“New Conformism Redux”

To assess future priorities for cultural studies, this essay returns to the later writings of Raymond Williams, in particular his concerns about “new conformism.” It is argued that today we face comparable analytical challenges in which the pressures of institutionalization, and a strain of ahistoricism, have produced a “weak materialism” in contemporary cultural critique. The essay recommends a flexible and context-driven navigation of the current dominant tendencies toward micro-recuperative and macro-epistemological analysis, and proposes that this flexibility is the preferred mode of assuring that the dynamism of culture is captured by our critical methods.     

公众地震认知度和防震减灾意识分析

社会公众地震认知度和防震减灾意识很大程度上决定了在破坏性地震后人员伤亡和财产损失的程度。通过对有感地震发生后的表现,对社会公众地震认知度和防震减灾意识进行了初步研究,结果表明:震后社会公众普遍缺乏避震意识和行为,关注地震三要素,对居住地未来发震心存忧虑,对防震减灾知识认知错误,对地震机构及工作人员评价过低。究其根本,原因在于社会公众防震减灾意识薄弱,相关知识匮乏,对准确预报地震期望值过高,对地震机构工作了解片面。当前社会公众地震认知度和防震减灾意识难以适应大震应急的需要,会导致震灾扩大化,需要在广度和深度方面加强防震减灾知识科普宣传教育工作。     

刍议霞子童话语言的诗意特征——以“酷蚁安特儿”系列童话为例

童话的语言是体现其诗意本质的重要方式。霞子的＂酷蚁安特儿＂系列童话以浓浓的诗意性语言建构并表现了幻想的世界,具体表现在三个方面：一是错落有致的句式增强了语言的节奏感;二是幽默风趣的语言使表达意味深长;三是插入大量儿童歌谣提升诗性品格。     

Reflections on the ‘site of struggle’: girls' experience of secondary education in the late 1950s

Brian Simon’s Studies in the History of Education, 1780–1870, published in 1960, set out to counter nearly all work previously produced on the history of education in Britain in this period, and to direct the field towards a new course. It provided a Marxist perspective that drew upon Simon’s involvement in campaigns for educational reform over the previous decade. It also reflected the character of the Cold War in the academy in Britain at this time. Overall, it produced a form of people’s history that was shaped by politics and ideology and informed by Simon’s leading position in the British Communist Party. His work in this period marks him out as a highly significant Marxist historian, as well as one of the leading Marxist educators of his generation.     

Tracing radical working-class education: praxis and historical representation

Growing collections of social and educational history chronicle the many instances of educational agency that lie outside institutional narratives. Renewing and developing historical understanding, these histories raise important methodological questions surrounding historical representation. Addressing such questions, this paper develops the methodological notion of praxis as a means to trace genealogies of radical working-class educational agency. It is concerned primarily with the possibility of history to create understanding across temporality, and with the place of theory in histories that mobilise conceptual terms of reference, such as class. Reflecting on research undertaken on the temporally and culturally distinct Socialist Sunday Schools and Black Saturday Schools, the discussion begins by considering the academic representation of working-class communities. Following from this, analyses of Marx, Foucault and Ricoeur inform the conceptual development of praxis. The paper concludes by reflecting on the use of community-based testimony in constructing genealogies of radical working-class education.     

文化权力变迁中的宋词接受

大众文化的兴起从根本上动摇了传统文化的权力结构．从“诗教”传统到大众文化,文学接受不再是少数人把持的特权．而成为由大众共同享有的权利。就宋词接受而言．“诗教”传统消除了词在原初状态所具有的“异质”特征．从而将之纳入到主流文化的序列之中：大众文化则通过“去道德化”和“碎片化”的方式消解了附着于传统宋词接受的话语霸权。     

浅谈当下流行语“正能量”

"正能量"当选"2012年十大流行语"排行榜的榜首,成为去年13亿中国人日常交际舞台上当之无愧的主角,毫无悬念地成为电台媒体乃至国家领导人关注的热点。流行语"正能量"是一种的积极的力量、阳光的力量,其走红不仅仅是一种语言现象,更是对中国人社会心理的一种折光反射,是中国特有的文化符号,蕴含着相当深厚的文化史意蕴。本文将从"正能量"的语义特征、出现的语境、折射的文化意蕴和流行的原因四个方面进行简要阐述。     

论原生民歌在声乐教学中的作斥——以民族地区高等师范院校为例

原生民歌是人类发展历程中一种民间原始文化的记载,是人类“口头与非物质文化遗产”的重要组成部分和伟大文明的结晶,具有丰厚饱满的文化内涵和极高的研究价值。在全球一体化、文化多元化的今天,原生民歌的传承是当今关注的话题。对原生民歌在民族声乐教学中重要作用和存在的问题进行论述,并对高校原生民歌教学提出建议。     

Reading/Literacy – For the Lower Orders?

The first part of this account of struggles over literacy begins with the later middle ages and follows issues in the construction of a literacy addressed to the lower orders through to the seventeenth century. After the suppression of the Lollard Bible had left the English peasantry without that spur to literacy, the sixteenth-century formation of Renaissance grammar schools, with their classical education based on rhetoric, created a new cultural and linguistic gap from the lower orders. Only the most original English writers, steeped in this classical tradition, managed occasionally to bridge the gap. But after 1650, Hobbes led the way in avoiding figurative language, at least for philosophical and scientific discussion, and Lucy Hutchinson, from a dissenting family, showed in her autobiography how a fondness for the servants’ stories could open the way to a colloquial idiom.     

宋代民间武术发展述论

宋代是我国古代民间武术发展的一个重要时期,主要表现在农村武术的空前普及和城市市民武术的迅猛发展.在乡村,私人习武和教授武艺者渐成风俗.在城市,市民习武和娱乐表演相结合,对抗性的角抵、手搏、相扑有了较大的发展.在全民习武的基础上,武术体系基本形成.宋朝内忧外患的政治格局以及骑兵的缺乏,商品经济的发展,城市规模的扩大,市民阶层的形成是武术兴起的重要原因.