The green revolution game

Abstract

Teaching qualitative methods in the context of an existing research methods course presents a number of problems. Qualitative methods tend to be marginalised and constrained by traditional expectations of teachers and taught to elicit a polarised response from students. A number of factors contribute to this reaction: the paucity of library resources, a perception that qualitative methods are frivolous and challenge traditional values and the difficulty of teaching large numbers. As the course has developed, a number of innovations have been introduced to combat these reactions and they are described and evaluated in a short article by James Sidaway appended to this paper.     

The literate revolution in Polynesia

Abstract

Pearl oysters are among the most important natural resources of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. For over a century and a half, Tuamotuan pearl oysters have been commercially harvested by diving methods. Regulation by the French has allowed intensive exploitation by external extrepreneurs, leading to stock decline. Available archival documentation, primarily in the form of government communications and legal papers, reveals a long history of recurrent struggles involving islanders, external entrepreneurs, and colonial administrations. Today, a new and highly successful pearl farming industry has been developed, but problems have emerged which mirror those in the former diving industry.     

先驱英烈谱国师革命摇篮曲

山西国民师范旧址革命活动纪念馆,坐落在太原市五一路北端,是山西省重点文物保护单位。该校创建于“五四运动”爆发的１９１９年,教学体制为“半工半读,以工养学”,每年在全省各县招生约１２００余人。由于大部分学生出身贫苦,受新文化和新思潮的影响,１９２４年春,该校学生梁卜五（梁其昌）、韦思恭、纪秀川（纪子中）三位同学秘密建立了社会主义青年团组织。１９２５年山西省党组织又在国民师范创立了中国共产党国师支部,在这里点燃了革命的火种。从此,国民师范的一大批学生在中国共产党的领导下,接受马列主义启蒙教育,走上革…     

Iran and the revolution

Iran since the Revolution: Internal Dynamics, Regional Conflicts and the Superpowers. Edited by Barry M. Rosen. New York: Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change, No. 47, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1985. 187 pp.

The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962–1982. By Hossein Bashiriyeh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 203 pp.

Islamic Iran: Revolution and Counter‐Revolution. By Asaf Hussain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 225 pp.