得到最高程度的展现。     

正式制度、非正式制度与商业资本转化——论中国历史上商业资本向土地资本转化的原因

在中国历史上,商人对于土地的投资是很普遍的现象。本文运用新制度经济学的研究方法探究这一现象的主要成因。文章认为正是封建社会的正式制度安排和非正式制度的影响,促进了商业资本向土地资本的转化。而商业资本的这种转化是不利于中国社会的发展与进步的。     

Is students’ energy literacy related to their university’s position in a sustainability ranking?

Abstract

University rankings are increasingly important internationally, and in the UK include a sustainability ‘Green League’. However, there is little evidence about experiences of studying in ‘sustainable universities’. We report an empirical study at five universities in varied positions in the Green League, exploring students’ energy literacy, environmental attitudes and perceptions of their institution’s energy-saving efforts. Although the link to energy literacy is not clear, findings suggest that there are significant differences between students’ environmental attitudes at universities placed at different points in the league. In addition, students at higher ranked universities are more positive about their university’s energy-saving efforts, suggesting that these institutions may exhibit more overt manifestations of sustainability. This is important since students report being more likely to choose energy-conservation behaviours if there is visible representation of energy use. The study is the first to attempt a comparison between universities at different positions in a sustainability ranking.     

论高校科研组织的正式群体与非正式群体的互动关系

高校科研组织活动依赖于其正式群体与非正式群体互动关系的基本特性实现，与其基本关系的确定性、一致性、差异性等深层机理活动有关；高校科研组织系统管理必须坚持关系互动原则，才能实现有效的组织管理。