《新编大学英语》精读课实践研究

加强学生听说能力和交际能力即英语实用性能力,提高英语专业学生的英语综合能力是大学英语教学面临的重要问题。从《新编大学英语》精读课课堂教学改革的必要性出发,提出教学的新模式CTA及具体的操作方法及成果,旨在为中国培养出更多、更高质量的具有国际竞争力的英语专业人才打好基础。     

Enacting reflective and deliberative practices in action research

ABSTRACT

We consider action research as a form of deliberative policy analysis. This analysis explores a “reconstruction clinic” in which stakeholders and public officials engaged memories, hopes and obligations as they sought to resolve controversies over details of policy implementation. We ask how institutional design shaped participants’ reflective and deliberative progress. Reflection in action can prompt not only changes in cognitive frames, but new behavioural capacities for action. Deliberative practices can shape new relationships between parties through the work of apology, recognition, appreciation, and emergent collaboration.     

Amassing rural power in the fight against fracking in Maryland: A report from the field

ABSTRACT

Social workers can mobilize vulnerable populations to shape policy decisions about industrial practices that could have adverse impacts on their wellbeing. One such practice is hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” to extract oil and natural gas from shale rock deposits. There is scant social work literature on mobilizing opposition to fracking despite a proliferation of literature from other disciplines. This article documents the campaign in Maryland that led to the adoption of the first legislative ban on fracking in a U.S. state with shale gas reserves, using social movement theory to identify factors that led to this successful outcome.     

Integrating self-care into clinical practice with trauma clients

ABSTRACT

Self-care is recognized as an important aspect of social work practice. Beginning in educational settings, developing social workers are encouraged to learn about and practice self-care. However, self-care is typically promoted through strategies and approaches outside of the practice context. Social workers are oftentimes encouraged to use individualized self-care plans, which often feature a variety of relaxation and secondary techniques; focus on self-awareness and self-reflection; and have proper use of supervision. Although these strategies are invaluable, they do little to directly benefit the social worker during direct practice or while in session with a client which is a time period when clinicians are particularly vulnerable to distress or burnout. The importance of real-time self-care strategies is particularly critical for clinicians, especially those who engage in trauma work, given the sensitivity of topics that clients may have endured or benefit from assistance in processing. Further, little information has been published on the use of self-care techniques during a session with a client or in a clinical context. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss self-care strategies that can be useful both outside of and within a clinical setting and present a model of such strategies that focus on integrating self-care in clinical practice particularly for those engaging in trauma work. The paper will conclude by discussing the relevancy of the developed model in practice.     

In the flesh: a poetic inquiry into how fat female employees manage weight-related stigma

ABSTRACT

This paper engages with the question of how fat female employees manage weight-related stigma at work. We use poetic inquiry to show the reader how it feels for our participants to be stigmatized based on their size. We interviewed 22 women who self-identify as full-figured, fat, overweight, or obese. The results consist of six poems, five of which were written by us, the researchers. These ‘tri-voiced poems’ (Leavy 2010b) illustrate the spectrum of affective responses and stigma management strategies that our participants talked about, ranging from feeling anxious, super-smart, impeccable, and funny to rebellious and confident. The sixth poem was written by one of our participants and voices her first-person experiences and perspective. Our aim is to do justice in our writing to the emotions that circulated in the interviews and to make a political statement with regards to the stigmatizing practices in organizations related to size and health.     

新文类与亚文化

新媒体和文学的结合催生出一批迥然有别于传统纸媒文学的新文类作品,而被流行化的亚文化构成了它们的重要话语资源,新文类中最常见的亚文化种类有同性恋亚文化、神秘亚文化和游戏动漫亚文化等,这些亚文化中蕴涵的抵抗和边缘因素在消费时代成为商业文化的卖点,被流行化快餐化之后作为一种＂奇观＂投合了都市青少年群体追求新奇刺激的猎奇心态,因而在新媒体平台上成为新的时尚和潮流。     

加强社会实践培养少数民族大学生的实践能力

加强社会实践 ,是高校教学的重要内容和环节。通过社会实践有利于培养和提高少数民族大学生的综合素质、创新意识、创新能力 ;有利于培养德、智、体、美、劳全面发展的社会主义事业的建设者和接班人     

日本内外文化现象对中日互译中日语表述的影响——以被动形式为例

日本的内外文化体现在日本社会生活的方方面面,一直以来受到中外学者的关注。在简单介绍内外文化及其与语言的关系的基础上,着重分析内外文化对日语被动形式的影响与作用。通过中日两种语言的比较分析,认为日语更多地采用被动形式的深层次原因在于日本的内外文化因素。此外,通过大量的翻译实例以及中日句式的比较,认为掌握内外文化的特点在日汉互译中具有非常重要的实践意义和指导作用。