Peirce and Aesthetic Education

Charles Sanders Peirce did not present a full account of a philosophy of education in his open‐ended conception of a philosophical system. However, he did have multiple and scattered reflections on the subject that can be used for addressing and criticising our conceptions of education. This article has been conceived as part of a broader project that aims to make a phenomenological approach to the subject of education and that tries to undercover the main features of how education can be undertaken and understood according to Peirce's categoriology. As I see it, this can be done by conceiving an education applied to Peirce´s normative sciences, aesthetics, ethics and logic. The present text will address the first part of this project, that is, the possibility of conceiving a pragmaticistic aesthetic education, which, in my point of view could and should work as base and framework of any kind of pedagogical endeavour.     

“藏汉双语”教师专业发展若干问题研究

“藏汉双语”教师的专业发展对于提高广大藏区基础教育质量意义重大。研究从影响“藏汉双语”教师专业发展的问题入手,对“藏汉双语”教师的教学认知能力、人际交往倾向、职业发展动机、自我评价等方面进行系统分析,探索“藏汉双语”教师专业发展的环境调控和优化的策略。     

论西藏地区图书馆藏学文献信息服务

分析了目前西藏地区图书馆发展藏学文献信息服务的优势、现状和存在的问题，提出了深化西藏地区图书馆藏学信息服务的对策。     

Write when hot — submit when not: seasonal bias in peer review or acceptance?

At a top psychology journal, Psychological Science (PS), submissions peak during the summer months. We tested whether this seasonal submission bias decreases the likelihood of a paper being accepted in that period. Month of submission data was obtained for all 575 publications in PS for the period 2003–2006. Whereas submissions to PS were higher in the summer, there was no evidence that most accepted publications were originally submitted in the summer. Thus, contributors submit to PS when the likelihood of acceptance is the lowest – creating their own entrance barrier. A similar seasonal pattern was not identified for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, another top psychology journal. Using the Web of Knowledge database, we further assessed whether overcoming the seasonal entrance barrier influences the number of citations a paper receives in subsequent years. We discuss the possibility that the different rejections policies in the two journals, employing desk rejections or not, may explain this discrepancy, and explore a range of alternative hypotheses.     

Analyzing student thinking reflected in self-constructed cognitive maps and its influence on inquiry task performance

Instructional Science - Higher-order thinking is crucial to inquiry learning. It is important to investigate how students think in inquiry contexts. Given the tacit nature of higher-order thinking,...