Theorising participation in urban regeneration partnerships: an adult education perspective

While the policy approach in Urban Regeneration Partnership tends to be viewed as participatory governance using an urban studies lens, this article posits an alternative theorisation that takes an adult education perspective. We draw from Lefebvre’s notion of space, Engeström’s Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Holand et al.’s concept of positionality and social identity to theorise Urban Regeneration Partnership as expansive participation that acknowledges discursive struggle and contradiction in authentic democratisation. We argue for a multiscalar understanding of citizenship that attends to sociocultural conditions, challenges hegemonic spatial modalities and inculcates conditions for transformative agency. Our theorising is illustrated using data from a doctoral study examining one Urban Regeneration Partnership in the Republic of Ireland. Three themes emerged from the study: market-led discourse of transformation versus a narrative of community; rhetoric of empowerment versus the unequal positioning of residents, and the dominant hegemony of official knowledge versus community-based experiential knowledge. The article examines whether the academy can make a difference in people’s lives through challenging the prevailing orthodoxy, revealing unexamined assumptions and offering alternative frameworks for deeper understanding of the policy cycle in Urban Regeneration Partnerships.     

Equity,Equality, and Self-Interest in Marital Maintenance

This study investigated the extent to which generalized equity, a reciprocal exchange approach to maintenance (e.g., reward minus costs), and a self-interest approach (e.g., rewards only) were associated with marital satisfaction. An online survey was distributed to 547 heterosexual married individuals. Results supported equity predictions for six maintenance behaviors when using a categorical measure of equity, and for five of the maintenance behaviors when using a linear measure of equity. Counter to predictions, equity and sex did not interact on the use of maintenance. Finally, a combination of equity, reciprocal exchange, and self-interest predicted 57% of the variance in marital satisfaction.     

Generating knowledge in a Learning Study – from the perspective of a teacher researcher

The purpose of this article is to discuss and describe how a clinical research method can be used to generate knowledge about teaching and learning. This will be addressed from a teacher researcher’s perspective, taking a conducted Learning Study as the departure. Learning Study is an interventionist, iterative and collaborative research approach, focusing on the teaching of an object of learning. The actual study was conducted by a teacher researcher leading a teacher research team in a study about story-writing in primary school. The research process and the results are discussed using four areas that are described as dichotomies by Labaree (Labaree, D.F. 2003. “The Peculiar Problems of Preparing Educational Researchers.” Educational Researcher 32 (4): 13–22). Labaree states that teacher researchers need to go from being normative, experimental, personal and particular to being analytical, theoretical, intellectual and universal. By using examples from the Learning Study, I argue that these areas do not have to be seen as dichotomies; instead they can be combined and intertwined. Thus, in a Learning Study, elements from both the teaching practice and the academic practice matter, thus enhancing the possibility that results are useful for practitioners.     

Surfing the waves of learning: enacting a Semantics analysis of teaching in a first-year Law course

Students’ ability to build knowledge, and transfer it within and between contexts is crucial to cumulative learning and to academic success. This has long been a concern of higher education research and practice. A central part of this concern for educators is creating the conditions that enable their students' deep learning, as this is an area of significant struggle for many students. Legitimation Code Theory, in particular the dimension of Semantics, is proving useful in examining the kinds of conditions that may be necessary for students to build disciplinary knowledge cumulatively over time. Using illustrative data from one case study, this paper suggests that the conceptual tools offered by Semantics can provide academic lecturers and academic development staff with a set of conceptual and analytical tools which can enable them to ‘see’ and understand the ways in which knowledge can be cumulatively acquired and used, as well as the possible gaps between what they are teaching and what their students may be learning. The hope is that these new insights will provide new directions for change in teaching and learning where these may be needed.     

Bulking Up (Identities): A Communication Framework for Male Fitness Identity

The goal of this interview study is to build upon a rich history of masculinities research, complicating the arenas in which masculinity is communicated, performed, negotiated, and enacted. Using Hecht’s communication theory of identity, analysis of this data reveals that men pursuing fitness find misalignment between the personal, relational, and enacted frames. Consequently, they engage in a host of discursive strategies to manage the uncertainty that is produced by these identity gaps. This study identifies three: excessive body discipline, forceful negotiation, and constant comparison. By exploring these gaps and strategies, this study aims to situate fitness as a space ripe for the production of identity work and as an intersectional identity element.     

“美国梦”中话休闲——论《了不起的盖茨比》中的休闲

现代休闲学是一门新兴的前沿学科,它与社会学、人类学、经济学、文化学等各个领域都有着密切的关系。《了不起的盖茨比》作为美国文学史上可圈可点的作品,如果抛开其＂美国梦＂的虚无缥缈,从休闲的角度、以休闲的眼光来看,读者会发现不同于悲凉和惋惜的另外一种感情色彩,能带给我们的不只是梦的支离破碎和现实的残酷无情,还可以是在休闲元素洗礼下的别样的优雅和完美。     

再论主体性文艺学

主体性文艺学的相关理论提出之后,该理论引起了文学界广泛、热烈的讨论,有人予以肯定,有人予以否定,本文就当前理论界的现状谈了一些我个人的观点,并就主体性文艺学之现实与理论基础以及＂文艺是现实生活的反映＂等观点进行了探讨。     

一个新单参数混沌系统的混沌控制分析

提出了一个新单参数混沌系统,参数在一定范围变化时,能产生多个涡卷混沌吸引子．基于Lvapunov稳定性理论,通过设计控制策略实现了对混沌系统的有效控制,最后仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性．     

基于人地关系理论的福安市畲族民俗文化旅游资源开发初探

基于人地关系理论分析福安市区域人地关系特征,并从经济、社会和生态环境三个方面阐述畲族民俗文化旅游资源现状的人地关系原因,提出福安市畲族民俗文化旅游资源开发与保护措施,以期为其民俗文化旅游资源的开发与保护提供相应的理论基础,使畲族特有的民俗文化得以继承,实现其可持续发展.     

“革命文学”与“阶级论”文学观的形成

"革命文学"是后期"创造社"提出的对"阶级论"文学观的形成起过巨大作用的创作追求。冯乃超、李初梨、蒋光慈等人丰富发展了这一理论形态。"左联"的成立深化了"革命文学"并对"阶级论"文学观做了较为深入的探讨。毛泽东文艺理论体系的形成是"阶级论"文学观成熟的标志,影响了中国文学创作、研究数十年。回顾与重审"革命文学"和"阶级论"的文学观意在启示当前,以使中国现当代文学史学科更好地发展。