Queering the Art Classroom: Queering Matters

Since 2003, successive British governments have taken steps to develop legislation supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning / queer, intersex, asexual and those who are gender / sexuality non‐conforming more generally (LGBTQIA+). In doing so, they have foregrounded the need for educational institutions to respond proactively to this legislation. There is evidence to suggest that homophobia is prominent in UK schools, yet measures to address the issue have largely rested on schools and LGBTQIA+ charities, reducing discussions of homosexuality to anti‐bullying discourses and introducing curriculum modifications that are overwhelmingly homonormative. The limitations of these current approaches ignore the societal and institutional power structures that help to produce homophobia, which is often referred to as heteronormativity. Drawing on aspects of new materialist and queer theoretical perspectives, this article follows the findings of a research project that focused on developing an intervention at GCSE level, exploring non‐normative genders and sexualities in the art curriculum. The research project was based on a class in a secondary school in North London from 2017 to 2018. Through the application of a pedagogy rooted in queer theory, the study explores the possibilities of disrupting heteronormativity and didactic learning by investigating student responses to the interventions. For this article, I focus on one student’s artwork and her reactions to the process of making her artworks during the project. As such, the study is an exploration of an attempt at moving beyond the homonormative inclusion of LGBTQIA+ content, towards a deeper exploration of gender and sexuality within the curriculum cultivated through making.     

The school parade as a text: the management of diversity on national commemorations in Greece

The paper approaches school parades on national commemorations in Greece as a ‘text’ for storing and transmitting cultural meanings and value hierarchies. The study is based on policy documents and participant observation. The detailed Ministry instructions on how schools should select students for the parade may be viewed as instructions on how to manage dimensions of diversity. Two such dimensions are tallness and achievement, established by law as selection criteria. The latter could point to both intellectual abilities and effort. However, because of the dominance of effort in Greek educational rhetoric, achievement comes to be perceived mainly as an indicator of moral qualities, e.g. hard work. The selected students are distributed along the body of the parade according to ‘syntactic’ rules, i.e. mainly ‘firstness’. Skilful management of bodily and moral ‘diversity’ makes underlying value hierarchies explicit, thus producing cultural meanings and turning the parade into a text about the nation.     

推动书籍形态演变的核心因素探究

本文主要探讨了书籍的形态是如何顺应人们阅读需求的变化而发展的。文章将书的装帧形态概括为卷筒装、折页装、册页装三大类,分析了由一类向另一类形态转变过程中,阅读需求所起的决定性作用,并且以此为思路,展望未来书籍形态的发展方向。     

图式理论与大学英语写作

写作作为一种重要的输出形式,需要学生有较高的语言综合运用能力。在教学中,利用图式理论,可以帮助学生摆脱这种尴尬的境地,有效地提高他们的写作水平。关键在于启发学生主动思考,通过阅读来积累语言图式,与时俱进增强内容图式,了解形式图式并整理其思维模式。     

白居易诗歌与“云”有关的意象词语的语言分析

对白居易诗歌中与"云"有关的意象词语进行语言分析,意在从语言研究的角度挖掘或阐释这些意象词语背后的"隐含意义",揭示其间融入的人文因素和文化积淀,从而为汉语词汇史研究的新思路作出尝试。     

生态视角下网络教学资源的开发

面对网络教学资源相对陈旧、种类单调,资源的重复建设现象严重的情况,可以将网络教学资源、网络环境、开发人员、学习者作为一个生态系统,从生态学的视角出发,运用生态理论来研究网络教学资源建设过程中的问题,指导开发优质网络教学资源,创建远程学习的生态学习环境。     

经济全球化背景下我国高校双语教学目标探析

国外双语教育有明确的国家目标、教育目标和语言目标指明方向,因而双语教育比较成功。而我国高校的双语教学长期以来目标缺失,导致双语教学缺乏连续性、系统性、制度性和有效性。我国高校双语教学在实施阶段、教学对象、教学结果、学生的动力、后续第二语言支持等方面的特殊性决定了高校双语教学的国家目标应定位于：以多元文化认同为基础,扩大国际交流,促进经济发展;教育目标应定位于：培养社会急需的高级双语人才;语言目标应定位于：习得第二语言。     

近十年汉语方言研究的新发展

近十年来,新的语言理论、研究方法不断应用于汉语方言研究领域,从而使其有了新的发展,主要表现在三个方面：一是语言类型学在汉语方言语法研究中开始受到重视;二是汉语方言音系的优选论分析研究成为一种＂新潮＂;三是地理语言学在汉语方言研究中开始兴盛。     

英语中“水”的概念分析

与科学世界图景中的水概念不同,语言世界图景中水的概念化呈现出自己的特点。通过对以水为关键词的搭配为语料对水进行的概念分析发现,英语中将水概念化为动物、人、有固定外形的物体和无固定外形的物体。尽管其概念化呈现出无序性和非逻辑性,但反映出在英伦民族意识中对水这一概念的初始认识。