The IOC and the doping issue—An institutional discursive approach to organizational identity construction

To show why the 1998 doping scandals led to the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this paper investigates how the IOC has created its organizational identity once confronted with the emergence of doping in sport. The paper endorses a new institutional understanding of organizations, which is combined with a critical discourse analytical framework. Through a systematic reading of the Olympic Review between 1960 and 2003 four main anti-doping discourses are outlined: health scientific, ethical, legal and educational discourses construct the meaning-providing horizon of IOC anti-doping commitment. The 1988 Ben Johnson doping incident is crucial for the understanding of the organizational changes occurring 10 years later. Immediately following the Seoul Olympic Games the IOC applies a warfare genre, which frames anti-doping as a declaration of war and constructs a narrative of the IOC as leading a successful battle against doping. The 1998 doping scandals reveal the opposite. Subsequently, WADA can be labelled IOC's institutionalization failure.     

Service projects and women's agency in Salalah, Oman: A portrait of pre-service Dhofari English teachers

This research examines the service learning activities and written discourse of pre-service teachers from a cohort of 50 young women who were among the first generation in their community to complete a local university education with BA degrees in English language and literature combined with a subsequent teaching diploma to become English teachers. Based on written reports about service projects completed at the end of teacher training, the dominant theme that emerges is that of women's agency. Discourse analysis is used to create a portrait of how Dhofari women are learning to take agency and gradually developing their own unique views within student-centered learning.     

Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning

Recent initial teacher education policy and regulatory frameworks privilege “classroom ready” discourses. Taking up “readiness” as technical skill requiring more “practice” leads to narrowing of teachers’ roles and efficacy with increasing pressure and regulation that marginalises ideals to equip pre-service teachers to be “community ready”. We argue that enabling preservice teacher agency to engage with community beyond notions of mastering bounded classroom practice is critical to teachers’ roles. Supporting teachers to teach in context as engaged global citizens requires a readiness of relational understanding and skills about the lived experiences of learners, and their wider community contexts. Data from a critical service learning case study highlight how preservice teacher agency to engage with community is conceptualised and experienced in simultaneously beneficial and challenging ways. These findings indicate the complex, yet necessarily significant contributions of service learning experiences to the development of preservice teacher “readiness”.     

两大法系代理制度的比较研究

代理制度是大陆法系与英美法系所共有的一项法律制度,与此同时,在两大法系的区别中,没有哪一个分支的法学理论的差异像代理这样大.由于两大法系法律文化、历史传统、思维方式以及其他社会经济因素的不同,致使各个国家赋予它的含义不完全一样.本文通过对两大法系代理制度的历史发展、两大法系关于代理的规定的比较研究,揭示其差异的原因,并对我国的代理制度进行评价.     

媒体融合发展对接中国特色新型智库建设的路径研究

在媒体融合发展和中国特色新型智库建设的大背景下,近年来诸多媒体开始尝试向智库方向转型,未来行业竞争压力将逐渐增大。瞭望智库筹建近3年来,完整地经历了从"智库型媒体"到"媒体型智库"的转变,成功地实现了将传统新闻生产方式转变为以深度研究为核心抓手的智力产品生产模式。文章结合瞭望智库发展和运行过程中的实际情况,提出一套适合媒体融合发展对接中国特色新型智库建设的路径建议。     

承揽性质的旅游合同法律缺失及风险防范

具有承揽性质的旅游合同在中国旅行社行业内的推广,打乱了旅游活动中各方经营者与旅游者之间的法律关系,带来了一系列法律风险,对旅游者的权益保护,旅行社乃至旅游行业的健康发展都极为不利,如果把旅游合同按照委托合同来定性,则完全可以将旅游活动中各个环节存在的问题解释透彻,还可以克服承揽性质的旅游合同所带来的大量法律漏洞问题,比较符合中国现行的法律体系和目前中国的国情.     

一种分布式层次型校园网络管理模型的研究

伴随高校合并,出现了物理上分布,逻辑上统一的多校区现象,校园网络向大规模、异构方向快速发展,传统网络管理无法满足网络发展的需要。在分析现有网络管理模型的基础上,针对合并高校的特点,构造了一个分布式、层次型的网络管理模型,经过与现有网络管理模型的比较,表明该模型更适合分布式校园网的管理。     

人事代理制度下高校人事档案管理关键问题分析

人事代理制度是市场经济发展下的一种新型用人制度,高等院校能够借助这种制度打破传统计划经济模式下的所有制界限,将人才使用权与所有权分开,对促进高校人力资源的合理配置具有积极的作用.文章针对人事代理制度的特点,从管理职责和管理流程的视角分析了人事代理制度下高校人事档案管理中存在的关键问题,提出相应的管理对策.     

茂名热电厂200MW机组锅炉掺烧印尼煤试验及分析

由于目前市场发电用煤供应紧张,各电厂普遍面临煤种变化大,实际燃用煤质较设计煤种变化较大,直接导致锅炉效率下降,电厂整体经济性下降。同时各发电企业为提升企业经济性、提高企业效益,积极寻求更加合适的新煤源,通过积极和经济的技术改造适应煤质变化。结合茂名热电厂200MW机组掺烧印尼煤的情况从运行实际出发,分析解决了由于煤质不稳定或者煤质偏离设计煤质及锅炉设计上的缺陷对锅炉的正常运行带来的负面影响,从而有效地提高了锅炉运行的安全性及经济性。     

Girls’ educational aspirations and agency: imagining alternative futures through schooling in a low-resourced Tanzanian community

The chance of a secondary education for young girls who might have otherwise been among many out-of-school youth cultivates aspirations for their future. While aspirations to be educated expand the possibilities of opportunities, they also go unfulfilled in an environment of low achievement rates, high unemployment and constraining gender norms that can leave many secondary graduates disempowered. This study examines how aspirations, agency and future well-being are linked through 4 years of longitudinal data from interviews with girls in a technical and vocational school in rural Tanzania. Conceptually, the paper puts forward a framework within a capability approach to consider how aspirations and agency are oriented toward valued well-being. It also draws inspiration from Appadurai’s use of aspirations as a cultural concept that is future and change oriented and socially embedded. Finally, the body of scholarship that frames Bourdieu’s notion of agency as productive is drawn upon to illuminate whether and how girls are agentic in acting toward their aspirations. Bringing these conceptualizations together, the empirical analysis shows how aspirations and agency are dialectically related and socially situated, allowing for openings in agency to occur even when faced with gendered constraints to aspirations.