Agenda setting in multilateral contexts: the example of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

A number of papers have focused on UN policy formulation processes, but little is known about how particular issues come to policy-makers’ attention in the first place. This very early stage of policy formulation, called agenda setting, remains under-researched and more so in multilateral contexts. Applying Kingdon’s multiple streams model to the example of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), this study analyses the trajectory of the policy from being just an idea to the point of being placed on the UN agenda. This paper goes on to argue that there are three conditions that supported the successful trajectory of DESD: a funding-backed policy entrepreneur, policy oligopoly, and a highly predictable policy window. Its theoretical contribution is to fill the gap between current studies and theories by presenting an analysis of one policy in a multilateral context.     

我国公共图书馆“读写障碍症”服务的调查与对策分析

采用调查问卷的方法,面向广州图书馆的用户（主要是儿童家长）,针对以下方面展开调查：对读写困难症的认知、读写困难症现象的评估、有关信息的获取和交流途径、对图书馆读写困难症儿童服务的认知、预估及建议等。提出我国公共图书馆读写困难症儿童服务的对策,即提高社会认知程度,培养专业服务人员,加强资源环境建设,创新多种服务方式,加强多方合作交流等。     

Ground reaction forces and kinematics of plant leg position during instep kicking in male and female collegiate soccer players

The players' ability to achieve the greatest distance in kicking is determined by their efficiency in transferring kinetic energy from the body to the ball. The purpose of this study was to compare the kinetics and kinematics of the plant leg position between male and female collegiate soccer players during instep kicking. Twenty-three soccer players (11 males and 12 females) were filmed in both the sagittal and posterior views while performing a maximal instep kick. Plant leg kinetic data were also collected using an AMTI 1000 force platform. There were no significant differences between the sexes in plant leg position, but females had significantly greater trunk lean, plant leg angle, and medial-lateral ground reaction force than the males. Males showed higher vertical ground reaction forces at ball contact, but there were no significant differences in ball speed at take-off between the sexes. Ball speed at take-off was inversely related to peak anterior-posterior ground reaction force (-0.65). The anatomical differences between the sexes were reflected in greater trunk lean and lower leg angle in the females.     

美国公共图书馆“阅读障碍症”群体服务研究

认为阅读障碍症是一种隐性疾病,已经受到欧美、日本等多个地区和国家的诸多图书馆的关注。美国公共图书馆的阅读障碍症群体服务在理论和实践方面有很多值得我国图书馆学习借鉴之处。通过对8所美国公共图书馆进行调查,分析美国图书馆为开展阅读障碍症群体服务如何进行部门设置、寻求合作机构及合作途径等,总结出对美国图书馆阅读障碍症群体服务的几点思考：加强阅读障碍症服务相关立法,发挥图书馆协会的作用;动员社会多方力量参与,加强社会交流与合作;注重阅读障碍症相关知识的宣传,畅通公众信息获取渠道;完善阅读障碍症服务设施,营造良好的阅读环境。     

Comparative Indigenous education research (CIER): Indigenous epistemologies and comparative education methodologies

International Review of Education - This article considers the contributions of Indigenous knowledges to educational research. It proposes the term comparative Indigenous education research (CIER)...     

Indigenous knowledges as vital contributions to sustainability

International Review of Education -     

Ground reaction forces and kinematics of plant leg position during instep kicking in male and female collegiate soccer players

The players' ability to achieve the greatest distance in kicking is determined by their efficiency in transferring kinetic energy from the body to the ball. The purpose of this study was to compare the kinetics and kinematics of the plant leg position between male and female collegiate soccer players during instep kicking. Twenty-three soccer players (11 males and 12 females) were filmed in both the sagittal and posterior views while performing a maximal instep kick. Plant leg kinetic data were also collected using an AMTI 1000 force platform. There were no significant differences between the sexes in plant leg position, but females had significantly greater trunk lean, plant leg angle, and medial-lateral ground reaction force than the males. Males showed higher vertical ground reaction forces at ball contact, but there were no significant differences in ball speed at take-off between the sexes. Ball speed at take-off was inversely related to peak anterior–posterior ground reaction force ( ? 0.65). The anatomical differences between the sexes were reflected in greater trunk lean and lower leg angle in the females.     

The Reproduction of Scientific Understanding about Pendulum Motion in the Public

This paper describes life-span development ofunderstanding about pendulum motion and effectsof school science. The subjects were 2,766 peopleranging from kindergartners up to 88 years seniorcitizens. The conflict and consensus between childrenand their parent's understanding of pendulum motionwere also analyzed. The kindergartner's understanding,mostly non-scientific, made a marked developmental changeto another type of non-scientific understanding by thetime they reach G 4. Parents with scientific understandingdo not presumably nurture scientifically minded children,even though about half of them can apply scientificconceptions that shorter pendulums swing faster, andthe amplitude and speed of pendulum motion do not dependon its weight. There seems to be another type ofdevelopmental change from scientific understanding tonon-scientific understanding around their fifties. Itis suggested that the scientific understanding in thepublic about pendulum motion become predominant due tothe educational intervention through school science.