Enacting separate social worlds: ‘International’ and ‘local’ students in public space in central Melbourne

In creating separate and distinct spaces and forms of socialising for themselves, ‘international’ and ‘local’ university students in central Melbourne are influenced by three key, spatially-linked processes. The first is institutional - it includes the allocation of international students to a certain type of housing which differs from that chosen by local students, and the practice of universities, student clubs and local churches to gather international and local students into separate groupings. The second is locational. It is the process by which international students find themselves living principally in and around the edge of the central city, an entertainment district with rowdy characteristics that these students often find distasteful. Local students, in contrast, locate in the inner suburbs for the most part, at a distance from the city centre hotspot. The third process sees socialising habits that are enacted in and by virtue of the public places in which they occur. This self-enacting socialisation further separates local students from international students. All three processes demonstrate how certain characteristics of the built environment can be invested with particular meanings and become complicit in shaping racialised social interactions.     

郑州龙子湖高校园区规划建设研究

在高校扩招和城市化快速推进的背景下,高校园区成为近年来中国出现的新型城市空间。郑州龙子湖高校园区经过5年多的发展建设已初具规模。经过实地调研和分析,发现其面临诸多问题：土地闲置浪费、城市功能单一、交通不便、区内资源缺乏共享、缺乏完整统一的生态景观系统。为此,提出多渠道筹集资金、优化布局促进资源共享、完善城市功能、调整道路设计和优化公共交通、加强生态环境建设等对策。     

经济欠发达地区非英语专业师范类学生英语学习动机实证研究——以湛江师范学院为例

以湛江师范学院非英语专业师范类的大学生为问卷对象,调查师范类非英语专业学生英语学习动机,探讨其在功利因素、个人素养、学习情境、出国动机和社会责任动机方面的特性,挖掘其深层次原因,并提出教学模式以学生为中心,培养学生学习英语的长期目标,教学内容应满足社会需求的教学对策。     

快速城市化背景下乡村绅士化的时空演变特征

乡村绅士化是指移民从城市迁入乡村地区, 通过对一定的经济资本的利用, 来达到对乡村的自然环境与独特的生活方式及文化氛围的体验与消费的过程。乡村绅士化过程造成了乡村地区人口结构的重构以及物质景观的变迁。本文选取广州小洲村作为研究案例, 对乡村绅士化的时空特征及其演变过程进行了深入分析。研究发现, 小洲村乡村绅士化过程分为艺术先锋绅士化及学生化两个阶段。由于空间需求、付租能力、群体数量等方面的差异, 两类绅士化过程对当地的物质环境、文化、社会、经济等方面产生了不同的影响。但两者的发展紧密相连, 在时间和空间上经历了延续、重叠、更替等阶段。乡村绅士化的过程, 在一定程度上缓解了乡村社区经济发展的困境, 也没有造成对本地居民的置换。但是随着社区住房成本的上涨, 先期迁入的艺术家群体正在被付租能力更强的学生群体逐渐替换。值得注意的是, 本地村民通过积极的寻租行为成为乡村绅士化的重要推动者, 而非被置换者。研究发现, 乡村绅士化现象的中西方差异主要体现在4 个方面:经济和物质层面的影响、与城市化的关系、人口置换的后果、绅士化的推动者。这些差异主要与乡村绅士化发展的社会经济背景、机制和特殊的土地政策等密切相关。这一研究对于探讨转型期中国乡村绅士化现象的特征与机制以及乡村社区发展的模式具有重要的理论与现实意义。     

中国女性竞技体育人才的时空分布特征及其形成原因——以历届亚运会女性冠军为例

在收集整理历届亚运会女性冠军数据的基础上,结合相关统计方法总结出中国女性竞技体育人才的时空分布特征,并运用地理学的相关观点解释这种时空分布的原因.结果表明:女性竞技体育人才主要分布在东部沿海各省,西部地区为女性竞技体育人才的缺失区;女性竞技体育人才数量与时间呈正相关关系;不同省份之间女性竞技体育人才内部结构差异显著.形成这种时空分布特征的原因主要包括:1)自然地理环境中地形平坦、气候温和、水文条件好的地区有利于女性运动人才的成长.2)人文地理环境中社会经济因素为女性参与竞技体育运动提供了良好的物质基础;政     

鲁西南地区中小学生防震减灾科普认知及需求研究

为了解鲁西南地区中小学生对防震减灾科普的认知情况及需求,采用问卷调查等方法对鲁西南地区典型城市菏泽市开展了此次研究。研究发现,该地区中小学生总体上在地震科学常识、地震部门工作内容以及避震救助技能和识别谣言能力方面处于中等偏上水平,但在部分题目上也存在认知度较低的状况。在防震减灾科普的态度和需求偏好方面,97.04%的学生表示愿意参加防震减灾知识培训,大部分学生还是偏好传统媒体的渠道与形式。另外,在示范与非示范学校、城区与乡镇学校、中学与小学的对比中,发现了明显的群体差异性。本次调查对今后开展山东全省公众的防震减灾科普认知及需求状况研究提供了一定的依据和指导。     

Chinese Junior High School Students' Perceptions of Geographic Fieldwork: A Case Study

After nearly ten years of implementation of the first junior high school geography standards, Chinese geography educators have been increasingly incorporating fieldwork into their geography teaching. This study examined student perceptions of fieldwork from an international perspective by reviewing student fieldwork reports and administering a questionnaire to 337 junior high school students aged approximately fifteen years. The results demonstrate that the students' perceptions of fieldwork were primarily positive and that they found field experience to be interesting. Fieldwork provided the students with deepened understanding of issues, cognitive and affective benefits, transferable skills and knowledge, social skills, demonstration, and memorable experience. In addition, some factors for improving geographic fieldwork were identified.     

The National Geography Standards and Your Undergraduate Curriculum: The Opportunity That Knocks More Than Once

Abstract

Geography For Life: National Geography Standards 1994 offers university geographers opportunities in the areas of program assessment and development. This article describes an assessment process that is applicable to both individual courses and geography programs. The process can strengthen programs by making them more consistent. As a result, geography may have a more powerful presence in teacher certification programs. Additional techniques for enhancing geography's role in preservice education curricula are also outlined. Finally, the article expresses concern that geographers at the university level will not take the recently published National Geography Standards seriously, thinking they apply only to K-12 education. They are challenged to extend the Standards' scope and content to the baccalaureate degree.     

Geography Current

Abstract

Broadening the intercultural awareness and international outlook of undergraduate students is best achieved through active rather than passive learning. The international student interview provides an excellent strategy for such active learning in introductory human geography classes. It allows American-born students to enter into a dialogue with students from other countries and learn about their cultures while simultaneously reexamining their own society and cultural frames of reference. The exercise also provides instructors with an opportunity to discuss the ethics and social practices associated with interviewing. Feedback from University of Georgia students completing this assignment underscored these benefits and provided suggestions for refinement of the exercise.     

不同受教育水平女性流动人口的就业差异研究——以福建省为例

通过对福建省女性流动人口的调查,获取不同受教育水平的女性流动人口的就业信息,对受教育水平为"文盲半文盲"、"小学"、"初中"、"高中/中专"和"大专及以上"5组女性流动群体的就业特征以及差异进行研究。结果表明:受教育水平越高的流动女性的就业层次越高、通过正式的市场找到工作的比例越高、获得较高收入水平的比例也越大;受教育水平越低的流动女性的工资越容易遭到拖欠,劳动强度越大,工作越不稳定,获得职业技术培训的比例越低且受培训愿望越不强烈。因此,有必要从提高女性流动人口整体素质,拓宽就业信息网络,规范劳动用工市场等方面采取相关政策以提高女性流动人口的就业能力、保护其就业权益。