Predicting transition and adjustment to college: biomedical and behavioral science aspirants’ and minority students’ first year of college

The purpose of this study is to explore key factors that impact the college transition of aspiring underrepresented minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in comparison with White, Asian students and non-science minority students. We examined successful management of the academic environment and sense of belonging during the first college year. Longitudinal data were derived from the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) 2004 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey and the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Using a reformulation of the integration model (Nora, Barlow, and Crisp, 2005), we find concerns about college financing, negotiating family support and responsibility, and campus racial dynamics (perceived and behavioral) affect student adjustment and sense of integration in the first year. This study was made possible by the support of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH Grant Number 1 RO1 GMO71968-01. This independent research and the views expressed here do not indicate endorsement by the sponsor.     

Creativity, integrativism and a pedagogy of connection

A case is made for working in higher education across and between disciplines, variously known as inter- and multidisciplinarity. Integrativism is proposed as an inclusive term for these different but related modes of academic work. Working integratively is presented as a creative activity. The application of integrativism to the curriculum leads to the notion of a pedagogy of connection. Sociocultural theory is a theoretical foundation for a pedagogy of connection which consists of a framework for focusing on the contexts of connection and tools for making connections. Activity theory is the basis of analysing context and analogy and conceptual blending are examples of tools. The pedagogy of connection is demonstrated through the example of a sense of place. The example takes the form of a design experiment.     

生存的心态--论石评梅散文的孤独意识

孤独意识是石评梅孤独敏感的天性与个人生活感情遭遇相融合的结果，也是个人与社会、理想与现实相对立、相冲突的必然结果，更是她的自我认识觉醒后的一种必然心理。这种孤独意识主要表现在石评梅的生存状态上。     

理智与情感的共融——手机金属材质的隐喻表达

没有感情的设计是空洞的,没有理智的设计是无用的,有情感有理智的设计才是完整的设计。金属材质的手机以理性、功能化为前提,适应了现在追求是科技的理念,又不失给人情感内在、广义的想象空间,顺应了时尚的潮流。将金属作为其材质的手机述说了引起世人共鸣的语言,它是属于一种内在的、广义的语言。情感品质所追求表达的是与人的经验类似的东西,手机的金属材质看似理智的一种设计,但给人一种想象的空间,有着情感化的语言,看似理智与情感的矛盾,却又那么协调的共融。     

台湾光复前后民众民族精神与本土意识的更化

经过中国人民半个世纪的不懈努力,1945年台湾终于光复。对台湾重回祖国怀抱,台湾民众欢欣鼓舞,民族精神与本土意识高度融合,表现出空前一致的民族与国家认同。但由于国民党政权的专制与腐败,台湾民众因对国民政府不满导致1947年爆发反政府的“二二八事件”,台湾人民的本土意识空前膨胀,民族精神失去主导地位。在短短一年多时间中,台湾民众的民族精神与本土意识产生了更化。     

艾南英文论思想批评——以艾陈之争为考察视域

以艾南英的文章、年谱为主要依据,结合复社、桐城派的相关资料,由艾陈之争作为切入点,展开探究艾南英的文论思想。艾南英极力推崇唐宋派,明确了学秦汉以唐宋为桥梁的途径,突出了从司马迁、韩愈、欧阳修到归有光的散文既成传统,强调了平易通达的表现手法。其＂以古文为时文＂中的义与法、雅与洁等主要文学理论开了桐城派先声。     

在线学习中的多媒体、社会存在和社区(英文)

在在线学习环境中,社区感、社会存在感是影响学生成功和满意度的重要因素。在线学习领域的研究者和实践者越来越关注多媒体工具、富媒体教学方法对在线课堂中社区感、社会存在感的积极影响的有效性。此外,随着在线学习环境越来越多媒体化,计算机媒介学习环境的内在社会障碍可能会越来越少。因此,本文首先调研了相关的理论框架和概念,包括社会存在理论、计算机媒介交流环境中的社区;然后探讨了特定的多媒体方法对于社区建构、社会存在的有效性。     

大学生道德意识行为的反差与高校思想政治教育

分析了大学生在成长过程中道德意识与道德行为之间出现差异的原因,提出了高校加强大学生的思想道德素质教育的对策和建议。     

从经验反省到理智直观——论笛卡尔普遍怀疑的方法论前提

怀疑论是笛卡尔形而上学的起点。普遍怀疑基于良知为我们提供的健全理智,始于对经验常识的反省,实际上是理智的自我反省。普遍怀疑的前提是诉诸健全的良知,其中暗含了三重公共性的理论预设;普遍怀疑并不等于反对经验,而是重新审视经验;普遍怀疑的起点是对感官不可靠的论证;普遍怀疑中预设了八个不证自明的前提。     

也谈语文美育(一)——关于语文美育基本任务问题的探讨

语文美育有两个最基本的任务:一是审美情操的培养,即培养学生高尚的道德情操和健康的审美情趣,形成健康高尚的审美观;二是审美能力的培养,即在语文教学过程中,让学生受到美的熏陶,启发学生去感受美,引导学生去鉴赏美,激励学生去创造美,不断提高学生的审美能力。