Voices of teacher candidates of color on white race evasion: ‘I worried about my safety!’

Abstract

This qualitative study investigated the negative impacts minority teacher candidates receive from white teacher candidates in a required multicultural education class. The findings reveal that four teacher candidates of color had difficulty positioning themselves among the overwhelming silencing power of whiteness in the class. The white students were tactful at evading power and race and flattening the existing hierarchical power relations through the discourses of colorblindness and by preying on the minority instructor. Their understanding of diversity was also shallow. On the other hand, the teacher candidates of color were afraid that they might be labeled as the ones who spoke up against the white students and fearful of the possibility of retaliation and ostracism from the white peers. It seems that the teacher education program’s structure allowed the white candidates to impose strong negative peer pressure on the teacher candidates of color.     

逻辑语言与思维观念意义域探析

在“意义”研究方面，哲学界至少提出了五种名理论：功用论、指称论、观念论、行为论和语义论。章通过对符号语言与思维观念表述之间关系的分析。论述了思维观念意义域的涵义及传统逻辑符合论观点局限性的缘由。     

Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool

Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies) in undergraduate admissions. Since alumni from selective colleges and universities historically have been disproportionately white, admissions policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and universities and have children, however, the potential pool of legacy applicants will change markedly in racial composition. This analysis begins with a review of the history and objectives of the preference for children of alumni in undergraduate admissions. We then consider the specific case of the University of Virginia and employ demographic techniques to predict the racial composition of the pool of potential legacy applicants to the university. Significant changes in the racial composition of classes that graduated from the University of Virginia from the late 1960s through the 1970s foreshadow similar changes in the characteristics of alumni children maturing through the next two decades.     

清代康乾盛世以前滦河流域文明的五次高潮

滦河流域文明曾经有着比较深厚的文化积淀和丰富的内容,在历史上曾多次出现高潮,作者仅就清代康乾盛世以前的五次高潮做概述和简评。     

李白诗的自我确认意识与表现 ——以"我"字使用为中心的讨论

“我”是一个鲜明地标志主体意义，能产生特殊抒情效果的符号，李白诗以“我”字领起最多，其使用频度在唐代诗人中最高，这一突出的创作现象反映出李白诗歌强烈的自我确认意识，折射出浓厚的狂放色彩，体现出李白的自我主体意识的高扬在盛唐的代表意义。     

21世纪视野中的闻一多

随着21世纪到来,闻一多的事迹正从历史事件变为文化符号。其独特性在于:一方面承继屈原为代表的古代理想人格,体现“天下兴亡,匹夫有责”的传统爱国精神;一方面又力图求新、求变,推动社会变革,追求“明天会更好”的陌生理想。这是中华民族与西方文明迎头撞击并纳入世界格局后不得不作出的艰难回应。闻一多不惜以死抗争的献身精神,把推动民族进步的努力变成了一种非凡的使命,其作为文化符号的独特价值,必将转化为民族文化传统的新的资源和象征,从而连接了传统与现代,昨天与今天。     

湘桂黔省际边区民族经济与县域经济发展

湘桂黔省际边境区域是少数民族集中居住地和贫困县聚集地,经济发展水平非常落后。通过转变思想观念,加强区域间的合作,加快个体、民营经济的发展,构建绿色产业经济,壮大旅游产业等途径,从而加快区域内民族经济和县域经济的发展,其意义十分重大。     

语符组合与诗词意象的润饰

在诗词中,语符的作用已不仅仅是作为表达思想的工具,指称事物、构建意象是语言在诗词中的主要功能。而意象的选择、组合的形式在诗词中有着重要的价值。因此,语符的选择组合和对意象的润饰作用,直接制约着意象表现的水平。     

Students’ reception of peer assessment of group-work contributions: problematics in terms of race and gender emerging from a South African case study

Participatory assessment is increasingly employed in higher education worldwide as a formative mechanism to support students’ active learning. But do students in an increasingly relationally diverse environment perceive that peer assessment of individuals’ contributions to group-work tasks enhances their learning? Recognising the impact of students’ conceptions on the quality of their learning, this study considers students’ perspectives of peer assessment of group-work contributions at a South African university. Questionnaires elicited students’ perspectives of and general attitudes towards assessment of and by their peers. A growing measure of discontent with the process of assessing peer contributions to group tasks emerged, including actual and perceived racial and gender stereotyping, and related rejection-sensitivity. These initial findings were checked against the students’ experiences in a report-and-respond process that enabled probing discussions of the interpretations. This paper examines and explores the implications of such identifications and receptions for learning engagement and group-work curriculum development in the context of a rapidly transforming higher education sector.     

The Perceptions of Administrators Concerning the One Florida Initiative

The purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions of Florida law school administrators on the impact of the OFI （one Florida initiative） and the addition of two MSI （minority serving institution） law schools on diversity in Florida＇s legal profession. This research explored the impact of Governor Bush＇s EO （executive order） on diversity within the SUS （state university system） of Florida law schools. Further, this study examined the impact of the creation of two MSI law schools after implementation of the OFI, as perceived by the administrators. The concept of CRT （critical race theory） provides modern legal debates outlining the usefulness of historical civil rights policies in opinionated climates. This study will examine the role of CRT in relation to affirmative action and desegregation case law. CRT forms the framework for examining the impact of the creation of two MSI law schools in the state of Florida. In conclusion, this study found that minority representation in law schools has improved in Florida as a result of the OFI as well as the addition of two MSI law schools. Black representation, however, continues to lag behind other races, particularly the Hispanic population. This study concluded that the OFI has helped improve minority representation in the legal profession.