Opting Out (Without Kids): Understanding Non‐Mothers' Workplace Exit in Popular Autobiographies

Since the term appeared in 2003, popular media and academics have been interested in the phenomenon of ‘opting out’ — elite women choosing to leave their jobs to stay at home with their children. Although it is unclear whether the opt‐out revolution actually exists, this conversation has resulted in a wealth of scholarship on women leaving successful jobs to care for their children, particularly how maternity might be a graceful time to exit gendered organizations. However, there is not scholarship considering women without children who opt out of the dominant career model. In this study, I look at three popular autobiographies of women who left successful careers to pursue alternative work (farming, baking). I found that the women sought meaning in their work, control over their labour process, and a new definition of success. These narratives provide broader insight into the constraints of the dominant career model and gendered organizations as well as the particular difficulties for non‐mothers to opt out.     

浅谈以"任务"为基础的外语教学

结合David Ausubel的"有意义的学习"理论,介绍了TBT并从创造语言习得环境、调动学习的主观能动性和培养英语交际能力三个方面提倡TBT的可行性.以及通过具体的课堂示例在实践上做了一些尝试性的探讨.     

题画诗：诗人对画境的点醒与延伸

题画诗的作者往往从多种角度营构艺术形象,以丰富画面的审美蕴涵。题画诗由艺术的审美活动进一步深入到对人生哲理的探索与对艺术真昧的追求,字里行间时时闪烁着艺术与哲理的智慧之光。诗画各以自身为审美主体,又各以对方为审美客体,主体观照客体,同时又通过客体观照自身。     

历史的生成与注释的积淀

历史是个不断生成的过程。历史始终是人的历史,人也始终是历史中的人。人是一个不断生成着的存在,人的生成生成着历史,历史的生成同时也生成着人。人们只能生活在历史之中,而不能生活在历史之外。生活世界是历史生成的结果,又是历史生成的原发基地。生活世界使得历史得以发生、发展和延续。人类历史活动的结果以历史注释的方式积淀成现实的生活世界。人的自身生成过程就是历史的生成过程。     

建构主义与二语习得理论的互动

本文通过比较建构主义与二语习得理论,找出他们对于语言学习过程的理论支撑,说明二者之间存在着有机的联系,其互动作用对于外语教学实践有现实的指导意义.     

Connecting Learning: How Revisiting Big Idea Questions Can Help in History Classrooms

Many school districts across North America have turned to a framework for curriculum design and instruction called “Understanding by Design.” Included in the framework is a call for teachers to create “essential questions” that provocatively ask students to consider and learn the “big ideas and core processes within the content standards” (Tomlinson and McTighe 2006, 26). Essential questions guide teaching and engage students in uncovering the important ideas at the heart of a subject (Wiggins and McTighe 1998, 28). The conceptual foundation for this curricular approach and for this research is student-centered learning. Although essential questions are being widely used across content areas, a robust field of research specifically and concretely considering how exactly these questions are best employed does not exist, especially not for history courses. Through a mixed methods approach, this practical action research project determined that revisiting the same essential questions throughout the school year greatly increased students’ abilities to connect learning between units, but only slightly increased their abilities to connect learning to personal experiences outside the history classroom.     

Find the meanings of life——remarks on the movie"A Walk in the Clouds"

The movie is not just about romance. It convinces people how meaningful life is. As human being,we should cherish life and learn how to care and love. We should respect nature and try to make our lives more meaningful.     

色彩与凉山彝族传统民俗文化

随着社会的发展,交流日益频繁,交流工具—语言也越来受到重视。作为语言获得的重要阵地—课堂要求不断改进、创新教学方式。“协商”适应了现代教育的灵活性、素质性和实用性应运而生。本文主要从“协商”的意义、形式、原则和在语言教育中的运用等方面介绍了本人的观点和实践。     

通过隐喻学习英语词汇——关于词汇的意义化学习

本文根据著名教育心理学家奥苏贝尔(D.P.Ausubel) 的意义化学习理论,从隐喻的认知角度,提出了通过隐喻进行词汇的意义化学习的英语词汇教学方法及其应当注意的问题.     

Customer incivility and employee well-being: testing the moderating effects of meaning,perspective taking and transformational leadership

This study investigated factors that influence the relationship between experiencing customer incivility and the psychological well-being of employees in the service industry (N?=?215). Using the cognitive appraisal theory of stress, we identified and tested three factors that may buffer employees from the negative effects of customer incivility: finding meaning in work, perspective taking, and transformational leadership of supervisors. Transformational leadership was found to moderate the relationship between customer incivility and employee well-being. Meaning and perspective taking did not moderate the relationship between customer incivility and employee well-being, but did have a positive association with employee well-being. These findings contribute to the literature on customer incivility and suggest that organization-based resources that influence both primary and secondary appraisal, such as transformational leadership, are useful in buffering the harmful employee outcomes related to customer incivility.