An educational framework for participatory action learning and action research (PALAR)

The purpose of this article is to provide an educational, theoretical, and methodological framework for using a special kind of action research, namely PALAR (participatory action learning and action research). This integrated methodology of lifelong action learning (AL) and participatory action research (PAR) has been developed over the past 25 years. It has been proven to be an effective approach to individual, professional, organizational, community (and generally practice) development. PALAR can be instrumental in pursuit of social justice and is well suited for both experienced and beginning researchers interested in researching and improving their own practice. The article illustrates with case examples how this framework has been put into practice for various programs in a variety of fields and countries. The PALAR framework is the basis for a generic program design, structure, and content, and for processes of learning, teaching, assessment, evaluation, and leadership development. It is a systemic and systematic program on how to design, justify, conduct, evaluate, write, and publish research that is particularly useful for community or work-based theses at master’s, professional doctorate, and PhD levels. An original feature of this article is its comprehensive overview and summary of the theory and practice of PALAR for the first time, with references to further readings.     

西部大开发的生态伦理问题研究

探讨了西部大开发中的生态伦理问题，认为倡导生态伦理是西部大开发的内在要求，是西部大开发主体实线的行为规范。生态伦理可以消除生态危机的发生和防止生态环境进一步恶化，有利于西部地区经济的可持续发展。     

Does maternal employment influence poor children’s social development?

Various initiatives over the past 40 years have aimed to strengthen children’s early learning and social development. One policy theory—manifest in recent welfare reforms—postulates that requiring single mothers to work more outside the home will advance children’s well-being. We first examine whether young children’s social development is related to maternal employment among 405 women who entered welfare-to-work programs in 1998. For girls, age 24–42 months, we found that their mother’s recent employment duration was significantly associated with a lower incidence of aggressive behavior and inattentiveness, measured by two scales from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL 2/3). Yet these relationships with employment were weaker than more robust associations observed for proximal child-rearing practices, including the frequency of reading with the child, enforcing a regular bedtime, the propensity to spank the child, as well as levels of maternal depression. We then assess whether broader measures of the mother’s economic security help to predict these proximal determinants of development. We observed that food security and indicators of job quality consistently predicted the proximal factors. Structural equation models (SEM) provided additional evidence that these broader indicators of economic security, but not recent employment per se, operated through parenting practices and maternal depression to influence girls’ and boys’ social development. These results are consistent with recent findings from random-assignment experiments, showing that employment gains rarely affect child outcomes unless mothers’ income and broader economic security also improve.     

Cognitive Development in Gifted Children: Toward a More Precise Understanding of Emerging Differences in Intelligence

To truly understand gifted performance, it is necessary to merge research on giftedness with current thinking in cognitive development and intelligence. This article presents traditional research on gifted children's cognitive development then considers how the application of newer models and theories from the field of cognitive development can be combined with research on giftedness to change the way people think about gifted performance. First four factors that have often been associated with giftedness are discussed from the perspectives of cognitive developmental psychology and gifted education. Next, emphasis is placed on investigating the strategic development of gifted children. Specifically, R. S. Siegler's (Emerging Minds: The Process of Change in Children's Thinking, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996) model of strategy development is addressed in terms of what it may contribute to understanding gifted cognition. Finally, future lines of research using models from cognitive development and complex systems models of development are recommended.     

新建地方本科院校实验室实现跨越式发展的探讨

系统分析了新建地方本科院校实验室建设中存在的问题,提出了实现新建地方本科院校实验室建设跨越式发展的对策与建议。     

旅游企业伦理探析

本文从企业伦理学的角度出发,在对“企业伦理是什么”以及企业和伦理关系阐释的基础上,论述了旅游企业伦理存在的必然性,认为改革现行的旅游企业管理体制、实行伦理化经营,有利于我国旅游业的持续发展,这又有赖于旅游企业的伦理化运行机制的建立。     

是"崩溃边缘"还是"曲折发展"--关于"文革"时期的内蒙古经济

“文化大革命”与文革时期的经济建设,既有联系,又有区别,如果为了完全否定文革而完全否定这一时期的经济建设,是不符合实际的。     

可持续发展与道德教育

进行可持续发展的道德教育 ,是实现可持续发展的重要保证。科技的作用具有两面性 ,需要道德规范其发展方向 ;行政、经济、法律手段具有他律性 ,其作用的充分发挥有赖于人们道德素质的提高。构建可持续发展道德体系 ,要加强环境道德、全球合作精神、可持续消费观和奉献精神的教育     

论邓小平非均衡发展战略及其哲学依据

根据毛泽东《矛盾论》中的哲学原理，结合中国发展现状，邓小平提出了非均衡发展战略的构想并加以实施。事实证明，邓小平的非均衡发展战略在理论和实践上都产生了巨大的作用和影响。     

用科学发展观引领科技期刊建设的创新发展

从科技期刊建设的实际出发,就如何用科学发展观引领科技期刊建设的创新发展进行了探讨,提出了坚持科学发展观,准确把握期刊的发展方向;坚持内涵式发展,牢固树立特色办刊理念;坚持可持续发展,不断提高期刊学术质量;坚持以人为本,充分调动读者的主观能动性等基本观点。