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.     

Power To Our Journeys: Re‐membering Michael

The following personal reflections are in honour of Michael and all that he contributed to our lives. And, we honour Brigitte a key member of the group who died in 2006. Mem, Sue and Veronica, December 2008.     

Some Reflections on the Legacies of Michael White: An Australian Perspective

This article, which appears in a special 30‐year anniversary edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, reflects on the legacies of the work of Michael White. It begins by looking back on Michael's time as editor of the Australian Journal of Family Therapy. Of the many themes that were discussed in the Editorials and Letters to the Editor section of this journal in the early 1980s, this article focuses on three in particular to explore the legacies of the work of Michael White. The author describes how Michael has bequeathed not only a profound body of work, but also a distinctive spirit of originating, and ways of working that consider the effects of social issues and that examine the politics of experience. It is the author's hope that this approach to considering Michael White's legacies honours his work and also honours the contributions of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy in its 30th year.     

提高民族学生英语发音的方法

提高学生的英语语音发音对提高民族学生的英语整体水平起着不容质疑的基石作用。本文就如何开展该方面的教学、培养学生的学习兴趣及学习技巧提出一些浅显的建议。     

论回族爱情叙事诗的悲剧美--以《马五哥与尕豆妹》为例

作为回族民间文学重要组成部分的爱情叙事诗,由于具有鲜明的民族特色和独特的艺术风格,在长期的传播中赢得了回族及周边各族人民的喜爱。同时,它又以粗犷、直率、沉郁的语言抒发了一种悲壮的感情,令人回味无穷。文章欲以在西北农村广泛传唱的“花儿”体叙事长诗《马五哥与尕豆妹》为例,试图利用社会人类学的功能理论来尝试性的分析回族爱情叙事诗的悲剧美。     

The Unlived Life Is Worth Examining: Nothings and Nobodies behind the Scenes

This paper explores how people talk about the things that have not happened in their lives. I argue that we can perform reverse biographical identity work upon our unmade selves by exploring the meanings of unlived, non-experience. Challenging one's own rehearsed life story is an act of narrative self-transgression, involving negative responsibility assumption. Drawing on my symbolic interactionist theory of “nothing,” I consider how negative social phenomena (no-things, no-bodies, and non-events) are interactively accomplished and retrospectively made sense of in personal accounts. Themes of lost opportunities, silence, invisibility, and emptiness emerge from an analysis of twenty-seven stories. These tales reveal a mixture of emotions: not only sadness, stigma, shame, and regret, but also relief, pride, acceptance, and gratitude. Narratives of nothing are often ambivalent in tone, reflecting the complexity of storied life behind the scenes.     

论传统伦理在鲁迅小说叙事中的境遇

在理性伦理层面，鲁迅执着地批判和反抗传统伦理，但在小说叙事伦理中却对传统伦理的诸多方面有所担待，并且充满着不可排遣的紧张冲突，这既是思想、文化转型时代人心秩序的普遍反映，更是鲁迅个体伦理困惑的体现。     

从新历史主义看史传与中国古典小说的亲和性

中国古典小说与中国史传之间有祭密联系的原因是值得深入研究的。新历史主义揭示的 历史的文学性从史学与文学的根本性质的接近方面更为深刻地揭示了二者的亲缘关系。但新历史主义 也有局限,它没有看到二者在共有的虚构性之外,还有审美性的差异,而这正是中国史传独具的特质,也 是中国古典小说与史传有紧密联系的根本性原因。受到中国史传审美性的影响,中国古典小说呈现出 独特的审美风貌。     

论亚里士多德《诗学》中的古典叙事理论

亚里士多德的《诗学》是西方古典叙事理论的发轫之作。第一,亚氏认为文学叙事起源于摹仿,叙事的本质是摹仿和虚构的有机统一。第二,把以情节作为第一要素的古典叙事理论进行了全面而科学的论证和归纳。第三,指出了叙事时间、叙述者和叙述声音等具有现代叙事学意义的叙事手法。第四,梳理了叙事效果的类别和途径。第五,提出了叙事批评的标准。总之,亚氏的《诗学》无疑是西方第一部有关古典叙事理论的具有科学性和系统性的经典著作。     

《娥并与桑洛》和《阿诗玛》篇法比较

《娥并与桑洛》和《阿诗玛》分别是傣族和彝族代表性的民间叙事长诗。二者在篇法上呈现迥异的审美风格倾向,前者优美,后者凝重。它们的篇法不只是与逻辑和认知相联系的话语规则,本身就是隐喻和象征,是对各自民族文化性格的生动写照。借助叙事学分析,更有助于我们看清这一点。