Lights up! Assessing standards-based performance skills in drama education

With the recent release of the National Core Arts Standards (NCAS), educators need new consistent, fair assessments of drama learning. As an initial starting point, this paper reports on the creation of the LATA Drama Performance Rubric, a standards-based assessment to measure learning occurring under real drama classroom conditions that we hope evaluators will find to be useful. A widespread group of drama instructors coordinated with researchers to create a rubric containing four categories: (1) Diction and Volume; (2) Movement and Gesture; (3) Group Coordination; and (4) Stage Presence. Field testing of the instrument with 97 students in the treatment group and 80 students in the control group demonstrated its ability to distinguish between fourth-grade classrooms that had and had not received long-term drama instruction. Reliability, validity, and NCAS alignment are discussed, along with limitations and future recommendations.     

从清代"聊斋戏"看戏曲改编对小说素材的选择性

戏曲改编对小说素材不仅具有依赖性,也具有能动性,包括选择性和再造性。本文以清代“聊斋戏”为切入点对其中的选择性从文体因素和作家因素两方面进行初步地探讨。     

播音与主持传播属性辨析

自从主持人节目形态出现以来,人们一直习惯于用"播音主持"来统称广播电视有声语言传播行为,以为播音与主持同属一种有声语言传播形态,甚至不少业界人士也存在这种模糊认识,并对实际工作造成了负面影响。其实,播音与主持是两种不同属性的传播行为,二者在广播电视有声语言传播系统中所起的作用是相互不可替代的。本文试图从理论和实践的层面上进一步厘清播音与主持的界限,以便对实际工作提供帮助和指导。     

从《玉壶春》的爱情浅探元杂剧爱情剧之“知己”情结

在元杂剧爱情剧中,贯穿着元代文人士子浓稠不化的"知己"情结,他们将在现实中屡求不得的人生理想借助剧作中失意文人与红颜知己的相敬相知来实现。作家的人生价值理想也自然寄寓在这种知己情结之中,从而使其具有独特的思想价值和艺术感染力。《玉壶春》便可作其代表。     

广西民族民间文化资源旅游开发研究

壮剧是壮民族的代表剧种,它是在壮族民间文学、歌舞和说唱技艺的基础上发展而成的,具有深厚的文化内涵和旅游价值的剧种。其旅游价值集中表现在观赏审美价值、认知价值、参与体验价值以及经济价值等方面。田林壮剧在交通运输便利、旅游资源丰富、政府的重视与扶持、中国壮剧文化艺术节的开展等有利条件基础上,通过培养和保护田林壮剧艺人、加大壮剧的宣传力度、提高壮剧的知名度、培养旅游经营管理人才、开发壮剧文化旅游路线等途径,不仅能更好地促进壮剧的传承与发展,而且还能为当地社会经济发展带来可观的效益。     

元代爱情婚姻剧特点的丹纳三因素分析

元代的爱情婚姻剧或以爱情婚姻为主要情节的剧作,多呈现这样一个特点:女性形象变得主动勇敢、坚定执着,男性形象也由负心薄幸变得痴情至诚。但是与女性相比,男性还是表现出了一定程度的被动与怯懦。文章用西方实证主义文艺理论家丹纳的艺术创作及其发展三要素:种族、环境、时代理论对这一现象进行了阐释,从而论证了元杂剧中男女爱情角色所发生的转变。     

以改革创新党建工作引领广播电视大学的发展

随着当前国内外形势的发展变化和高等教育改革的深入推进,高校党建工作面临新问题和新挑战,广播电视大学如何应对这些新情况并有效改革和创新党建工作,对于促进电大转型发展具有重要意义。本文就改革创新党建工作与加强思想政治教育、提升党员干部队伍素质、增强学校党组织的纯洁性和创建平安和谐校园等问题进行了探讨,以期通过改革创新党建工作,保障学校＂两个走在前面＂战略目标的实现。     

关于戏曲《打金枝》的源流演变

《打金枝》的产生至成熟呈现出从正史到野史、戏曲的发展轨迹。剧中主要人物身份都与《唐书》、《资治通鉴》等正史资料所录相符,而“打金枝”的经典情节则未见记载,《资治通鉴》只记载了郭暧与公主口头相争一事。《庆丰年》、《隋唐演义》、《满床笏》、《唐宫二十朝演义》、现代《打金枝》等文人创作先后增加了“拜寿”、“打金枝”、“连升三级”等具体情节,并提炼出了表现“郭氏一家富贵”和“唐代宫廷礼仪与民间礼仪的冲突”等思想主题。     

On the Spot: A Functional Analysis of Congressional Television Spots, 1980–2004

Congressional elections are crucial to the American political system and candidates spend millions of dollars seeking votes with television spots. Unfortunately, the literature in this area is a hodgepodge of studies (with different methods and samples) rather than a comprehensive analysis of congressional television advertising. This study utilized the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to content analyze 744 television spots for House and Senate candidates from 1980–2004. Candidate discourse in these spots employed acclaiming (positive) strategies much more frequently than attacking (negative) or defending (refutational) strategies. Unlike discourse in presidential campaigns, congressional TV spots tend to place equal emphasis on policy and character (although since 1992 the emphasis has been on policy). Democrats tend to attack more and to discuss policy more than their counterparts. Incumbents acclaimed more and attacked less than challengers, whereas open-seat candidates have a style that lies between these two extremes. Open-seat candidates discuss past deeds less frequently than incumbents or challengers, both of whom tend to rely on the incumbent's record to attack (challengers) or to acclaim (incumbents).     

The Effects of Mass Media Use and Social Capital on Civic and Political Participation

More recently, many scholars have lamented the decline of social capital, civic and political participation in American society. This study attempts to clarify the concept of social capital and its major components. We differentiate two dimensions of social capital: trust and social connectedness. In addition, we investigate the differential effects of a full range of media use on civic and political participation.

Analysis of data from a telephone survey in Clarksville, Tennessee in 2002 showed that people's social connectedness enhances both civic and political participation. Time spent in reading newspaper and watching public affairs on television was positively correlated with political participation whereas frequency of Internet use and entertainment TV viewing was not. The results also showed no correlation between media use and civic participation. Implications of the findings for future research on democratic citizenship were discussed.