高校文明寝室建设指标量化体系研究

本文对文明、寝室、文明寝室等概念进行了探析;明确了文明寝室的概念,文明寝室包含的指标;对文明寝室的指标,政治觉悟、制度规范、环境卫生、安全健康、专业思想、文化生活、社会责任和行为规范等进行了量化分析。围绕着文明寝室的指标,建立了切实有效的运行机制,如组织领导机制,部门联动、走访机制,宿舍管理运行机制,辅导员下宿舍机制,学生参与决策机制等,确保高校文明寝室建设工作顺利开展。     

为湖湘文化把脉——读谢发平先生的《湖湘文化十九讲》

谢发平先生的《湖湘文化十九讲》不仅是一本“讲”湖湘文化的书,也是一部宣扬湖湘文化,彰显湖南人精神的力作。该书在“回望”之中,展现出宏大的视野,将对历史的穿透力与对现实的敏锐感知有机结合起来,在品评历史人物和地方风物的基础上,为湖南人文、经济和社会发展建言献策,奉献良方。     

新疆民族一体多元文化格局论

新疆自古以来就是一个多民族聚居的地区,历史上新疆各民族的文化交流和融合形成了以汉文化为基础的稳固的民族凝聚力和向心力。维护新疆多元一体、和谐共存的现状,坚决反对民族分裂,具有深广的历史内涵与现实意义。     

现代化建设进程中的民族传统文化问题

我国的民族文化是各民族人民在数千年历史长河中共同创造和享用的物质财富和精神财富的总和。民族传统文化在现代化建设日新月异的当代社会仍然蕴含着极大的价值和功能。然而在现代化进程中,少数民族传统文化受到空前的挑战和冲击,其发展的出路除了以国家的名义进行保护和发展外,还要充分利用现代化带来的技术进步,处理好机遇把握与继承保护和发展创新、现代化与民族传统文化的一致性、民族传统文化与人的现代化等关系问题,并构建文化自觉的适应机制。     

汉语负迁移对英语教学的影响及对策

我国英语学习者缺乏真实的英语语言环境,并且受到汉语的影响,常常把汉语的规则迁移到英语学习中,导致了母语负迁移的产生,造成英语表达错误。本文在简单介绍语言迁移理论的基础上,分析了汉语在英语学习中的负迁移现象,提出减少汉语负迁移的策略。     

The role of culture,competitiveness and economic performance in explaining academic performance: a global market analysis for international student segmentation

A nation's culture, competitiveness and economic performance explain academic performance. Partial Least Squares (PLS) testing of 2252 students shows culture affects competitiveness and academic performance. Culture and economic performance each explain 32%; competitiveness 36%. The model predicts academic performance when culture, competitiveness and economic performance vary. A three-tier market categorisation enhances academic performance.     

Response to Grace’s reflections on Allen and West’s paper

Since the 1970s, school effectiveness research has looked for process-variables filling the black box between mainly structural school features and cognitive outcomes in students. Two concepts came to the fore: school climate and school culture. Both concepts are currently used interchangeably, although it is open to debate whether both are actually the same thing. Because of the way culture and climate are defined and subsequently measured, we propose school culture is a better frame from which to study school effectiveness. This article goes through the premises of perceptual measurement usually overlooked in climate research, and we demonstrate empirically by means of very basic and simple methods and techniques that perceptual measurement and measurement based on assumptions are different approaches and might yield totally different results on an aggregated level. We conclude by demonstrating how culture can be probed and integrated in the models traditionally used in school effectiveness research in an advantageous and theoretically sound way.     

衡水地域文化挖掘的理论与实践

地域文化是一个地区长时间积淀形成的为这一地区的人们所广泛认同和接受的各种自然人文元素的总和。是一个地区独特的文化符号和人文精神之根。挖掘研究地域文化要增加贴近性;注重系统性;结合社会热点;采用更广阔的文化坐标;深接地气,广闻博览;甘于寂寞,千锤百炼。地域文化研究还要探索转化为现实文化生产力、竞争力。     

‘Going global’: conceptualization of the ‘other’ and interpretation of cross-cultural experience in an all-white,rural learning environment

Based on an ethnographic case study done in an all-white, rural middle school, this article examines the students’ experience with and interpretation of an international education program implemented with a hope of providing more global/international contents to the curriculum. The study shows that these students interpreted other cultures introduced by the program in relation to their own culture and their own identity formation. The process of local ‘othering’ within the student school community was analogous to that of the students’ collective ‘othering’ of unfamiliar non-US cultures. The idea of US-centrism based on US consumer culture became the main standard against which the ‘otherness’ of different cultures were measured. The findings show how prejudice and stereotyping of global others derive from both the everyday process of differentiation in local home cultures and defense of national culture.     

Tracing the development of poor student motivation and performance in township secondary schools

Abstract

Unsatisfactory motivation levels related to learning and studying among students is a universal problem. Students represent a diverse collection of abilities, talents, personalities and aspirations and come from different social and political backgrounds which may affect their motivation to learn and study. Some students are taught in schools where there is an abundance of resources and facilities, whereas others are taught in schools with inadequate resources and facilities. Student motivation, however, is a prerequisite for academic performance. Consequently, students’ potential, qualified teachers and school resources and facilities count very little if students are not motivated. This article examines the development of the lack of student motivation and academic performance in township secondary schools. The study has found that the motivation of students in these schools has been eroded by the students’ and teachers’ protracted involvement in anti-academic activities which have disrupted the education process. Due to the poor motivation of students, academic performance has deteriorated markedly and this situation should be resolved.