Education,cognitive ability,and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach

Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18–63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes—which solves the interdependence problem—and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model controlling for Intelligence Quotient, improving education is associated with large decreases in mortality for major causes of death. In the structural model, improving education is associated with a small decrease in months lost for most causes and education levels. Among the least educated, however, improving education strongly reduces the months lost, mainly those lost from external causes, such as accidents and suicide. Results suggest that conventional analysis of education and mortality may be biased, even if accounting for observed cognition.     

大工程文化育工程人的实践探索

大工程文化是河北工程大学基于新时代工程教育实践和学校发展实际,凝练升华而成的大学文化系统,其“十一大”脉系,在学校育人实践中发挥了重要作用,为落实立德树人根本任务提供了精神动力。     

健美操对学生形态的影响及优化策略

文章结合常见训练特点,分析了健美操在有氧活动促进心肺功能、协调运动、力量训练、柔韧训练、实践比赛、个体抗压等方面对学生形体产生的影响,为进一步强化学生身体素质提供理论参考意见。     

生态视域下大学生理想信念教育优化路径探讨

理想信念教育是高校思政工作的核心,文章从生态学的视角分析了大学生理想信念教育的现状,并提出从教育目标、主体关系、客体选择、介体形成、环体营造等方面优化大学生理想信念教育生态体系,以达到培养社会主义合格建设者和可靠接班人的目的。     

基于学科竞赛的创新创业教育体系的构建

在简要概述学科竞赛对培养创新创业人才的重要作用的基础上,从建立学科竞赛体系、竞赛团队、课程体系、工程实训体系、组织管理体系、考核评价体系等六个方面,阐述了我校基于学科竞赛构建创新创业教育体系的一些具体方法和措施。通过把学科竞赛纳入正常教学计划,形成较为完整的创新创业教育体系和良好的教育教学秩序,为创新创业人才培养提供了有力保障。     

"互联网+"背景下高校体育教学改革策略研究

阐述“互联网+教育”给高校体育教学在教学理念、教学形态、交流方式所带来的积极影响;指出“互联网+”背景下高校体育教学改革的策略,构建高校体育信息化平台,实践立体化混合教学模式,建立多元化客观评价体系,挖掘网络资源,构建高效课堂,旨在为教育信息化背景下高校体育教学改革提供有益探索。     

高校党外知识分子思想政治教育工作的传承与创新

高校是党外知识分子的集中之地。在新的社会条件下,做好高校党外知识分子思想政治教育工作,是高等教育全面、协调、可持续发展的重要保障。必须在坚持一致性和多样性统一的前提下,找到最大公约数,画出最大同心圆,为国家实施科教兴国、人才强国和创新驱动发展战略,为高校的改革与发展凝聚人心、汇聚力量。     

Fabulachia: urban,black female experiences and higher education in Appalachia

Abstract

This article draws on focus group conversations with black female college students attending a small, liberal arts institution in Kentucky. Based primarily on group interviews and discussions, as well as observations and analysis – a theoretical domain (referred to throughout the article as ‘Fabulachia’) emerged as a site-specific outcome of events and ideas regarding race, gender and identity experienced by the research participants. Specifically, ‘Fabulachia’ functions as a theoretical hybrid space in which urban (e.g. ‘ghetto fabulous’) black college student-voices find a sense of empowerment as they construct their own narratives of leaving ‘the hood’ to attend college in rural Appalachia. This project revises and updates previous research on race and rural identity/ies in order to situate the urban black female experience into an Appalachian context. Drawing on hip hop feminism and urban education based theoretical paradigms, the Fabulachia study seeks to give voice to black females in contemporary Appalachia, with attention to their self-proclaimed ‘ghetto fabulous’ identities honed in and through their urban upbringings. The unique experiences of (Fabulachian) black females are an important and largely absent part of larger conversations of the growing body of Urban education research that seeks to situate the black student/black youth and schooling experience in the US. In the Fabulachia study, a group of black female students shared personal narratives (part-oral history and part direct response) to prompts and queries about the role of hip hop culture, race and gender identity in their lives. They also discussed and debated what it means to be a black female in contemporary (often racist) Appalachia, and about how their families and urban surroundings influenced their processes of being and becoming in the context of higher educational achievement.     

‘They were constantly on the losing side of things’: the pedagogical power of an African-American teacher candidate bearing witness in teacher education

The stories of students and teacher candidates of Color (Just as singular racial/ethnic identities are capitalized (i.e. African-American, Asian, Latina, Native American etc.), I capitalize Color to honor the various identities that many ‘non-white’ people hold near and dear. I recognize the nuances in doing so- such as the reality that the term ‘people of Color’ actually erases identity while the term also highlights a shared experience (though also nuanced) of being ‘non-white’ in a white supremacist society.) hold powerful lessons and insights for teacher education programs and educational reform efforts. Yet, rarely do educators and policy-makers solicit or critically engage the educational narratives of these stakeholders. In particular, research confirms that we know little about how students’ of Color educational experiences are impacted by race(ism) and culture and how those experiences subsequently inform their ideas about teaching. This study, framed by critical race theory (CRT), examines an African-American (African-American is used intentionally here as this is how Ariel identifies racially.) teacher candidate’s racialized K-12 and postsecondary school experiences to more fully understand the connection between lived experience and developing teacher identity. Ariel’s story reflects her own school experiences; her focus on her peers’ school experiences when asked about her own; and how those experiences, informed by race and culture, contribute to her development of pedagogy. Analytical considerations illustrate that memory and remembrance, witnessing and bearing witness, and testimony are deliberate and powerful acts in the development of pedagogy and should be central to teacher education curriculum.     

A narrative inquiry into the identity formation of Chinese doctoral students in relation to study abroad

The present study explores a topic which has been under-studied to date, namely the identity formation of Chinese PhD students in relation to study abroad. Underpinned by Giddens’ ‘reflexive project of the self’, which privileges agency and reflexivity, and using a narrative inquiry approach, it presents four students ‘stories’ collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. In building a picture of the ways in which students’ self-identity is shaped by and shapes their experience of study abroad, the stories illustrate individual agency, motivation, self-determination and reflexivity. In doing so, they challenge the essentialised view of Chinese students as a homogeneous and sometimes problematic group and point to implications for action by the host institutions.