The contribution of the ontological turn in education: Some methodological and political implications

This paper follows recent debates on the ontological turn in the social sciences and humanities to exemplify how this turn creates important openings of methodological and political potential in education. In particular, the paper makes an attempt to show two things: first, the new questions and possibilities that are opened from explicitly acknowledging the methodological and political consequences of the ontological turn in education—e.g. concerning agency, transformation, materiality and relations; and second, the importance of being clear about how educators and educational researchers conceptualize ontology and engage with debates on the ontological turn in related disciplines. The paper sketches some of the methodological and political implications of the ontological turn for education, focusing in particular on the concept of learning.     

知识创造螺旋机理:认识论--本体论的观点

知识已经成为关键的经济资源，知识创造过程日益受到重视。本文在对知识创造过程有关文献分析研究的基础上，对知识创造过程从认识论和本体论的角度进行研究，最终建立了基于认识论和本体论的知识创造螺旋模型(E-O-Sprial-ESCI)。     

技术联盟契约承诺与成员绩效的关系研究

技术联盟契约承诺与成员企业绩效之间存在密切的联系。通过问卷调查和数据分析发现:联盟契约中的收益承诺和关系承诺对成员企业的任务绩效有显著的正向影响;联盟契约中的收益承诺、关系承诺和不确定性承诺均对成员企业的关系绩效有显著的正向影响;联盟契约中的不确定性承诺与成员企业的任务绩效不存在直接的因果关系。     

Sustainable assessment for lifelong learning

This paper explores the alignment of assessment practices in universities and lifelong learning as a key process and outcome for expansive student development. It outlines Boud’s approach to assessment, operationalises this to analyse practices in two contrasting national contexts: the sociology departments of the Midlands University in the UK and Nam Du University in Vietnam, and reframes this framework as a guide to improving practices and better-supporting lifelong learning. The paper thus contributes to recent debates about sustainable assessment and how to change assessment to better support students for lifelong learning in different countries. The findings suggest that although more elements were found at Midlands University than Nam Du University, assessment in both cases was an imperfect realisation of this framework. Nonetheless, the paper argues that the framework can offer guidance for changes to align assessment practices with lifelong learning, but to do this it should be adapted to the education context and also expanded to include explicit social commitments to others for expansive lifelong learning.     

Metaphysics and learning

Is it possible to learn and simultaneously articulate the metaphysical basis of that learning? In my contribution to the forum I tell of how I came to recognise that bilingual Yoruba children could articulate the contrasting metaphysical framings of Yoruba and English numbering. The story introduces an arena I call 'ontics' that recognises the contingencies of metaphysical commitments in the present. My claim is that learning to recognise and strategically articulate ontics as enacted metaphysical commitments in the present is useful in cross-cultural and transdisciplinary learning and crucial in inquiring into learning.     

21世纪国际金融法律秩序初探

资讯科技的进步进一步推动了国际金融市场的发展。建立并完善国际金融法律秩序成为金融业国际化发展的首要需求。WTO以其详尽而具体的条约规则体系及司法性质明显的争端解决机制，在创建新型国际经济秩序，完善经济领域国际法律秩序方面具有不可替代的引领作用。     

理性与我国科学图书馆学的构建

理性是科学的内核,科学是理性之外现。目前,我国图书馆学尚处于形而上学阶段,与具有独立学科意义的科学尚存在一定距离,其根本原因在于我国图书馆学研究中缺乏理性精神。科学图书馆学的抽象性、理论构建及其研究方法,都需要理性来把握。理性分为本体理性、认知理性、价值理性、方法理性四个层次。科学图书馆学也应从这四个方面去构建。     

Applying Conceptual Blending to Model Coordinated Use of Multiple Ontological Metaphors

Energy is an abstract science concept, so the ways that we think and talk about energy rely heavily on ontological metaphors: metaphors for what kind of thing energy is. Two commonly used ontological metaphors for energy are energy as a substance and energy as a vertical location. Our previous work has demonstrated that students and experts can productively use both the substance and location ontologies for energy. In this paper, we use Fauconnier and Turner's conceptual blending framework to demonstrate that experts and novices can successfully blend the substance and location ontologies into a coherent mental model in order to reason about energy. Our data come from classroom recordings of a physics professor teaching a physics course for the life sciences, and from an interview with an undergraduate student in that course. We analyze these data using predicate analysis and gesture analysis, looking at verbal utterances, gestures, and the interaction between them. This analysis yields evidence that the speakers are blending the substance and location ontologies into a single blended mental space.     

Organisational commitments and teaching styles among academics in mainland China

This research pioneered the investigation of the predictive power of organisational commitments for academics’ teaching styles. Participants were 370 faculty members from 15 higher educational institutions in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China. Results showed that academics’ organisational commitments as measured by the Organisational Commitment Inventory statistically significantly predicted their teaching styles as assessed by the Thinking Styles in Teaching Inventory over and above their gender, age, taught academic discipline and academic rank. Practical implications of the findings are proposed for academics and for university senior managers.     

论“极限论”

对哲学、数学中与无穷相关的存在问题进行开拓性系统研究,提出了"数性"、"本体数"、"形式数"、"应用无穷"等新概念.在"系统性"、"数性"、"数量形式"、"数、数值认知行为"和"科学性"的层面上,将千百年来悬而未决的芝诺悖论、贝克莱悖论和罗素悖论所揭示的问题联系起来作为一个"疑难怪症"进行研究,分析、研究极限论这种"处理无穷数学事物的技术与理论"是什么及其功能.结果表明,我们必须从错误的"实无穷-潜无穷"阴霾中走出,正确认识与科学的新"无穷观"、新数量理论相关的极限论的"本体-形式"论性质,修缮、重构现有的经典极限论及其相关的数学分析、集合论、实数理论(比如重新认识"戴德金-康托公理"和"连续统假设")等重要数学内容的基础理论,进一步开拓"数-数值理论"的研究.