论大学生批判性思维的有效训练

批判性思维的培养是高等教育中重要的组成部分,批判性思维由批判性思维技能和批判精神两方面构成。大学生批判性思维能力对创新人才的培养尤为重要,设计专门课程、创建新型的教育教学文化等是培养大学生批判性思维的有效途径。     

西方生产性服务业研究述评

2 0世纪 80年代以来 ,西方区域与城市经济的快速发展 ,使得对生产性服务业的研究成为普遍关注的热点。而总的来说 ,我国关于生产性服务业的研究还相对薄弱 ,对西方的研究还缺乏相应的梳理与跟踪。因此 ,有必要对西方近十几年来关于生产性服务业的研究进行系统的总结与评述。     

碱、表面活性剂和聚合物为主的三元复合驱油体系相行为研究

通过研究不同浓度Na2 CO3、KPS存在的条件下复合驱油体系的相行为变化 ,找到了形成中相最佳区的条件 ,揭示了相行为与油水界面张力及表面活性剂在不同相间分配量大小的相关性 ,从临界胶束浓度变化对相态转变机理给予合理解释。     

教育公平的基本内涵及实现路径

为促进社会流动的公平性,基于经济学和社会学的相关理论分析教育的三个基本属性(准公共产品性、外部性和第三部门属性)及教育公平的基本内涵;进而从义务教育和高等教育两个方面剖析教育的不公平现象及其根源。在此基础上提出教育公平的实现路径:政府应当对教育资源进行合理配置,向义务教育倾斜,向薄弱学校和弱势地区倾斜;可以通过选择教育券制度实现教育公平。     

Intercultural education in everyday practice

While there is substantive work in intercultural education, especially that which proposes intellectual or conceptual road maps for pedagogic interculturalism and, more specifically for the classroom, there is a need to surface the complexity of everyday intercultural classroom practices. This article reflects on some Singapore students’ responses to materials designed to help them engage critically with intercultural issues. These responses can be categorized into three types of tajectories: reifying, critical and conflicted. Reifying practices basically mean that students essentialize individuals, communities and countries despite (and perhaps because of) the intercultural approach to the teaching of communication. Critical trajectories, on the other hand, showcase students’ ability to identify stereotypes and provide much more nuanced characterizations of individuals and countries. Conflicted trajectories, however, seem to be the most dominant classroom practice: these are attempts of students to be critical but, in practice, their criticality is enmeshed in reifying tendencies. In other words, ‘criticality’ as it is envisioned is always incomplete on the ground. Thus, we need micro-lenses in interculturalism and intercultural education to help us critically reflect on and surface essentialisms, tensions and struggles in everyday classroom practice.     

Back to basics: explaining sample size in outcome trials,are statisticians doing a thorough job?

Time to event outcome trials in clinical research are typically large, expensive and high‐profile affairs. Such trials are commonplace in oncology and cardiovascular therapeutic areas but are also seen in other areas such as respiratory in indications like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Their progress is closely monitored and results are often eagerly awaited. Once available, the top line result is often big news, at least within the therapeutic area in which it was conducted, and the data are subsequently fully scrutinized in a series of high‐profile publications. In such circumstances, the statistician has a vital role to play in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of the trial. In particular, in drug development it is incumbent on the statistician to ensure at the outset that the sizing of the trial is fully appreciated by their medical, and other non‐statistical, drug development team colleagues and that the risk of delivering a statistically significant but clinically unpersuasive result is minimized. The statistician also has a key role in advising the team when, early in the life of an outcomes trial, a lower than anticipated event rate appears to be emerging. This paper highlights some of the important features relating to outcome trial sample sizing and makes a number of simple recommendations aimed at ensuring a better, common understanding of the interplay between sample size and power and the final result required to provide a statistically positive and clinically persuasive outcome. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Equivocating on reconciliation

This critical discourse analysis of welfare workers' responses to reconciliation demonstrates the ways in which language operates to maintain Indigenous people's disenfranchisement and oppression within the Australian polity. It cautions against welfare personnel assuming more liberation within their ranks than found within general society.     

Single Parent Families

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Workplace Crisis Intervention

Summary

The workplace, where adults spend about one-third of their lives, would seem an ideal place from which to promote health and respond to crisis. This paper employs a systematic statistical review of experimental and quasi-experimental research on workplace-based crisis intervention programs. Nine studies were identified that met inclusion criteria for further analysis. Results suggest that the workplace can be a useful platform from which to provide crisis intervention programs.