What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy

This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants’ ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) ‘Max weber and the moral economy of office’, Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 129–144] is reinforced by the identity of the social scientist. The use of social science in policy advice is a moment where the bureaucrats are able to distance themselves from political decision-making, thus reasserting an important aspect of civil service practice and identity. However, as the latter part of the article illustrates, the dynamics of cultural policy-making, in particular the use of economics, situate the role of social science as paradoxical. It is both supportive and corrosive of the bureaucratic ethic. This paradox is the basis for a critical perspective on the ethic of office as deployed in contemporary government.     

Moving beyond the anthropos and reclaiming the geo in intercultural communication: The transculturation of the martial art practice of Aikido

This ethnographic study examines the practice of Aikido, a martial art style originating from Japan, by a community of non-Japanese practitioners in the southwestern region of the United States. This paper recounts the second nature-making of the art's skillful responsiveness as a thing to be explained from the ground, rather than leaving its cultural dynamics and their appropriative relations unchallenged as a relatively homogenous process of globalization and increased contact. In the case of Shining Energy (a pseudonym), the “taking” of another's cultural elements and “making” it a fully habituated and naturalized way of moving and being (second nature) are predicated on geo-making, the production of ontologizing resources (first nature) that enable culturally sanctioned modes of somatic engagements with the world. The process of appropriating Aikido entails an inversion between the figure and ground that foregrounds the geo-making of the ground/field for activity itself.     

安庆师范学院百年校魂的当代教育意义

安庆师范学院作为安徽省高等教育的根和源,有着丰厚的历史文化资源。多年来,该校党委宣传部通过开展“百年校魂”教育,在传承校园文化、凝练校园精神等方面起到了独到的作用,彰显了校史资源在新时期的教育价值。     

关于"文化、先进文化和大学文化"的思考

文化越来越引起人们的关注，文化是培育人才的主要手段。对文化要进行更深入的思考，以获得新的体悟。文化具有民族性和世界性辩证统一、多元性和和谐性辩证统一、稳定性和变迁性辩证统一、传统性和现代性辩证统一的特性。文化的精华在于思想，在于理念，在于精神。先进文化应该是一个开放的、多元的、发展的、良好的生态系统。大学文化是先进文化的体现和有机组成部分。加强大学文化建设，重点在大学理念和大学精神的建设。     

文化差异与听力教学

语言与文化不可分割。听力教学中文化差异概念的确立对突破学生听力障碍起着至关重要的作用。从文化的3个层次分别探讨文化差异对听力理解的影响,并提出了如何在听力教学中导入文化教学,以提高学生的听力水平。     

2004年我国民族器乐研究综述

对2004年中国大陆民族器乐研究性成果进行了梳理、分类、归纳,以期对2004年我国民族器乐的研究性成果作以概观。     

中国学习者的悖论

按照西方的观点，中国的教学属于传统的“传授－－接受”模式，也就是说，教师在教学中起着绝对的支配作用，而学生则处于纯粹被动的地位：他们所需要的只是记忆与模仿；但是，相关的比较与研究却又清楚地表明，中国学生与其它国家，特别是西方国家的学生相比有着较好的学生效果，通过对这“中国学生者的悖论”问题的回答，认为数学教育研究应重视分析和反思中国传统教学教育的优势。     

论益阳城市文化建设的向度

从城市文化特征和实际情况来看,益阳城市文化建设应该遵循以下几个基本向度:突出历史文化特色;发挥名人文化效应;挖掘乡情文化内涵;提高产业文化效益;利用区域文化优势。     

教育·经典·大众文化

“教育”既是一种社会实践,也是一种制度建设,还是一个专门学科、一种思想方式、一套文本系统。对于中国的现代化进程来说,教育思想的嬗变以及教育制度的转型,至关重要。一部作品之成为“经典”,除了自身的资质,还需要历史机遇,需要时间淘洗,需要阐释者的高瞻远瞩,更需要广大读者的积极参与。现代史视野中的教育与文化,决定了“现代中国教育”不可能安于校园一隅。“文学教育”必须介入当代文学进程和当下的思想文化进程,而不应局限于大学课堂和具体知识的传授。对于“大众文化”研究,我更倾向于在与精英文化的对话状态中,来讨论它;而不是将其孤立起来,越说越深刻,越说越伟大。理解二者之间的互相对立与互相转化,可以把事情说得更全面,课题做得更深入。     

Semantic Models of Host-Immigrant Relations in Norwegian Education Policies

Education has continuously been regarded as a vital tool in Norwegian policymakers' immigrant integration agendas. This study analyzes semantic structures substantiating the policy language of historical Norwegian immigrant education policies from their inception in 1973 until today (2013). The analysis is framed by Kronenfeld's linguistic anthropological theory “semantic extensionism”. Four distinct semantic models are identified through the historical period. Each model comprises specific overall policy programs, education system characters, teaching methods, and parameters for equality output evaluations. We show how the core semantic structures of each model, and the changes between them, derive from three interacting factor domains: (1) semantic inclusion and contrast relations, (2) pragmatic characteristics of practice fields, and (3) broader welfare state policy histories.