How moral disengagement facilitates the detention of refugee children and families

Refugee children and families are a vulnerable demographic with the propensity to disrupt entrenched disparaging perceptions about immigrants. This project investigates how institutionalised moral disengagement practices [Bandura, Albert. 2002. “Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency.” Journal of Moral Education 31: 101–119] at family detention centres facilitate the apprehension and confinement of children and families seeking asylum. Interviews with former volunteers and an analysis of news reports describing conditions at these centres reveal that moral disengagement plays a pivotal role in rationalising detention, while also enabling restrictive immigration policies and mass deportations. This occurs through the criminalisation of immigrants, suppressing details about residential conditions, and a quota capacity model. Findings are contextualised with regard to recent immigration legislations.     

Mixtures of regression models with incomplete and noisy data

The estimation of the mixtures of regression models is usually based on the normal assumption of components and maximum likelihood estimation of the normal components is sensitive to noise, outliers, or high-leverage points. Missing values are inevitable in many situations and parameter estimates could be biased if the missing values are not handled properly. In this article, we propose the mixtures of regression models for contaminated incomplete heterogeneous data. The proposed models provide robust estimates of regression coefficients varying across latent subgroups even under the presence of missing values. The methodology is illustrated through simulation studies and a real data analysis.     

Resistance as Sacrifice: Toward an Ascetic Antiracism

Often described as an outcome, inequality is better understood as a social process—a function of how institutions are structured and reproduced, and the ways people act and interact within them across time. Racialized inequality persists because it is enacted moment to moment, context to context—and it can be ended should those who currently perpetuate it commit themselves to playing a different role instead. This essay makes three core contributions. First, it highlights a disturbing parity between the people who are most rhetorically committed to ending racialized inequality and those who are most responsible for its persistence. Next, it explores the origin of this paradox—how it is that ostensibly antiracist intentions are transmuted into “benevolently racist” actions. Finally, it presents an alternative approach to mitigating racialized inequality, one that more effectively challenges the self‐oriented and extractive logics undergirding systemic racism, rather than expropriating blame to others, or else adopting introspective and psychologized approaches to fundamentally social problems, those sincerely committed to antiracism can take concrete steps in the real world—actions that require no legislation or coercion of naysayers, just a willingness to personally make sacrifices for the sake of racial justice.     

The self as the locus of morality: A comparison between Charles Taylor and George Herbert Mead's theories of the moral constitution of the self

This paper provides a critical comparison of two leading exponents of the relationship between morality and selfhood: Charles Taylor and George Herbert Mead. Specifically, it seeks to provide an assessment of the contribution each approach is able to make to a social theory of morality that has the self at its heart. Ultimately, it is argued that Taylor's phenomenological account neglects the significance of interaction and social relations in his conceptualisation of the relationship between morality and self, which undermines the capacity of his framework to explain how moral understandings and dialogic moral subjectivity develop in a world of shared meaning. I then argue that Mead's pragmatist interactionist approach overcomes many of the flaws in Taylor's framework, and offers a grounded conceptualisation of the relationship between self and morality that is able to provide a basis for a properly social account of moral subjectivity.     

新中国70年道德建设回顾

道德是上层建筑的意识形态,由社会经济关系决定,并反作用于社会经济关系。我国社会主义道德对社会主义建设和改革开放发挥巨大促进作用,是中华人民共和国前进的道德力量,在中国人民站起来到富起来再到强起来的征程中,起着精神引导作用。中国共产党历来重视思想道德建设,新中国成立之后,注重道德对社会主义建设的积极作用,坚持两个文明一起抓,法治与德治相结合,大力推进公民道德建设,发挥道德模范的示范作用,大力加强学校思想道德建设。70年来,特别是党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央采取各种措施大力加强思想道德建设,我国伦理学学科建设成果丰硕。这一系列的工作凝聚起强大的道德力量,使人民群众焕发出极大的爱国热情,华夏儿女同心同德,共圆中华民族复兴之梦。     

21世纪以来我国教师教育研究图景与发展路向——基于2000-2018年CSSCI来源期刊的知识图谱分析

教师教育是教育事业的重中之重。通过中国知网检索21世纪以来CSSCI来源期刊中的相关文献，以其中2 171篇有关教师教育研究的论文为样本，运用文献计量分析可视化软件Cite Space对文献数量、作者贡献、研究热点、研究层次以及论文被引情况等进行详细统计与梳理，旨在通过知识图谱的方法客观地揭示21世纪以来我国教师教育研究图景，并对教师教育研究发展路向进行全景式分析与展望。就文献数量而言，教师教育研究曲折发展，整体呈上升趋势；就作者贡献而言，尚未形成教师教育研究的核心作者群体，作者大多为高等院校的专家学者，而一线教师、教研员较少；就研究热点而言，主要呈现出有关教师教育的理论研究、改革研究和国别研究三大研究主题；就研究层次而言，主要集中于基础研究。基于此，应进一步加强教师教育研究队伍建设，尽快形成教师教育研究核心作者群体；鼓励多种力量参与研究，进一步丰富研究层次；拓展研究领域，探索教师教育研究多元化发展的新路向。无论是党的十九大报告，还是《教师教育振兴行动计划（2018-2022年）》，都对新时代教师教育提出了更高的要求。师德教育如何推进，教师素质如何提高，教师待遇如何改善，教师教育模式如何创新，教师管理制度改革如何深化，教师教育研究共同体如何构建，这一系列问题需要教师教育研究者深入探索，在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想和全国教育大会精神的指引下，为新时代高素质、专业化、创新型教师队伍的建设与发展建言献策。     

德教、德政与道德法律化——论德治的三种解释

关于德治，有三种重要的解释，也即德教、德政与道德法律化。它们都有各自的问题。德治作为德教的问题在于:德治如何能成为与法治比肩的治国方略?在证成德治时，如何能够从关于道德功用的事实判断推出德治这一价值判断?如何证成道德建设的可行性与有效性?如何证成国家介入道德建设的正当性和必要性?德治作为德政的问题是:德政已是人类社会的常识，似乎没有必要借助于德治的概念来推广，而且它无法很好地解释人们提出德治理念时心中已有的德治与法治的背景关系。德治作为道德法律化面临的挑战是:它可能会危及人们自由选择自己道德生活的权利，毁损人生的意义与价值，扰乱人们的道德认知与评价，并使得法律必须满足的一些要件难以实现，影响法律规则的合理性。     

以人为本的高校德育新模式

传统的高校德育模式偏重于“道德理论”、“道德知识”和“政治伦理”的灌输,缺乏自身应有的稳定性、逻辑性和科学性,在价值取向上难以摆脱社会本位和政治伦理的倾向。改革高校德育就必须构建“以人为本”的现代高校德育新模式,重视生命关怀,关注学生生命及其生命的生存状况和生存意义,进一步完善德育课程体系,拓宽德育内容,塑造大学生的健康人格和积极向上的人生价值观。     

创新大学生主导价值观教育的途径和方法

大学时期是对学生进行主导价值观教育的关键时期。对大学生进行主导价值观教育要体现时代特点,在确定大学生价值观教育原则的基础上,在“新颖”上做文章,要理论上推新,实践中创新。     

引经决狱与两汉法官造法之价值分析

汉朝伴随着儒家思想法律化进程的加快,司法官员常常通过引经决狱制作判例,规避法律,这种做法对两汉判例体系创建、司法官员自由裁量权的实现及儒家轻刑主张的具体实施意义重大,也为我们今天法官造法功能的实现提供了借鉴。