Readjustment problems of Brazilian returnees from graduate studies in the United States

This is a pilot study on the readjustment problems of Brazilians returned from graduate study in the United States. Subjects were 31 former LASPAU scholars who were interviewed by the senior author after they were back in Brazil. The family and professional problems they experienced as they tried to readjust to life in their country were investigated, as well as the intensity of these problems and the adequacy of coping, as perceived by the respondent. Taped interviews were coded independently twice, over a 16-month interval. High reliability levels were obtained. Results indicated that returnees had little difficulty adjusting to life with their families except for experiencing some value conflict with them and some lack of privacy. Most of their problems were related to their professional life. In that category they reported that they found some difficulty adjusting to the system as a whole and to their role as professors. Lack of intellectual stimulation, lack of facilities and materials, excessive red tape, lack of opportunity and time to do research was fairly common for most, and they felt these were moderately serious problems. In most cases returnees felt they were coping adequately.     

Unravelling legacy: a triadic actor-network theory approach to understanding the outcomes of mega events

Mega events have recently attracted the attention of social scientists due to their important role for festival capitalism, urban regeneration and political propaganda. Their planning stage often produces elaborate strategies for maximising the benefits before, during and after the actual event, which has given rise to interdisciplinary studies of event legacy and leveraging. This paper aims to advance ongoing debates on the outcomes of sports mega events by bringing together the literatures on mega event legacy, leveraging and actor-network theory. Drawing on a case study on the usage of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the main legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the paper develops a novel conceptual framework for researching the multi-scalar outcomes of mega events and locating respective studies within the resulting wider research agenda. The proposed concept extends Preuss' (2007) legacy cube in two ways by visualising its five research dimensions in what we call the ‘legacy rings’ and by using three rather than two sub-dimensions per ring, thereby replacing the often restrictive dyads of dualistic thinking through more comprehensive but still understandable triads of triadic thought (Jöns, 2006, 2018).     

Sources of interference when testing for students' learning from sentences

The present study helps to clarify and extend earlier findings concerning multiple-choice assessment of students' learning from sentences. Interference arising from intersentence similarity was found here to be a function of both the kind of learning strategies students were instructed to employ and the kind of strategies they reported having employed spontaneously. Two major new conclusions follow from the present data: (a) Instructors and test constructors need worry only about certain types of potentially interfering information that is embedded in a set of learning materials: (b) Even when the conditions are right for substantial interference to occur, such interference can be eliminated if students are induced to employ beneficial sentence-processing strategies.     

Historical Fiction and the Classroom: History and Myth in Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond

First published in 1958, Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery award-winning novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond remains an immensely popular teaching tool in U.S. social studies classrooms today. Speare's story—which describes the challenges an orphaned daughter of wealthy Barbadian planters faces when she begins life anew in the Puritan colony of Connecticut in 1687—continues to capture educators' attention because it emphasizes themes such as tolerance of difference, abhorrence of slavery, support of heterodoxy, and a commitment to liberty, justice, and freedom that bolster contemporary American values. But while literary critics have praised the book's historical accuracy, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, like all works of historical fiction, reinterprets the past. In reinterpreting the events of 1680s Connecticut, Speare reveals much about the McCarthy-era 1950s in which she wrote, and indeed, much about the issues and concerns capturing 21st-century educators' attention. As this article argues, both teachers and students would benefit from examining the ways in which history and myth interact in the novel, creating a rich commentary on the 17th-century past, the 1950s in which Speare wrote, and today's 21st-century present.     

论伊丽莎白·毕晓普的流放与诗歌创作

2泄纪美国著名诗人伊丽莎白·毕晓普是一位很特别的诗人.她的一生,就是一次漫长的旅行,就像水一样,永远处于漂流与动荡中.纵观毕晓普一生流放的经历和她的诗歌创作,其中的流放意识揭示了处于中间地带的现代知识分子寻找心灵净土和精神的支点的努力.她的诗歌使人类更清楚、更深刻地意识到如何处理人与自然、人与文化以及人与人之间的关系,从而追求自身生存的价值和意义.     

试论伊丽莎白一世的天主教政策

伊丽莎白一世统治时期,天主教问题极为复杂。鉴于国内外形势,伊丽莎白一世针对天主教势力不同情况与活动方式采取了不同措施：对国内少数天主教徒的不法活动予以严厉镇压,对广大天主教徒进行说服教育,对海外渗透势力给予坚决打击,对国际上天主教势力由“冷战”逐渐转为公开的冲突。     

Entangled identities and acculturation: Comparing majority and minority adolescents’ multiple identity profiles in Belgium

This study considers recent criticism levelled at Berry’s acculturation model by (1) taking into account more complex expressions of belonging and by (2) testing the importance of regionalism (or the distinction between national and regional (/subnational) contexts) in understanding acculturation patterns. Data of the School, Identity and Society-survey, which contains information on 3510 adolescents from 64 schools selected from the three regions is employed to test specific hypotheses for the Belgian case. Three multiple identity profiles are selected for adolescents from migrant families, and four multiple identity profiles for adolescents from non-migrant families. The findings show that multiple identification for adolescents from migrant families is more often a conflicting than integrated experience. This incompatibility is not present for adolescents from non-migrant families. Small but meaningful variations of these multiple identity profiles occur among the three regions. In Brussels adolescents have a higher chance to be in the integrated identity profile.     

Sense of Humor of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice: Realized by Violating the Quality Maxim of Cooperative Principle

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from the Quality Maxim of CP to analyze and appreciate one of Elizabeth’s personalities-sense of humor.     

从女性视角浅析简·奥斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》

《傲慢与偏见》描写了女性的生活和婚姻,成功塑造了具有时代反叛精神的女主人公形象伊丽莎白。作者简.奥斯丁的思想在当时具有进步性,为女性文学做出了巨大的贡献。     

伊丽莎白·毕晓普和她的《六节诗》

伊丽莎白·毕晓普(Elizabeth Bislaop)(1911-1979)是20世纪美国当代诗坛上最重要的诗人之一.<旅行的问题>是诗人晚年的创作,其中很多诗表现了无所适从,一生漂泊的命运,其中<六节诗>(Sestina)就是这样一首诗歌,虽然是对客观描绘,但同样也渲染了诗人在心中寻找她向往的家这一主题.