Worn Grooves

Drawing from visual, material and written archival sources, this article critically explores some of the functions, uses and perceived values of recorded sound during the First World War and in its aftermath. An instrument of communication as well as commemoration, the gramophone helped bridge geographical (and, in some cases, cultural) distances between the home front and the rear, providing civilians with the fleeting illusion of presence, proximity, or even sentimental communion with the front. The article analyses (a) the affective and connective, but also propagandist, values of commercial wartime recordings as they circulated between the home and the front, (b) the popular notion of gramophones as regulatory instruments of civilisation, (c) the commemorative exploitations of recorded sound in the interwar period. The article focuses on the British experience, contrasting it with examples drawn from French and German experiences.     

依法治国背景下的地方法治建设

在阐述依法治国、地方法治建设及其相互关系的基础上，审视地方法治社会建设发展的历史与现状，分析中国目前地方法治社会建设的主要障碍及成因，并提出全面推进依法治国背景下加强地方法治社会建设的对策。     

沈从文湘西世界中对亲情的诠释——由《菜园》到《王嫂》

沈从文以其塑造的明净空灵、田园牧歌式的湘西世界而闻名,亲情是构筑这一理想国的主要情感支柱,同是表现母爱的两部作品《菜园》与《王嫂》,其同质性体现在:人物设置简单、在情感上体现尊重生命,探究生活原生态。异质性体现在:全知视角与受限视角;诗性与非诗性;死亡悲剧模式与等待悲剧模式。试比较这两部作品,透过沈从文在小说创作上艺术技巧的探索,来体会沈从文对母亲深深的爱及愧疚。     

关于社会发展评价标准的理性思考

当今我国处于转型发展的多元化社会过程中，面临着多方面的挑战，我们应从社会发展的价值取向、社会评价尺度等方面综合考虑影响我国社会发展的因素，从而使社会既合规律又合目的地向前发展。     

Converging Higher Education Systems in a Global Setting: the example of France and India

We present a comparative survey between the French and Indian higher education systems. In spite of their respective idiosyncratic features, we show that the two countries have both evolved comprehensively toward a knowledge-based society, in order to ensure the prosperity of their citizens. Secondly, we single out a threefold convergence between the two higher education systems on academic, technological and institutional grounds.     

关于职业教育对经济社会贡献的探讨

职业教育在加快普及高中教育、提高教育年限、提高劳动者素质、促进经济增长、缩小收入差距等方面具有很大贡献.在当前中国加快经济转型进程中,国家应在统筹规划、资源配置、体制保障、机制设计、政策配套方面发挥作用,推动职业教育又好又快发展.     

Global convergence or national variation? Examining national patterns of classroom instructional practices

The world culture framework posits a convergence in the organisation of education across the world. On the other hand, scholars observing teaching practices inside classrooms find significant variation among nations and regions of the world. This study examined the global change patterns of classroom practices at the between- and within-country levels, drawing on teacher reports from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study. Results indicate clear between-country convergence toward more student-centred and conceptual instruction. But a nation’s degree of conformity or resistance to this model was contingent upon other nation-specific factors, including centralised curriculum control or world regional location.     

浅谈风险

随着经济全球化的加速推进和信息化程度的快速提高,世界正在进入一个不同于传统社会的风险社会之中,社会突发性危机的不确定性、不可预见性和迅速扩散性都在日益增强。在发达的现代社会中,财富的社会生产系统地伴随着风险的社会生产;工业社会的财富分配逻辑也向晚期现代性的风险社会的风险分配逻辑转变。     

学习型社会的构建

学习型社会是我国社会今后发展的基本方向。构建我国的学习型社会应遵循一定的基本原则，主要通过建设、完善城市学习型社区和农村学习型社区来实现。     

志愿服务与弱势群体的权利保障

在仅仅依靠政府和社会难以全面实现对弱势群体的基本权利保障的情况下,充分发挥青年志愿者组织对弱势群体的志愿服务的特色和优势,切实保障弱势群体的基本权利,以弥补政府和社会相关服务的不足,对促进社会的公平与和谐,具有重要的意义。鉴于对弱势群体的志愿服务的长期性、复杂性及较强的专业性等特点,青年志愿者的相关服务尚有一些需要进一步完善之处。