Associations between hope and trajectories of critical consciousness among U.S. youth of color

We examined associations between hope as an internal asset that supports positive youth development, and growth trajectories of three critical consciousness components. Using five waves of data collected over the course of high school (N = 618), we modeled growth trajectories of awareness of inequity (critical reflection), a sense of agency about taking sociopolitical action (critical agency), and behaviors targeting systems of oppression (critical action). Hope was highest among those with high trajectories of critical agency and critical action. Clear associations with hope emerged at the last time point for critical reflection, suggesting that sustained growth in critical reflection is associated with hope. When supporting the critical consciousness development of youth of color, concurrent support for hope may be instrumental.     

Three Days to Walk: a personal story of life writing and disability consciousness in China

Through a close reading of Three Days to Walk, a memoir of disability by Chinese writer Zhang Yuncheng, this paper develops a new understanding of self-narrated life writing and its intersection with disability consciousness in the contemporary Chinese context. It examines the changing nature of disability life writing since the end of the early 1980s, a time when the images and voices of disabled began to emerge from effective cultural invisibility and silence. In a move away from state-sponsored ‘triumph over tragedy’ biographical narratives typical of the immediate post-Cultural Revolution period, Three Days to Walk is characteristic of a new popular trend to publish self-narrated life stories that reveal unique and intimate histories of disability experience both imbued with and propelled by a burgeoning sense of disability consciousness in the Chinese context.     

Female Consciousness in Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bront is a remarkable women writer in the 19th-century English literature. Jane Eyre received comprehensive attention. This thesis analyzes main characters from three aspects, Jane Eyre＇s female consciousness, pursuit of equality, freedom and presents the limitation in Jane Eyre. It also examines the nature of Charlotte Bront？＇s pioneering female consciousness and demonstrates its positive development.     

源于文化自觉的城镇化路径——中国城镇化新探索：来自西藏拉萨大北郊的启示

市场经济条件下的城镇化,实质是人口和生产要素的集中过程。新型城镇化不仅仅是线性的“破旧立新”的发展过程,更是多元的“文化创新”的展过程,是文化基因的传承,文化记忆的存留和文化历史的延续。大北郊作为以金属器加工制作为主导的产业集群和生产者集聚的生活社区,其成型、变迁和发展,是基于文化自觉的城镇化的典型个案。     

“本心”的追问——以《新唯识论》“明宗”章与“唯识”章为例

熊十力先生反对将“体”“用”截成“两片”,并看到了宇宙发生流行中海沤不二的终极本体,但是熊先生却又将心分为“本心”和“习心”。我们可以追问,若是“体用不二”,“本心”与“习心”何以截分？或者说“本心”和“习心”的关系如何？“境不离识”,可同样“识与境存”,而“识”（习心）本即是“本心”的流行,在新的意义上可以说“境不空”而“识亦不妄”,“本心”即是“习心”,心本无二。     

品牌意识：企业经营理念的核心

品牌代表企业形象 ,在市场经济中品牌资产成为企业赢利的关键 ,品牌意识是一种价值观、文化观的认同 ,品牌意识正成为企业经营理念的核心。跨国公司大力创出品牌 ,不断提高品牌在竞争中维持产品高价的能力 ,国内企业面对跨国公司的竞争 ,要树立品牌意识 ,制定品牌战略来推动企业经营战略 ,创建品牌、品牌定位、提升品牌知名度 ,最终目标是创造和提高品牌的资产价值 ,使企业在竞争中保持长期增长的优势     

现实囚笼中的精神自由--从《纯真年代》的人物塑造看伊迪丝·华顿的女性意识

女性意识在<纯真年代>中的三个主要人物形塑过程中起着重要作用,将伊迪丝·华顿在当时社会条件下的女性梦想最大程度地张显出来.而华顿的启示是男权社会有一定的规则,女性如果超越这一规则,就有可能在精神领域实现一部分的梦想.     

卢卡奇的“物化意识”思想研究

“物化意识”是商品成为社会的普遍范畴（即资本主义）的产物,现实生活的物化是“物化意识”产生的生活基础,当代的哲学、经济学、法学等学科是物化意识的外在表达。卢卡奇的物化意识思想,不仅继承和发展了马克思的商品拜物教思想,而且在哲学层面上激活了马克思主义,同时对西方马克思主义文化批判和当代意识形态批判理论都产生了深远影响。     

Becoming Each Other: A Single Case Exploration of Relational Consciousness in Couple Therapy

The concept of “relational consciousness” has gained increasing attention in the last decades in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and psychotherapy. Yet human consciousness with its concomitant awareness of self and other as distinct is linguistically and culturally situated in the individual mind. This article explores the lived experience of shared consciousness in the practice of “becoming the other” with a focus on therapy with one couple. The historical development of our understanding of consciousness as a relational phenomenon is addressed with particular attention to the observations, insights, and practices of Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, and Gregory Bateson, who have each contributed substantially to our understanding of mind as relationally experienced and constructed. The article explores implications for practice and future directions this methodology might take.

‘It didn’t come up on my radar’: an examination of students’ orientation toward disability justice in the US

Abstract

While social justice is a well-recognized concept, it is less frequently examined through the lens of disability. In order to address existing gaps within social justice education, this qualitative case study investigates how participation in a semester-long Introduction to Disability Studies (IDS) course affected students’ orientation toward disability justice, or the conception of disability as an issue of social justice. The framework underpinning this research merges Cipolle’s theory of critical consciousness development with disability-based constructs. Findings reveal that participation in IDS allowed participants to develop an awareness of their ability privilege, understand the experiences of peers with disabilities, increase their social awareness of disability, and consider their work as disability allies. This article concludes with recommendations for social justice educators who are interested in applying disability justice practices.