Chinese children with ASD in Hong Kong (SAR): development of inclusive practice

The advancement of inclusive educational provision in the Asia‐Pacific region has been guided by international research. As one example, Hong Kong has developed a unique and cultural response to inclusive practice within the region. This paper reviews Hong Kong's development of inclusive education practice for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It provides an account of how services in education have developed for Chinese children with ASD, from diagnosis to school placement, and how the students are supported. A number of challenges for the region are discussed including those related to pedagogy, mentoring, placement, support and the need for culturally appropriate professional learning.     

The Bicycle Assembly Line Game

“The Bicycle Assembly Line Game” is a team‐based, in‐class activity that helps students develop a basic understanding of continuously operating processes. Each team of 7–10 students selects one of seven prefigured bicycle assembly lines to operate. The lines are run in real‐time, and the team that operates the line that yields the highest revenue wins. Students learn through discovery “What drives output rate?”; “How is capacity managed relative to market demand?”; and “Why does inventory accumulate?” Because task times are constant, the game provides a nice lead‐in to the topic of line balancing. This game has been successfully used in both undergraduate‐ and MBA‐level operations management courses.     

Socioeconomic Status– and Gender‐Based Differences in Students’ Perceptions of E‐Learning Systems

Many universities are pursuing increases in on‐line course offerings as a means of offsetting the rising costs of providing high‐quality educational opportunities and of better serving their student populations. However, enrollments in online courses are not always sufficient to cover their costs. One possible way of improving enrollments is through marketing campaigns targeted to specific demographic groups. In this study, we take a first look into how students’ perceptions of e‐learning systems, prior to their enrollment in an online course, vary across socioeconomic status and gender. Findings suggest that prior to taking an online course, working‐class students perceive e‐learning systems more positively than their middle‐class peers but that little difference exists between genders. Armed with this knowledge, universities may improve online course enrollments by marketing online courses specifically to working‐class students or through campaigns aimed at improving middle‐class students’ perceptions of e‐learning systems.     

Project Cheddarfield: Supporting Co‐Curricular Themes Through Creative Use of Video Course‐Casting

This article chronicles the coordination and better integration of existing institutional resources to support cocurricular themes embedded in the provision of a large enrollment, video‐mediated undergraduate operations management (OM) course. The name Project Cheddarfield refers to a 2008 initiative in which two professors team‐taught an OM course to over 600 undergraduates on two different continents through the repeated rapid exchange of digital video between the United States and Singapore. Simultaneously infused in this core curricular delivery were themes of global awareness and study‐abroad, including the promotion of one particular opportunity that bridged the two campuses. This action research narrative spans over 5 years of related activity leading up to the initiative, as this project is best understood as a trajectory, or the evolving result of design adapting to unfolding realities.     

杨义诸子学研究平议——以“诸子还原”四书为中心

杨义先生近年来的诸子学研究显示出其深厚的学术功力,并已经形成了一批优秀的学术成果:《老子还原》、《庄子还原》、《墨子还原》、《韩非子还原》不久前已经由中华书局出版,引起了学术界的广泛关注。这四部著作新意迭出,论证扎实。四书采用了"全息"、"生命"、"还原"的治学研究方法,从身份确认到思想脉络,从文本考辨到文学特色,杨义先生对于先秦诸子研究中的问题的解决不仅是一个或者几个,而是一连串的综合性学术问题,有的是千百年来聚讼纷纭的疑难命题,有的则是前人很少或者几乎是没有关注过的问题,其中很多问题甚至都可以称之为中华文明的"超级命题"。这些问题不同程度地得到推进与解决,对于我们重新认识先秦诸子,破解中华文明源头的文化密码作出了重要学术贡献。在对先秦诸子研究过程中,杨义先生始终坚持"大文学观"的治学思路与学术实践,可以说这四部书是其一贯的治学理念在诸子学研究领域的重要体现。     

主观幸福感内容成分的结构关系

抽取了有代表性的506名中学生和大学生,通过结构方程建模方法对青少年学生主观幸福感的成分结构作实证的检验与分析,结果表明：正性情感和负性情感是SWB的两个相对独立的成分,在认知成分（生活满意度）与正性情感和负性情感的因果关系没得到证明之前,SWB的指标值应该是三者的综合。     

《全辽金文》校补——孟攀鳞生平、交游及佚文辑考

云内人孟攀鳞是金元之际政坛与文坛的重要人物。《全辽金文》对其传记甚略,且仅收文一篇。作者结合现有资料对孟攀鳞生平、交游详加考证与补充。同时又发现其佚文数篇,现抄列、标点出来,期与学者共享。     

返璞归真：让物理感觉成为教学的内在追求

如何沟通学生的科学世界与生活世界,提高学生的科学素养,是目前物理教学改革的重要理论命题和实践难题。而以往被人们忽视的学生＂物理感觉＂,恰恰是连接这两个世界的重要桥梁。鉴于此,我们有必要厘定物理感觉的内涵、分析物理感觉的类型,并藉此提出优化物理教学的策略。