《论共产党员修养》升华了儒家文化的伦理价值观

儒家文化在结构上最大的特点是伦理中心主义。刘少奇的《论共产党员修养》一书升华了儒家文化的道德伦理价值观,提升了儒家文化的“大公无私”思想和“义”“利”观。     

论中国社会转型背景下的先进性别文化建设

先进性别文化建设是加强社会主义核心价值体系建设的重要组成部分,是新时期推动社会主义文化大发展大繁荣的必然要求。本文分析了当前我国社会转型背景下推进先进性别文化建设的重要性和必要性,提出了构建具有时代特征的先进性别文化的基本途径。     

提升教师心智构建当代教师文化

教师文化是学校文化的亚文化。它呈现在静态层面上是教师的价值取向与思维方式,呈现在动态层面上是教师的态度倾向与行为方式。但以往传统的教师文化在角色认同上趋于神圣化、价值取向上甘于保守化、行为方式上自我封闭化。构建当代教师文化,要变革师生关系,加强在师生关系上的文化对话;学校要创建创新文化平台,确立教师的课程意识;教师要自然合作,构建学习型教师团队文化体系。     

加拿大和美国对古巴政策的分歧

由于加拿大与美国的特殊关系 ,使得它在处理战后一些重大的国际事务时不得不与美国保持一致 ,但惟独在古巴问题上与美国相悖。美国一贯视拉美为后院 ,视古巴为共产主义在拉美的桥头堡。加拿大公开反对美国对古巴的封锁政策。古巴问题显示出加美对外政策的纠葛     

The Spatial Dynamics of Epidemic Diseases in War and Peace: Cuba and the Insurrection against Spain, 1895–98

This paper examines the spatial transmission and rate of propagation of three infectious diseases (enteric fever, smallpox and yellow fever) in times of war and peace in Cuba between 1895 and 1898. For the three diseases studied, the analysis will demonstrate that, compared with peacetime, the Cuban Insurrection caused increased epidemiological integration of the settlement system of Cuba, acceleration of the spatial processes of disease transmission and a marked change in the geographical drift of infectious disease activity. While the first two findings may be attributed to the heightened levels of population mixing that accompanied the insurrection, the third implies that hostilities fundamentally altered the spatial courses of diseases. These changes transcended stark biases in the predisposition to infection among Spanish soldiers (to yellow fever) and Cuban civilians (to smallpox). Finally, it is shown that the military were the prime agents causing contrasts in the epidemiological experience of Cuba between war and peace.     

The archaeology of climate change in the Caribbean

This paper emerges from an attempt to more actively integrate archaeology with ongoing geographical and environmental discussions of human responses to the effects of climate change in the Caribbean. If archaeology is to contribute to the mitigation strategies currently being developed, then robust interpretations are necessary that can be practically integrated with inter-disciplinary action. This paper discusses the methods needed to provide the high-resolution data and interpretations required using archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research from a case study area in northern Cuba. Using data collected from an ongoing collaborative archaeological research project with the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, we evaluate whether it is possible to make useful interpretations of human response to past changes in sea-level, precipitation and hurricane activity. Specifically, the effects of these activities on the changing nature of settlement locations, food procurement strategies and household architecture among pre-Columbian communities are evaluated. Indigenous mitigation strategies are identified and used to inform modern day preparation for the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean.     

中国传统室内空间的价值探讨

多维度的分析可以为室内设计作品的客观评价提供一个基本框架,也可使室内设计实践者在其作品中的追求有一个价值标准。本文通过分析空间价值的构成信息,解释了空间价值对社会和自然的适应性和包容性,并阐述了空间中哲学与文化的价值体现。     

A ‘Half-hearted Response’?: Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Whereas previous studies of Canada's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis have argued that Ottawa was a half-hearted ally of the United States, recently released documents provide far different conclusions. Seeking to complement previous works, which are focused largely on military events, this study shows how Canadian diplomats responded to the crisis and sought to support their vital ally in the events of October and November 1962.     

和谐社会建设中的文化自觉——"和谐社会与文化建设"研讨会综述

文章围绕"和谐社会与文化建设"这一主题,提出了以下观点:和谐社会建设和和谐文化建设是相辅相成的,没有文化的和谐,就没有社会的和谐;社会主义核心价值体系是和谐文化的根本,和谐文化应该以社会主义核心价值观为其基点;和谐文化建设不是对传统和谐思想的简单重复,应汲取传统文化的精华,借鉴世界优秀文明成果,在处理好文化的冲突与融合关系中构建和谐文化;只有发展好少数民族文化与地域文化,整个社会才有可能和谐;和谐的社区建设是构建和谐社会的基础。     

构建社会主义和谐社会的政治价值

政治价值是指那些为全社会所普遍认可和追求的理想政治目标和政治状态,是评价政治生活和政治发展的基本标准。追求国家的稳定、社会的和谐,历来是执政者治国的一个政治目标,也是人们普遍追求的一种理想。为此,本文认为,构建社会主义和谐社会,既要借鉴和吸收中西方传统政治文化中具有积极、合理的政治价值成分,也要不断探索人类共同追求的崇高价值取向,尽快形成转型时期的主流价值观,这就是与社会主义市场经济要求相适应的公平与正义观。     

The transatlantic Muslim diaspora to Latin America in the nineteenth century

Since the 16th century, African Muslims figured prominently among the slave population of the Americas. While the number of Muslims pulled into the trade has always been a matter of speculation, lists of Africans rescued from slave ships provide us with some clues about the size and direction of the Muslim diaspora to Latin America in the 19th century. Based on an analysis of tens of thousands of names recorded in these lists, this essay argues that the majority of Muslim captives leaving Africa departed from Upper Guinea and suggests that Cuba was the center of the forced Muslim diaspora in the Americas. It traces the transatlantic links that connected particular regions of embarkation in Africa to their counterparts in Latin America and considers the implications of those connections for religious and cultural change within 19th-century slave populations. The essay challenges in important ways the colonial/postcolonial divide in Latin American history and uses Islam to pose important questions about the dynamics of social change across slave societies.     

Students as Tour Guides: Innovation in Fieldwork Assessment

This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centred learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable, challenging, rigorous yet flexible form of assessment that can be effectively transferred to a wide range of contexts. Feedback suggests that students are very positive about the tours in relation to other potential modes of assessment both in terms of what they learn and as an experience. Ongoing efforts to develop the tours since they were first used in 2003 are described.     

中西方文化遗产旅游者感知价值差异研究

通过多维度多指标体系构建了文化遗产旅游者感知价值的测量量表,对比分析了中西方游客的感知价值差异。研究发现文化遗产旅游者感知价值由效率价值、质量价值、成本价值、服务价值、社会价值与享乐价值六个维度构成,除成本价值与感知价值负相关外,其他均正向影响感知价值。中西方游客在质量价值、成本价值和享乐价值的感知上存在显著差异。     

1959年革命前古巴蔗糖业的发展及其影响

19世纪中叶,古巴蔗糖业为了解决自身的危机,通过对土地、劳动力、资金和社会结构的重新组合,使古巴资本主义经济获得了新的动力,取得了飞速的增长。但是,这种增长并没有使古巴成为现代化国家,而是将古巴变成“假发展”的国家,其特点是：有经济增长无全面的社会发展;对蔗糖业、对外贸易和美国市场产生了严重的依赖性。