Four Public Declarations of the Revolutionary Period

In our complex, interdependent world, it is critical that educators prepare students for global citizenship. One way to develop students’ awareness and understanding of the world is through global literature. Through exposure to this type of literature, students gain multiple perspectives and learn about the social, political, and moral conditions under which people around the world live. They also develop respect and understanding of socially and politically oppressed peoples and learn why it is important to promote social justice. The authors discuss global literature for elementary students and describe an example of a lesson taught in a third-grade classroom using these books. Finally, the authors share the outcomes of the lesson based on their observations and analysis of the students’ oral responses and written reflections.     

中日“生殖健康与身体政治”国际学术研讨会综述

生殖健康与身体政治存在着密不可分的关系。在分娩的近代化过程中,生殖问题并非由妇女单独一方主宰,而是国家政策、市场导向、社会需求、家庭结构、村庄利益、生育文化和妇女本人相互博弈的结果。在此过程中,妇女逐渐形成能够贯彻自我意志的生育主体,但国家和市场也开始更加有效地介入妇女身体,潜在影响妇女自我意志的形成。在研究中,要采用多元交叉的视角,重视国家、资本、文化的交叉作用,也要注意到妇女的能动性和差异性。     

个案研究：基于网络英语写作课中的社会学习

从学习者视角探讨社会文化理论框架下基于网络英语写作教学个案中的＂社会学习＂经历。数据表明,学习者从该课程的社会学习中不仅通过交互提高了英语写作水平和能力,实现了课程设计者的设计初衷,取得了一些非语言方面的成果。该课程设计中的社会学习过程具有实证意义,社会文化理论在语言教学一线有很大的实际应用价值。     

Efficiency improvement from multiple perspectives: An application to Japanese banking industry

The current study focuses on efficiency improvement for banking systems from multiple perspectives, which have different definitions of input/output about various attributes of a banking system. In this research we utilize data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Nash bargaining game (NBG) theory to improve inefficient banks in order to: (1) Make the inefficient bank be the state of Pareto Optimality for multiple perspectives, which can avoid discontentment of some perspectives. (2) Improve a bank by changing its attributes and provide various improving schemes for decision makers. A numerical case study of Japanese banks is also given to show the results of equilibrium solution from multiple perspectives.     

A multivariate solution of the multivariate ranking and selection problem

The problem of selection of the best multivariate population is given a new formulation which does not involve reducing the populations to univariate quantities. This formulation's solution is developed for known, and (using the Heteroscedastic Method) also for unknown, variance-covariance matrices. Preference reversals and arbitrary nonlinear preference functions are explicitly allowed in this new theory     

The social construction of a cultural disaster: New Labour’s millennium experience

This article presents the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Board project on London’s Millennium Dome exposition in the year 2000. The Dome was generally considered to be a cultural disaster in the news media and public conversation. It became a political embarrassment for Britain’s New Labour government but did not prove damaging in the 2001 general election. The article does not dispute the media’s damnation of the Dome but questions its acuity. It also questions the managerialist perspective on the Dome’s ‘failure’ whilst taking into account claims regarding a managerial ‘turnaround’ and an ‘under-reported success’. Empirical evidence and theoretical analysis concerning the political economy of the Dome’s production, its representational meanings and visitor reception provide a more complex and multidimensional explanation. Corporate sponsorship played a key role in the cultural disaster and, in this particular case study, it exemplifies social democracy’s symbolic as well as material coalescence with neo-liberalism. A distinction is made between associative and deep sponsorship that is illustrated with examples from the Dome. A typology of generous and reflexive visiting is also formulated in order to analyse the visitor data.     

多元Ismail—May算子的一致逼近

主要给出了多元Ismail—May算子在一致逼近意义下的正、逆定理及特征刻划。     

(Visual) Disability – from exclusive perspectives to inclusive differences

By introducing the concept ‘inclusive differences’ of disability this paper suggests that disability is the outcome of historically specific, embodied human and non‐human configurations fabricated within the conduct of everyday life. Inclusive differences question the attempt given by exclusive perspectives that try to divide analytically, conceptually or politically ‘disability’ a priori into an individual (natural) bodily impairment or a purely socio‐cultural attributed disability. Applying the concept of inclusive differences, neither the domain of ‘nature’ nor ‘society’ can function as a disability’s self‐explanatory force. Rather, inclusive differences highlight the connection between human and non‐human relations that make up the different enabling and/or disabling scenarios of societal realities. Drawing on the practices of blind people in a visual culture this paper discusses related specificities of inclusive differences.     

城市发展质量评价：视角与指标体系

城市发展质量评价对于在城市化进程中贯彻科学发展观有着十分重要的意义。城市发展质量是一个包容性概念,对其进行评价存在多种视角和指标体系。本文对城市发展质量评价的各种视角和指标体系进行了归纳和评述,以期形成这一领域研究的有益补充。