On the changing role of English language education: promoting respect for difference in the language classroom

This article argues for a more systematic and integrated approach to the cultural dimension within English language education in a globalized world, with the concept of culture taking on an affectively related and process‐oriented meaning. To this end, it suggests an approach for the development of the ability to decenter from cultural norms and behavior that previously have been taken for granted, within a social constructivist framework of learning. The study from which the article is drawn was conducted through action research in an EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom during the three final years of basic education within the Swedish‐medium educational system in Finland.

Artikeln förespråkar ett mer systematiskt och integrerat förhållningssätt till den kulturella dimensionen i engelskklassrummet i dagens globaliserade värld, där kulturbegreppet ges en affektiv och processorienterad innebörd. För detta ändamål föreslås hur förmågan att distansera sig från kulturella normer och beteenden som tidigare tagits för givna kunde utvecklas inom ramen för en socio‐konstruktivistisk syn på lärande. Till grund för artikeln ligger ett treårigt aktionsforskningsprojekt i ett engelskklassrum från åk 7 till 9 i den svenskspråkiga grundskolan i Finland.     

高校学生党员答辩机制的创新研究

在高校学生党员培养全过程中建立并完善答辩制度,对于进一步提高学生党员综合素质、加强基层党组织建设、增强高校学生党员发展工作的科学性和和公信度均具有重要意义。完善层次分明、以人为本、与时俱进的答辩内容,是提高学生党员教育、培养、考察和监督实效的关键。应从完善答辩程序、建立分层培养、突出过程评价、加大监督力度这四个方面对高校学生党员答辩机制加以创新研究,不断推进高校学生党建工作。     

Ethnic intermarriage in longitudinal perspective: Testing structural and cultural explanations in the United States, 1880–2011

Focusing on macro-level processes, this article combines Decennial Census and Current Population Survey data to simultaneously test longitudinal and cross-sectional effects on ethnic intermarriage using structural and cultural explanations. Covering a 130 year period, the results of our multilevel analysis for 140 national-origin groups indicate that structural characteristics explain why some origin groups become more “open” over time while others remain relatively “closed”. Ethnic intermarriage is more likely to increase over time when the relative size of an immigrant group decreases, sex ratios grow more imbalanced, the origin group grows more diverse, the size of the third generation increases and social structural consolidation decreases. Cultural explanations also play a role suggesting that an origin group’s exogamous behavior in the past exerts long-term effects and exogamous practices increase over time when the prevalence of early marriage customs declines. For some of the discussed determinants of intermarriage, longitudinal and cross-sectional effects differ calling for a more careful theorizing and testing in terms of the level of analysis (e.g., longitudinal vs. cross-sectional).     

新工科下工程训练发展脉络、内涵与路径的可视化分析

以1998—2020年中国知网收录的1234篇"工程训练"或"工程实训"为关键词的论文为研究对象，通过文献计量分析与知识图谱的方法对我国工程训练的研究脉络、内涵与发展趋势进行了梳理，并绘制出演化路径图。研究发现：我国工程训练研究的成果呈稳步增长趋势，研究的开展广泛和积极，其内涵也愈发丰富与多元，同时也存在学术力量比较薄弱，尚未形成优势互补、资源共享的集群效应等不足。未来应加强与"四新"建设、"大工程观""大文科观"等多学科及新时代育人元素的融合发展；构建"多层次+多学科+创新实践"教学体系，因材施教，尤其是通识教育的下沉式普及；结合虚拟教研室等技术，积极搭建青年教师学习、成长成才的交流平台，形成一定的研究力量梯队。     

油田研究院所绩效考核指标体系研究--以长庆油田为例的研究

现行的绩效考核制度存在着种种弊端 ,导致员工认同度低 ,影响力比较弱。从研究院所员工特点出发 ,以目标管理为导向 ,遵循“整体目标为基础 ,向下层层分解 ,共同协商”的原则 ,设计出关键绩效指标和控制类指标相结合的新型考核指标体系方案 ,并以油田勘探开发研究院为实证 ,列举出各层面各级员工的绩效考核指标体系。     

分层分级大学生课外思想政治教育活动的构建研究

构建分层分级大学生课外思想政治教育活动,是实现大学生共性和个性全面发展的必然趋势。不仅能体现以人为本、科学发展的理念,是培养创新型人才的的重要载体,更是构建社会主义和谐社会的必然要求。构建这样的体系,必须深化大学校园文化建设,丰富大学生社会实践活动形式,加强党团组织建设,建设校园新媒体互动平台,健全心理健康教育和职业生涯规划教育,打造分层分级大学生课外思想政治教育工作合力。     

Ethical Considerations in Management Research: A ‘Truth’ Seeker''s Guide

Within a growing Knowledge-Management context, it would appear that Management Research calls for researchers to explicitly understand their own values, have increasing capacity for reflexivity and anticipate various ethical dilemmas that emerge from the research endeavour. This paper provides an overview of the philosophy of ethics and focuses on a researcher's ethical reasoning. It provides a framework for understanding causes of ethical dilemmas in the context of management research and provides strategies for a way forward through such dilemmas. The paper, finally, outlines exercises pertinent to research ethics and ‘hands on’ research praxis. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Technology,Geography, and Trade

We develop a Ricardian trade model that incorporates realistic geographic features into general equilibrium. It delivers simple structural equations for bilateral trade with parameters relating to absolute advantage, to comparative advantage (promoting trade), and to geographic barriers (resisting it). We estimate the parameters with data on bilateral trade in manufactures, prices, and geography from 19 OECD countries in 1990. We use the model to explore various issues such as the gains from trade, the role of trade in spreading the benefits of new technology, and the effects of tariff reduction.     

A reverse form of welfarism: some reflections on Australian housing policy

In this paper I argue that we have been amiss in diagnosing the role played by government, which has exacerbated the housing problems afflicting low‐income households in Australia. However, I argue further we have placed too much faith in the capacity of managerial interventions to ameliorate what are far more deep‐rooted and systemic challenges. It is suggested that researchers need to adopt a more critical account of the conduct of contemporary government policy making, one that casts aside a view of the State as a benevolent agency whose primary objective is to ameliorate the conditions of the disadvantaged. Instead, the State should be understood as an agency that sustains the conditions necessary for the finance industry, developers and real estate agents, along with well‐off householders and landlords, to reap profits. The political economy of Australian housing, in its current incarnation, performs a form of reverse welfarism that exacerbates social inequality.     

普列汉诺夫文艺思想研究在中国考察

普列汉诺夫文艺思想对于中国学术界的影响一直存在,然而,新时期以前,学术界更多的只是译介他的著作,相关研究却比较少,而且这些研究基本还带有政治的眼光,不能给予客观的认识和评价。新时期之后,由于摆脱了过去认识上的政治思维模式,人们对他的研究才算是真正有规模地展开。普列汉诺夫的思想异常丰富复杂,从“对普列汉诺夫文艺思想的总体研究”、“关于艺术起源问题探讨”、“对功利和审美问题的探讨”、“普列汉诺夫的社会学文艺批评”等几个方面研究他的学术思想可以发现,普列汉诺夫的文艺思想始终围绕并且从未离开马克思主义的哲学基础和方法指导,他对艺术问题具有独特性的认识与主张。对普列汉诺夫的社会学文艺思想做庸俗化、机械化的理解是错误的。