The visual rhetoric of the aerial view: From surveillance to resistance

We live in a world increasingly photographed from satellites, planes, and drones. Many scholars have viewed aerial imagery through a dystopian lens, largely due to its use by the state and its legacy of military applications. While problematic uses of aerial images persist, this paper theorizes rhetorical potentialities of aerial imagery. We posit how aerial imagery creates these potentialities through strategies related to questions of visibility, scale, and aesthetics. Using case studies that illuminate these strategies, we demonstrate how they can be used to resist state and corporate interests, constitute new social movements, and invite contemplation of otherwise repellent political subject matter. Ultimately, we argue that with increased technological access and the ability to reconfigure norms of expertise, the aerial view presents both opportunities for civic engagement and counter-hegemonic potential.     

Bridging Research and Practice: How Sales Training Can Contribute to New Product Launch Success

This study demonstrates how academicians and practitioners can work together on an important topic that matters to organizational performance: the pivotal role played by salespeople during new product launches. In particular, the authors present three potential interventions that training and sales managers may use to sell a new product to salespeople. The results legitimatize the critical contribution of sales training to new product sales performance and highlight the value of the partnership between training professionals and sales managers.     

后现代文化视野中的道德教育之审美维度

网络,也称互联网,它自1969年在美国问世以来,经过三十多年的发展,波及全球,渗透到人类政治、经济、文化等各大领域,迅速地改变了人们的学习、生活工作和思维方式。网络社会,各种思想意识形态冲破了时间、空间、国界的限制,以一种新的传播方式深刻地影响着人们的思想观念、道德风貌和价值取向。中国互联网络信息中心（CNNIC）2004年7月的《中国互联网络发展状况统计报告》显示,中国网民中18至30岁的网民数量占总数的53．2％,大专和本科文化层次的占54．2％。网络对大学生影响较大。积极方面：它有利于大学生效率观念、平权意识和全球眼光的形成;有利于大学生现代生活方式的形成;     

REPORT OF BIBLICAL INSTRUCTORS CONFERENCE*

This article examines the psychoanalytic concepts of object-relations theorist Christopher Bollas, applying them to a view of the Bible as “transformational object.” Emphasizing the connection between psychological process and religious experience, this article suggests that each person's innate ability to choose and use objects is a key factor in their ability to appropriate the Bible for constructive use. By offering religious objects with psychological awareness, religious educators may come to appreciate that silence, empathy, and open-ended lesson plans are important incubators of transformation; and that aggression has a potentially positive role in the healthy development of worship communities.     

Ethnic origin and social control: Jewish and Arab delinquents in IsraelLos delincuentes Arabes y Judios en IsraelL'origine ethinque et le contrôle social: délinquants Juifs et Arabes en Israël

A review of the literature reveals that minorities often receive relatively severe dispositions by the various law enforcement agencies (police, probation, and the courts). This discrimination is usually explained by the prejudices of officers of these agencies. A study of the official statistics of juvenile delinquency in Israel reveals a similar pattern: Arab juveniles are overrepresented among recipients of severe recommendations and decisions. This overrepresentation is mostly due to the harsher recommendations Arab juveniles receive from their probation officers. However, since these officers are Arabs, prejudice cannot be the explanation. An attitudes and opinions survey reveals that Arab probation officers are more concerned with the community's welfare than the Jewish ones. This fact seems to be the cause of the difference in the pattern of recommendations.     

REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN JEWISH EDUCATION

My vision of Jewish education assumes the critical importance of finding not only better methodologies and curricula but also more highly motivated and better-trained staff. Yet, even with such an assumption, the ultimate need is for religious schools to “connect” in the deepest sense: to connect with the family as much as with the student; to connect with the students' perceptions of the world they know, so that Jewish learning does not seem to be totally alien to their lives; and to connect with a sense of the overall vibrancy of the synagogue as the center of Jewish life.     

DiaspoRican Art as a Space for Identity Building,Cultural Reclamation,and Political Reimagining

The lives of Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood of Humboldt Park, Chicago, are often situated in a complex social field shaped by transnational cultural and political border crossing. We argue that artistic practices in this neighborhood are integral to building community and individual identities grounded in local meanings of the Puerto Rican diaspora experience. Interviews with three adolescent community residents and a high school art teacher indexed themes that exemplify community residents’ purposes for artistic practice: (1) self-expression within practices of collective identity building; (2) cultural reclamation; and (3) political reimagining. We also discuss how such work invites new tensions for identity making, including who can participate, who is represented, and what forms those representations take. These tensions point backward in time, forward to the future, and across geopolitical space. Finally, we suggest implications for learning in schools.