The Influence of Career Planning on Career Thoughts in STEM‐Interested Undergraduates

Undergraduate career planning courses have shown efficacy in decreasing students’ negative career thoughts; however, universities have minimally applied these courses to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) populations. This study compared the influence of a STEM‐focused career planning course for undecided STEM students with a seminar course for decided STEM majors. An analysis of covariance with covariate adjustment revealed that undecided career planning students had lower adjusted mean scores on a measure of negative career thinking than the decided STEM majors after the first semester of college. The results provide support for the efficacy of STEM‐focused career planning courses and measuring negative career thoughts with STEM undergraduates.     

Communicating Geographical Risks in Crisis Management: The Need for Research

In any crisis, there is a great deal of uncertainty, often geographical uncertainty or, more precisely, spatiotemporal uncertainty. Examples include the spread of contamination from an industrial accident, drifting volcanic ash, and the path of a hurricane. Estimating spatiotemporal probabilities is usually a difficult task, but that is not our primary concern. Rather, we ask how analysts can communicate spatiotemporal uncertainty to those handling the crisis. We comment on the somewhat limited literature on the representation of spatial uncertainty on maps. We note that many cognitive issues arise and that the potential for confusion is high. We note that in the early stages of handling a crisis, the uncertainties involved may be deep, i.e., difficult or impossible to quantify in the time available. In such circumstance, we suggest the idea of presenting multiple scenarios.     

文化认知中定向思维模式的建构与解构——以中国少数民族文化范式为研究视阈

定向思维模式的建构与解构实际上反映出认知结构的二重性特征，两者在文化认知活动中可互为挹注共存于对立统一关系里。因此，对中国少数民族文化范式的研究，不仅要重视建构之功能催生的符号化文化构成，还应关注解构之功能显现的非常见的文化元素。同时，只有弄清楚定向思维模式的建构与解构在文化认知中的意涵，才能明确定向思维模式的“趋向”和“专注”特点以及“惰化”和“孤立”倾向，从而为牵及民族文化事项的认知固化与迁移提供理论工具并用以指导多元文化实践。     

对马克思资本主义生态批判思想的实践解读

在生态问题日益严峻的今天，马克思的资本主义生态批判思想对指导我们科学地处理人与自然的关系、建设生态文明、打造美丽中国具有重要的意义。马克思对资本主义社会的生态批判是全面的生态批判，包含对资本主义工业的生态批判、对资本主义农业的生态批判和对资本主义消费的生态批判三个方面。马克思从生产和消费维度对资本主义展开生态批判，形成了科学而深刻的资本主义生态批判思想。马克思的资本主义生态批判思想不是抽象的生态批判思想，而是实践的生态批判思想，即是在实践中产生、随实践发展、解决实践问题的生态批判思想。要理解和把握马克思资本主义生态批判思想的实质，就要从马克思对资本主义工业、对资本主义农业和对资本主义消费的生态批判三个维度进行实践解读。     

关于我国临终关怀事业的伦理思考

随着临终关怀事业的产生和不断发展，不得不承认这推动了人类社会的文明和进步。随着人类社会的不断进步，人们越来越重视坚持医学人道主义，这使人们意识到了发展临终关怀事业的重要性。由于大多数中国人受几千年流传下来的传统文化的影响，形成了固有的伦理观念，那么，我们从伦理学的角度出发，去思考一些有关于临终关怀的问题，必将有利于临终关怀事业的发展。     

新时代中国美丽乡村建设的思维引领

中国特色社会主义进入新时代，美丽中国建设迎来了新的发展机遇。美丽乡村建设作为美丽中国建设的基础和关键，既事关社会主义生态文明观的牢固树立，又事关满足人民日益增长的优美生态环境需要。为此，我们要在遵循建设美丽中国基本原则的基础上，努力强化美丽乡村建设的思维引领。这就要坚持以战略思维完善顶层设计，以创新思维激发内生动力，以辩证思维推动协同治理，以法治思维强化刚性约束，以底线思维恪守生态红线，把党在美丽乡村建设过程中总揽全局、协调各方的领导作用落到实处，进而开辟社会主义中国乡村生态文明新时代。     

Expanding our sociolinguistic horizons? Geographical thinking and the articulatory potential of commodity chain analysis

Conceptual linearity and analytic parochialism (aka focus) can make it more difficult for sociolinguists or discourse analysts to apprehend the far‐reaching, exploitative ways inequality is nowadays produced. A suitably material‐cum‐materialist class critique certainly entails empirical and phenomenological worlds flagged by, for example, multi‐sited ethnographies but otherwise side‐lined as merely “extra‐situational” in much talk/text‐directed scholarship. I propose we think more geographically by properly engaging spatiality à la Harvey (1990) and especially the radical politics of simultaneity (Massey, 2005)—the literal, “right‐now” connectedness of places and people. To this end, and allied with deepening interest in political economy, I combine the principles of articulation theory with the procedures of commodity chain analysis for picking apart an epitomic, contemporary manifestation of extreme privilege: the business‐class meal. The proposed discourse‐centred commodity chain analysis offers an ecumenical but systematic framework for tracking how commodity fetishism is actually and discursively accomplished (or not) across dispersed voices, stories, and social meanings.     

‘Systemic thinking’, ‘regenerative culture’, and new forms of prefigurative politics: challenges for the global left

ABSTRACT

One of the aspects of the current crisis of the Left is an ‘epistemological blindness’ that prevents it from identifying opportunities for its own renewal. That includes the dismissal of the contribution of prefigurative forms of collective action which do not fit its institutionalized orthodoxies. Their most significant expression is a range of grassroots initiatives based on ‘systemic thinking’ and aimed at promoting a ‘regenerative culture’. It includes non-capitalist economic initiatives, such as those of the transition movement, social and solidarity economy and the Global Ecovillage Network, as well as of the temporary communities created by Occupy Wall Street movement and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. They regard social polarization, patriarchy, and the crisis of democracy as interconnected dimensions of a civilizational dysfunction that asks for whole-systems solutions. Such approach, if adopted by the Left, may contribute to its renewal and political strengthening.     

Historical Thinking and Sports History: A Case Study Using the Brooklyn Dodgers

Abstract

This article discusses how the history of sports can serve as way to understand abstract concepts associated with local history and social studies education. An introductory discussion outlines how sports can engage and interest students, focusing especially on ideas related to history thinking (such as change and continuity). A case study using the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles is used to illustrate these ideas, focusing on themes associated with suburbanization and urban renewal. A lesson plan is also provided.     

农村大学生城市社会的自我适应：内外困境和哲学认知

对高校农村大学生社会适应问题的研究,可从哲学角度探析,得出破解他们自身困境的哲学方法,成为他们应具备的哲 学思维,这种先进的哲学认知和态度才是适应社会首要的认识前提和思想基础。