John Macmurray’s Learning to Live and the new media, 1931–1949: learning for labour or leisure?

John Macmurray was a public intellectual and an early proponent of popular education through the new medium of radio. National broadcasting of the time was finding its role in the competing cultures of education and entertainment, and significantly one of Macmurray’s first radio projects in 1931–1932 concerned the issue of ‘Learning to Live’. Here he explored the tension between learning for labour and learning for leisure. Public understanding of education over the following two decades was fostered through the media of print and cinema. Three examples are identified here to explore how this ‘conceptual couple’ of ‘learning’ and ‘life’ were treated: a propaganda film (1941) that adopted Macmurray’s title, Learning to live; School and life, an official report published in 1947; and a commercial documentary production in 1949 entitled Education for living. Macmurray conveyed his ‘applied philosophy’ through public broadcasting even before his major academic publications and his use of radio itself demonstrated its potential for learning as leisure activity for a mass audience. As in radio, so in documentary film, and even in official reports new understandings of education had to be accessible and attractive. Appraisal of Macmurray’s work must include an historical examination of new media in the development of educational discourse.     

Universities as legal entities and community dispute resolution: An Australian case study

This article considers the exercise of statutory power by an Australian university, in the state of Victoria, when undertaking commercial activities that impact negatively on a local community. A single case study design is used to report on the process engaged in by the community and university to resolve this dispute. This includes consideration of the university’s characterisation of the activities it engaged in, the university bypassing local planning processes and the university’s identification of the community with which to conduct its consultation processes. All publicly available documents regarding the proposed development were scrutinised as well as records of public forums related to the dispute. The study findings advance public understanding of the complexity of the vexed question of the extent to which university legislation can be used for commercial purposes and key issues for consideration when undertaking university–community engagement that have wider application for universities globally. John Dewey’s philosophy of democracy and education provides valuable insights for developing democratic processes that facilitate deep understandings and good will that ultimately have the potential to enrich communities and prevent conflict.     

大学生自主学习能力培养研究——英国约克圣约翰大学课程案例分析

培养学生的自主学习能力一直是高等教育领域的一个热门话题。本文旨在根据作者自身经历,以英国约克圣约翰大学等一具体课程为例,从课堂教学,课外自学以不考试评估三方面为切入点,探讨如何培养学生的自主学习能力。     

The Christian Doctrines of Salvation at the Earlier Stages of The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress has been written to preach the Christian doctrines of salvation.Therefore its allegorical protagonists have gradually gone through four stages of development on the path to salvation.This paper is focused on the earlier two stages,that is,the repentance of sins and the temptations after conversion.     

马约翰在昆的体育思想与实践研究

提起马约翰先生,人们通常想到是他在清华对体育所做的贡献,而很少有人想起他在云南昆明的体育实践。本文采用文献资料法、逻辑分析法、比较研究法对抗战时期马先生在昆明的体育实践进行研究,研究认为：马先生在昆的体育实践主要包括在西南联大的学校体育实践和在昆明组织的大众体育实践两大部分。在学校体育实践过程中马先生延续了他在清华形成的以自然主义体育为主的教育思想,重视体育对人全面教育的作用;在大众体育实践中马先生在延续他自然主义体育思想的同时与战时的民族主义体育思想发生了交叉,他将自然主义科学、民主的体育方法运用于民族主义体育实践中,取得了良好的成绩。     

卜舫济与司徒雷登治校之道

卜舫济和司徒雷登分别是圣约翰大学和燕京大学校长.他们掌理校政过程中存有诸多共性,如注重实践校训理念、多方筹款自比乞丐、精打细算治理学校内务、倾注真情增进师生关系等.这些执掌校政之道至今仍值得我们借鉴.