Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement Rates for Nursing Homes Motivate Select Culture Change Practices But Not Comprehensive Culture Change

Components of nursing home (NH) culture change include resident-centeredness, empowerment, and home likeness, but practices reflective of these components may be found in both traditional and “culture change” NHs. We use mixed methods to examine the presence of culture change practices in the context of an NH’s payer sources. Qualitative data show how higher pay from Medicare versus Medicaid influences implementation of select culture change practices, and quantitative data show NHs with higher proportions of Medicare residents have significantly higher (measured) environmental culture change implementation. Findings indicate that heightened coordination of Medicare and Medicaid could influence NH implementation of reform practices.     

Politiques publiques et parcours de fin de vie: reconfigurations,dynamiques paradoxales et art combinatoire

Du fait de l'allongement de l'espérance de vie, de très nombreuses personnes vivent désormais un grand âge, c'est-à-dire une longue période de l'existence au cours de laquelle ils se confrontent à leur finitude. Ce nouveau temps de l'existence questionne la conception traditionnelle d'un cycle de vie ternaire, et la définition de la fin de la vie. Autour de cette dernière étape du parcours de vie, se révèlent les ambiguïtés de la culture des problèmes de la vieillesse et se noue une controverse concernant la désinstitutionalisation et la déstandardisation des parcours de vie. A partir des données issues de travaux empiriques cet article analyse les formes originales d'action publique qui s'esquissent à l’échelle des territoires et renouvellent les cadres normatifs institutionnels de gestion de la grande vieillesse. Il met au jour la dialectique qui s'engage entre une forme de production centrifuge et institutionnalisée des politiques publiques, initiée par l'Etat et un processus centripète dans lequel la diversité et la dispersion des acteurs participent de dynamiques coopératives vs concurrentielles.

Les éléments empiriques mobilisés dans cet article sont issus d'une recherche menée dans le cadre des conventions d’études conclues pour les années 2010 (projet n4) et 2011 (projet n 4) entre l'IRES au service des organisations représentatives des travailleurs et la CGT.     

The reinvention of the Promised Land: utopian space and time in Soviet Jewish exodus literature

The Jewish underground movement in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1960s produced literature that became a part of the counterculture of Soviet dissent. For the first time in decades, Russian Jews identified, to a significant degree, as people of the galut (Jewish Diaspora). The battle for the return to Israel and the new Jewish renaissance in the intellectual sphere of the unofficial led to the emergence of new topographical concepts, which were inspired primarily by the Jewish cultural tradition. In fact, the exodus texts written in the 1960s–1980s represented a new, late Soviet shaping of Zionist prose. They relate to the symbol of the Promised Land as a fundamental projection of aspirations. Late Soviet Zionist texts share the traditional Jewish vision of Israel as an imagined topos of the original homeland that is both retrospective (with reference to the biblical promise of the land and the seizure of Canaan) and prospective (return and redemption). The Exodus story contained in Sefer Shemot becomes a leading poetic, philosophical and at times religiously charged metaphor of liberation and reunification. The re-strengthened collective memory of tradition required biblical symbols to be imbued with new semiotic power.

This paper will show that the historical dimension of the events dealt with in the literature often has strong mystical and mythological traits and displays messianic-apocalyptic hopes of salvation. However, alternative literary space and time models represented in the aliyah literature hereby betray their rootedness in the teleology of the communist regime. The powerful Israel utopia reflects both the eschatological time of the Soviet empire and its phantasms of paradise on earth. Late Soviet Zionism and totalitarian discourse are shown to be two space-time utopias.     

From cultural knowledge to intercultural communicative competence: changing perspectives on the role of culture in foreign language teaching

Approaches to the concept of culture and teaching cultural competence in a foreign language classroom have been changing over the last decades. The paper summarises, compares, contrasts and evaluates four major approaches to teaching cultural competence in foreign language teaching, that is, knowledge-based approach, contrastive approach, Communicative Language Teaching and intercultural communicative competence approach.     

From Indymedia to Anonymous: rethinking action and identity in digital cultures

The period following the social mobilizations of 2011 has seen a renewed focus on the place of communication in collective action, linked to the increasing importance of digital communications. Framed in terms of personalized ‘connective action’ or the social morphology of networks, these analyses have criticized previously dominant models of ‘collective identity’, arguing that collective action needs to be understood as ‘digital networking’. These influential approaches have been significantly constructed as a response to models of communication and action evident in the rise of Independent Media Centres in the period following 1999. After considering the rise of the ‘digital networking’ paradigm linked to analyses of Indymedia, this article considers the emergence of the internet-based collaboration known as Anonymous, focusing on its origins on the 4chan manga site and its 2008 campaign against Scientology, and also considers the ‘I am the 99%’ microblog that emerged as part of the Occupy movement. The emergence of Anonymous highlights dimensions of digital culture such as the ephemeral, the importance of memes, an ethic of lulz, the mask and the grotesque. These forms of communication are discussed in the light of dominant attempts to shape digital space in terms of radical transparency, the knowable and the calculable. It is argued that these contrasting approaches may amount to opposing social models of an emerging information society, and that the analysis of contemporary conflicts and mobilizations needs to be alert to novel forms of communicative practice at work in digital cultures today.     

红山文化玉器造型特征及相关问题试析

红山文化是我国新石器时代北方原始文化的代表。红山玉器是红山文化最突出的标志和重要组成部分,在中华文明起源的进程中发挥了重要作用。大量的红山文化玉器的出土,向世人展示了红山玉器丰富的文化内涵。红山玉器独特的造型设计和精湛的雕琢技艺,在我国玉器发展史上具有深远的影响。对红山文化玉器造型特征及相关问题研究,有利于进一步发掘我...     

主题教育法在大学生思想政治教育中的运用

主题教育法是我国大学生思想政治教育的有效方法,有助于指引大学生的思想、凝聚大学生的情感、规范大学生的行为。经过多年的实践探索,主题教育法在具体运用中取得了良好的效果,但同时也存在着前瞻性不够、实施方式不活、品牌意识不强等方面的问题。解决这些问题的关键在于根据国家目标、学校精神和学生特点,积极优化大学生思想政治教育中主题教育法运用的原则、步骤和艺术。     

论大学国际化对城市国际形象的提升作用--以常州大学的国际交流为例

大学的国际化发展与所在城市的国际形象存在着高度正相关性,对城市国际形象的塑造和推广发挥着积极的提升作用。大学可以通过教育国际交流的平台扩大城市的对外交往,为城市经济发展提供国际化的人才保障,在文化传承和跨文化交流中促进城市的人文环境建设,依托国际科研合作项目激发整体城市的科技创新活力。     

高校智力资本与高校科技创新绩效：作用机理与实证研究

构成高校智力资本的三个部分即人力资本、结构资本和关系资本都对高校科技创新绩效存在着直接影响。在对高校智力资本三个部分之间的关系以及它们与高校科技创新绩效之间的作用机理分析的基础上,以2009—2013年教育部直属64所高校的19项指标数据进行实证检验,结果表明,高校的人力资本对结构资本、关系资本,以及结构资本对关系资本均有显著正向影响,人力资本和关系资本对高校科技创新绩效也存在着正向影响,结构资本和人力资本均通过关系资本对科技创新绩效产生影响。