Arts education partnerships: sources of harmony and dissonance with cultural institutions’ collaborative efforts

ABSTRACT

Due to budget constraints, schools in the United States have increasingly turned to community arts organizations for support. School-community arts partnership stakeholders collaborate because of shared missions to provide students with valuable arts learning experiences. Investigations of these initiatives indicate that these partnerships improve arts learning opportunities and increase public support and resources for arts education. However, not much is known about the experiences and perspectives of the arts organizations that participate in these partnerships. Coordinating collective efforts with a multitude of institutions and interests poses challenges. In this study, we examine survey data collected from arts organization administrators who participated in a large-scale school-community arts partnership initiative. We find that these organizations are generally positive about their impacts on students’ educational outcomes, but there is substantial variation in these views. We also find that organizations differ in their levels of support for these collective efforts. Sources of this variation appear to be attributable to organizations’ preexisting resources and extent to which they are established. While this difference in levels of support is potentially inevitable, we find evidence that the operations handled by the “backbone” organization, i.e. the initiative’s facilitators and overseers, can significantly influence organizations’ levels of support for these efforts. Organizations are more likely to support these collaborative efforts when they believe the backbone organization ensures transparency with initiative operations, provides regular, effective communication, and effectively resolves competing priorities.     

Mixed Reality Lab at Mississippi State University Libraries

Virtual and Augmented Realities are advancing technologies that are becoming more popular in gaming and programming communities. However, virtual reality has been in development for decades. As libraries are often at the forefront of offering new and advancing technologies to their communities, virtual and augmented reality programs have become new additions to library services. While gaming is the prominent use of these technologies, virtual and augmented reality affords many educational opportunities. Mississippi State University Libraries have recently added a virtual/augmented reality lab as part of its library program.     

A historical analysis of academic development using the theoretical lens of Pierre Bourdieu

This paper provides a history of academic development by examining how a South African institution coped with the potent social forces confronting it before the collapse of apartheid. Theoretically, it draws on the framework of Pierre Bourdieu and engages with a paper written a decade ago by Naidoo, who also used Bourdieu to understand institutional change in South Africa in the late 1980s. Through contrasting the habitus of two professors, it is argued that academic development helps to preserve the autonomy of the university field by refracting forces impinging on it from the economic and political realms.     

“生命·实践”教育学的突围

中国教育成为了众矢之的,教育研究失去了独立性,如何回应蓬勃发展的教育,解决、回答丛生的教育问题,这就是教育理论的需求。叶澜老师秉承华东师范大学的学术传统、乡土的血统,身体力行、率先垂范,走出了自己的路,通过实实在在的努力、实实在在地思考教育问题,试图去回答这些问题,把对这些问题回答形成了以理论为骨架的思考。     

Part 1. If We Frame It,They Will Respond: Undergraduate Student Responses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

There remains significant confusion surrounding the purpose, audience, and proposed application of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This exploratory study addresses the question of whether undergraduate students can understand the language and concepts in this document. By presenting student responses to pretest questions recorded at the beginning of a semester-long research methods course, this article shows that students can, even on first impression, begin to make sense of the complexity and richness found in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.     

关于新形势下社科学术类期刊的发展——以《思想理论教育导刊》为例

为尽快适应机制转轨的要求,社科学术类期刊应转变观念,更新思路,大胆探索,在市场经济的洪流中立住足,夯实根基,尽快做大做强。     

弘学术之独立品格

本文从学术人独立人格的塑造和学术机构独立法人资格的维护两个方面出发 ,阐述了保证学术活动的相对独立性的重要性和必要意义 ,指出 :维护学术独立的品格 ,是学术生命得以延续和发展的根本要求     

科技期刊论文图片的鉴定

对科技期刊论文中图片的抄袭和篡改问题进行研究,从图片属性分析、源码分析和利用JPEGsnoop软件鉴定等方面,提出图片篡改的识别方法,为科技期刊在论文收录时,能准确判断图片是否被刻意篡改或抄袭,以打击学术不端行为.     

此自引率非彼自引率——学术期刊的自引证率与自被引率错引举隅

为了使人们正确区分期刊的自引证率与自被引率,通过文献调研法,用案例的形式对已公开出版的论文中的期刊自引率的错误引用行为进行分析.错误引用类型为自被引率被误认为自引证率,自引证率被误认为自被引率.提醒人们进行期刊自引率研究时应严格区分这2种不同形式的自引率.     

低重复率稿件中的学术不端行为检测与防范

重复率低却存在抄袭的稿件,其原因可能为单一的检测系统存在漏洞,新发表的论文上传数据库存在时间差,作者对稿件的有意识“修饰”,以及网络时代造假手段多样化.为此,文中提出以下措施:使用多种数据库进行文字检测,从查重报告中发现问题,建立有效的审稿专家数据库、网站教育和警示,充分利用网络资源,加快稿件处理进程,增强编辑的责任意识等,以利于更好地防范学术不端行为.