Correlates of perceived effectiveness of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative

A three-level growth-curve model was applied to estimate perceived impact growth trajectories, using multi-year data from project and school surveys on outcome and program implementation collected from 59 sites and approximately 1165 participating schools in the Safe Schools and Healthy Students Initiative. Primary interest is to determine whether and how project-level and school-level correlates affect schools’ perceptions of the Initiative's effectiveness over time when the effects of the pre-grant environmental conditions, grant operations, and near-term outcomes are considered. Coordination and service integration, comprehensive programs and activities for early childhood development, and change in school involvement were found to be significant predictors of school-perceived overall impact when the effect of poverty was considered. Partnership functioning, perceived importance of school resources, and school involvement were found to be significant predictors of school-perceived impact on substance use prevention when the effect of poverty was considered.     

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are driven by the choices of district leadership. In other cases, principals initiate the move, often demonstrating preferences to work in schools with higher achieving students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Principals often use schools with many poor or low-achieving students as stepping stones to what they view as more desirable assignments. We use longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership results in lower teacher retention and lower student achievement gains. Leadership changes are particularly harmful for high poverty schools, low-achieving schools, and schools with many inexperienced teachers. These schools not only suffer from high rates of principal turnover but are also unable to attract experienced successors. The negative effect of leadership changes can be mitigated when vacancies are filled by individuals with prior experience leading other schools. However, the majority of new principals in high poverty and low-performing schools lack prior leadership experience and leave when more attractive positions become available in other schools.     

Role of Leaders as Agents of Negotiation for Counterbalancing Cultural Dissonance in the Middle East and North Africa Region

This study provides a unique perspective in the field of cross-cultural management by exploring the relationship between “cultural dissonance”—the gap between cultural values and actual practice—and effective leadership attributes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Incorporating cultural dissonance into implicit leadership theory, the study uses measurements of dissonance on nine cultural dimensions to identify particular leadership preferences in seven MENA countries. The overall findings suggest that societies prefer leaders who counterbalance cultural dissonance by allowing space for negotiations by members of society to reduce disparities between cultural values—“the way things should be”—and actual practices—“the way things are.” The greater the disparity between cultural values and practices, the greater the citizens' desire that leaders act as agents of change by creating space for negotiation.     

论鸳鸯蝴蝶派言情小说中的理性色彩

本文指出言情小说中缠绵悱恻的感性故事背后浸透着理性色彩,且在内容上含有一定程度的进步性,提倡个性解放,渗透反帝爱国情怀。     

费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变

费孝通在多次学术总结和回顾中给予“制度”足够重视,文章基于费孝通学术研究的核心是制度这一假设,从四个方面阐述费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变：将传统文化作为研究对象到吸收传统文化精神;从马凌诺斯基功能论“有用性”到布朗功能主义结构性的兼顾;美国实用主义实用价值的吸收到对社会学芝加哥学派方法的运用;当时的社会实际需要社会学“实践性”应用。     

Alone and adrift: The association between mass school shootings,school size,and student support

Background

School shootings have approached epidemic levels in recent years. While mental illness is undoubtedly involved in nearly all cases of mass school violence, we sought to determine how environmental context may exacerbate preexisting personal factors. The present study investigated the associations between mass school shootings, school enrollment size, student–teacher ratios, and student transitions.

Kind discipline: Developing a conceptual model of a promising school discipline approach

This formative evaluation develops a novel conceptual model for a discipline approach fostering intrinsic motivation and positive relationships in schools. We used concept mapping to elicit and integrate perspectives on kind discipline from teachers, administrators, and other school staff. Three core themes describing kind discipline emerged from 11 identified clusters: (1) proactively developing a positive school climate, (2) responding to conflict with empathy, accountability, and skill, and (3) supporting staff skills in understanding and sharing expectations. We mapped the identified components of kind discipline onto a social ecological model and found that kind discipline encompasses all levels of that model including the individual, relational, environmental/structural, and even community levels. This contrasts with the dominant individual-behavioral discipline approaches that focus on fewer levels and may not lead to sustained student and staff motivation. The findings illustrate the importance of setting and communicating clear expectations and the need for them to be collaboratively developed. Products of the analysis and synthesis reported here are operationalized materials for teachers grounded in a “be kind” culture code for classrooms.     

黑水城出土西夏文《西方净土十疑论》略注本考释

本文刊布了俄藏黑水城出土西夏文《西方净土十疑论》略注本的录文,指出此本是根据宋沙门澄或《净土十疑论注》翻译而成,并依照汉文本,对西夏文本进行了翻译和注释,目的是为西夏学界研读西夏语文以及佛学界研究净土宗在10-4世纪的传播提供参考。     

传播学科的兴起:一段重新阐释的历史

传播学学科建立之初,选择了以哥伦比亚学派为代表的结构功能主义而不是芝加哥学派的传播研究范式.尽管哥伦比亚学派无论在理论与方法上都不能说更有优势,但其理论成果更容易被意识形态所用,其定量方法更容易为当局的决策提供证据,其研究范式更容易划定传播学科的边界并为该学科带来更多的资源,因此,急于为传播学奠定专业主义边界的施拉姆不假思索地选择了哥伦比亚学派.然而这一选择导致了传播学不但受到意识形态的高度控制,而且也有一套极其保守和封闭的学科规训,这一切使传播学科在20世纪70年代以后就不断受到合法性的质疑.     

近30年来的“儒学是否宗教”之争及其学术贡献

近30年来的“儒学是否宗教”之争,自任继愈提出“儒教是教”观点以来,先后经历了3个既相互区别又相互衔接的发展阶段,标志着我国儒学研究和宗教哲学研究开始跳出西方主义和民族主义的双重藩篱,逐步驶入了去政治化和去意识形态化、“面向事情本身”的学术正道。