List of books reviewed B.J.E.S. 42:4

ABSTRACT

Since gratitude is a significant pro-social quality or virtue, it might be (and has been) considered of some educational concern. However, while it clearly needs to be understood as a response that is in some sense required or owed towards benefactors, gratitude would hardly seem genuine unless it is freely and perhaps joyfully given – perhaps on the basis of some specific grateful emotion. Despite some academic appreciation of tension between these aspects of gratitude, the psychological and normative implications of what we shall call here the ‘paradox of gratitude’ for its learning or acquisition have been less thoroughly explored. Following some consideration of rival educational perspectives on this tension, this article argues that the best route to its resolution may be to surrender the idea of a distinct pro-social emotion or sentiment of gratitude.     

现代性之隐忧与多样性方案

当今时兴的"现代性"话题实际上是在"后现代"的语境中被提问与阐释的。现代性的论述者对现代性的隐忧进行了多方面的质疑,"谁的现代性"这种提问再次提出了文化中心主义问题,把对现代性的质疑转变为一个现代性的多样化方案思考。这一思考深刻地影响了当代中国思想界。现代性的多样化方案有两种取向值得重视,其一是查尔斯·泰勒试图从社区主义那里寻找资源,以文化差异性来建构非中心化的世界图景;另一种是设想从传统主义那里找到新的依据。在中国,现代性处于一项未完成的事业,但传统主义的影响依然深厚,即使是较大限度可以接受西方现代性基本理念的论说者,也设想依靠传统主义来建构中国的现代性思想文化基础。论文认为,超出简单的中心／边缘,同质化／多样性的对立,回到个体"本真性"的基础,建构一种"主体最小值"的思想文化,可能是适合当代中国文化语境的一种设想,它可以作为新的起点,在保持现代性基本价值理念的前提下,通向更具开放活力的后现代文化。     

THE WISH TO LEARN Research into Motivation

Nine LEAs in the South Yorkshire/ Derbyshire region collaborated in planning an inquiry into the methods used in schools for assessing pupils aged 11 to 14 years. Information from questionnaire surveys was obtained from headteachers, heads of department or equivalent middle school post holders and class teachers. Also, there were special studies of schemes or particular methods which were aimed at identifying criteria associated with good practices.

Questionnaire analyses indicated that school policies were focused more on assessment routines than on fulfilling educational intentions, and that only a minority of teachers had specialist knowledge or skills in the field of assessment. An outline is given of the ‘Pointers to good practice’ section, which formed the concluding part of the final report (Engel Clough et al., 1984).     

The religious educational legacy of Mordechai (Motti) Bar-Lev: scholar and visionary

The aim of this article is to analyse the educational and spiritual legacy of Mordechai (Motti) Bar-Lev, one of the pillars of religious education research in Israel. We first analyse the ideological–theoretical foundations that underlay his thought and provided inspiration for his scientific writing. Next, we analyse the principal dilemmas on which he focused in his research, and finally we attempt to consider the special nature of his work and its contribution to religious education research. Bar-Lev’s quantitative and qualitative research dealt with the elite of religious Zionism who grappled with traditionalism and modernity, and principally with its habitat – state religious education. Bar-Lev will be remembered not only as having informed the field of religious education in Israel, but, most of all, as the researcher who shaped its future.     

经济传统主义对高校本科生职业意识的影响

高校学生意识在社会转型期的特征表现为"学生经济人"模型的职业意识的形成。经济传统主义对学生精神品格的消极影响表现为缺少对职业道德的守护,表现为行政力量对学术力量的遮蔽以及"学而优则仕"与"学生经济人"品格的对峙。高校本科生"学生经济人"的职业意识是与中国现代化意识相契合的存在,一方面促进高校本科生"学生经济人"职业意识的成熟与深化,另一方面也有效抵制经济传统主义对学生职业意识的侵蚀。     

Traditionalism and its impact on the administration of justice: the case of the Syariah Court of Singapore

Abstract

This paper examines, by way of case studies, the influence of traditionalism as a style of thought on the administration of Muslim law on divorce in the Syariah Court of Singapore. It focuses on the mode of its operation in the selection, construction and application of the law, and highlights its repercussions on the lives of parties in family breakdowns. The paper also touches upon the effects of traditionalism on the development of a more progressive legal culture and identifies measures that would alleviate the problem.     

解读五四时期陈独秀的反传统主义

本首先从伦理道德、政治制度、化教育、学艺术、国民人格等方面梳理了陈独秀反传统主义思想的主要脉络和基本内涵，并分析了其反传统主义的内在逻辑结构和重心所在；其次，通过分析，归纳总结了陈独秀反传统主义思想具有的反孔排儒、破立统一、毫不妥协的坚定性和强烈感情倾向等三大特征；运用历史分析、逻辑分析和心理分析的方法，追踪探解当时陈独秀反传统主义思想行为的主观动机和客观效果，反驳当时和后世对他的误解，从历史和现实的互动中确立陈独秀反传统主义的历史高度、启蒙价值和跨时空的影响力。     

后崛起诗群“寻根”意识的嬗变及其价值重估

面对“现代性”话语的内在矛盾性，以杨炼、江河为代表的北京诗人群。率先企图借助“文化”的反思以求得这一矛盾的拆解。他们的“现代史诗”并没有超越历史，“历史”只不过是他们“宏大叙事”所赖以凭借的载体和价值依附的神性本体。以石光华、黎正光等为主要成员的“整体主义”，对于“史诗”派的发展和超越表现在较为自觉地越出了历史表象遍存的拘囿，而从古老的东方智慧和现代“全息宇宙生物律”中获得了启示。以廖亦武、欧阳江河为主要成员的“新传统主义”，通过对传统的批判，确实已将诗歌从对文化题材的迷恋转移到对当下生存经验的关注上。