From the Holiday to the Academy: Implications for physical geography in higher education arising from 'popular' field-based geography in Dorset

The popularity of physical geography at all levels of formal education is declining. This paper argues that a key factor in the decline may be the disparity between geographies studied within formal education and the popular geographies encountered during leisure pursuit. Through the example of the Jurassic Coast Project, an initiative for the interpretation of Dorset's coastal landscape, approaches towards the integration of popular and academic geographies are explored. Drawing explicit links between popular experiences and academic knowledge may benefit physical geography, improving its status amongst public and student audiences, and addressing the concerns that surround its decline within higher education.     

Internationalising Learning and Teaching: A European experience

This paper focuses on experiences with international learning and teaching in a European (ERASMUS) programme on geography and gender during the period 1990-1998. This programme forms an example of collaborative work in which the author and colleagues experimented with an array of models to bring geography students and teachers of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds together. International learning and teaching is a confrontation with diversity. Diversity in language, in the mastery of English and the resulting hierarchies, in learning and teaching cultures and in defining geography form both challenges and opportunities to profit. In this paper the author will expound on the different strategies to deal with linguistic and cultural differences and to break down hierarchies. Furthermore the opportunities to "use" the differences as learning and teaching contexts will be discussed. Geography is a discipline concerning diversity. Direct contact between persons with different cultural backgrounds can form an efficient, effective and stimulating method to learn about differences in geographies and in teaching methods.     

Internationalising Geography in Higher Education: Towards a conceptual framework

Key issues relating to the internationalisation of geography in higher education are explored. Drawing on past experience, critical questions are posed regarding the goals, ownership, management and operation of a proposed international network for teaching and learning in geography in higher education. It is argued that those developing the network must learn from the lessons of the past, both to avoid repeating avoidable mistakes and to ensure that the network successfully achieves its intended aims.     

高校学生旅游市场营销策略分析

高校学生是一个特定的旅游需求和消费群体,也是一个极富增长潜力的细分市场。本文通过对高校学生出游动机和出游特点的分析,探讨了该目标市场的成长空间;通过SWOT分析,论证了开发高校学生旅游市场的必要性和可行性。笔者以广东省肇庆市为案例,结合当地资源禀赋特征和高校学生的旅游需求特征,探讨了为高校学生设计定制化旅游产品的方法,并就促销手段和服务意识两方面提出了针对该细分市场的营销策略。     

试论民国时期学生自由恋爱的现实困境

经过婚姻自主观念熏陶之后,不甘于接受包办婚姻的民国时期学生开始有了自由恋爱的冲动与欲求。但是,民国时期的客观与主观环境,尚不利于学生的恋爱。学校秉承社会和家长的意志,极力避免异性学生间的接触。男女学生间过于敏感的防线,也阻挡着他们的自由来往。社交环境的欠缺,对学生间的自由恋爱造成了致命的障碍。即使有部分学生冲出羁绊,他们的恋爱在社会阻力面前也未必能有结果。自由恋爱的现实困境,必然导致相当一部分学生对自己婚姻的不满,这在某种程度上催发了学生婚姻问题的产生。     

A Spectral-Acceleration-Based Linear Combination-Type Earthquake Intensity Measure for High-Rise Buildings

With the consideration of higher modes, an attempt is made to develop a spectral-acceleration-based linear combination-type earthquake intensity measure (IM) for high-rise buildings. The modal mass participation factors are determined to take weighting coefficients. A parametric analysis on the correlation between IM and the maximum interstory drift that utilizes the bend-shear coupled continuum model yields a bilinear relationship between the optimal number of modes involved and structural fundamental period. The proposed IM and several other combination-type IMs are shown to be efficient and sufficient, while the scaling robustness of the proposed IM is more stable compared with that of fundamental-mode-based IMs.     

Transitions in U.S. Higher Education: implications for geography learning

In the United States, higher education institutions and structures governing higher education are going through dramatic change. The implications of new technology and changing modes of course structure, and evolving federal and state policies have the potential for significant impact on higher education. The historic federal mandates regarding university systems, including land-grants, and renewal of the U.S. Higher Education Act, for example, have impacts related to higher education regulations, performance expectations, accreditation, and student success. In addition, there are new research questions related to student learning. Several of the key themes impacting higher education also have implications and expectations for university geography programs. Geographers and geography programs in many universities are contributing toward addressing these changes in ways that contribute toward programs and universities that are more committed to new learning paradigms, as well as curricula that enhance engagement, concepts of sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship, and efforts at more integrated scholarship, among others.     

新中国知识分子政治参与问题探析——以1956—1966年高校干部群体为例

在十年社会主义探索时期,高校知识分子干部积极参政议政、建言献策,为新中国建设特别是高等教育事业作出重要贡献。由于知识背景、身份地位、人生经历不同,他们的参政行为呈现出各自不同的特点。但在"左"倾思想指导下,高校知识分子干部参政议政在客观上也对党的决策和国家政治生活产生过一定的负面影响。它不仅恶化了党与高校知识分子之间的关系,而且造成了许多高校知识分子的人生悲剧。这也是党在领导高校工作中必须吸取的一个沉痛教训。     

高校思想政治教育工作浅析

高校思想政治教育工作是一个系统工程,它贯穿于高校教育的始终,具有不可替代的作用。高校思想政治教育工作的加强,需要社会、学校、家庭和个人的共同努力,要树立“以人为本”的理念,营造良好的教育氛围,拓展发展思路,改进工作作风,提高教育水平,用社会主义核心价值体系来引领大学生。     

在校大学生旅游行为研究

在校大学生是旅游客源的一个重要细分市场，具有很大的开发潜力。在校大学生的知识结构、价值取向、心理特征使大学生旅游市场有别于传统的大众旅游市场。本文运用文献综述、问卷调查的方法，以云南部分在校大学生为研究对象，分析他们旅游消费状况、选择出游方式、出游时段、目的地等方面的行为特征，总结出大学生出游在旅游动机、文化水平、闲暇时间、消费结构四个方面的优势；同时从政府及相关职能部门、旅游企业、社会环境、旅游者角度分析了开拓大学生旅游市场的限制性因素，提出开发大学生旅游市场的建议。