Speed bumps,roadblocks and tollbooths: how culturally and linguistically diverse parents navigate the highways and byways of giftedness in Ontario

In reviewing literature on culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) parental inclusion and disproportionality, Cam Cobb, assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, illustrates how CLD giftedness – and especially CLD giftedness in Canadian settings – represents an area in need of further research. In part, this article begins to address that need. Drawing from a larger critical qualitative inquiry, he details the stories of two CLD Canadian mothers as they sought to become involved in gifted identification and decision‐making processes. Knowledge and language arose in the data as two core themes of robust parental inclusion. These core themes, along with associated recommendations for policy, practice and research, are outlined in a discussion of the findings. While this article focuses on the gifted domain of special education in Ontario, the findings have wider implications for robust CLD parental inclusion in special education in general.     

Teachers’ Learning Journeys: The Quality Learning Circle as a Model of Professional Development

Worldwide, teachers struggle to keep pace with demands for learning. Educational reforms mandated at a national level require teachers to reconsider their teaching, curriculum and assessment philosophies and practices. This reliance on national policy initiatives increases teachers’ dependence on others knowing what their learning needs might be. Such dependence creates problems for sustained learning because teachers are not encouraged to help themselves. This article introduces an alternative approach to professional development, known as the Quality Learning Circle (QLC), to show how it can empower teachers to become agents of change able to meet both local needs alongside national agendas.     

Bringing the State Back In: restoring the role of the State in Chinese higher education

In the last few decades, in the wake of three major crises in political faith and the overall instability that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution, the post-Mao Chinese government has sought to improve the lives of its citizens and to restore political legitimacy through rapid economic growth that has focused almost exclusively on GDP. This strong focus has brought about rapid, widespread economic growth to China, and has, by classical market standards, been a success. At the same time, issues of social development and human well-being have received less attention. Before the Hu-Wen leadership's formal accession to power, the Jiang-Zhu administration sought to adopt neo-liberal ideas and practices to reform the delivery of social services and the implementation and funding of social policy. In this context, major fields of social policy such as health, education, and housing have been going through the processes of marketisation and privatisation, which have placed much of the financial burden of meeting these social welfare needs on China's citizens. After several decades of privatisation and marketisation in the educational system, the Chinese government has been the subject of repeated criticism for failing to tackle what is popularly known as the ‘new three mountains phenomenon’, namely, the rising cost of health, education, and housing in recent years. Against the wider policy context described above, this article examines the social and political consequences of the privatisation and marketisation of education. It also discusses the major policies and strategies recently adopted by the Chinese government to restore the role of the State in the education system in order to address the negative consequences of the privatisation of education. Finally, it critically examines the main implications of major reforms undertaken in higher education in Mainland China.     

和谐社会的宪法学分析——围绕社会冲突展开

和谐社会与宪政建设之间存在价值一致之处。在多元利益的背景下,和谐社会包容社会冲突,宪法以平衡社会冲突为目标,并为良性地解决冲突提供理性化的制度出口。在构建和谐社会的进程中,以宽容之心为基础,以有限政府为原则,以民主法治为途径解决社会冲突,和谐社会才能以公正的方式和尊重人的方式得以实现。     

等周不等式的微积分证明法

利用微积分中的面积和弧长计算公式,获得了等周不等式的一种较为简单的证明,同时还证明了Wirtinger不等式与等周不等式是等价的。     

多胞型不确定时变时滞系统的H_∞滤波性能分析

对多胞型不确定时变时滞系统的H∞滤波性能进行分析,在此系统中,通过构造Lyapunov-Kra-sovkii函数,利用Schur补性质,得到基于线性矩阵不等式表示的H∞滤波器的设计方法,使得滤波误差动态系统是渐近稳定的并满足给定的H∞性能要求。从而将多胞型不确定时变时滞系统的H∞滤波器存在的充分条件归结为一个具有线性矩阵不等式约束的凸优化求解问题。     

带p-Laplace算子的偏微分方程的Hartman-Wintner型定理

利用Riccati技术讨论了一类带p-Laplace算子的偏微分方程解的振动性质,得到了此类方程的Hartman-Wintner型振动定理.     

Bernoulli分布中参数p的近似置信区间及应用

给出了Bernoulli分布中未知参数的4种不同形式的近似置信区间,包括基于Hoeffding不等式和Bernstein不等式两种新的置信区间,并通过模拟比较了置信区间在大样本和小样本情形下的优劣.     

一类奇异半线性椭圆型方程的Dirichlet问题

本文研究了如下方程解的存在性{-Δu-uu/|x2|=λ|u|q-1+f(x,u),x∈Ω;u=0,x∈Ω.其中ΩRN(N≥3)是包含原点的有界区域,λ>0,2相似文献   

设计素描中的构想与表现

思维是人脑的反映控制机能,是人脑的产物,我们在学习、工作中不同的思维方式产生着不同的思维结果。在传统素描的教学方式下,学生们很难适应描绘想象的物象及其它的设计课题。如何有效的激发学生的创造性思维并使之达到体现构想、表达创意,并最终实现通过素描、认识自然、发现设计的目的,已经成为现代设计素描教学中的重要课题。