Career plans of final-year South African student teachers: migration to ‘greener pastures’?

Teacher loss due to migration is a global phenomenon that impacts both developed and developing nations the world over. The aim of this study was to find out about the career plans of final-year South African student teachers. A group of final-year Bachelor of Education student teachers from a South African university responded to a questionnaire on intra- and intercontinental migration. The responses were analysed quantitatively and/or qualitatively. The findings showed that 79% of the students indicated that they would be teaching in South Africa, 8% were planning to teach in another country, while 8% were undecided. More than a third of the students (38%) said that they would like to teach in another country in five years’ time. Just more than a quarter of the students (27%) preferred Australia as a destination country. The student teachers’ most important motive to teach in a foreign country was the opportunity to travel, followed by earning a higher salary, and professional development. The student teachers indicated that their most important migration needs before leaving South Africa were information about health care, accommodation, and banking assistance.     

Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools

Respect is a core concept in citizenship debates. South African high school educators often draw upon respect as a key value within citizenship education. Their teaching of this value is often conflated with promotion of the practice of responsible citizenship. The constructions of respect and responsibility in these situations are imbued with assumptions around authority and power relations, such that learners’ are expected to take responsibility for demonstrating respect for in an unequal rather than reciprocal understanding of respect. Thus, negotiations of different kinds of respect are highlighted. The need for schools to embody a culture or ethos of respect is noted if learners are to be expected to recognise and adopt respect as a key element to citizenship in theory and in practice.     

Do training institutions learn from experience?

This essay is concerned with organisational learning and, in particular, policy learning. Sometimes, organisations learn; sometimes they do not. Sometimes they use their acquired knowledge, but this is, not always the case.     

Girls' secondary education in Uganda: assessing policy within the women's empowerment framework

This paper makes the case that policies, such as the National Strategy for Girls' Education in Uganda (NSGE), intended to achieve gender equity in education for girls in developing countries, have limited relevance to, and impact on girls' actual educational experiences. Recent considerations of girls' education acknowledge that gender equity within education is more than access to schooling; it entails the cultivation of capabilities necessary for girls to participate fully, actively and equally in all aspects of their societies. Drawing on a longitudinal, ethnographic policy research case study with 15 Ugandan schoolgirls in rural Masaka District, Uganda, from August 2004 to September 2006, I explore the girls' educational experiences in relationship to the NSGE. I employ the Women's Empowerment Framework (WEF) to evaluate the NSGE with respect to the extent to which its interventions are ‘empowering’ for girls.     

宁南山区新型农村合作医疗制度运行中的问题研究

通过对宁夏南部山区固原市新型农村合作医疗制度运行过程中存在问题的研究,寻找解决的对策路径.研究发现,固原市新农合医疗制度运行中存在农村卫生人员结构不合理,设备和人才缺乏,服务能力低等问题.针对存在的问题,提出了对策.     

四川盆地南缘五峰-龙马溪组海相页岩压缩变形试验与破裂模式研究

页岩气勘探开发的关键是通过储层压裂技术形成大规模的裂隙网络,评价页岩储层可改造性是储层压裂技术的基础,岩石力学和变形特性与储层可改造性关系密切。在四川盆地南缘五峰-龙马溪组海相页岩宏微观特征观测的基础上,通过页岩单轴压缩变形试验,获得其岩石力学参数,结合所得应力-应变曲线及破裂形态分析,结果表明：页岩抗压强度和杨氏模量相对偏低、脆性特征显著;页岩具有单斜面剪切破裂及劈裂式破裂两种模式,其破裂模式决定于页岩层理和加载方向;页岩岩石力学性质与破裂模式受诸多因素影响,非均质性是其中最重要的影响因素。     

《荒原蚁丘》之比阿特丽丝形象浅析

本文运用女性主义理论对《荒原蚁丘》女主人公比阿特丽丝的形象进行深入探讨,以她的童年经历作为切入点分析其成长背后的隐痛,展示她对本土文化中各种形式的男性中心主义的警惕与批判;同时揭示出非洲女性在后殖民时代所面临的种种话语诱惑与陷阱,并挖掘比阿特丽丝在复杂语境下突围的希望。     

Patterns of intergroup attitudes in South Africa after 1994

In the heterogeneous South African society, race has become not only the major organizing principle, but also the primary unit of social analysis. The concept “intergroup relations” has consequently predominantly been associated with racial relations and “intergroup attitudes” with “interracial attitudes”. Interest in South African race relations has furthermore been enhanced by the tumultuous struggle against apartheid. A substantive body of research acquired during apartheid indeed points to interracial tension. The advent of a new political dispensation in 1994 has been accompanied with expectations that increased intergroup contact, in particular, would result in improved interracial relations. The current study investigates intergroup attitudes after 1994. Three countrywide surveys were conducted in 1998, 2001 and 2009 using representative samples of all major racial groups. The results indicate that overall attitudes were more positive among more affluent and urbanized communities. However, there are indications of prevailing negative relations, in particular between Blacks and Afrikaans-speaking Whites. While the attitudes of Afrikaans-speaking Whites seem to have become more positive, that has not been the case to the same extent for Blacks. Blacks also appear to be less positive towards English-speaking Whites than during apartheid. Overall, the results point to more positive intergroup attitudes in some instances, but also to potential emerging points of tension.     

西非孔子学院发展现状、问题和对策

对西非孔子学院的发展现状进行了描述,指出其发展面临的问题,并提出了建设性意见,以期探索一些具有普遍借鉴意义的非洲地区孔子学院可持续发展的对策。