Objective: Reflection is viewed as the most significant skill and should be advocated for lifelong learning. In order to grasp the process of reflection and embrace the reflective skill, one of the authors of this pap...Objective: Reflection is viewed as the most significant skill and should be advocated for lifelong learning. In order to grasp the process of reflection and embrace the reflective skill, one of the authors of this paper reflects on a practice-based issue in relation to the communication between doctors and nurses, to gain new understanding and thus improve the authors' clinical practice.Methods: Smyth's framework with four stages is utilized as an ideal framework to guide the author's reflection on the practice-based issue to free the author from her entrenched assumptions and the oppressive forces that limit her practice.Results: The espoused and enacted theory, together with the critical reflection theory, are used to explore the values and beliefs that essentially govern the author's practice and how these are distinct from the author's worldviews. Following this, critical emancipatory reflection is undertaken to explore the dominant power structures within the author's workplace. Furthermore, given the hegemonic and chaotic working context of this issue, hegemony and symbolic interaction theory are applied to unearth the various hidden constraining and oppressive forces. Additionally, socialization theory is utilized to help the author achieve professional identity.Conclusions: Reconstructing the practice-based issue empowers the author to realize that in the future, she should act as a reflective practitioner, creating a daily habit, staying alert to practice, seeing things freshly, finding support systems, improving communication skills, conducting reflective research, and reifying reflective practice. Ultimately, the author will be sufficiently equipped to be able to transform her practice and change its outcomes.展开更多
Undoubtedly,the first and second decades of the 21st century proved to be a time of unbelievable changes that history rarely contains.At the beginning of the new Millennium,the achievement of the United States,as the ...Undoubtedly,the first and second decades of the 21st century proved to be a time of unbelievable changes that history rarely contains.At the beginning of the new Millennium,the achievement of the United States,as the sole and hegemonic superpower,was followed by the 9/11 attack,one of the most audacious in history.The“war on terror”of President George W.Bush was put shortly out of control and provoked more broadly a new wave of terror and war all over the world.Later,the 2007/2008 financial crisis erupting in Wall Street and spreading to Europe jeopardize the role of the European Union as a pillar of peace and contributor to global governance,together with the United Nations.Moreover,its manu military alliance with the United States,through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO),in their offensive to dominate the Middle East,provoked a huge refugee crisis and the rise of populism in Europe.Is there a need for the European Union to change and disregard the American struggle to maintain its hegemonic position undermined by China and other rivals?Through the Theory of International Relations,this is to be uncovered and the consequence of weakened global governance,along with the European Union’s impoverished policies towards its most fragile European member states.展开更多
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965),one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century,is famous for his exquisitenarrative technique.The Painted Veil tells a touching story with unique narrative style.This pape...William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965),one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century,is famous for his exquisitenarrative technique.The Painted Veil tells a touching story with unique narrative style.This paper takes Edward Said's postcolonial crit-ical theory of orientalism as its theoretical foundation to conduct a study of The Painted Veil in detail with an intention to explore China's image and disclose the cultural hegemony of Maugham.The Painted Veil about demonizing and distorting China's image is based onthe perspective of Orientalism,which is inextricably linked to Maugham's cultural hegemony thought.展开更多
文摘Objective: Reflection is viewed as the most significant skill and should be advocated for lifelong learning. In order to grasp the process of reflection and embrace the reflective skill, one of the authors of this paper reflects on a practice-based issue in relation to the communication between doctors and nurses, to gain new understanding and thus improve the authors' clinical practice.Methods: Smyth's framework with four stages is utilized as an ideal framework to guide the author's reflection on the practice-based issue to free the author from her entrenched assumptions and the oppressive forces that limit her practice.Results: The espoused and enacted theory, together with the critical reflection theory, are used to explore the values and beliefs that essentially govern the author's practice and how these are distinct from the author's worldviews. Following this, critical emancipatory reflection is undertaken to explore the dominant power structures within the author's workplace. Furthermore, given the hegemonic and chaotic working context of this issue, hegemony and symbolic interaction theory are applied to unearth the various hidden constraining and oppressive forces. Additionally, socialization theory is utilized to help the author achieve professional identity.Conclusions: Reconstructing the practice-based issue empowers the author to realize that in the future, she should act as a reflective practitioner, creating a daily habit, staying alert to practice, seeing things freshly, finding support systems, improving communication skills, conducting reflective research, and reifying reflective practice. Ultimately, the author will be sufficiently equipped to be able to transform her practice and change its outcomes.
文摘Undoubtedly,the first and second decades of the 21st century proved to be a time of unbelievable changes that history rarely contains.At the beginning of the new Millennium,the achievement of the United States,as the sole and hegemonic superpower,was followed by the 9/11 attack,one of the most audacious in history.The“war on terror”of President George W.Bush was put shortly out of control and provoked more broadly a new wave of terror and war all over the world.Later,the 2007/2008 financial crisis erupting in Wall Street and spreading to Europe jeopardize the role of the European Union as a pillar of peace and contributor to global governance,together with the United Nations.Moreover,its manu military alliance with the United States,through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO),in their offensive to dominate the Middle East,provoked a huge refugee crisis and the rise of populism in Europe.Is there a need for the European Union to change and disregard the American struggle to maintain its hegemonic position undermined by China and other rivals?Through the Theory of International Relations,this is to be uncovered and the consequence of weakened global governance,along with the European Union’s impoverished policies towards its most fragile European member states.
文摘William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965),one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century,is famous for his exquisitenarrative technique.The Painted Veil tells a touching story with unique narrative style.This paper takes Edward Said's postcolonial crit-ical theory of orientalism as its theoretical foundation to conduct a study of The Painted Veil in detail with an intention to explore China's image and disclose the cultural hegemony of Maugham.The Painted Veil about demonizing and distorting China's image is based onthe perspective of Orientalism,which is inextricably linked to Maugham's cultural hegemony thought.
