达摩克利斯之剑下的解脱——评索尔·贝娄辞世之作《拉维尔斯坦》的文化主题

美国著名小说家索尔.贝娄在进行创作时,一直受到自己民族身份的影响。作为一个犹太人,他始终在寻找着自己的"身份"和"信仰"。由于犹太教正统文化和美国文化的冲突,贝娄也遭遇到了在美国生活的犹太人的普遍困惑。本文旨在从宗教的角度出发,分析其辞世之作《拉维尔斯坦》的文化主题。     

Revisioning professionalism from the periphery

Abstract

The issue of who should be included and recognised as professionals in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) service system is both contested and pressing in the current policy climate. At stake is a high-quality early childhood care and education service system that is both responsive and appropriate to the constituency it serves. A review of the history of ECEC professionalism reveals complex entanglements and debates regarding professional belonging. Services that deliver education and care to children and families living in high poverty contexts are often excluded from ECEC professionalism debates. Drawing on notions of rationality, emotionality and criticality presented in recent accounts of ECEC professionalism, we use data collected from interviews with service providers delivering services to children and families living in high poverty contexts in Australia to develop an account of criticality that is pertinent to current funding and policy contexts. We argue that these service providers’ perspectives about their own professionalism have much to offer broader debates.     

Choosing schools,choosing selves: exploring the influence of parental identity and biography on the school choice process in Delhi,India

Drawing on qualitative interview data from a group of lower income parents in Delhi, India, this paper focuses on the dynamic relationship between parental choice of a particular school and parents’ own identity construction. The data indicate that choice of school is for some parents a symbolic expression of identity, influenced by family dynamics and parents’ educational biographies. The paper outlines the concept of ‘forging solidarities’ and proposes it as an alternative way of understanding school enrolment decisions that recognises the social significance of such choices for the wider family unit. More generally, as school choice mechanisms in various forms become an increasingly important part of the educational landscape in many countries, the findings draw attention to the sociocultural nature of choice in real-world market settings and the contribution of schooling choices to processes of social and educational segregation.     

Entering the occupational category of ‘Farmer’: new pathways through professional agricultural education in Ireland

Purpose: Understand the emergence of new potential career trajectories in the liberalised Irish dairy farming sector through analysis of the narratives of students of a Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management

Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights that entry to a working life in agriculture has been characterised by protracted farm succession processes; a strong association between being a farmer and owning land in the family name; lingering male identities esteeming manual labour; and a pragmatic need at farm level for manual work. The abolition of milk quota in 2015 was predicted to catalyse expansion of production on dairy farms with an increase in milk production; accompanied by a demand for qualified personnel. The BNIM method was employed.

Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance. The students’ narratives evidenced managerial identities, being strongly influenced by encountering management approaches through their agricultural education. All students desired to eventually own a farm someday and to be to employed as a professional dairy farm manager was a perceived as an intermediary goal.

Practical implication: Discontinuation of the traditional family farming model based on family farm/land ownership is not imminent even among a cohort qualified to become employed dairy farm managers.

Theoretical implication: This paper contributes to theoretical framework which highlights the shift in farmer masculine identity and the career trajectory of graduates of specialised agricultural education programmes.     

论语内翻译中的译者阐释——兼评张爱玲《海上花列传》国语翻译

语内翻译不是简单的同一语言内部的语码转换过程,而是在同一语境内部,在保持一定时空距离的条件下,译者对原作做出的新的解释,并且是在对传统继承基础上的新的发展。这种继承与发展是语内翻译中译者阐释的结果,具体体现为译文与原文的同一性与差异性两个方面。张爱玲《海上花列传》的国语翻译集中体现了语内翻译中译者的阐释过程。     

关于"休谟问题"的新思考

“休谟问题”的焦点可以集中在所谓的“自然齐一律的假定”不可证明的问题上。休谟及同意休谟观点的哲学家们没有发现事实上人类头脑中有未经证明便确立的东西——原始的信念。如果我们不否认人类头脑中的确有信念这种东西,我们就不能否认人类头脑中有未被证实同时也是不证自明的东西——如果我们承认了这一点,休谟问题事实上已不复存在了。     

国家利益分析的建构主义视角

国家身份和利益是由国际社会中的政治文化建构的 ,这是以温特为代表的建构主义学派的基本观点。本文在温特基本理论假定的基础上 ,考察了规范建构国家利益的机制问题。一般说来 ,规范建构国家利益要经历规范起源、规范社会化和规范内化三个阶段。当然 ,规范能否成功实现国家利益的建构 ,还需要具备一定条件     

二阶非线性微分方程的非振动准则

证明了一个微分恒等式，利用它得到了二阶非线性微分方程的一个充要条件，改进了已知的非振动性结果．     

Environmental identity formation in nonformal environmental education programs

This paper explores experiences that remained salient in the memories of former participants in three nature-based programs in Colorado, five to forty years after childhood involvement. Interviews with program founders and staff, archival research, and observations of current activities provided an understanding of each program’s history, mission and educational approach. In this context, 18 former participants were interviewed about program experiences that they remembered and program impacts on their environmental identities and academic or career choices. Results were analyzed through the lens of social practice theory, which has significant implications for the design and evaluation of environmental education programs. Results showed that social practice theory is a useful framework for interpreting the development of a social environmental identity, but an ecological identity that forms through direct contact with the natural world is an important complementary concept.     

Use your imagination: what UK universities want you to think of them

In higher education research, theoretical approaches stressing isomorphism dominate the discourse on how higher education institutions ‘behave’ in their higher education and research systems. We argue that research should address both instances of similarity and differences. Using theoretical notions from institutionalism and the branding/marketing literature, and focusing on how UK universities are different and similar in their welcome addresses—as expressions of the institutions’ images—we are able to offer a balanced view of patterns of similarities and differences as well as share findings of patterns over time (2005–2015). Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, our findings show overall high levels of homogeneity of images across the universities. But younger and less prestigious institutions were (both in 2005 and 2015) more inclined to show distinctive images.