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.     

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。     

印尼“先达国语”词汇语法特点概说

在印尼苏北省第二大城市先达,通行着一种类似西南官话的语言变体,当地华人称之为“先达国语”。本文简要介绍“先达国语”的产生和发展情况,在此基础上,对主要的语言变异特点——词汇和语法方面的典型特征进行分析和讨论,以期揭示在复杂的海外语言环境下先达国语的特色。     

西尔维娅·普拉斯诗中的身份问题

孤独与恐惧、绝望与死亡是普拉斯诗歌的主题.她对死亡的偏爱、对死亡的独特感受和体验表现了她感受和探索生命的独特方式.本文从另一角度探讨普拉斯诗歌的特点,从其身份的不确定性而导致的越界、失重、身份混杂、身份认同等来探讨其在诗中的独特叙事策略和表现方式.     

数字化校园建设与应用

本文从介绍数字化校园建设的现状出发,阐述了目前建设数字化校园的重点任务和方向,提出了数字化校园建设的一般技术实现方法,以及目前建设中要重点注意的问题。     

高校思想政治理论课的认同危机及对策思考

目前高校思想政治理论课的教育教学通过大学生的普遍正向认同来看已经取得了明显的成效。正向认同一般划分为强制性认同、利益性认同和观念性认同三个等级,它们对思想政治理论课的教育教学产生着正负两方面的影响。通过对三个认同等级及其在思想政治教育中的转变的分析,对思想政治理论课的改革和发展进行了一定的思考和探索。     

废名作品中的讲述人与倾听者

从废名小说看,他既是写作者同时也是阅读者.他在写作中记录自己,在叙说中阅读自己,承担了作者与读者的双重身份,体验着创作与欣赏的双重快乐.他不为庸众创作,永远沉浸于内心的波澜之中.     

The development of student teachers’ professional identity

This study focuses on student teachers’ perceptions of their professional identity. The respondents are students enrolled in a three‐year course in secondary education teaching at bachelor level. Questionnaires were filled out by first‐year, second‐year and third‐year students from two colleges. The questionnaire included four scales: commitment to teaching, professional orientation, task orientation and self‐efficacy. In the first five months of the first‐year course, a shift in students’ task orientation was observed: students developed a more pupil‐centred view on teaching. Practical experience with classroom teaching again caused a shift: students focused less on the subject matter, on maintaining order in the classroom, on the long‐term educational qualification targets and self‐efficacy decreased. Students with work placement experience developed a more ‘realistic’ view of learning and teaching compared to students without this experience. A final important difference in professional identity is based on students’ gender: while male students tend to attach more importance to discipline in the classroom, their female counterparts focus more on student involvement.     

Reclaiming America: the quest for home in Shawn Wong’s Homebase

ABSTRACT

With its dynamic narrative, Shawn Wong's Homebase recounts the story of four generations of a Chinese family searching for a homebase on the land of the United States. Personal experiences, family chronicles, and Chinese American history are portrayed through various forms, including short stories, correspondences, student essays, memories, and dreams. A major theme of the novel is geographically and spiritually “reclaiming America,” or attempts by Chinese Americans to make the United States their “real” home. The protagonist's way to reclaim America involves revisiting landmarks and other places in the United States where his father and grandfather had traveled, through which he tries to discover the meaning of his own life in the United States and thereby to find his personal identity and home in this country. In drawing the topography of Chinese American history, Shawn Wong not only inscribed Chinese American presence on those places where the protagonist's forefathers had lived and worked, but also used legends to implant their heritage into those soils. Shawn Wong hopes that through his writing he can build for Chinese Americans a history, a cultural foundation with myths and legends of their own. Only when a people's myths spread over the land they inhabit can the land truly be considered theirs. The Chinese American identity shaped in Homebase is heroism, rooted in the ethnic identity of the male Chinese American in the American West, and this is the “home” that the protagonist as well as many other Chinese Americans ever quest for.     

Civic Actions after September 11: Exploring the Role of Multi-level Storytelling

Interpersonal and media storytelling were crucial to information dissemination about the September 11 tragedies. The storytelling processes through which urban residents are transformed into members of a broader community are illustrated by their connections to media and their participation in neighborhood discussions and community organizations after September 11. This study demonstrates how a communication infrastructure approach contributes to understanding participation in civil society after September 11.