Ethics and Foreign Policy: Structured Debates for the International Studies Classroom

Debates about humanitarian intervention, foreign and defense policy priorities, and the ethics of the use of force have become highly politicized in the post-Cold War era. This article explores the value of structured classroom debates on ethical dimensions of international relations as active teaching and learning tools for introductory and advanced international studies courses. Specifically, this article presents design information for structured debates on the ethics of the use of military force, humanitarian interventions, and U.S. foreign policy toward international institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Building on the literature on active teaching and learning, the article describes the development of these exercises and assesses their effectiveness through ten years of classroom application.     

确立社会主义荣辱观重在道德践行

社会主义荣辱观必须在道德践行中学习。要区分“知识学习”与“道德学习”,后者是以践行为重的知情行整合性学习。帮助未成年人确立荣辱观,重点应是组织、引导、帮助他们自己道德践行。为了社会的发展,为了下一代人的健康成长,成年人在道德方面应当做出一个好的样子。     

电大远程开放教育面授辅导教学方式的探析

电大远程开放教育利用网络、远程教学等技术手段，给学生提供了便利的学习平台，但相应面授辅导教学滞后。应改变面授教学模式，树立以学生为中心的教学理念，将学生的需求作为课堂教学设计的依据，使面授教学做到“量体栽衣”，更具有针对性。在教学中加入多种生动有效教学元素，由被动学变为主动学，这样才能取得预期效果。     

The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influenced Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign

Election campaigns are expected to inform voters about parties’ issue positions, thereby increasing voters’ ability to influence future policy and thus enhancing the practice of democratic government. We argue that campaign learning is not only contingent on voters’ characteristics and different sources of information, but also on how parties communicate their issue positions in election debates. We combine a two-wave panel survey with content analysis data of three televised election debates. In cross-classified multilevel auto-regression models we examine the influence of these debates in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary election campaign on voters’ knowledge of the positions of eight parties on three issues. The Dutch multiparty system allows us to separate voters’ ability to position parties from their accuracy in ordering these parties. We reach three main conclusions. First, this study shows that voters become more able and accurate during the campaign. However, these campaign learning effects erode after the elections. Second, whereas voters’ attention to campaigns consistently contributes to their ability to position parties, its effect on accuracy is somewhat less consistent. Third, televised election debates contribute to what voters learn. Parties that advocate their issue positions in the debates stimulate debate viewers’ ability to position these parties on these issues. In the face of the complexity of campaigns and debates in multiparty systems, campaigns are more likely to boost voters’ subjective ability to position parties than their accuracy.     

Breaking The Cycle Of Intergenerational Child Maltreatment: A Case For Active Efforts For Dependent Minor Parents And Their Children In State Custody

Dependent minor parents placed in foster care with their children often face significant hurdles. These parents are responsible to make caregiving decisions for their children, while they themselves fall under the caregiving responsibility of the state child welfare system. As such, dependent minor parents live in a “twilight zone” – they hold full parental rights, but limited rights as teenagers. For a number of reasons, the children of minor parents in foster care often come into state custody. When two generations are in foster care at the same time, states must balance the safety and best interests of the children with the rights of minor parents to care for their own children. Currently, the state child welfare system is only required to provide “reasonable efforts” to reunify parents with children when they have been removed from their care for abuse, neglect, or dependency. However, dependent minor parents in state custody often require more supportive services in order to successfully reunify with their children than in a typical child welfare case. This article places the circumstance just described in the context of dependent minor parents’ constitutionally protected rights, and advocates for a higher standard which would require states to provide “active efforts” to protect and preserve these young families.     

大兴读书之风 加强党性修养 坚定理想信念——党在延安时期开展学习运动的经验与启示

延安时期的学习运动对新形势下加强领导干部党性教育、建设学习型政党有着重要的启示作用。重视在职干部教育,坚持党性原则,注重业务能力和素质教育相结合,重视方式方法创新,这些延安时期学习运动的成功经验启示我们,高校哲学社会科学要进一步明确目标、思路、原则和方法,加强在领导干部党性修养及理想信念教育方面的社会服务功能,以重大理论和现实问题为主攻方向,把学习马克思主义特别是马克思主义中国化理论成果摆在核心地位,积极推进马克思主义理论研究和建设工程,以保持共产党员的先进性和提高领导干部的执政能力为根本出发点,加强学风建设,注重机制建设,完善教育教学方式方法,提高干部党性教育的科学性。     

谈教学游戏在儿童英语教学中的作用

激发学习兴趣是课程教学的基本出发点。依据儿童心理特征和学习特征,结合教学游戏的概念,分析开展教学游戏的理论基础,介绍教学游戏的个案,探讨在儿童英语教学中开展教学游戏的意义,旨在表明教学游戏的重要性。     

The Trade-Induced Learning Effect on Growth: Cross-Country Evidence

One of the important trade effects on growth is technology diffusion through learning by doing. Chuang [1998] proposed a trade-induced learning theory in which the nature of traded goods and the trading partners are two key factors determining the effectiveness of the trade-induced learning. The former conveys the characteristics that a country can learn; the latter determines the level of technology from which a country can learn. Using cross-country data, this article constructs a set of the trade-induced learning variables by taking into account trading partners and the characteristics of the traded goods and further tests the trade-induced learning hypothesis. The results show that holding other variables constant, trade-induced learning has a positive and significant effect on growth and the estimated effect implies that a one-standard-deviation increase in the trade-induced learning variable is estimated to generate an effect of between 0.4 to 1.0 percentage points on the annual growth rate. Robustness test shows that the trade-induced learning variable passes the extreme-bound analysis and also outperforms other conventional trade variables advocated in the literature.     

法律激励的理想形态

激励功能是法律制度的重要功能之一。不论是在法学理论探索还是在部门法学研究中,法律激励问题已经逐步获得关注。然而,对于法律激励的制度设计尚需要价值目标的方向性指引,唯有明确法律激励的理想形态才能有效实现激励机制设计的合理性与科学化。法律激励的理想形态最终表现为对行为主体自我激励的激励功能。这一理想形态不仅是激励理论的发展目标,也是法律激励的客观要求和理论归宿。而这一最终理想形态的实现则依赖于法律制度的能动激励与互动激励的有效实践。三种理想形态相互支撑,构成了法律制度激励功能的理想图景。