沸腾沉寂重现--先锋小说存在述评

先锋小说因其独特的反叛精神和话语实验在20世纪80年代中国的文坛上沸腾;到20世纪90年代先锋小说开始式微,甚至沉寂;到21世纪先锋小说家重现江湖。     

Breadth and the Core

Abstract

This article describes a staff development process aimed at promoting flexible approaches to ‘A’ levels and places it in the wider context of student achievement and teaching and learning styles. In addition to a number of Barnet College English Literature team INSET activities, staff and curriculum development has also involved a Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) funded collaborative project with Ravenscroft School in Barnet and involvement with the London Six Consortium for the AEB's ‘A’ level English Literature 660 Syllabus.     

An investigation of the usefulness of the Conner’s Continuous Performance Test II in the assessment of inattention and hyperactivity in the school

The Conners’ Continuous Performance Test (CCPT) is one of the most commonly used laboratory tests in the assessment of inattention and hyperactivity in children. Research suggests that the CCPT II has limited use in the identification of children’s inattention and hyperactivity in the school. Nonetheless, its usefulness to assess school-based inattention and hyperactivity has been examined by using only a small number of its performance measures. The purpose of the present study was to use the whole range of the performance measures included in the CCPT II to assess its potential to detect problems of attention and hyperactivity in the school setting. The CCPT II was administered to a selective sample (n?=?120) of 7-year-old primary school children with elevated rates of behaviour problems and reading difficulty. The Inattention and Hyperactivity subscales of the Conner’s Teacher Rating Scale – 28 (CTRS-28) were used to assess children’s problems of attention and hyperactivity in the school. Correlational analysis showed that the relationship between the CCPT II measures and children’s inattention and hyperactivity was relatively low (r range ?.02 to .38). Hierarchical regression analysis demonstrated that only three out of the 13 measures included in the CCPT II made a small contribution to the prediction of children’s inattention and hyperactivity scores. Of these measures, only one had not been previously used to examine the suitability of the CCPT II to assess inattention and hyperactivity in the school. The findings suggest that the use of the whole range of the CPPT II measures improves only slightly the tests capacity to identify inattention and hyperactivity in the school.     

Call for civil inattention: “RaceFail ’09” and counterpublics on the internet

Scholarship of counterpublics has long illuminated the rhetorical dynamics whereby the dominant public excludes marginalized groups from the public sphere and labels them undeserving of coexistence. However, the hypertextual architecture of the internet upends this inside–outside distinction, inverting challenges to and opportunities for a counterpublic. As illustrated by the course of “RaceFail ’09,” a debate over cultural appropriation and racism in online science fiction and fantasy fandom, the internet’s architecture makes it easy for a counterpublic to enter and draw attention from the broad public but much more difficult to maintain separation and preserve its boundaries from unwanted encroachment. Here I reread the norms of inclusion and transparency as historically specific constructs of canonical public sphere theories, and propose a consideration of particular challenges that counterpublics encounter online, including imposed labor, difficulty of withdrawal, and unwanted attention. I end the article with a proposal for civil inattention as a potential ethic for coexistence of publics and counterpublics on the internet.     

Sequential pattern learning and its associations with inattentive and hyperactive concerns in college students

College students frequently experience inattentive and hyperactive concerns. In multiple independent samples and three randomised experiments, we examined multiple versions of a short performance‐based measure translated from basic research on how organisms learn sequential stimuli patterns when such patterns are interleaved with information that is irrelevant to the pattern being learned. In one experiment, performance was uniquely related to self‐reported inattentive and hyperactive concerns, taking into account performance on a widely used inhibitory control task (Study 1, n = 20). In the two other experiments, randomly assigned variants of this measure demonstrated that: (a) relations among performance and inattentive and hyperactive concerns could be identified regardless of irrelevant stimuli positioning (Study 2, n = 60), and (b) one could reverse the relation between performance and inattentive and hyperactive concerns by visually enhancing distinguishing features of irrelevant stimuli (Study 3, n = 20). The findings have significant implications for multi‐method assessments of inattentive and hyperactive concerns in college settings.