In the present paper, a comparison is made of the three formats in the history of EECU （English education in China＇s universities）. In the first period （1904-1949）, English education was conducted separately in g...In the present paper, a comparison is made of the three formats in the history of EECU （English education in China＇s universities）. In the first period （1904-1949）, English education was conducted separately in government-managed educational institutions and in institutions sponsored by church-related organizations; English education was well-knit with both general education and specialty education; and self-motivating learning was encouraged. In the second period （1950-1966）, almost everything was tinted with a shady color of politics： A halt was addressed drastically to EEC （English education in China） in 1952. In the gradual recovery that started four years later, the second format was sawed and hammered, showing the following features： All non-government-mamaged institutions vanished from the stage; English was taught solely as a language or a system of verbal parts, almost deprived of all cultural loading. The third period （1978 onwards） has witnessed a barrier-free and rapid development of over three decades, resulting in the unprecedented pervasion of EECU. Yet in the third tbrmat, learners＇ efforts have turned wholly test-oriented, degenerating into the saddening disintegrity of learning as a process into isolated charges to the target of a test at a time; the ignorant reduction of the learning methods to ＂Vocabulary Booklets Plus Collections of Test Papers＂. Such a comparison not only provides a multi-dimensional perspective of EECU and a better understanding of it, but also offers some important experiences and lessons for the search of an effective solution to the pervasive problem of＂Time-Consumingness and Low-Efficiency＂.展开更多
The development of new media has brought to the ideological and political education in colleges and universities of the new situation and new problems that are needed to make a new generalization and explanation, whic...The development of new media has brought to the ideological and political education in colleges and universities of the new situation and new problems that are needed to make a new generalization and explanation, which not only endows the new mission of ideological and political education workers, but also brings new opportunities to the innovation and development of ideological and political education theory. This paper argues and interprets the definition, impact analysis, and content &structure optimization of the new media era ideological and political governance education from a new perspective of interdisciplinary study including the sociology, psychology, ethics and Journalism.展开更多
At the invitation of Professor Francois Collart-Dutilleul from the University of Nantes in France, I attendedan international academic conference fo- cusing on the EU＇s foreign policies after the Lisbon Treaty, which...At the invitation of Professor Francois Collart-Dutilleul from the University of Nantes in France, I attendedan international academic conference fo- cusing on the EU＇s foreign policies after the Lisbon Treaty, which was held at the university from Nov. 21 to Dec. 1,2011. Afterwards Professor Collart-Dutilleul asked me to give a lecture on human rights in China to his PhD. students and the following is what I got from this ex- perience in France.展开更多
As the sun dipped below the skyline of buildings composing the Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, Zhang Ke walked Limi Cally back to her car. They were not teachers or students at the satellite campus of Xiamen Univer...As the sun dipped below the skyline of buildings composing the Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, Zhang Ke walked Limi Cally back to her car. They were not teachers or students at the satellite campus of Xiamen University, based in its namesake city in southeastern China’s Fujian Province, but builders of the second phase of the campus.展开更多
文摘In the present paper, a comparison is made of the three formats in the history of EECU （English education in China＇s universities）. In the first period （1904-1949）, English education was conducted separately in government-managed educational institutions and in institutions sponsored by church-related organizations; English education was well-knit with both general education and specialty education; and self-motivating learning was encouraged. In the second period （1950-1966）, almost everything was tinted with a shady color of politics： A halt was addressed drastically to EEC （English education in China） in 1952. In the gradual recovery that started four years later, the second format was sawed and hammered, showing the following features： All non-government-mamaged institutions vanished from the stage; English was taught solely as a language or a system of verbal parts, almost deprived of all cultural loading. The third period （1978 onwards） has witnessed a barrier-free and rapid development of over three decades, resulting in the unprecedented pervasion of EECU. Yet in the third tbrmat, learners＇ efforts have turned wholly test-oriented, degenerating into the saddening disintegrity of learning as a process into isolated charges to the target of a test at a time; the ignorant reduction of the learning methods to ＂Vocabulary Booklets Plus Collections of Test Papers＂. Such a comparison not only provides a multi-dimensional perspective of EECU and a better understanding of it, but also offers some important experiences and lessons for the search of an effective solution to the pervasive problem of＂Time-Consumingness and Low-Efficiency＂.
文摘The development of new media has brought to the ideological and political education in colleges and universities of the new situation and new problems that are needed to make a new generalization and explanation, which not only endows the new mission of ideological and political education workers, but also brings new opportunities to the innovation and development of ideological and political education theory. This paper argues and interprets the definition, impact analysis, and content &structure optimization of the new media era ideological and political governance education from a new perspective of interdisciplinary study including the sociology, psychology, ethics and Journalism.
文摘At the invitation of Professor Francois Collart-Dutilleul from the University of Nantes in France, I attendedan international academic conference fo- cusing on the EU＇s foreign policies after the Lisbon Treaty, which was held at the university from Nov. 21 to Dec. 1,2011. Afterwards Professor Collart-Dutilleul asked me to give a lecture on human rights in China to his PhD. students and the following is what I got from this ex- perience in France.
文摘As the sun dipped below the skyline of buildings composing the Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, Zhang Ke walked Limi Cally back to her car. They were not teachers or students at the satellite campus of Xiamen University, based in its namesake city in southeastern China’s Fujian Province, but builders of the second phase of the campus.
