Learning,literacy and identity: ‘I don’t think I’m a failure any more’

The impact of participation in adult literacy programmes on learners’ identities is examined through an interrogation of their past and current experiences and the assessment of the effect of particular pedagogies. The findings show how learners’ positive experiences in their programmes had caused them to re-evaluate their previous understandings and enabled the construction of new identities as people that are able to learn. These changes had come about through the challenging of negative discourses, the creation of new figured worlds and imagined futures, and the use of a learning curriculum where learners’ experiences were utilized as positive resources.     

Social inclusion in two worlds: the conceptualization of the social role of lifelong learning in the education policy of Brazil and the UK since the mid 1990s

Aspects of post‐16 education, particularly with reference to vocational education and training, have acquired a degree of common presentation in the policy making of many national and international organizations in recent years. This paper compares similarities and differences in the rhetoric and reality of policy implementation in Brazil and the UK in post‐16 education, particularly Technical and Vocational Education and Training. It finds an increasing alignment between these two very different countries at the levels of both discourse and practice. It argues that this reflects the dominance of international and regional agencies on whom both countries draw in developing policy, and the subsequent dissemination of those agencies' particular assumptions about the relationship between education, skills and economic performance.     

城市化进程中的农民工社会保障

农村发展中所释放出来的过剩人口不断向城市转移,是城市化进程中的必然现象,随之而来农民工社会保障问题日益凸现。本文将其置于城市化进程中,从客观实际和有利于城市化进程的角度出发,提出要建立面向农民工的社会保障制度,并在分析其特殊性和可行性基础上来探讨应该如何去建构面向农民工的社会保障制度。     

科举的公正诉求与乡土中国的社会流动

公正是贯穿科举考试中的一条红线。科举考试对官宦庶民一视同仁,从考场专门设置、糊名誊录、双重定等第、别头试和锁厅试等方法的采用,都力图给中小地主阶级和平民百姓通过科举入仕实现向上社会流动提供了一个公平竞争的平台。公平竞争、择优录取是科举制得以长期存在的重要原因,科举制度使封建社会通过选纳社会精英进入政治权力中心而不时迸发出活力。     

发展与稳定：考试政策行政功能分析

考试作为一种测度、甄别、评价人的素质水平的社会活动,具有社会稳定功能。考试的社会稳定功能可能是积极的、有利于社会发展的；也可能不是积极的,不利于社会发展的。考试政策的社会稳定功能必须以社会发展功能为前提,应坚持为了发展的稳定,不能为了稳定而牺牲发展,这样才能实现考试政策行政功能的合理张力。     

“人以群分”适用于大学生的学业成就吗——基于社会网络分析和Meta分析的方法

嵌入班级网络中的大学生在交往中形成不同的小群体,这些小群体间的学业成就是否具有显著性差异?研究者将社会网络分析方法中的整体网分析与元分析(Meta分析)相结合,在对大学生班级内小群体的学业成就差异进行多项独立研究的基础上,运用元分析技术将29项研究(N=1076)的结果予以综合分析,得到如下结论:(1)每个班级的大学生都在互动过程中形成了不同数量的小群体,且每个小群体中的学生数量不同;(2)大学生学业成就存在着“人以群分”现象,即同一班级的大学生在互动中产生的小群体在学业成就上存在显著性差异。因此,大学生应加强与高学业成就水平的小群体之间的互动以提高学业成就;而高校管理者也应采用科学的方法识别班级中的不同小群体,从而采取相应的学业成就提升策略。     

"脑死亡"的价值与挑战

脑死亡是由当代科学和医学技术进步给我们带来的一个全新问题，也涉及到复杂的经济、社会、伦理和法律等问题。脑死亡的提出意味着对于生和死的判别由经验转向了科学；凸显了大脑和心脏在人的生命系统和自我认同中的不同地位。在相当长的时期内，对于大多数社会成员来说，脑死亡标准不一定意味着对于心死亡标准的截然取代。而是将与其并存。脑死亡的实施提出了抢救生命的价值、代价和极限问题，将对生命终结标准的选择权和宣判权提出挑战，也将对人们通常的“孝”和“敬”等观念提出挑战。脑死亡的一个重要价值是有利于器官移植，而让生命以此种方式得以延续值得提倡。因此应当以一种更加开放的和进步的心态来积极推进有关脑死亡的立法。     

Blog--图书馆发展的新契机

本文从介绍网络上一种的信息载体Blog入手．阐述Blog产生的背景和功能特点，分析其巨大的应用潜能和社会影响，探究Blog在图书馆的应用及其对图书馆发展的促进作用．为新技术在图书馆的应用开启新的思路。     

Co-evolution of physical and social technologies in clinical practice: The case of HIV treatments

In this paper, we investigate the interplay of clinical knowledge and technological capabilities in the recent development of HIV/AIDS treatments and offer qualitative and quantitative evidence from the empirical setting of Italian practice. The study contributes to the literature on the co-evolution of physical and social technologies in medical innovation by showing how professional guidelines, systematic evaluative research and local coordination mechanisms contribute actively to the resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds technological advances, while leaving room for largely discretional therapeutic choices. The resulting variety in implementation strategies improves health outcomes, but may reduce productive efficiency.     

Influence of social media on operational efficiency of national scenic spots in china based on three-stage DEA model

An increasing number of national scenic spots around the world use social media, such as micro-blogs and Twitter, to promote their popularity and improve their operational performance. National scenic spots may adopt different social media behaviors that lead to unbalanced operational performance. This study takes the perspective of social media adoption in national scenic spots by looking into the influence of social media adoption behaviors on operational performance based on the three-stage data envelopment analysis model. We found that most of the national scenic spots in China have low pure technical efficiency and that operational performance, including social media popularity and operational performance, is significantly determined by various social media adoption behaviors.