鄂西土家族民间信仰的军事学分析

从军事学的视角,对鄂西土家族民间信仰中的巫术崇拜、白虎崇拜、英雄崇拜作分析解读,可以看出鄂西土家族文化现象中蕴含有丰富的军事斗争因素,折射出土家族崇武善战、不屈不挠的民族性格。     

当代大学生法律信仰研究热点问题的共词分析

利用共词分析法和SPSS数据分析软件,对中国学术期刊网络出版总库中1999-2014年国内有关大学生法律信仰的期刊论文进行共词分析,通过研究各关键词的关系,总结出目前研究当代大学生法律信仰的结构特点,探讨在培育和践行社会主义核心价值观背景下对当代大学生法律信仰培育路径的选择。     

中文版拖延元认知问卷的信效度检验

为了修订拖延元认知问卷（MBPQ）,对其进行结构分析并进行信效度检验,共选取某大学各年级学生870名,进行项目分析、探索性因素分析、验证性因素分析和校标关联效度分析。结果显示：修订后的MBPQ共12个项目,具有对拖延的“积极元认知信念”和“消极元认知信念”两个维度,每个维度各有6个项目,共可解释46.19%的总变异;验证性因素分析验证了二维度结构模型。总量表的内部一致性信度为0.669,积极元认知信念和消极元认知信念两个维度的内部一致性信度分别是0.723和0.790。效标关联效度分析发现,积极拖延元认知与消极拖延元认知与拖延行为和时间管理倾向有显著相关。结果表明,修订后的拖延元认知问卷在大学生群体中具有较高的信度和效度,可作为测量大学生拖延元认知态度的有效工具。     

“即道德即宗教”--唐君毅论儒学的宗教性

唐君毅是现代新儒家代表人物之一,是文化思想界的巨子,一生以儒学为文化研究与生活生命之旨归。他通过对宗教意识的重新界定开发出了一种即内在即超越的新宗教精神,并以儒学为本位以求建立一种世界新宗教,以为人们寻求一种安身立命之道,表现了他关注终极生命安顿的人文诉求。     

基于高校安全保卫和学生管理视野下的宗教工作研究——以东部地区为例

当前高校校园宗教工作出现的新形势和新情况给高校安全保卫和学生管理工作带来了很多新挑战和新压力,同时也引起了社会的高度关注。深入研究大学生宗教信仰情况,切实加强高校宗教教育管理工作,对防范和抵御敌对宗教势力渗透具有重要的现实意义。     

Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.     

The new evangelisation and adult religious education in Slovenia: challenges and possibilities

The Catholic Church in Slovenia is facing the challenge of the new evangelisation in the area of religious education which, at present, is mainly confined to the parish catechesis. She recognises the urgent need to pass from the religious education of children to adult catechesis. The latter is already being implemented in various forms by a number of movements and new realities, which are mostly addressed to adults, indicating new catechetical approaches in a dechristianised environment.     

The development of student teachers’ research knowledge,beliefs and attitude

This study reports on the development of second-year student teachers’ knowledge of research, and the changes in their beliefs and attitude regarding research during an introductory course at an institute for primary teacher education. Questionnaires and concept maps were administered before and after the course. The results showed that student teachers’ knowledge about research grew during the introductory course and that their positive beliefs about research became more positive, while their negative beliefs about research decreased. A positive change was found concerning the attractiveness of research to student teachers. Furthermore, student teachers’ self-efficacy regarding research appeared related to their beliefs and attitude: the more the student teachers were convinced of their abilities to conduct and use the results of research after the course, the more positive their beliefs and their attitude regarding research were. This study provides guidelines for institutes for teacher education on integrating research activities into their curricula, so that their student teachers develop research knowledge and positive beliefs and attitudes towards research.     

Development of learning to learn skills in primary school

In Finland, schools’ effectiveness in fostering the development of transversal skills is evaluated through large-scale learning to learn (LTL) assessments. This article presents how LTL skills—general cognitive competences and learning-related motivational beliefs—develop during primary school and how they predict pupils’ CPS skills at the end of sixth grade. The six-year follow-up of 608 pupils shows that cognitive competences demonstrated in the beginning of the first grade in a learning preparedness test predict both later cognitive LTL competences and CPS, but their development is not fully determined by earlier individual differences in learning preparedness in the first grade. Motivational beliefs begin to be related to cognitive LTL performance gradually from age 10 on, and they may have a slightly stronger effect on CPS than on cognitive LTL performance. It is concluded that the development of CPS is partly depending on pupils’ initial learning preparedness and the development of their LTL skills.     

Disability,Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed.