Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen: faculty identity and commitment in a Hispanic‐serving institution

This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as a demographic presence in this country. Our research suggests that more understanding is needed about the experiences of mixed‐heritage faculty in academia, as well as the ways in which faculty from any background may develop multiple affiliations with cultural communities and pursue professional agendas related to communities that they do not neatly fit into. Despite this variation in backgrounds and research agendas, we share our efforts in advancing Latin@ educational attainment.     

输水渠道横断面设计水深测试及计算(综合性)实验

输水渠道横断面设计水深测试及计算实验结合“灌溉排水工程学”及“水力学”等学科的知识,在实验过程中,通过对实验数据的测试、分析及计算和渠道模型实物的观摩,加深了对渠道设计原理的理解,与课堂上的理论教学起到了良好的互动作用。     

化学教学中的几个疑难问题浅析

硝酸的强氧化性从其分子结构中分析,+5价氮不稳定;氯酸钾热分解中有O2、ClO2、Cl2、O3、HCl,存在着一些副反应;锌跟浓硫酸作用产物多样化,原因是产物中物质会继续发生氧化还原反应;硫酸钡沉淀能适当地溶于浓硫酸,其主要原因是形成了酸式盐。     

家兔胴体品质和肉质性状的比较研究

本文通过研究表明:本文用完全双列杂交对五品种肉兔:加州兔(C)、新西兰兔(N)、丹麦白兔(D)、花巨兔(G)、比利时兔(B)进行了一般配合力(GCA)和特殊配合力(SCA)分析,估计了杂交组合的杂种优势率(RH),结果表明:半净膛、全净膛屠宰率在父本中差异不显著,在母本则有极显著差异。多重比较方法分析所得半净膛、全净膛屠宰率在母本中高低依次为新西兰兔、花巨兔、比利时兔、丹麦白兔、加州兔,其中新西兰兔、花巨兔的母本的半净膛率分别极显著(P<0.01),显著高于丹麦白兔和加州兔。因此,新西兰兔母本最好,加州母兔最差。特殊配合力分析两指标互作效应均不明显,杂交无优势。肉质性状间普遍存在一定的表型相关,但多数未能达到0.05的显著水平。pH2L与pH2S有显著的强正相关(P<0.05);对于胴体性状而言,全净膛屠宰率、半净膛屠宰率为极显著的强正相关(r=0.985,P<0.01)。肉质性状和胴体性状之间存在弱负相关,因此,总体上讲肉质与胴体性状间的关系表现为一种颉颃性的相关。     

Academic socialization,parental educational expectations,and academic self‐efficacy among Latino adolescents

This study examined the direct association between parental educational expectations and adolescents’ academic self‐efficacy, as well as the moderating influence of parental academic socialization messages. Participants were 148 Latino parent–adolescent dyads with the majority of Mexican origin (80.4%). Most of the parent participants were mothers (85.8%). Adolescents were 13 (46%) or 14 (54%) years of age, and 53% identified as female. Adolescents reported their academic self‐efficacy and perceptions of their parents’ educational expectations; parents reported on their academic socialization messages of shame/pressure and effort regarding academics. The results suggest that, after accounting for parents’ level of education and immigrant status, parental educational expectations were positively associated with adolescent academic self‐efficacy. This association was stronger among adolescents whose parents reported transmitting fewer messages of shame/pressure and academic effort. These results point to the importance of nuances in the content and type of academic socialization messages within Latino families.     

Reflectors as online extraverts?

Increasingly, online learning is perceived as an effective method of instruction. Much recent educational research has focused on examining the purposes and situations for which online education is best suited. In this paper, students enrolled in two online courses are compared with their peers enrolled in equivalent classroom‐based courses to investigate aspects of the relationship between learning style and mode of delivery. Student satisfaction measures are taken from participants in both modes of delivery and compared with student learning style. Feedback from the ‘Reflector’ learning style demonstrates higher satisfaction levels with the online mode of delivery compared with their matched counterparts following equivalent classroom‐based courses. Therefore, whilst ‘Reflectors’ might be regarded as Introverts in the traditional classroom setting, the additional time for reflection offered by online delivery makes this group more likely to contribute to online discussion, report higher satisfaction levels and generally behave more like online Extraverts.     

Differential recognition of children's cultural practices in middle primary literacy classrooms

This paper argues that teachers' recognition of children's cultural practices is an important positive step in helping socio‐economically disadvantaged children engage with school literacies. Based on 21 longitudinal case studies of children's literacy development over a 3‐year period, the authors demonstrate that when children's knowledges and practices assembled in home and community spheres are treated as valuable material for school learning, children are more likely to invest in the work of acquiring school literacies. However, they also show that while some children benefit greatly from being allowed to draw on their knowledge of popular culture, sports and the outdoors, other children's interests may be ignored or excluded. Some differences in teachers' valuing of home and community cultures appeared to relate to gender dimensions.     

Gandhian education in Bali: globalisations and cultural diversity in a time of fundamentalisms

The paper presents findings from a research project undertaken at the Taman Rama Gandhi School in Bali during the first anniversary week of the Bali Bombings in 2003. It explores the school's response to four key components of Gandhi's model of Basic Education (Nai Talim) and shows that the claimed curriculum is framed by two contradictory discourses: a globalisation from above discourse and a Gandhian discourse of tolerance and peace, more consistent with a globalisation from below discourse. The argument is made that the curriculum's commitment to the neo‐liberal capitalist values of the globalisation form above discourse may ultimately thwart the emphasis upon peace and tolerance in the discourse from below.     

Experiences of Counselors‐as‐Clients in Counselor Education

Eight professional counselors who routinely role‐play as clients in 1 counselor education program participated in a focus group investigating their portrayal experiences. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, which resulted in 3 superordinate themes: missions, influential factors, and repercussions. Findings reinforce instruction of idiographic and person‐centered care in counselor education.     

英汉互译中的跨文化交流意识

翻译是跨文化交流过程中时常涉及的一个中介环节。本文在英汉互译中 ,引入跨文化交流意识 ,旨在立足于传统翻译学对翻译的认识上 ,从跨文化角度深化翻译的内涵 ,并通过分析翻译实践与某些文化因素之间的关联 ,突现出翻译中易出现的文化方面的问题 ,进一步探讨了翻译中应持的文化态度以及翻译者应具备的文化素质