|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
2012 - Vol.7 Issue 4 |
Volume 7 - Issue 4 - 2012
John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Modern Citizenship PP:1-17 The dialectical relationship of liberty and welfare has guided modern political development, and it sets the criteria for citizenship in a modern state. However, to absolutize either liberty or welfare can undermine both. ... full Text (pdf)
The Making of Citizenship: The Controversy Over Victoria Harbour Reclamation Project in Hong Kong PP:18-31 This article identifies three major dimensions of citizenship as individual, organizational, and contextual. This "three-dimensional" framework understands citizenship as a dynamic process constituted by development of citizenship at each of the three dimensions. ... full Text (pdf)
Constructing a Gender-oriented Mode for Modern Citizenship PP:32-53 The divide of the public-private spheres exists in traditional citizenship. The public mainly represents men's discourse. Women are constrained within the private sphere of the home by child-rearing responsibilities. Therefore, traditional citizenship tends to be male-biased. After criticizing the false universalism of traditional citizenship. ... full Text (pdf)
Welfare Governance in China? A Conceptual Discussion of Governing Social Policies and the Applicability of the Concept to Contemporary China PP:54-72 In the last three decades the structures and logic of providing social policies in the People's Republic of China underwent decisive reforms. As a consequence of institutional and socio- economic transitions, such as privatization, and rural to urban labor migration. ... full Text (pdf)
Migration, Identities and Cultural Change: History and Present Situation of the Santa people in Xinjiang, China PP:73-87 Since the Qing dynasty, Santa people have been migrating to Xinjiang, and have subsequently become an important group there, both in terms of population and influence. This paper deals with the history of the four Santa immigration waves and the present situation of their ethnic, religious, and local identities. ... full Text (pdf)
Chinese University EFL Students' Attitudes towards English, Interest in Foreign Languages and perceptions of Social Norms in Foreign Language Learning PP:88-100 The present study explored the general patterns of Chinese university EFL students' attitudes towards English, interest in foreign languages, and their perceptions of social norms in foreign language learning, and the relationships among these measured variables and their performance in English. ... full Text (pdf)
Teacher Questioning as a Way to Open up Dialogue in the EFL Intensive Reading Classrooms in China PP:101-115 This paper examines teacher questions in the Intensive Reading (IR) classrooms at the tertiary level in China. It has been found that teacher questions were predominantly used to elicit factual reports or recitation based on the factual information in the text and that they rarelyvalidated students’ contributions by. ... full Text (pdf)
e-Leadership in Academia: A New Form of Leadership Emerging from Networks of Interdisciplinary Research PP:116-125 The nature of leadership in academia is becoming part of the shift in the "network society" (Castells, 2000). 24 academic leaders from the University of Oxford were interviewed in this study in order to understand what "e" actually means in the concept of e-leadership. e-leadership in academia can be seen as. ... full Text (pdf)
Topic Prominence in Typological Interlanguage Development of Chinese Students' English PP:126-142 This study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topic-prominent typological interlanguage development of the Chinese English learners in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English syntactic structures in a systematic way. This study shows that the Chinese students of English at each proficiency level .... full Text (pdf)
To Give Chinese Children "a Memorable China": the Trend of Chinese Indigenous Picture Books PP:143-151 The development of Chinese indigenous picture books is stimulated as well as pressured by foreign picture books which have dominated Chinese market of picture books since the end of the 20th century. Some Chinese artists began to seek the way of nationalization of picture books to give young children "a memorable China". ...
|
|||||||||||
| < Back to top | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||