Navigating the complexity of disability support in tertiary education: perspectives of students and disability service staff

Access to education is a right for all students. This right is typically realised through the provision of disability support and reasonable adjustments to enable tertiary students with disabilities to participate on an equal footing with their peers. This paper presents perspectives of disability service staff and students about implementing and using reasonable adjustments. Data were collected at 2 tertiary institutions in Australia through interviews with 25 students with disabilities and 7 disability service staff. Data were thematically analysed. The complexity of and variability in the processes of negotiating and implementing disability support were identified as an overarching theme in the data. These processes involved engaging multiple parties. The task of negotiating reasonable adjustments is used to illustrate some of the complexities inherent in supporting students with disabilities. These findings challenge existing assumptions that support is easily accessible and simply provided. They highlight the complexity of using reasonable adjustments, and the tendency for this to be seen as a student responsibility. Finally, the findings imply that disability services need to reorient from a focus on care and concern towards a rights orientation and foster students’ skills in self-advocacy to better enable them to negotiate without disadvantage.     

‘I've never done a dissertation before please help me’: accommodating L2 students through course design

This article considers how course design accommodates the adaptation of L2 students into the early stages of the master's dissertation (Social Sciences and Humanities) at a UK university. I present a contrastive process-oriented analysis of two students' experiences on different courses, extracted from a 13-month ethnographic study in which students' self-reports (journals; interviews) were triangulated with their assignments, interviews with lecturers and classroom observation. I identify two ‘literacy events’ in the early stages: discussing the topic and preparing the proposal. In order to make visible these events, I deploy Lave and Wenger's Community of Practice model, while taking a post-structuralist view of learning as a dynamic between language, identities, power relations, affordances and agency. Findings show unequal support for these events on the two courses; I argue that this exemplifies significantly different ideologies relating to the accommodation of L2 students, and discuss implications for course design.     

“普世价值论”与社会主义核心价值体系

“社会主义核心价值体系”与“普世价值论”在性质、价值导向、哲学基础、理论实质及价值旨向等方面存在本质区别;同时,两种价值体系并不是绝对对立的,它们之间既相互区别,又能相互融通.因此,运用马克思主义唯物辩证法和阶级分析法去剖析、比较“普世价值论”和社会主义核心价值体系的差异性和融通性,对于有效维护我国意识形态安全,借鉴和吸收人类文明成果,加强社会主义核心价值体系建设有着重大的理论和现实意义.     

统一与变通——民族区域自治地方的刑法适用

在建设社会主义法治国家的伟大实践中,如何切实贯彻民族自治原则,如何平衡市场经济统一法制的要求与各民族保持自己风俗习惯的宪法权利,是迫切需要解决的问题,是关系民族地区乃至整个国家社会稳定的大事。应当切实加强民族区域自治权,加强民族地方权力机关制定刑法变通规定的工作,使刑法规定与少数民族传统习俗的冲突得到妥善解决。     

Cultural maintenance within the Tamil minority in Kuching: spanning three generations

This paper intends to determine whether the minority Tamil immigrant community in Kuching, Sarawak still maintains its heritage culture or has assimilated it with the dominant cultures in Sarawak. Are the Tamils in Kuching still maintaining their cultural norms? The data comes from a set of questionnaires investigating language, social and cultural identity, and unstructured interviews spanning three generations. The results show that, while some assimilation has occurred, the community has maintained its cultural identity. The most interesting revelation is the growing number of the younger generation who are adapting their heritage and cultural norms, clearly demonstrating Gibson’s accommodation and acculturation without assimilation.     

略论晚明时期耶稣会对华传教政策的变迁

耶稣会士在晚明中西文化交流中扮演着"桥梁"和"媒介"的作用.他们在沟通中西文化的对话和深层次的交流中做出了杰出的贡献.这一成就的取得与耶稣会制订的"文化适应"政策有直接的因果关系.晚明时期中西文化交流的实践充分证明了外来文化与本土文化进行平等对话与交流是完全可能的,但同时也凸显出两种异质文化对抗的强度和完全融合的难度.     

论我国民办高校融资的多元化路径

改革开放后，我国的民办高等教育迅速兴起并获得了快速的发展，但资金短缺问题日渐突出，成为阻碍其进一步发展的关键因素。民办高等教育可以而且应该利用多元化融资渠道来解决其发展中的资金瓶颈问题。     

自组织是中英文认知与教育协同的机制

自组织对推动中英文认知的发展具有重要的意义,跨语言教育应当通过组织行为发挥协同效应。本文首先介绍了自组织概念、机制和特征,以及中英文认知和教育协同观的思想;然后从自组织系统对"中介语"的解释,自组织对中英文认知和教育的作用、中英文认知和教育过程中自组织存在的条件等三个方面,论证了自组织是中英文认知与教育协同发展的机制。     

浅析我国国债的挤出效应

1998年我国政府实行积极财政政策，国债规模逐年攀升。但是庞大的国债规模。并没有对私人投资产生明显的挤出效应。尽管如此，政府制定政策时还是应当慎重，应该适当控制国债的增长率，转变财政支出的结构。本文从挤出效应的作用机制入手，通过模拟我国的IS-LM模型，从实证的角度论证了国债没有对私人投资产生明显的挤出效应。     

略论中国共产党的政治容纳性

中国共产党是工人阶级的政党,同时也是执政党。坚持党的政治阶级性是维护政党权的需要,扩大党的政治容纳性是维护执政权的需要。坚持两者的辩证统一,是对党的领导和执政能力的一个考验。执政党的政治容纳性,主要体现在执政党的执政理念、组织基础、社会基础、政策主张等方面。执政党既然掌握了公共权力,那么,它就占据了公众进行利益表达和利益综合等方面的主渠道,因此必须处理好代表特定阶级、阶层和群体与代表社会整体的关系,这也要求执政党政治应具有容纳性。政治容纳性是现代政党执政规律的内在规定;中国国情需要执政党的政治容纳性。