Developing the next generation of diverse computer scientists: the need for enhanced,intersectional computing identity theory

This theoretical paper explores the need for enhanced, intersectional computing identity theory for the purpose of developing a diverse group of computer scientists for the future. Greater theoretical understanding of the identity formation process specifically for computing is needed in order to understand how students come to understand themselves as computer scientists. To ensure that the next generation of computer scientists is diverse, this paper presents a case for examining identity development intersectionally, understanding the ways in which women and underrepresented students may have difficulty identifying as computer scientists and be systematically oppressed in their pursuit of computer science careers. Through a review of the available scholarship, this paper suggests that creating greater theoretical understanding of the computing identity development process will inform the way in which educational stakeholders consider computer science practices and policies.     

Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture

Since the 1980s, popular cultural products have criss‐crossed the national borders of East Asian countries, enabling a discursive construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’ as an object of analysis. The present essay is a preliminary attempt to provide some conceptual and analytic shape to this object, delineated by its three constitutive elements of production, distribution and consumption. Each East Asian location participates in different and unequal levels in each of these component processes. Production can either be located entirely in a single geographic location or, alternatively, each of the necessary constituent sub‐processes can be executed from different locations; preference for either arrangement tends to reflect the relative dominance of the production location in exporting its finished products. Consumption and thus consumers are geographically located within cultural spaces in which they are embedded. Meanings and viewing pleasures are generated within the local cultures of specific audience. Conceptually, among the several possible consumption positions, the one in which an audience watches an imported programme is most intriguing. In this viewing position, differences between the cultures of the location of consumption and that of the production location become most apparent. The audience member has to bring his or her own cultural context to bear on the content of the imported product and read it accordingly. In this sense, the cultural product may be said to have crossed a ‘cultural’ boundary, beyond the simple fact of its having been exported/imported into a different location as an economic activity. Such an audience position requires the consumer to transcend his or her grounded nationality to forge abstract identification with the foreign characters on screen, a foreignness that is, in turn, potentially reabsorbed into an idea of (East) ‘Asia’; a potential ‘East Asian identity’, emerging from consumption of popular cultural products, is thus imaginable.     

一个微分-积分恒等式的推广及应用

推广了一个微分一积分恒等式，并用这个新的恒等式研究了一类二阶微分方程振动与非振动的条件．     

Oh to be a scholar – an HE in FE perspective

This paper considers conceptions of the term ‘scholarship’ amongst lecturers delivering business higher education programmes (BHEPs) in further education colleges (FECs). A condensed overview of leading authors’ work on the subject of scholarship is first considered; then, at the end of the paper, an alternative definition is offered in the hopes of stimulating discussion. The data was drawn from a doctoral study by the author (2009) looking at this subject area, and is based on findings from primary data collected in 2006–7. Due to the lack of published work in and on higher education (HE) in further education (FE) at that time, the study drew heavily on literature from HE. This paper highlights potential issues and anxieties of the lecturers who took part in the study, and identifies that the term ‘scholarship’ is not one familiar to, or easily defined by, those delivering BHEPs in FECs.     

Peter Jarvis and 30 years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education

We live in a time of constant change—in liquid modernity—and this has created a rapidly growing need for Transformative Learning (TL): we must be able to constantly change and develop ourselves in order to keep pace with the changes in our environment and life situation. However, the need for change has grown so fast and in so many directions that the term of TL has itself become uncertain or even confused. In 2000, Robert Kegan posed the question ‘What “Form” Transforms’? He advocated a new approach to TL but did not propose any new definition; this situation still remains: among several proposals for new approaches to TL, there is a general agreement that the traditional definition of the term as changes in the learner’s ‘meaning perspectives’, etc. is too narrow and too cognitively oriented. In this article, it is argued that TL should be re-defined as ‘changes in the learner’s identity’. The article explains why this definition is better and more up to date. Through discussion of range of issues, the article shows that the linking of the concepts of TL and identity open the way for new understandings and possibilities.     

Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project

Students have expectations of their university education leading to graduate careers, with universities investing considerable resources in institution-wide initiatives designed to enhance opportunities for student work placements and work-related learning. However, there are large variations between courses and disciplines in student uptake of these opportunities, with limited evidence explaining why this might be the case. Recognising recent approaches which consider student identity in transitions, this study explored student attitudes to work-related learning across a range of subject disciplines. The first phase of the study used in-class surveys (N = 199) to focus on students’ self-identification and perceptions of employability initiatives. Follow-up interviews were conducted to further explore themes emerging in the survey data. The study found that, while some students drew on resources for identity work in their recognition of and approach to work-related learning, access was limited, and university resources were not always recognised or effective. The findings have implications for the design of effective graduate employability initiatives.     

论教科书、身份文化与社会分层

教科书承载和传播的是支配集团的身份文化,这不仅有利于主流意识形态的传播和渗透,更重要的意义在于,承载着身份文化的教科书更有利于支配集团的掌握和学习,而在一个文化资本越来越成为个体身份决定性资本的社会,更好地掌握教科书身份文化意味着占据更多的文化资本,因而赢得更好的社会身份。因而,教科书通过传播身份文化,间接、内在而隐性地实现了社会分层。     

族群认同视野下的侗文教育

在当今经济全球化进程快速发展的背景下,中国少数民族语言文字生存和发展的前景日益受到人们的关注. 笔者根据在贵州省侗族聚居地区开展田野调查的材料,从人类学族群认同理论的"原生论"和"工具论"的角度,对当前侗文在侗族地区扫盲教育及学校教育中的使用情况以及人们对它的不同态度及评价进行了描述,探讨了侗文作为族群标记和交际手段的双重性.     

企业识别系统中的环境、资源观及其形象设计

可持续发展的思想和社会市场营销观念已成潮流。为适应市场需求的变化和环境管理的要求,寻求市场机会和避免环境威胁,必然要求企业自觉、主动地关切资源、环境问题,履行应尽的社会责任,并融入、体现在企业识别系统设计中。本文提出了在企业识别系统中贯穿"资源、环境形象"设计的一些基本思路。     

师范生教师职业认同调查

采用魏淑华自编的《教师职业认同量表》对陇东学院450名师范生进行调查,结果显示:(1)师范生在教师职业认同上的性别差异没有达到显著性水平。(2)文科生的角色价值观高于理科生。(3)非独生子女的教师职业认同度普遍高于独生子女。(4)来自农村的师范生的教师角色价值观高于来自城市的师范生。