Adding the past to the policy mix: an historical approach to the issue of access to general practice in England

Historical perspectives can be embedded into policy initiatives through a process of ‘past-proofing’—ensuring new policies take the study of the past into consideration. We describe how this was done in a project looking at patient access to general practice in the NHS. We argue that current preoccupations with timeliness which have led to the marginalisation of other dimensions of access are connected to a broader process of neo-liberal reform since the 1970s. This reflection can support a reframing of the terms of current debates on a major issue in British health care. It has wider implications for the policy relevance of history.     

Neoliberalism,massification and teaching transformative politics and international relations

‘Massification’ describes the significant increase in the proportion of the global population seeking tertiary qualifications. It is a defining feature of the global international education sphere and is often seen as linked to negative outcomes such as declining academic standards and increasing managerialism in universities. Massification, however, is not wholly or even mostly a negative for the generations of new students who now have access to tertiary education. Education can still be a transformative experience for students exposed to a rich learning environment. The question this symposium raises is how the disciplines of politics and international relations can ensure they maintain quality teaching and learning for students from subject design to program design. The collection aims to initiate a disciplinary debate in Australia, which has hitherto been missing.     

Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900

This article examines black thought and black ideas about racial consciousness after Reconstruction in order to rethink the way African American leaders conceived the relationship between work and intellectual achievement in the late nineteenth century. Conventional scholarly accounts of the politics of black knowledge and education – including the still very prevalent paradigm of industrial and classical education – have missed a fascinating transformation of thought among many African American leaders after 1879 who sought to reinvent black identity. At the root of this transformation were shifting ideas about the black worker and a new industrial economy. The leaders who represented the transformation embraced progressive, pragmatist, and very modern approaches to intellectual cultivation – approaches that were more in line with theories of manual training and object-learning than with classical education. In other words, the intellectual rationales for industrial education among black educators were as important as the economic and practical ones. Those rationales were articulated not just by more conservative black voices intent on fitting into a new industrial order, but also by black progressives and radicals who hoped to cultivate black “self-consciousness,” vigorous engagement with the “real world,” and intellectual independence from white norms.     

四川渠县礼义城遗址调查简报

2015年11月,四川省文物考古研究院等单位对位于四川渠县土溪镇洪溪村9组的礼义城遗址展开了全面调查,发现了城门、城墙、水井、池塘、碑刻等遗存,基本理清了礼义城的范围与布局,尤其是在城内发现的多通宋代至明清时期碑刻,为研究宋元战争史以及礼义城的变迁历史等问题提供了重要的资料。     

近代中国的新史学及其流变

清季以来,新史学成为中国学人不断追求的至高境界,可是对于新史学的理解和取径却各不相同。为了后来居上,此前的新史学也往往被当作不破不立的对象。在不断趋新的过程中,中国史学的形式根本改观,但要拿出超越旧史学的代表作,却并不容易。创新的前提是温故,首先要掌握史学的基本与大体,超越中西新旧,避免盲人摸象,防止以偏为新,才不至于欲辟蹊径而蹈覆辙,甚至南辕北辙。     

黄遵宪的侨务思想和活动(1882-1885)

黄遵宪(1848-1905)不仅是中国近代著名的诗人、政治家、改良主义运动重要的领导人,同时也是一位出色的外交家,对十九世纪末的海外侨务活动有特别的贡献,而1882-1885年是他侨务思想形成的重要时期.本文拟以黄遵宪在旧金山的工作和活动为重点,考察其侨务思想形成的轨迹,从而进一步对其在侨务工作方面的贡献作适当的评价.其务实的工作作风和灵活的外交策略,在今天仍有很大的启迪意义.     

犯罪地理学研究的新进展

本文简述了犯罪地理学研究进展的历史,揭示了犯罪地理学研究进展过程中各个阶段的特征。探讨了西方犯罪地理学研究的新进展,论述了实证主义、激进地理学思想、科际整合理论、GIS的引入是目前犯罪地理学发展的新趋势。此外,还探讨了中国犯罪地理学研究的新进展。最后,对21世纪的犯罪地理学研究进行了展望,阐述了犯罪地理学研究的12个热点课题,并指出21世纪将是犯罪地理学大发展的世纪。     

行业博物馆:城市旅游的重要内容

独特的城市文化使城市已逐渐成为重要的旅游目的地,城市旅游也成为各个城市发展旅游经济的重要举措。博物馆是城市中重要的文化设施,博物馆旅游是一种更具文化内涵、陶冶游客情操、满足游客高层次文化需求和精神享受的旅游形式。行业博物馆充分地展现了某一城市工业文明的发展历程,在城市工业旅游中扮演着重要的角色。     

试论刘宋东宫武官制度

刘宋的东宫武官在南北朝军事逞胜的外环境和刘宋皇权不断加强的总趋势下得到了较大发展。刘宋四帝对于东宫武官制度采取了不同的态度和政策。宋武帝恢复晋末罢废的太子二率,增设太子三校、三将等职官;文帝时二率、三校成为东宫主要武官职;孝武帝大力罢省东宫武官,削抑东宫势力;明帝则再度恢复东宫三校,并新增东宫直阁等武职。总而言之,宋之东宫武职呈现出明显的强弱跌宕、阶段性变化,这既是刘宋诸任皇帝权力强弱异势的现实表现,也是刘宋皇权重振之路的曲折反映。     

晚明治统与道统框架下的通史编纂--以郑郊《史统》为中心的考察

福建籍遗民史家郑郊前半生在明朝、后半生在清朝。初成于崇祯末年、终定于康熙初期的《史统》是一部以阐明中国历史之统为主旨的通史著作。《史统》提供了一种哲理化的中国历史解释模式,洵可称为晚明理学化史学代表作。惜因未刊,近代以来、所知甚鲜。