Utah Initiatives and Referenda: A Research Guide

SUMMARY

Utah's constitution guarantees its citizens the right to participate in the legislative process through direct and indirect initiatives and referenda. This article provides researchers with a history of Utah's initiatives and referenda, an overview of the process, and a list of secondary and primary sources that can be consulted when researching in this area.     

Increasing the supply of secondary teachers in sub‐Saharan Africa: a stakeholder assessment of policy options in six countries

Over the next decade many countries of sub‐Saharan Africa will face a demand for qualified secondary school teachers that current systems for teacher recruitment, training, deployment and retention will be unable to meet. While strategies for increasing teacher supply to meet this shortage have been suggested, less attention has been given to investigating the acceptability of these potential solutions by those educators closest to the school and classroom level and who often serve as gatekeepers to policy implementation. Kingdon’s multiple streams model is the framework used in this study to assess the feasibility of key strategies widely offered as possible solutions to resolve the projected teacher shortage. This study investigated the responses of 114 secondary school teachers, headteachers and education officials across six countries to policy options for increasing teacher supply. While none of the groups supported options to increase the supply through changed teacher training, there was support among all three groups for options that affected retention, including increased in‐service training and distance education, more mentorship for new teachers and more opportunities for teachers to network with each other. These findings suggest that policy‐makers in sub‐Saharan African countries need to build political support among education stakeholders to find the most feasible and viable solutions to address the large teacher shortages through both increasing supply and retention.     

新概括 新话语 新举措——对中办、国办印发《关于加强和改进新形势下档案工作的意见》的理论思考

中办、国办于2014年5月印发了《关于加强和改进新形势下档案工作的意见》。文件内容紧贴“新形势下”档案工作实际,对档案工作体制机制、目标任务作出了新概括,在涉及综合档案馆职能及其与各专业档案馆之间的关系等方面赋予了新话语,对未来建设档案强国的发展路径提出了一系列新举措。     

加强校园体育文化建设对策研究

在分析校园文化概念、特征、功能和价值的基础上,从理论与实践结合的视角,提出了加强校园体育文化建设的对策：宣传舆论为先,营造校园体育文化氛围;加强组织管理,提高体育教师的综合素质;健全规章制度,加强学校体育场地设施的建设;完善健康教育体系,拓宽学生体育学习层面。     

Wider reading at Key Stage 3: happy accidents,bootlegging and serial readers

This paper reports a small‐scale study of wider reading at Key Stage 3 in current English classrooms in secondary schools in the south of England. Six English teachers, three of whom were relatively new to teaching, were interviewed on what they thought about wider reading. The findings indicate that because of a lack of time and absence of demand for such reading in the current English curriculum, the more experienced teachers felt ambivalent about encouraging and assessing wider reading. The less experienced teachers were uncertain about how to encourage it and whether to respond positively to students' preferred reading patterns, such as the serial reading of books by a particular author. In several of the schools concerned, it appeared that school librarians had taken over the role of encouraging wider reading, as the English teachers focused on the technical skills required by the National Literacy Strategy. Where teachers did initiate wider reading, this was sometimes against departmental practice, a semi‐illicit addition to their workload and could thus be seen almost as a form of ‘bootlegging’. In addition to wider educational effects, the lack of support for this practice has implications for students' future success in English at General Certificate of Secondary Education and Key Stage 5 (16–18) as both require students to read whole texts widely and confidently. The paper argues that it might be more productive to prepare students for this than to expect such reading to develop spontaneously as a ‘happy accident’.     

语文教学中主体性深层开发浅议

当前语文教学实践中主体性开发存在的一些问题，主要表现在：主体性失落于“有用”，主体性开发趋同，主体性开发低效，主体性开发媚俗。主体性开发在语文教学中十分必要，学生的语文素养、创造能力和正确的情感态度价值观，只有在学生的主体性充分发挥后才能有效地生成。主体性深层开发的有效经验是对话。     

激励在图书馆管理中的运用

以管理学、心理学理论为依据,阐述在图书馆的管理工作中怎样通过适度满足需要,有效运用激励方式、充分利用激励因素,最大限度地调动馆员的工作积极性和创造性。     

An Alternative Professional Development Program: Lessons Learned

Abstract. This article describes how a group of small liberal arts college faculty embraced the opportunity to create a faculty learning circle as an alternative professional development program. We provide a review of the program, discuss the lessons learned, and offer recommendations for future efforts in developing a similar faculty development program. Analysis of participant responses to the learning circle indicated that the experience met all their intended objectives. Faculty learning circles contribute to the participants' professional development and could be incorporated into any college campus.     

Converging libraries,archives and museums: overcoming distinctions,but for what gain?

Many within the information field have declared that libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) must collaborate or else face extinction. The convergence of these institutions marks the extreme of this movement, which is currently being driven by technological initiatives that seek to attract new, digitally engaged users. This paper presents some recent initiatives to bring these institutions together and explores the history of exchange between LAMs. Finally, a more pointed examination of archives in museums provides grounds to question the ability of technology to facilitate deep-rooted collaboration. This reading of the history of LAMs and their current challenges raises a concern that convergence is nothing more than a rebranding exercise, in which archives appear vulnerable to lose their defining characteristics.     

Survey on status of China＇s scientific journals

对154位“两院”院士以及《中国科学：物理学力学天文学》《科学通报》编委和资深审稿人的问卷调查结果表明,科研人员对我国科技期刊的现状满意度不高,其中高水平稿源的缺乏和期刊影响因子主导的科研评价方式是制约我国科技期刊发展的主要因素。该文从集中力量办好一批精品期刊、完善科研评价体系等方面提出了发展我国科技期刊的举措。