UK/US teacher exchange scheme

Statistical Methods for Geographers

W. A. V. Clark &; P. L. Hosking, 1986

New York, Wiley

x+518 pp., £10.25

Statistics in Geography, 2nd edn.

David Ebdon, 1985

Oxford, Blackwell

viii+232 pp., £8.50

Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis

Gareth Shaw &; Dennis Wheeler, 1985

Chichester, Wiley

xiii+364pp., £4.00

Introductory Spatial Analysis

David Unwin, 1981

London, Methuen

xii+212 pp., £10.00

Introduction to Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists

R. B. G. Williams, 1984

Basingstoke, Macmillan

viii+348 pp., £7.95     

Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies

The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a disciplinary level it has resulted in an approach that has tended to privilege intellectual knowledge at the expense of emotion, and at a personal level it has not encouraged an approach that is sensitive to difference. This essay proposes that a commitment to an engaged, 'congruent' listening might help temper these difficulties.     

Governance,Policy Innovation,and Local Economic Development in North Carolina

This article examines the extent to which local governments in North Carolina embrace innovation in their economic development activities. The study makes a distinctive theoretical contribution by examining the relationship between innovation in how economic development policies are administered and implemented (using concepts associated with governance and NPM), and innovation in what is substantively done (policy innovation). An analysis of the results from a statewide survey of local governments in North Carolina finds that certain governance/management variables are significant determinants of economic development policy innovation. An implication of this finding is that new ways of doing economic development may go hand‐in‐hand with new ways of governing and managing. Many of the governance/management variables are also positively associated with the use of a greater number of traditional economic development strategies and tools. This suggests that local governments may find it helpful to be innovative in how they implement economic development irrespective of the substantive policy orientation of particular strategies and tools.     

跨文化服务接触中游客服务质量感知的心理模型建构

服务接触是跨文化旅游交际的核心,是游客满意度构成的重要组成部分。本文以中国导游和美国游客之间的服务接触为例,以心理模型理论为基础,分析了美国游客感知中国导游服务质量的过程。本文认为,游客感知服务质量、形成满意度的过程是一个游客建构心理模型的推理过程。在建构过程中,由于游客的文化定位、价值观、旅游经历、个性特征、认知能力和情绪等诸因素的不同,每个游客所建构的心理模型不尽相同,最终形成的服务质量评价和满意度也不尽相同。     

思想政治课教学心理误区分析与跨越走向设计

思想政治课教学的心理问题,应引起人们的高度重视;教学心理误区值得人们深刻反思。政治教师要有意识的应用教育学、心理学的原理于教学活动之中,努力创造良好的心理氛围,跨越心理误区,使思想政治课教学实现新的飞跃。     

浅谈多媒体在语文教学中的应用

教师必须合理使用教材,灵活运用电教、多媒体等教学手段,在课堂上充分调动学生学习的积极性,使学生在轻松、愉悦中获取知识。     

HOW WELL DID PAST UN POPULATION PROJECTIONS ANTICIPATE DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS IN SIX SOUTH-EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES?

This paper analyses the accuracy of the United Nations’ population projections since the late 1950s for six South-east Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The study uses available projected and estimated age-structured data as well as published assumptions on fertility and mortality trends. A decomposition of the total projection errors into base errors (wrong estimates of demographic conditions at the beginning of projection interval) and change errors (wrong assumptions about the trends) shows that the base errors have generally been decreasing over time presumably as a consequence of improving demographic monitoring systems. The change errors, however, do not seem to decline over time. This seems to be due to a number of country-specific cultural and political factors whose effect was not anticipated as well as to a lack of good theories with predictive power. These findings suggest the need to give more explicit attention to the treatment of uncertainty in future population projections.     

主题酒店顾客感知服务质量与购后行为的关系研究——基于深圳市主题酒店的实证研究

主题酒店是未来酒店业的发展趋势,是顾客需求升级和酒店业市场竞争加剧的产物。本研究基于顾客感知服务质量的三因素模型和购后行为模式,根据主题酒店的服务特征,构建适合主题酒店服务质量与购后行为关系的计量量表,并以深圳市的六家主题酒店顾客为调查对象展开问卷调查,收集数据,采用结构方程分析软件进行数据分析。根据实证研究结果,对概念模型进行验证,分析主题酒店服务质量与其客人购后行为之间的关系,提出主题酒店改进服务质量的相关建议。     

城市生活质量与生活空间质量研究评介与展望

在当今的社会-文化进程阶段,新人本主义强调人与社会(文化)和谐的可持续发展观,其目标体现在人们的生活质量上,其焦点是城市(社会)生活质量构成与城市(社会)生活质量空间耦合的建构。从新人本主义理念出发探讨城市(社会)生活质量与其对应(社会)生活空间质量对政府部门和学术界都是全新的课题。二者在不同领域,不同学科之间的研究并行不悖。对前者的研究是人文社会与管理学科聚焦的方向,对后者的探讨是区域与城市诸学科聚焦的方向。它们充分体现学科融合的新理念/原理及其前沿性。本文从研究源起、研究意义、研究阶段以及评价指标体系的构建等不同角度对二者的国内外研究动态及方向进行了评介与展望,目的在于明晰二者的研究方法,理论框架与研究趋势,为社会与城市发展及其规划指明方向,提供理论基础与科学依据。     

论宋以来北方人口素质的下降

宋代以来经济重心南移之后,北方地区既失去了劳动人口的数量优势,在人口质量方面也呈现下降趋势,至明清两代更为明显。通过与南方的比较看出,主要表现在化水平的落后,思想观念的陈旧,精神的萎靡与懒惰。以绝望的心态面对穷困的经济状况,以消极的态度对待生产,丧失了信心和再开发能力。片面重农却是粗放耕作,造成产业结构性的贫困,既无开展副业、手工业的技术,更不善于或不屑于从事商业,改造客观世界的能力低下。人口素质的下降是宋以来北方社会经济落后与衰退的一个重要原因。