TRANSFORMING DISCOURSE INTO PRACTICE: COMPUTERHYSTORIES AND DIGITAL CULTURES AROUND 1984

This paper discusses some theoretical approaches to the question of how culture, technologies and the social interact. These considerations result from the author' research in the genesis of digital cultures in the 1980s. The paper begins by outlining the author' research project, and then continues with a discussion of some of the most influential approaches in the cultural studies of technology.This article then presents a small sample of the author' analysis, which combines narratological and discourse analytical methods with practice-oriented cultural theories, such as those of Pierre Bourdieu, Régis Debray and Bruno Latour.     

Implementation of a school-wide prevention programme-teachers’ and headmasters’ perceptions of organizational capacity

This study focuses on schools’ organizational capacity to implement a Swedish school-wide programme, Prevention in School (PS). It is based on semi-structured interviews with seven headmasters and 13 teachers from seven Swedish schools. The interviews were analyzed by the use of qualitative content analysis.The findings show that the adoption of a comprehensive intervention like PS challenges the school organization as the staff encountered a variety of organizational barriers when implementing the programme. Factors connected to lack of consensus, collaboration and insufficient programme management were the main barriers that were identified. Teachers wanted a more extensive support from their headmasters in terms of participation in different programme activities. It was emphasized that peer coaches need to be prepared for their task, although the headmasters found it difficult to be able to choose those teachers who they perceived as the most suitable.It is concluded that leadership, coaching and staff selection need particular attention when implementing a programme like PS, since those factors have been defined as important implementation drivers, both in this study and previously.     

Engendering Global Democracy

The inadequacies of hegemonic liberal democratic ideas and institutions have been exposed by feminist theorists focusing on the marginalisation of women and by global theorists examining the impact of globalisation. These theorists have developed two distinct sets of reconstructive strategies that, until very recently, have remained in ignorance of each other. Further, both feminist and global democratic schemes have been dogged by problems in terms of their theorisation of power, politics, agency and change. Recent feminist arguments about citizenship and governance go some way to bringing together concerns about gender inequality and globalisation, but they remain centred on states and the states-system as vehicles for democratic representation and participation. This article argues that a more radical reconstructive strategy can be derived from debates about the democratisation of feminism itself. Drawing on the responses of black and third world feminists to racism in the white-dominated feminist movement, and examining their influence on efforts to organise transnationally, the article points to innovative ways of thinking about power, politics, agency and change. Together these amount to a democratic framework which has applicability beyond feminist organising and which confronts the marginalisations of both gender and globalisation.     

Modern Myths

This article outlines some basic characteristics of modern myths that fundamentally differ from the traditional myths on which most myth research is based, namely: their relation to time, and their relation to themselves. The article also takes a closer look at the implications these differences have for our present state of Being. The aim is not to offer yet another variation on the academic discussion of myths, but rather to provide a starting point for further discussion about the peculiarities and impacts pertaining to modern myths.     

Testing the Normality Assumption in the Tobit Model

This paper examines a number of statistics that have been proposed to test the normality assumption in the tobit (censored regression) model. It argues that a number of commonly proposed statistics can be interpreted as different versions of the Lagrange multiplier, or score, test for a common null hypothesis. This observation is useful in examining the Monte Carlo results presented in the paper. The Monte Carlo results suggest that the computational convenience of a number of statistics is obtained at the cost of poor finite sample performance under the null hypothesis.     

先秦诸子的廉政思想

廉政思想是中国传统政治思想的重要组成部分。为实现自己的价值理想,儒、道、墨、法等先秦诸子各家曾提出反贪倡廉的主张,要求为政者清正廉洁,力戒贪贿,造福百姓。这些思想在当时具有积极的现实意义,并对后世产生了深远影响。     

强势开端Ⅴ：内容、特点及启示

从幼儿园过渡到小学是所有儿童必须面临的一个巨大跨越。研究表明,如果幼儿教育与小学教育之间没有良好的衔接与过渡,这些“优势”将在小学第一年消失,或将不能在小学教育阶段保持。强势开端Ⅴ聚焦幼小衔接,从组织与管理、教师专业发展衔接、课程与教学衔接、儿童发展衔接方面的举措进行研究。通过对这些举措的介绍分析,提出了启动幼小衔接专项教师培训,强调学校为儿童入学做好准备,注重多方利益主体协同共育几点借鉴思路。     

“童真”境界的诗情抒写——评刘第红散文集《白蝴蝶黄蝴蝶》

刘第红是一位有才气的青年作家,他以自己熟悉的童年生活为素材书写的儿童散文集《白蝴蝶黄蝴蝶》,想象力丰富,富于情趣与理趣,童真之心跃然于纸上;语言活泼灵动、本色自然,有着诗歌般的意境。     

老子“道”和“德”的自然本质及其辩证关系

老子的"道",主要指形成世界的本原,决定万物的本体,宇宙运动变化的根本规律;而老子的"德",其广义是指万事万物合"道"而行的品性,其狭义则指人的合"道"而行的品性。"自然"是老子"道"与"德"的本质特征。"道"生万物,"德"养万物","道"体"德"用,二者辩证统一于万物之中。老子哲学的主要意蕴就是依"道"而立"德"、立"德"而明"道"。老子对"道"的预设与描述体现出老子哲学理论思维的形上视域,老子对"德"的揭示与规定标志着老子哲学实践关怀的形下向度。     

Differences in allocation of family time spent on household tasks among single-parent,one-earner,and two-earner families

The purpose of this study is to use analysis of covariance to examine variations in time use among single-parent, one-earner, and two-earner families and to assess the effects of two covariates, Age of the Younger Child and Hours of Employment of the Homemaker, on total family time spent on household tasks. Data were collected from 81 single-parent and 210 two-parent California households using a questionnaire, time chart, and personal interviews. The greatest discrepancy between single-parent and two-parent families is that single-parent families spend significantly less time than two-parent families on Maintenance of the home and yard and on Nonphysical Care (social interaction with family members). One-earner families spend almost as much time as two-earner families on Nonphysical Care, but only when Secondary Time is included. Two household activities, Clothing Care and Management, are not affected by either family type or the covariates.This study utilized data from USDA Regional Research Project NE-113, An Urban-Rural Comparison of Families' Time Use.Jeanne M. Hilton is an Assistant Professor of Family Economics and Management, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557. She received her Ph.D. from Oregon State University. Her current research interests include work and family issues within the context of family structure.