我国大学生创业教育问题与对策分析

在总结阐释大学生创业教育本质内涵的基础上,分析了我国大学生创业教育中存在的问题,并有针对性地提出了改进策略与建议,以期对促进我国大学生创业教育的健康发展有所启示。     

Cultural Responsiveness: a framework for re-thinking students’ interculturality through study abroad

While intercultural competence is commonly a goal of university study abroad programmes, debates around criteria for assessing this competence have highlighted the challenges in appropriately identifying students’ intercultural learning in relation to specific university programmes. To overcome these issues, this research moves beyond conceptualising the intercultural in terms of ‘competence’ and instead proposes a framework termed Cultural Responsiveness to illustrate students’ intercultural learning. Through questionnaires and interviews, the experiences and perceptions of undergraduate students after a year of exchange in France or Switzerland were collected and analysed. Using the Cultural Responsiveness framework, three parameters of students’ intercultural experiences emerged: Awareness, Engagement and Bringing Knowledge Home.     

Let the countdown begin — Aging experiences of young adults in countdown blogs

This paper examines a particular blog phenomenon that has not yet received much attention: Countdown blogs which are written before a significant birthday (in this paper, it is the thirtieth birthday). The bloggers fill the remaining time, often a year, with the accomplishment of particular tasks, reflections on their lives or photo projects. In their blogs, the young adults demonstrate an age awareness that is often overlooked in aging studies. The paper argues that young adults use countdown blogs to cope with their aging experiences and, in doing so, they apply a particular economic rhetoric and emerge as entrepreneurs of themselves - an identity concept that Foucault presented in the late 1970s. Foucault, however, did not consider the themes of age as symbolic capital nor the marketing strategies that entrepreneurship of the self imply. In a close reading of a sample of twenty-one countdown blogs, the paper suggests new complexities in Foucault's concept. At the same time, it argues that young adults today have developed creative strategies in terms of multimedia projects and heightened self-scrutiny to cope with the finitude of time, the expectations of age-appropriate behavior and the coercions of neoliberal consumer culture.     

Do public representatives in local governments know about “disability rights” in Pakistan? An awareness assessment case from Southern Punjab

Local self-government systems have been adopted in many countries to supervise local interests in development and provide a range of goods and services to localities. It is believed that awareness of certain issues itself guides duty-bearers to reshape and divert development in a certain direction. In Pakistan, elected representatives in district governments are the key duty-bearers at the local level. Hence, their awareness is indispensable to decision-making for local development and, thus, it is pertinent to assess it from a disability rights perspective. In-depth information collected from two districts has reflected that most of the public representatives are ill-informed about disability, day-to-day problems of disabled persons and their rights, which results in inadvertently disability-biased local development planning. An overriding impression gained from the results is that raising elected representatives’ awareness on disability and the rights of disabled people is imperative to embracing disability rights practice in local development.     

Dealing with diversity in internationalised higher education institutions

While the economic benefits created by international education export are well documented, few systematic and qualitative analysis studies have been conducted to examine how academic staff perceive the presence of international students in their institutions. Using interview data from 80 academic staff from different disciplines in one higher institution in Australia, this study examines whether the presence of international students has an impact on staff teaching practice. Some of the academic staff reported that they made no adjustments to their teaching. They treated all students as one student group. Other staff members said that there have been changes in their teaching in response to the presence of international students in their classroom. The paper discusses some of the underlying causes of these responses, and implications for the practice of international education. The discussion of the findings is informed by Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, which helps us understand how people respond to cultural differences.     

贵州高校大学生环境意识现状探析

通过对贵州高校进行分层分类随机抽样,抽取了4所高校600名学生进行环境意识问卷调查,结果表明多数学生对环保知识为浅层认识,多数学生接受环境教育的积极性高;不少学生的环保意识还有待增强,环保行为有待自觉。分析其原因,大学生的环境意识状况与社会经济、学校教育及个人修养等影响因素有关。针对问题,应增强大学生的环境意识,调整课程以加强大学生环境知识的学习,学校、社会应创造条件引导大学生积极开展环境保护活动。     

浅论大学生创业意识的缺失及其导引

针对大学生创业意识缺失、就业压力大的状况,着眼于加强对大学生创业意识的培养,分别从培育和谐的社会创业环境、建立健全创业教育体系、注重家庭从小培养孩子的独立意识、激发大学生自我创业热情等不同的角度,就导引大学生创业意识的路径进行了探究。     

关于新时期加强党的执政能力建设的思考

加强党的执政能力建设,是党所处的特定历史地位以及应对复杂的国内国际形势的需要,也是贯彻执政党建设始终的重大理论和实践问题。要加强党的执政能力建设,必须增强党的执政意识,提高领导干部素质,并注意吸取原苏联东欧执政党丧权亡党的深刻教训。