Repertoires of collective action in an “IT City”: Urban civil society negotiations of offline and online spaces in Bangalore

This paper examines the ways in which two Internet-based civil society groups, Hasiru Usiru and Praja, negotiate online and offline spaces of collective action in Bangalore, India’s “IT City.” Based on ethnographic research, the study extends collective action theory through an examination of communicative interactions and experiences of urban civil society actors in a developing country. The paper highlight factors that impede and support collective actions, including attitudes toward the Internet as a tool for democratic engagement, ideological motivations, and perceptions of identity and membership, among others. Such a line of inquiry is significant in highlighting the possibilities of ICTs for collective action, while simultaneously avoiding the tendency to inflate and overestimate their capacity to produce social change.     

Extending the Empathic Communication Model of Burnout: Incorporating Individual Differences to Learn More about Workplace Emotion,Communicative Responsiveness,and Burnout

This field study contributes to the literature on emotional communication in the human-services industry. Specifically, this study extends the empathic communication model of burnout by incorporating individual differences to predict workplace emotion and communicative responsiveness. This extension has important implications for both research and knowledge on responsiveness, burnout, and workplace practices. A questionnaire filled out by 159 caregivers from a moderately sized human-services agency explored the role of self-monitoring and emotional intelligence in enhancing caregiver performance. Results indicate that those caregivers who can control their expressive behavior and manage their moods to maintain a sense of optimism are in a better position to respond emotionally and communicatively to distressed clients and resist job burnout.     

Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2002 convention of the Western States Communication Association.

Museums, memorials, and other historic places are key sites in the construction of collective memory and national identity. The Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming is one such space of memory where the (pre)history of “America” and its native peoples is told. Based on the view of texts as experiential landscapes, it is argued that this museum works to absolve Anglo-visitors of the social guilt regarding Western conquest through a rhetoric of reverence. This rhetorical mode invites visitors to adopt a respectful, but distanced observational gaze. A concluding section assesses the social and political consequences of memorializing in this mode.     

Compassionate Communication in the Workplace: Exploring Processes of Noticing,Connecting, and Responding

This research contributes to the growing body of literature exploring emotion and communication in the workplace by considering the workers in a variety of jobs that require “compassionate communication.” Compassion is conceptualized as one form of emotional work and is theoretically developed through a model that highlights the subprocesses of noticing, feeling, and responding. Analyses of interviews with 23 workers in a wide range of human service jobs indicated a number of complexities in the communication of compassion in the workplace. Processes of “noticing” included both noticing the need for compassion and noticing details of clients’ lives in order to communicate more successfully in compassionate ways. Processes of “connecting” included both emotional processes (empathy) and cognitive processes (perspective taking). Processes of “responding” included both nonverbal strategies, such as immediacy behaviors and environmental structuring, and verbal strategies for balancing the informational and emotional content of messages. These results are interpreted in the light of both contemporary and traditional communication theory, and practical implications are presented for human service workers and others involved in compassionate communication in the workplace.     

Preservice science teachers’ collective efficacy in a science methods course

This study investigated how preservice teachers develop collective efficacy when preparing lesson plans for a science methods course, and how this collective efficacy changed over time. The data were collected from four preservice science teachers working in a group to fulfil the requirements of the course. Findings revealed that four factors, including collaborative work, sharing the same goal, attitudes towards group work and group cohesion, played an important role in the development of collective efficacy among preservice teachers. The study also showed that collective efficacy improved continuously over the semester.     

统计分析馆藏优化藏书结构

对洛阳工业高等专科学校图书馆近年来馆藏量、读者人数、外借率、藏书比例作了统计分析，对今后图书馆藏书建设的优化进行了探讨．     

《春秋经传集解》对训诂学的贡献

《春秋经传集解》是魏晋时代一部重要的古籍注本,其训诂视角承袭汉儒,又有所发展变化,注重对历法、地理、人物、礼制的考释,并借此来深入阐释经传;重视探究经传的联系,通过经传相互发明,解《经》说《传》。《集解》释词说句全面承袭汉儒传统,又有所发挥,注重揭示词句在经传中的特定含义,前后勾连,以交代与被释词句相关史事的方式来帮助读者读懂经传。     

Learning through observations: the potential of collective worship in primary schools

This article reports the learning achieved by a group of trainee teachers about acts of collective worship (CW) organised in English primary schools. Using data gathered from non-participant observation questionnaires, it describes, from the viewpoint of observers, three main findings related to children and their learning, the position of CW in primary schools and their own learning about it. The findings reveal that children learn, among other things, values, dispositions, morals and issues connected to their self-esteem, reflection, prayer and spirituality. Participants consider these to be attempts to empower children to be active in out-of-school contexts. The data suggest that these trainees think that CW has a place in primary schools as it holds many benefits for the children, school and wider community. In terms of their own learning, the data shows that they learnt about the purpose and value of CW, their professionalism and the practice within their respective schools.     

向下超越和向上求索——论路内长篇小说《慈悲》的哲理意蕴

路内的长篇小说《慈悲》是其"中年转型"之作。小说虽然写了国营工厂以及生活在工厂里的工人近半个世纪的命运变迁,但却有着自己形而上的追求,具有丰富的哲理意蕴。《慈悲》在对死亡事件的重复书写中,彰显了人从生到死、从有到无的命运逻辑,并追问了人在无中如何争取有、在死中如何获取生的问题。而在回答这一问题时,小说主要通过对比师傅、根生、宿小东和水生四人面对工厂秩序的不同态度来书写不同的生存意识,传达自己的生活信念,最终肯定了水生在日常生活中既能向下超越,又能向上求索的生活信念。     

“东亚病夫”再认识

"东亚病夫"一词,长期以来它被许多中国人认为是西方帝国主义者强加给中国以羞辱中国和中国人的侮辱性绰号,尤其是针对中国人的病弱身躯。然而,对此术语的理解充满了曲解。这个术语最先被西方政治评论用来描述19世纪末清帝国衰弱腐败的情况。然而,到了20世纪早期,这个术语的意义被中国的思想家们为了刺激人民的改革意愿而改造以增强民族危机意识。