Monstrosities and moral publics

Interdisciplinary scholarship on neoliberal urban governmentality has been attentive to the knowledges and techniques of government currently emerging at the interface of local state politics and invested claims of voluntary private actors such as corporate partners and philanthropic agencies. This article draws attention to the workings of the aesthetic as an epistemological grounding for the rationalization of urban rule. Specifically, I explore a Toronto, Canada-based philanthropic agency’s reliance on a mise-en-scene of urban terror to animate its own self-validated knowledges about targeted inner-suburban subjects and spaces. In their circulation and demand for public address, the agency’s graphic public service announcements, launched in 2007, herald what I argue is a moralized set of knowledges about municipal renewal that has its own normative orientations grounded in a neoliberal political rationality, and tangentially, in racialized security imperatives. I detail various dimensions of the social life of a video associated with this public service campaign targeting ‘youth at risk’, considering the ethical, political and economic valences it was expected to convey; its semiotic exchange with other images and representations of disenfranchised spaces, subjects and communities; and the publics it attempted to interpellate. Importantly, given the agency’s current standing as a prominent player in Canadian urban policy arenas, I pay analytical attention to the visual campaign as a site for the production of knowledges about proper urban citizenship and social governance, and as such, a strategic-orienting device for urban policy interventions and directives.     

Social Skills in Children Adopted From Socially-Emotionally Depriving Institutions

This study assessed social skills in post-institutionalized (PI) children with respect to age at adoption, age at assessment, and gender. Parent ratings of social skills (Social Skills Rating System) and behavior problems (Child Behavior Checklist) were obtained for 214 children and 127 adolescents who were adopted from socially-emotionally depriving Russian institutions. Results showed that children adopted before 18 months of age have better social skills than those adopted after this age; those assessed in childhood demonstrate better social skills than those assessed in adolescence. PI females, especially later-adopted adolescents, have particularly poor social skills. Children with poor social skills tend to have higher rates of behavior problems.     

Becoming the mother of a child with disabilities: a systematic literature review

The transition to motherhood starts early in pregnancy and is completed when the mother feels competent in caring for the infant. Becoming the mother of a child with disabilities is demanding as their needs are complex. The aim of the review was to appraise completed qualitative and quantitative reports on the challenges of mothers of children with disabilities regarding their own transition to motherhood. A review of the literature was carried out through, first, a computerized search strategy to identify relevant studies from selected databases and, second, quality appraisal and thematic analysis of selected studies. The transition to motherhood of children with disabilities takes place in the inside world at home, the outside world external to home and the ‘going-between’ world of travelling between the two worlds. The mothers are challenged at home to integrate basic infant care with technical care of their children. In the outside world they often struggled to ensure that their children got the necessary professional care. Travelling between their homes and healthcare services posed many problems.     

于京君的室内乐配器《图画展览会》之"漫步"分析

2002年6月26日,澳籍华人于京军所改编的室内乐《图画展览会》由澳大利亚室内乐团在悉尼歌剧院首演,获得成功。本文对其中的“漫步”主题配器进行分析。于京军先生的“漫步”主题用中提琴抒发个人感受,应用“音色旋律”的方法,制造“踏板”效果,采用拼贴手段细致地、准确地表现一个中国人对“漫步”主题音乐内容的理解,使人产生耳目一新的感觉。分析于京君在第一次出现的“漫步主题”中的室内乐配器,能使我们得到有益启示。     

价值澄清理论对高校德育改革的警示

价值澄清理论所倡导的相对主义道德教育,给美国社会带来很大危害。这对新时期多元化背景下的高校德育改革有三点警示:首先,防止无导向德育,在尊重学生主体性的基础上注重价值引导;其次,切忌“教师中立”,充分发挥教师的主导作用;再次,切忌片面性,正确处理一元化和多元化的关系,让一元化居于主导地位,同时要正确处理灌输和自主选择的关系。     

论高校教师的职业倦怠

不同个体、不同类型的职业倦怠其产生原因各不相同,归结起来,高校教师产生职业倦怠的主要原因有四个:学术权利和行政权利的不均衡;高校教师职称评聘、业绩考核制度存在弊端;高校教师录用和选聘过程缺乏有力的人才测评以及社会对高校教师报赏的失衡。因此,缓解和克服高校教师的职业倦怠也要从这几个方面考虑。     

陕西省出生人口性别比定量分析与对策探讨

文章根据陕西省历次人口普查、部分人口抽样调查资料及公安、教育、计生统计报表数据,时全省出生人口性别失衡程度、女婴缺失数量和分因素贡献率等几个问题进行定量分析,并对出生人口性别比综合治理和科学决策提出建议。     

《孙子兵法》在英语世界的传播

论文主要回顾了国内外《孙子兵法》英译研究概况,试图描绘主要译本在不同时期的传播规律,从历时与共时的维度比较、描摹《孙子兵法》在异质文化的运行轨迹与反拨情况,认为迄今为止因少有学者追踪该典籍英译本在英语世界的传播、接受与影响,所以造成了中国传统文化影响研究的不平衡与中外文化交流“逆差”的局面;论文还就英译本的整合、典籍英译与文化输出等问题对其未来传播研究作一些展望.