科学普遍性信仰的社会学解构——费耶阿本德对普遍主义的批判

费耶阿本德对作为信仰的科学进行了哲学、社会学的反思、批判,结论是西方发达国家的科学现在已经不是解放力了,对科学普遍性的信仰束缚了科学自由创新的本性,妨碍了科学的进步,因此他提出用自由的社会-历史主义限制普遍主义的僭越。     

《英语写作》教学改革与英语专业学生“思辨能力”的培养

本文着重探讨如何在大学本科英语专业课程《英语写作》教学中培养学生的思辨能力,并指出应采用语篇教学法、引进辩论法和阅读写作整合法等开展写作教学。     

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。     

统购统销制度运行发展过程的逻辑考查

统购统销是我国计划经济时期物资短缺造就的制度产物,是国家主导社会资源配置的强制性制度变迁结果.为了使制度有效运行发展,国家在农产品资源社会生产总过程中实行“定产、定购、定交、定消和定销”政策,当制度执行偏差影响到民众生产生活时,他们便会通过自主行为来表达自身利益诉求和对国家政策的不满.随着社会生产力发展,统购统销制度的弊端日益凸显,严重束缚了社会经济的发展,最终被市场经济制度所取代.     

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.