Culturally reimagining education: Publicity,aesthetics and socially engaged art practice

Abstract

This paper sets out to reimagine education through a cultural perspective and explores education as a performative practice that establishes certain borders of ‘public’ belonging. Wide-spread debates about the public dimension of schools and universities have focused on how economic rationales need to be replaced with alternative visions of education. This paper seeks to contribute to this revisioning of the public in education by reclaiming education as a specifically cultural endeavour, one tied to practices that are at once both performative and aesthetic. To this end, I draw on theoretical notions of publicity that highlight its performative character. I then offer a reading of a socially engaged art project in order to suggest ways in which this performative character of publicity can be seen to be educational. This paper argues that education itself emerges through various cultural enactments that delineate the contours of who counts as a public and who does not.     

A sociocultural analysis of the ethics of involving children in educational research

ABSTRACT

This article explores the ethical complexities of involving children in research in the contexts of their families, schools and communities. We argue for an approach that is dynamic, reflexive, responsive and informed by an understanding of how local cultures impact on and shape negotiations and practices around ethical issues and processes. We use different sociocultural lenses to analyse the complexities of ethical processes and practices at the beginning of a research project which explored children’s informal and everyday learning. The article contributes to ethical debates about involving children with research through foregrounding the multiplicities and complexities that emerge when researchers are attentive to the practices and values of the settings that children’s and researchers’ lives traverse.     

日光灯低压起动的方法

本文阐述了在低压情况下,简单可行起动日光灯的方法、起动原理。     

《孙膑兵法》中的使动义表示法

《孙膑兵法》是旧中国中期一部未经后人讹传的作品，其语法现象如实地反映了先秦时期的语法特点及其规律，在该书中，使动义通过隐性化的述宾结构和显性化的使/令兼语式得以表现，这既体现了先秦时期重语义关系的语法特点，又代表了此时期语法意义与语法形式趋于对应的显性化规律。     

"声"与"乐"的辩证关系 --谈声乐教学中的技术训练与乐感培养

声乐教学是技术与艺术完美结合的训练过程。教学中对学生进行发声训练是主要的．但歌唱的最终目的是要准确细腻地表现音乐作品，这就要求我们在教学实践中把声音技术、技巧的训练与音乐情感、素养相结合进行精心设计和安排，真正使“声”与“乐”能够得到和谐统一。     

小说中的音响设置

叙述、隐含作和接受，共同生成了小说本的声音效果。其中，叙述站在一个“美”的角度，用审美的语气奠定了全的艺术基凋；隐含作作为一种隐蔽的价值取向和意识形态倾向，与叙述重合或对立，决定接受在本语音中的不同参与方式。小说作品在三不同的设置方式中，呈现出不同的审美风貌。     

试论方法、声音、感觉的统一性及发声法、寻感法、仿声法在声乐教学中的综合运用

提出发声方法、声音、感觉是统一的,其统一性主要表现在三者的相关性和同一性,在此基础上比较了发声法、仿声法和寻感法在声乐教学中的作用,认为以仿声法和寻感法为先导,三种方法的综合运用是适合声乐术科特点的教学法.     

泉州鞋服产业转型升级的SWOT分析及对策研究——基于“二次创业”背景

泉州鞋服产业在经历前期的高速增长后,目前已面临发展瓶颈。在民营企业"二次创业"背景下,实现产业转型升级已势在必行。通过对泉州鞋服产业转型升级的SWOT分析,认为其转型升级既拥有机遇又面临挑战。最后,基于企业、中间组织和政府三个层面提出升级对策。     

权力感对员工建言行为的影响——自我验证机制的作用

以往的研究指出员工的权力感是预测其建言行为的重要因素,但是对权力感—建言行为关系之间的作用机制缺乏深入分析。采用在2个时间点收集的372个下属和78个领导的配对样本,探讨了员工权力感对建言行为的影响,并应用自我验证理论(self-verification theory)对此关系做出了解释。研究结果表明:员工的权力感对建言行为有显著的正向影响;员工组织自尊中介了员工权力感对建言行为的影响;主动性人格不仅调节了员工权力感和建言行为之间的关系,还调节了员工权力感通过组织自尊影响建言行为的间接效应,表现为被调节的中介关系。     

Voice,empowerment and youth-produced films about ‘gangs’†

This article explores the dissonance between the expansive discourses imagined by the advocates for youth media as helping foster ‘empowerment’ and ‘voice', versus the more circumscribed realities of participatory media production. I focus on a two-part case study – considering both a film-making project for ‘at risk’ young people in South London and the English national government funder that provided the resources for the young people to take part. This case study allows for an exploration of the political economy of youth media, and the relationship between youth media funding and how and why young people in my research often chose to make films about ‘gangs', a striking topic of concern across 11 youth media case study sites. I use this empirical example as a means to analyse how ‘empowerment’ in youth media projects, understood as both critical media literacy and youth voice, moves from abstract discourse to on-the-ground practice.