Recording the war effort: immigrant communities in Latin America and the memory of the Great War

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyse the initiatives undertaken by some immigrant communities residing in Latin America to record their mobilisation around the First World War. After the armistice, European communities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and other countries gathered detailed information about their activities during the conflict, published as profusely illustrated books of remembrance, offered to their governments as proof of their loyalty. The article intends to establish the peculiar nature of these publications as records of the war effort, and analyse the agents and processes of their elaboration, and their role as commemorative but also as archival documents.     

The historian activist and the Gift to the Nation project: preserving the records of the Australian Red Cross

ABSTRACT

In 2014, as part of their centenary celebrations, the Australian Red Cross initiated a project in which it transferred archives to various national, state and territory institutions across Australia including the University of Melbourne Archives and the State Library of New South Wales. The transfer of this voluminous (but not complete) collection built on earlier transfers of archives to the State Library of South Australia and the Australian War Memorial. This paper charts the origins of the plan to donate the records to public repositories. It interrogates the societal provenance of those collections, recognising that the pluralising of records is an historical process, in which the agency of archivists, historians and administrators must be understood. An investigation of Red Cross records in Australia exposes that process in its contingency, inertia and, ultimately, enthusiasm. The paper also reveals the challenges faced by voluntary organisations in preserving their records, and how historians and archivists both can benefit from assisting such organisations. Finally, this paper argues that the ‘Gift to the Nation’ project, with its national and international significance, reflects a shift in our understanding of the First World War to a transnational paradigm that recognises the important role of voluntary organisations.     

科学发展观对构建思想政治理论教育主体新维度的意义

以人为本是科学发展观的核心与立足点,也是高校思想政治理论教育的根本原则和归宿。科学发展观之所以能够统领思想政治理论教育工作,就在于它能够以人为立论基础、以丰富人的属性为要求,因而科学发展观为思想政治理论教育主体新维度的构建提供了方法论的指导。本文旨在探索如何以科学发展观为指导来构建思想政治理论教育主体的新维度．以提高当前高校思想政治理论教育的实效性。     

有关普通话水平测试中一乙等级评分的几点感想

教育部颁布了新的<普通话水平测试管理规定>对普通话测试提出了新的要求,针对"一级乙等"测试中存在的问题和现象,笔者提出了粗浅的见解以期和同仁共同探讨.     

思政“第一课”的特点及德育价值--基于26篇思政“第一课”讲稿的文本分析

当前思政“第一课”已在高校生根发芽,形成高校党委书记、校长带头走进课堂,带头推动思政课建设的新常态。思政“第一课”是加强高校意识形态工作、形成思想政治工作合力、推进思政课提质增效的必然选择,呈现教学选题个性化、教学内容导向性、教学组织联动性的特点,发挥引导学生树立“四个正确认识”、鼓励学生成长成才、培育学生爱校荣校情怀、为思政课带来新风、凝聚思政工作合力的德育价值。     

走向3E教学——三述首要教学原理

五星教学模式倡导走向3E教学．即致力于实现学生学习效果好、效率高和主动性强的宗旨。五星教学模式中的不同成分效能等级有别．聚焦完整任务、激活相关旧知、展示论证新知、尝试应用新知和融会贯通掌握都至关重要．应该采用波纹环状教学开发模式来促进实施五星教学。     

A “Deleterious” Driver: The “First Teacher” Reform in Sweden

This article investigates the implementation of the “förstelärare” or “First teacher” reform in Sweden. We draw upon the insights of a superintendent, union official, principal, three First teachers, and two of their colleagues in one school, and recent literature on career development reform. We employ Michael Fullan’s overview of the “right” and “wrong” drivers of educational reform to analyse the extent to which the First Teacher initiative cultivated productive “professional capital.” The research reveals: how broader national policy aims were in clear tension with municipal-wide school development, and school-level development efforts; the perverse effects of a strong focus upon salary on professional conduct; and how an emphasis upon teachers’ roles per se undermined the espoused policy focus on enhancing teaching. The research cautions against the problematic effects of the initiative on more profession-oriented prerogatives, and how more external, “deleterious,” drivers of reform militate against more productive professional capital.     

Bridging western and First Nations thought: Balanced education in Whitehead's philosophy of organism and the sacred circle

The sacred circle offers a perspective for interpreting and theorizing about human development valuable in shaping the education of First Nations and non-First Nations students. For those of us in a western materialist culture who are interested in coming to understand what the sacred circle might offer, it is necessary to address assumptions in our own culture. This paper proceeds in four parts to facilitate such an understanding. Part One formulates the importance of a culturally self-critical approach to understanding education based in the sacred circle. Part Two presents the sacred circle as a pattern used to interpret meaning in First Nations education. Part Three examinesinterconnectedness through (a) whitehead's criticism of western scientific epistemology and his idea of education for balanced development, and (b) through the creator, mother earth and the Four Directions reflected in the sacred circle. Part Four interprets aholistic apprehension approach to education based in (a) Whitehead's notion's of intuition and imagination for balanced development from the sacred circle perspective, and (b) through the sacred circle in the vision quest ceremony.     

论中国共产党成立的时间问题

中国共产党的创建经历了一个从准备到建立的历史过程。1920年夏中国共产党上海发起组的建立是组织上筹建党的开始,并非中国共产党诞生的标志。1921年7月中国共产党第一次全国代表大会的召开标志着中国共产党正式成立。     

Storybook writing in first grade

Research literature on writingstorybooks overlooks first graders. This ispuzzling as children enter first grade havingemergent literacy, in reading, writing, andstory composition. It may reflect the belief that at thisage children should learn to read and write(conventionally) as the curriculum demands,while elaborate writing is assumed be taughtand developed in higher grades. This study investigated story writing by Arab(N = 184) and Jewish (N = 321) first graders inIsrael. The children were presented with fourrelated pictures, asked to paste them in thesequence of their choice in a booklet, and thento write a narrative in their first language(Arabic or Hebrew). Writing the storybook wasperceived as a space for literacy development,and was tested in the contextof two instruction methods: Success For All(SFA) and whole-class Active Learning (AL). Theclasses were observed and teachers wereinterviewed on writing instruction.Nineteen categories of writing yieldedthree clusters–factors: book print awareness,writing conventions, and story quality. Thesethen served as measures for writing outcomes. Jewish and Arab children in SFA achieved higherscores than AL students; the Jews were higherthan the Arabs on most categories, but theestimate gain was highest for Arabs in SFA. The effect of SFA was highest for at-riskJewish students and lowest for at-risk Arabstudents. The results are discussed against thelinguistic and cultural background of the twogroups and in respect of their implications forwriting instruction in a bilingual context.