Not Quite Free? Irish Postcoloniality and the Career of Pat O'Callaghan

This paper explores the career of the Irish Olympian Pat O'Callaghan. He won successive hammer-throwing titles in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics as a representative of the independent Irish state. The paper argues that in these Olympics, O'Callaghan can be considered as representing a postcolonial state, in line with much scholarship on other aspects of Irish culture. However, the Irish later fell into a dispute with the International Amateur Athletics Federation and the International Olympic Committee, which were largely steered by the British in dealing with contentious issues over the Irish border, and the Irish were thus effectively banned from the 1936 games. The paper concludes with a discussion over the nature of postcolonial identities in sport, and the complexities around the issue in relation to the constant mediation over what national identities mean within the context of rule-making by international sporting bodies.     

Reclaiming Canada Through Its ‘Ancient’ Sport: Lacrosse and the Native Sons of Canada in Late 1920s Alberta

Lacrosse has long been considered Canada's national sport and, beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, became tied to the nationalist ambitions that sought to promote a national identity through the ‘creation’ of a uniquely Canadian game. Popular in the decades prior to the turn of the twentieth century, lacrosse in Alberta began to decline after the First World War, becoming a marginal sport played only in the province's larger cities. A brief and unexpected revival of lacrosse occurred in two communities, Edmonton and Lethbridge, in the 1920s championed by a nativist organization, the Native Sons of Canada (NSC). For this group lacrosse represented a natural means to promote their ‘Canada First’ ideology to young male Albertans. In Edmonton, the Native Sons sponsored a senior men's lacrosse team that garnered some local and regional attention, while attempts by the Lethbridge assembly to promote youth lacrosse in 1927 were largely unsuccessful. Despite the continuing affinity between Canadian nationalism and lacrosse, the NSC were ineffective in their efforts to revive interest in the sport. The ‘national’ game did not provide nativists in Alberta the platform they sought to promote their nationalist agenda.     

独立学院《管理学》通识教育课程的建设思考——基于培养多元智能的视角

随着国际上对通识教育的日益重视和我国"文化素质教育"的推行,独立学院非经管类专业学生掌握"适用即可、够用为度"的管理知识显得很有必要,这就对《管理学》课程的教学理念和方法提出了新的要求。拟从立体化的教学模式,培养学生多元智能的角度来开展该课程的建设。     

中国网民爱国主义的实证研究

爱国主义是国家认同的重要组成部分。为了探究中国网民的爱国主义的发展现状,分析网民爱国主义意识的特征和影响,运用探索性因子分析的方法,对2013年"中国网民社会政治意识调查"所获得的样本进行分析。从总体上看,中国网民对于爱国主义和民族主义的认同存在差异;就个体而言,网民越认同爱国主义也就越认同民族主义。实证研究发现,网民的爱国主义具有一定的盲目的倾向,并且缺乏批判性。     

Improved Appreciation of Mathematics Through an IBL Liberal Arts Mathematics Course

Abstract

The author has taught an inquiry-based liberal arts mathematics class using the text “The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking” by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird a total of 20 times since Spring 2001. The students in this class have almost all been in non-technical majors and many started the semester with negative or ambivalent attitudes toward mathematics based on their prior experiences. The author has gathered responses from students in this class that illustrate significant changes in their attitudes towards mathematics during the course. In particular, the responses gathered at the end of the semester are often eloquent about understanding the great ideas of mathematics that students confronted in this course and about seeing many more and varied connections between mathematics and the “real world” than they had previously realized existed.     

高校文科实验课程体系研究

与自然科学相比,文科实验课程在形式、要求方面具有特殊性;本文从文科实验课程体系构建、课程质量保障和实验课程发展三个方面探讨文科实验课程体系建设,旨在为高校文科实验课程体系建设提供参考,促进文科实验课程发展.     

运动员跨国流动的国家边界问题：在荣誉外包与民族情绪之间

以欧洲足球五大联赛外籍球员的全球招募为标志的人力资源外包服务,不仅推动了当地体育赛事经济的发展,同时在人的主体性层面上具有更多的文化表征涵义。运动员跨国流动中荣誉外包行为引发了广泛的社会争议,民族情绪从中扮演了重要的角色。荣誉外包与民族情绪问题的化解取决于国家边界意识能动性所能发挥的作用,或者更具体地说是一个国家、一个民族、一个机构、一个群体、一个人如何理解这样一种全球变革的背景和趋势。     

文科数学教学新法研究

本文主要介绍了在文科高等数学的教学中运用Matlab软件,增加学生对数学的学习兴趣和积极性,提高学生运用数学知识解决实际问题的能力。     

Cultural Evolution and Ideology in Korean Soccer: Sport and Nationalism

Modern Korean sports have been adopted mostly from the West, but now Korea has emerged as a sporting power demanding global attention. The influence of historical and political ideology has been in the cultural background of Korean sports development, and the process of cultural evolution in soccer may be explained in the similar context. What helped the Korean soccer team qualify for the World Cup eight consecutive times – only the sixth country in the world to do so – thus making it the most powerful soccer team in Asia? Soccer initially appeared in Korea during the threat of Japanese invasion, and this backdrop provided the opportunity for soccer to be combined with nationalism and transformed into a cultural product that confronted Japanese imperialism. Since the Korean War, South Korean soccer has become a vehicle for ideological confrontation with North Korea amid the atmosphere of the Cold War, and it thus gave rise to sports nationalism by revealing an ideological superiority and nationalistic disposition. Soccer, which arrived in Korea on a British ship, has become a representative Korean sport and continuously challenges the global stage ahead of Asia's leading economic power. It was against the background of such rapid development that nationalism formed.     

民国自由主义知识分子视域中的苏俄教育

民国自由主义知识分子认为,苏俄的教育具有强烈的无产阶级性,它与工农业生产、社会生活结合紧密,在教学方法上经历了从综合法和设计法向传统教学方法的回归。对于苏俄政府大力发展职业教育,自由主义知识分子表示认可并试图借鉴,他们希望中国根据国情积极创新,发展适应中国社会需要的教育。