Letting the village be the teacher: a look at community-based learning in Northern Thailand

ABSTRACT

Higher education in the U.S. sees global learning as critical to student development. Over the last seventy years, study abroad has emerged as the method of choice for teaching global knowledge and intercultural competence. In this context, community-based global learning programs are a type of program where students live in communities to learn directly from people and place. Looking at a field studies program in Northern Thailand, this paper explores the educational mobility of study abroad and impact on host communities. It shares findings on the experiences of two communities who have hosted study abroad students for almost twenty years. Best practices and recommendations for faculty and institutions running community-based global learning programs are shared, including the centrality of community voice in curriculum, benefits of applying a range of pedagogical methods on course, the critical nature of adequately preparing students for cultural immersion, and compensating communities justly for their work.     

New Media/Internet Research Topics of the Association of Internet Researchers

This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Internet research, and the growth of the term Internet in academic publications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisciplinary group of Internet researchers, as represented by session titles and paper titles and abstracts from the 2003 and 2004 Association of Internet Researchers conferences. In both years, the most frequent words appearing in the paper abstracts included Internet, online, community, social, technology, and research. The 2003 papers emphasized topics such as the social analysis/research of online/Internet communication, community, and information, with particular coverage of access, individuals, groups, digital media, culture; role and process in e-organizations; and world development. The 2004 papers emphasized topics such as access; news and social issues; the role of individuals in communities; user-based studies; usage data; and blogs, women, and search policy, among others.     

我国城市新型社区图书馆发展模式研究

社区图书馆在现代城市文化建设中有着重要的作用，我国城市社区图书馆的现状难以适应现代城市发展进程的需要，集学区、科技园区与公共馆等多馆于一体的图书馆，是城市新型社区图书馆的发展模式。     

互联网时代科学传播如何自洽和有为——以转基因、PX项目的科学传播为例

文章以近年来国内科学传播热点事件为案例,从议题变迁的角度梳理了事件在科学传播上的基本路径及产生的社会背景,提出恰恰是所处传播链条上各主要环节的封闭性等原因,导致公众"不理解"科学以及当下科学传播的无序状态。文章同时从搭建交流平台、营建社会信任以及媒体转型3方面,对互联网时代媒体如何创新发展、如何在科学传播中继续发挥主导性作用提出意见和建议。     

知乎问答社区回答者知识贡献行为受同伴效应影响研究

社会化问答社区的出现改变了原有的问答模式并拓展了知识获取的途径。回答者作为知识的主要贡献者,是促进问答社区内知识传递的核心要素。现有关于问答社区用户的研究普遍以用户的属性数据为依据,较少考虑使用个体连接所形成的关系数据进行分析。本文以中文问答社区"知乎"为研究对象,爬取了"流行音乐"和"英语学习"两个话题下的大规模数据,通过构建回答者关注关系网络,定义和量化直接连接和间接连接两类同伴关系,使用网络自回归模型探究同伴效应对知识贡献行为的影响。研究发现,回答者的知识贡献行为会受到直接和间接连接同伴效应的正向影响,但是间接连接同伴效应会随着回答者网络密度的增加而逐渐减弱甚至消失,聚类系数对回答者的知识贡献行为有负向影响。     

ICPSR meets OAIS: applying the OAIS reference model to the social science archive context

This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. The paper also assesses ICPSR’s conformance with the archival responsibilities of “trusted” OAIS repositories, with the proviso that audit criteria for archival certification are still under development. The ICPSR to OAIS mapping exercise has benefits for the larger social science archiving community because it provides an interpretation of the reference model in the quantitative social science environment and points to preservation-related issues that may be salient for other social science archives. Building on the archives’ long tradition of shared norms and cooperation, we may ultimately be able to design a federated system of trusted social science repositories that provides access to the global heritage.

“大同“是孔子的社会理想吗?

从文献学的角度看,到目前为止,没有任何文献资料可以肯定《礼记·礼运》中论大同的一段话确实是孔子本人的言论.将"大同"思想与那些可以确证是孔子言论的内容如《论语》等比较,可以看出,它不可能是孔子的社会理想.《礼记·礼运》中的大同之说,打着孔子的招牌,实际上是墨家的思想.它应该是儒家弟子将墨家思想引入儒家学说的产物,其产生的年代不可能早于孟子生活的时代.     

离婚“时”究竟指何时——《婚姻法》第四十七条实施中的困惑及修改建议

《婚姻法》第四十七条规定,离婚时,对隐匿、转移、侵占夫妻共同财产的一方．分割夫妻共同财产时可以少分或不分。这本来有利于保护受损方的合法权益．但实施起来却有不少困惑．主要问题是离婚“时”究竟指何时并不明确,别有用心的一方可借此为自己在离婚前隐匿、转移、侵占夫妻共同财产的行为进行狡辩．按照立法者的原意．《婚姻法》对夫妻共同财产的保护不应该只局限于“离婚时”,那么,任何一方在婚姻关系存续期间隐匿、转移、侵占夫妻共同财产都应受到处罚。由此可见．《婚姻法》第四十七条的时间状语“离婚时”是一疏．应作适当的修改。     

和谐社会首善之区的和谐大学建设

在建设社会主义和谐社会的伟大进程中,要充分认识到和谐文化对构建和谐社会的基础性作用,特别是教育在和谐社会构建中的突出地位。"和谐"是大学的精神积淀和时代要求,尤其在作为首善之区的北京,和谐大学作为和谐社会的有机组成部分,二者不仅在基本精神上相一致,而且彼此依存,互相促进,密不可分。和谐大学的建设,需要正确处理好"教"与"学"、教学与科研、行政管理与教学科研、硬环境和软环境等几对矛盾之间的辩证关系。     

学校变革视域下的专业学习共同体

近几十年,世界范围内教育改革研究关注的焦点,从教学与课程等局部层面的改革,转向关注学校整体的革新.在这个大背景下,专业学习共同体不仅仅被当作教师发展的一种途径,而且成为一种崭新的学校变革方式,它将教师发展、领导角色、学校改善统整为一体,形成以学生学习提高为中心的整体学校发展模式.走向专业学习共同体的学校变革历程是一场深刻的革命,制度与文化的完善是一个不断磨合的过程.