From the bottom-up: New York City teacher evaluation and the narration of mediated institutional assault

Following the trend of consequential accountability in US public education, New York City introduced a teacher evaluation program during the 2013–2014 school year that linked teachers’ individual performance ratings with their students’ exam scores. As this program systemically alters the nature of teacher–student relationships by transforming students into the means to an end (teachers’ professional viability), this study investigated the implementation of this accountability program from the point of view of the teachers – those who were the subject of this new policy. This study of 15 teachers’ narratives from 3 distinct schools illuminates a social-organizational process that I refer to as mediated institutional assault – a perceived attack on the teachers’ sense of personhood and moral agency perpetrated by mediating figures whose actions were facilitated by bureaucratic policies and institutionally coordinated tools of control. Thus, this study reveals that the consequence of this new mode of accountability is not merely the threat of losing one’s job, but also an insidious form of psychological assault, which in its masked delivery violates teachers’ sense of relational morality and challenges deeply engrained beliefs about their role as educators.     

邓小平战略思维的形成与发展

战略思维就是关于全局性思维。邓小平战略思维反映了在和平与发展的时代条件下 ,我国改革开放和社会主义现代化建设新时期的时代精神。邓小平战略思维是对我国社会主义胜利和挫折历史经验的科学总结 ,是改革开放和现代化建设的新鲜经验的总结 ,是对其它社会主义国家兴衰成败历史经验的总结 ,是对世界经济发展新经验和科学技术革命新成就的概括和吸取。研究邓小平的战略思维无论是对邓小平理论的丰富和拓展 ,还是对面向未来的中国发展战略的把握 ,都具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

What the West could learn from the East: a reflective analysis

Drawing on Lugones’ ideas of world traveling, Dewey’s notion of education as experience, and Greene’s vision of seeing small/seeing big, this article inquires into lives lived in an Eastern educational milieu with attention reflectively paid to what educators in the West could learn from those in the East. Rather than focusing on mega narratives largely created by policy-makers and derived from accumulations of theory and/or political decision-making, this practical research in the reflective vein takes a ‘big’ look at three ‘small stories’ that emerged in a narrative inquiry we conducted in a Chinese elementary school and imagines their portability to Western educational contexts. Reflective attention is specifically paid to: (1) teaching without words, (2) principal images, and (3) shared responsibility for failure. What these small stories from our narrative inquiry research might disrupt, if introduced to Western educational settings, is especially taken up.     

Strategic transfer: A tool for academic problem solving

Within the context of classroom learning, strategic transfer can be viewed as a tool for academic problem solving. Strategic transfer is defined as the spontaneous access and retrieval (remembering) of previously learned formal procedures for the successful solution of a problem. The transfer-appropriate processing encoding model (Morris, Bransford, and Franks, 1977), and the transfer-appropriate procedures retrieval model (Roediger, Weldon, and Challis, 1989) are reviewed. An integration of the two models is proposed through the development of a training-for-transfer paradigm (Phye, 1990). By integrating encoding and retrieval processing in a single transfer paradigm the issue of accessing prior knowledge (Bransford, 1990) that is also referred to as the inert knowledge problem (Whitehead, 1929) can directly be addressed.     

论《心是孤独的猎者》的叙事节奏

《心是孤独的猎者》是卡森.麦卡勒斯的名著之一。通过对一个有很多悲微小人物的小镇的描写,麦卡勒斯表现了现代社会中的人的精神孤独感。而其时缓时急、时快时慢的独特叙事方式节奏更体现出其小说的艺术价值。     

随笔文写作与学校叙事辅导--随笔文与中学生个性成长的研究报告

随笔文写作是学生反思自我，建构自我的平台，是学校叙事辅导中的一种方便而有效的方式。实验结果表明，在教学活动中以学生随笔本为辅导媒介，通过师生平等对话、交流和相互评价等一系列活动，可以促进学生在写作兴趣、挫折承受力、自信心、交往能力方面的显著提高。     

论《孙子》的战略思想及学术影响

战略理论是孙子军事学说的主体部分，《孙子》十三篇，以“庙算”这一战略概念为核心，渐次论述了“安国保民”的战略目标，“五事七计”的战略运筹、“不战屈敌”的全胜谋略，“知彼知己”的指战原理，其主旨首尾一贯，结构率然有序，体大思精，成就辉煌，《孙子》的战略论对当今时代的战略研究仍有着重大的学术影响。     

玫瑰的无声诉说——《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的艺术魅力

通过分析福克纳短篇小说《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的主题，探讨这部小说的表现艺术。福克纳是以时空跳跃的叙事模式、灵活多变的叙述视角和丰富多彩的象征隐喻来达到“无声胜有声”的表达效果的。     

简论孙中山的西部开发战略构想

孙中山的西部开发战略构想是我国近代历史上关于西部开发较为完整的战略构想。追赶世界科技明进步潮流，改变我国经济落后面貌是其出发点；以铁路建设为先导，以实现工业化为中心，使西部经济全面近代化是其基本任务；实行开放和“节制资本”等政策是其基本措施。     

民营企业多元化经营刍议

随着经济的纵深发展，多元化经营成为很多企业发展到一定阶段的战略选择，民营企业中的一部分，特别是上市民营企业，为了做强做大，应对市场风险，开始走向多元化战略的发展之路。但发展现状堪忧。文章对比分析多元化经营与专业化经营，提出民营企业实施多元化经营的对策。