Research-based teacher education? Exploring the meaning potentials of Swedish teacher education

In this article, we explore the meaning potentials of teacher education in terms of the significance of a research-based approach and the different pedagogic identities that such an approach implies. The study’s aim is to examine the important factors for education to be considered research-based and to identify and analyse the research base of teacher education in Sweden. The results from the analysis of a large number of course documents and from a survey administered to teachers and students in four teacher education programmes indicate that the emerging potential meaning is that teacher education is generally a strongly framed professional education with a relatively weak and adapted research base. The analysis of the classification and framing of disciplinary content and pedagogy in the Swedish teacher education curriculum points at different pedagogic identities emerging from the different meaning potentials that are made available to the students. We argue that a thorough understanding of research-based teacher education needs to be grounded in both course content and its research base as well as other possible pedagogical aspects of research-based education; the education as a whole must be included in the concept of research-based education.     

政权的更替与缠足的流行：历代缠足延续缘由考析

缠足习俗起源于北宋,没落于民国。不同的历史发展阶段,对缠足习俗产生影响的主要因素也大不相同。宋代时以小脚为美的审美观念,驱使缠足从理想走向实践;元代是少数民族建立的政权,汉人的民族认同感和自豪感是缠足习俗发展的最重要动力;明代时缠足习俗才真正与伦理道德联系起来;清代统治者屡禁缠足而不止,不仅有汉人的抵抗和缠足习俗早已深入人心等观念上的原因,还有禁令不彻底,措施不合理等制度上的原因。近代西方文明的传入,社会的大变革,终结了中国缠足的时代。     

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。     

Ideological composition of the classroom: testing the effects of polarization on perceptions of open classroom climate among students in five countries

Abstract

This quantitative study tests the relationship between ideological classroom composition and perceptions of open classroom climate. Using data from the 2016 International Education Association’s International Civic and Citizenship Study, the study uses latent class analysis and multilevel regression modelling across five countries. First, latent class analysis identified students as low or high socioeconomic status. To assess ideological polarization, the gap between support for gender equality and ethnic rights was calculated between groups. Finally, a multilevel regression model measured the relationship between ideological polarization and students’ perception of open classroom climate. Across three countries, results found negative associations between increased polarization and perception of an open classroom climate. Additional testing identified that polarization modified the relationship between student socioeconomic status and perceptions of open classroom climate in Croatia.     

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