A long shadow: Frederick P. Keppel,the Carnegie Corporation and the Dominions and Colonies Fund Area Experts 1923–1943

The Carnegie Corporation found its first great manager in Frederick Paul Keppel (1875–1943). Keppel's career is important to historians of education because interwar Carnegie initiatives, articulated through the Corporation's Dominions and Colonies Fund and Teachers College, Columbia University, internationalised American educational theories and practices throughout the English‐speaking world. Keppel's concept of key men, prominent authorities influencing events in their home countries, was central to these endeavours. Both products and advocates of modernism, key men put their confidence in the natural and social sciences, in turn melded into the grand themes of their times; the British Imperial Mission, American Expansionism, and shared Anglo‐Saxon racial identity. The preparatory nature of Keppel's life and work experiences are first explored. The article then surveys how the complex, yet remarkably informal, network of overseas key men were established. An examination of the Carnegie legacy offers some conclusions.     

孟加拉国南北大学孔子学院汉语水平考试调查分析

孟加拉国南北大学孔子学院是南亚第一所孔子学院,也是孟加拉国唯一的汉语水平考试考点,该考点于2011年1月举办了孟加拉国首次汉语水平考试。2011年9月之后又增设了HSK其他各个级别的考试和YCT考试。2013年4月举行了孟加拉国首次汉语水平口语考试（HSKK）。笔者对南北大学孔子学院考点近年来的考试情况作一个回顾与分析,调查和分析了孟加拉国汉语学习者对汉语水平考试的态度,并提出几点针对孟加拉国汉语水平考试的启示和建议。     

印度理工学院精英人才培养及启示

印度理工学院培养的人才不仅实现了印度经济的飞速发展,同时也为其他国家的发展和进步输送了新鲜血液。印度理工学院的注重创造性人才的培养和实践教学,重视学校高度自治和学术自由以及重视广泛的交流与合作等创造性办学理念,有助于促进我国高等教育质量的不断提升和我国建设世界一流大学宏伟目标的早日实现。印度理工学院对我国建设高等教育强国的启发是：建立产学研联合机制,发展应用型高等教育;实行教授治校,保证学术自由;因地制宜,改革招生制度;加强应用型课程建设,强化实践教育。     

Inviting discomfort: foregrounding emotional labour in teaching anthropology in post-apartheid South Africa

This article examines the potential and limitations of Megan Boler's ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ in a post-apartheid yet heavily racialised South Africa. Taking an ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to anthropological teaching, this paper sketches the social and historical context of discomfort produced by everyday classroom practices at a historically privileged university. This paper argues that new patterns of thought, if achieved at all in the course of learning through ‘discomfort’, are deeply embedded within uneasy social relationships.     

“Alone”VS.“Lonely”:Eudora Welty’s Idyllic View on Life in Death of a Traveling Salesman

In Death of a Traveling Salesman, Eudora Welty’s idyllic view on life in the countryside, her nostalgic feelings for the loss of the American Southern tradition, and her protest against the industriali...     

Narratives of agency: the experiences of Braille literacy practitioners in the Kha Ri Gude South African Mass Literacy Campaign

In this article, we locate the Kha Ri Gude South African Mass Literacy Campaign within the context of the problem of illiteracy and exclusion in South Africa, while concentrating on various post-apartheid initiatives designed to give visually challenged adults the opportunity to become literate. We shall provide a detailed account of focus group sessions organised in 2012; the aim of these sessions was to explore the experiences of blind literacy practitioners who were charged with the supervision and coordination of Braille literacy classes for blind, illiterate adults. We suggest that the way the practitioners expressed what being involved in the Campaign meant for them for an extended period (three years or more) gives us a glimpse of how, through their roles as literacy organisers, they were able to engender agency among blind adult literacy learners and themselves.     

试论汉末魏晋南北朝临终诗文的艺术特色

汉末魏晋南北朝时期死亡无处不在,据现存文献记载,时人临终前留下不少诗文。临终诗文作为一种特殊的文学创作,具有情感真挚动人,用语通俗明白,典故的固定使用,理性的随处显现等独特的艺术价值。     

培养关心型教师的探索

关心型教师是时代的呼唤,是21世纪教师的新形象。在教师职业词典中,给学生以爱、教会学生以爱,是一个不断丰富的永恒的内容。但在社会转型时期,这个内容被功利主义所遮蔽,显得残缺不全。而由于教师教育的不完善,教师在教导学生“学会关心”时,常常显得乏力或者不得法。南卡罗林纳大学的教师教育计划,在培养关心型教师方面做出了有益的尝试。他们把关心型教师的培养分成了四个阶段:体验关心、实践关心、建立和维持关心的关系、持续不断的反思和改良。这个成功的范例,为我们开展教师教育提供了一个新的视角。     

Possibilities of International Diffusion and Documentation of Scientific Innovations by Communication Satellites

A study of the attitude of students towards the Use of Library course which involves library orientation/bibliographic instruction and user education was conducted during the 1988/89 academic session. Use of Library is one of the courses taught in the general studies programme which has been going at Bendel State University for 4 years. The object of the study was to test whether students liked the Use of Library course, whether they found it useful, whether it should continue to be compulsory or be made optional, and the impact of the programme. The result of the study is highly positive. The respondents found the course very useful both in academic work and in social life. The respondents were ambivalent as to whether the course should continue to be compulsory or be made optional. The administration of the programme is delineated. Suggestions are made for the improvement of the course.     

半干旱区土地利用变化及其驱动力与土地可持续利用——基于内蒙古自治区伊金霍洛旗的案例分析

在半干旱区,气候干旱是荒漠化发生的自然背景条件,而不合理的土地利用则加速了荒漠化。20世纪70年代中期以前,由于过度开垦和放牧,伊金霍洛旗的荒漠化发展得非常严重。自1976年以来,通过生态退耕,调整土地利用结构,改变放牧为圈养,增加灌溉、化肥等农业投入等,抑制了荒漠化,土地利用走向可持续。恢复以林草为主的土地利用结构是半干旱区土地可持续利用的基础,而在人口超过农业所能够支撑的能力时,必须发展工业化和城市化,创造非农就业机会,使得农民可以离开土地谋生,减轻人口对土地的压力,才可能实现生态退耕和土地利用结构调整。伊金霍洛旗正是因为由煤炭开采带来的工业化和城市化,使得许多农民离开土地,进行生态退耕,才得以恢复与重建稳定的可以抵御荒漠化的生态系统。单位面积土地承载更多人口的工业化和城市化是保证该区以林草覆盖为主的土地利用结构,防止荒漠化的必由之路。在这个地区搞建设用地占补平衡是不适宜的。