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Recognizing The Value Of Teaching Proverbs: Multicultural Origins Of Oral And Written Literacy, Susan Marino Yellin

South Florida Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of multicultural proverbs in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural instruction through the language arts, history and social sciences. Educators can use proverbs to engage students in learning, enhance their understanding of other cultures and languages, and promote a globally-sensitive community.

Changing The Interface Of Family And Consumer Sciences At Florida International University, Sandra Poirier, Emilmari Faria, Annette Marie Hernandez, Melissa Madia

South Florida Education Research Conference

The need to change the interface of the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Program at Florida International University (FlU) has evolved because of changes in our family structure, culture, resources, educational reform, new knowledge in basic disciplines and applied research.

Students' Perceptions And Opinions Of Unscientific Bias In Evolutionary Curriculum, Richard F. Lapworth

South Florida Education Research Conference

This is a qualitative study with eighth-grade students assessing their views of bias within the evolution chapters of two Florida state-adopted texts. The students determined that a significant degree of bias exists. The texts fail to develop the scientific "habits-of-mind" as stated in the school district's "science as inquiry" competencies.

The Mismatch Of The Language Of Textbooks And Language Of Esl Students In Content Classrooms, Claudia G. Grigorescu, Eric Dwyer

South Florida Education Research Conference

Debate concerning bilingual education effectiveness may focus around the definition of academic language. Two aspects of such-vocabulary and grammar-were examined in 4th and 8th grade textbooks. Results showed substantial increases in the number of abstract words and complex sentences, suggesting more daunting language demands for older non-English-speaking students.

Students Of Haitian Descent In American Schools: Challenges And Issues, Audrey M. Gelin

South Florida Education Research Conference

This paper examines the ways the reception of students of Haitian descent in this country has shaped their educational careers. Additionally, this paper explores the racial, cultural, and individual differences that need to be understood in order to help educators, parents, and students make their schooling a positive experience.

The Effect Of Sportspersonship Instruction On The Behaviors Of Second Grade Physical Education Students, Charmaine Defrancesco, Christian Gonzales

South Florida Education Research Conference

The effect of sportspersonship instruction on the behaviors of second grade physical education students was examined. Instruction consisted of defining sportspersonship focus words, modifying the words into target behaviors, modeling the behaviors, and reinforcing the behaviors. Results revealed that students from two intact classes improved their behaviors.

The Complacent Acceptance Of Diversity: Human Resource Development In A Culturally Diverse Environment, Judith D. Bernier

South Florida Education Research Conference

This paper examines the inability of work organizations to achieve racial balance and use training and development, organization development, and multicultural organizational development principles to manage and enable diversity initiatives. The paper proposes a conceptual framework for a micro and macro model as an approach to diversity initiatives.

Towards A Pedagogy Of Inferential Statistics In Graduate Education Programs: Insights From Cognitive And Educational Research, Cengiz Alacaci

South Florida Education Research Conference

This study attempts to understand the nature of knowledge base that supports the ability to select statistical techniques for research situations. Findings showed that the largest component of such knowledge was related to research design. One implication is that techniques should be taught in relation to features of research design.

Social Studies In Other Nations: A Focus On Nigerian Social Studies/Global Education, Sadiq A. Abdullahi

South Florida Education Research Conference

This paper discusses the role of the role of social studies education in Nigeria. Amidst problems of mass education, funding, inequities, intolerance, corruption, weak governance, access to quality education, curriculum development, effective instructional methods, research, and teacher education, Nigeria embarks upon a democratic path to national unity and peace.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

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December Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

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Meeting agenda.

Graduate Faculty Committee, Wku Graduate Council

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Membership of Graduate Committee.

未来的维度 = The Dimension Of The Future, Jinhua Dai

South South Forum 南南論壇

在本论文中，笔者集中讨论21世纪语境中的“未来”作为一个议题及其参数。对于笔者说来，未来议题，不关乎时间，不是乌托邦的别称。“未来”之为议题的提出，针对着没有未来，即“末日”。笔者的问题是：资本主义的末日是否人类的末日？或者，如何避免资本主义的末日成为人类的末日？未来议题同时是关于革命及共产主义的再思考。

The focus of this paper is on “the future” as a subject of concern, and the parameters within which it is broached in the context of the 21^st century. For the writer, the question of “the future” is not really a temporal one, neither is it another name for utopia. Rather, it is moved by apprehensions of the disappearance of time altogether, that is, the looming of doom. My question is: is the end of capitalism the end of humanity? Or rather, how to avoid the fall of capitalism to bring about the fall of humanity, a question …

Political Process And Land Reform In Nepal = 尼泊尔的土地改革与政治过程, Arjun Kumar Karki

South South Forum 南南論壇

Landlessness and political struggles in Nepal are deeply inter-related. Landlessness in Nepal is rooted in a long history of feudal land governance, political inertia and nepotism. Furthermore, the skewed landownership patterns practiced were deepened by a deeply discriminatory and strictly hierarchical society that excluded women, ethnic minorities and tribal groups, especially, those of lower castes and classes. Due to this prevailing exclusion and discrimination, the call for land reform as a rallying cry has long been used by politicians as a tool for political mobilization and for garnering support in Nepal. However, despite several political developments and repeated political commitments, …

Agrarian Reform And Rural Reconstruction In The Philippines = 菲律宾土地改革与农村重建, Isagani R. Serrano

South South Forum 南南論壇

Agrarian reform is at the heart of rural reconstruction and both are essential to achieving sustainable development. It includes not only land redistribution but also empowerment of peasants as key actors in building the rural economy. Land is not only an asset to be owned and accessed but also as a natural resource with multiple uses for both economic development and protection of ecosystems. Land ownership has hitherto been a centerpiece question in Philippine development, indeed, in nation building. Land monopoly on one side and landlessness on the other have defined to a large extent the history and political economy …

梁漱溟乡村建设思想与实践 = Liang Shuming’S Thoughts And Practices On Rural Reconstruction, Peishu Liang

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No abstract provided.

乡村建设思想的历史起点, Xianming Wang

South South Forum 南南論壇

在近代中国思潮的起伏波动中，重商主义的倡导与中国传统的重农思想的冲突在所不免，由此引发了一场持续数十年的“工商立国”与“农业立国”之争。自1901年初《自强说》发表至1911年清朝覆亡的10年间，见诸报刊的讨论文字日渐增多，其观点则大致可分为工商为本论，农工商并重论，农业为本论三大类。1920年《农业立国意见书》的发表，标志着“农业立国论”将在未来的历史选择中开始拥有了独特的时代意义和价值。从某种意义而言，它形成了其后乡村建设思想的历史起点。

晏阳初乡村建设历程 = Rural Construction Practice Of Yang Yangchu, Hongguo Yan

South South Forum 南南論壇

晏阳初先生是世界著名平民教育家，中国乡村建设运动的奠基人，在上世纪20年代初兴起的的中国平民教育和乡村建设运动中，他一枝独秀，在时间上坚持最长，从1926年定县实验开始到1990年逝世，长达70余年；在空间上扩展最广，从中国的华北（河北定县实验县）、华中（湖南衡山实验县）华西（新都实验县、华西实验区）到亚洲（菲律宾、泰国、印度）非洲（加纳）拉丁美洲（危地马拉、哥伦比亚）。他不但长期躬身实践，积累了丰富的实践经验，而且创造了完整的理论体系，被广泛地运用于世界乡村改造运动。

晏阳初的乡村建设的历程，可分为三个阶段。1926年开始的定县实验，标志着晏阳初领导的平民教育运动实现了从识字运动到乡村建设的（即兼及对人和自然环境、社会环境进行综合改造）的重大转折。这是一个质的突破，标志着平民教育运动发展到一个崭新的阶段。到1936年6月，定县实验才因抗日战争爆发而被迫停止。这10年，是晏阳初乡村建设运动的第一阶段。第一阶段的主要成果是创造了“定县经验”，找到了建设中国农村的正确方法，后来被证明也是适合改造世界贫困农村的正确方法。第二阶段包括湖南衡山实验县、四川新都实验县及华西实验区的工作，其中尤以华西实验区的工作为代表，历时13年。第三阶段是从上世纪50年代起将产生于中国大地，由中国人创造的乡村建设理论推向世界大舞台，经受了不同国度的人文环境、自然环境、政治环境的长期考验。这个阶段是以菲律宾的乡村建设为起始，扩展到亚、非、拉广大第三世界国家和地区，从1950年开始到1990年晏阳初逝世，历时40年。

Yang Yangchu was a world famous civil educator, the founder of national rural construction movement. He worked in this field for the longest time among his peers, since 1926’s Ding Xian experiment till 1990 when he passed away; also involved the most extensive range, from Northern China (Ding Xian, Hebei Province), Central China (Hengshan, Hunan Province), Western China (Xindu) to other Asian countries such as Thailand, India, Philippines; Ghana in Africa and Guatemala, Colombia in Latin America. Not only he practiced in the field, but also constructed a set of theories to be applied in the world wide …

论卢作孚“乡村现代化”及“以经济建设为中心”思想及其启示意义 = Discussions On Lu Zuofu's "Rural Modernization" And "Taking Economy Building As Center" , And The Inspirational Meaning Thereof, Chonglai Liu

South South Forum 南南論壇

卢作孚乡村建设思想及实践探析之一

卢作孚主持的嘉陵江三峡乡村建设运动，是民国时期众多乡村建设实验中持续时间最长（1927~1949），成效突出的一个。其重要原因是卢作孚将“乡村现代化”作为其乡村建设运动的宗旨和理想目标；将“以经济建设为中心”作为实现“乡村现代化”的建设方式和实践方针。两者相辅相成，成为嘉陵江三峡乡村建设运动持续不衰的动力，也成为在民国时期众多乡村建设实验取得与众不同较大成就、较好成效的重要原因，对今天建设社会主义新农村和西部大开发具有现实启示意义。

An exploration of Lu Zuofu's thoughts and practices on rural reconstruction

Of the many rural reconstruction experiments that took place during the Republic Period, the "Jialing River Three Gorges Rural Reconstruction Movement " conducted by Lu Zuofu was the most long – lasting and had outstanding success. The major reason was that Lu Zuofu embraced "Rural Modernization” as the aim and ideal for the movement, and "Taking Economy Building as Center” to be the means and practical principle for realizing “Rural Modernization”. The two concepts complemented each other and became a sustainable, unwavering impetus behind the "Jialing River …

程炜及大宁县程炜扶贫开发有限公司介绍, Wei Cheng

South South Forum 南南論壇

个人简历

程炜，女，1950年6月日出生在河北省武邑县。

Chengwei, female, June 3rd, 1950 born in Wuyi County, Hebei Province.

1956年因家乡发大水,随父母来到北京。

In 1956, she moved to Beijing with her parents because of flood.

1968年到山西省汾西县城关公社马沟大队插队。

In 1968, as educated youth, she left Beijing and worked in Magou production team, Chengguan Commune, Fenxi County, Shanxi Province.

1972年被推荐上了清华大学化工系高分子专业。

In 1972, she was recommended to study at Tsinghua University, majoring in Polymer Science

1976年1月被学校分配到燕山石化化工研究所，同时接到山西省汾西县委的邀请书，放弃了在北京工作的机会，回到了曾经插队的汾西县。

In 1976, on graduation, she was assigned to Yanshan Petrochemical Institute of Chemical Engineering. At the same time, she was invited by Fenxi County to return. She decided to give up the precious opportunity to work in …

和平妇女王华连自我简介 = Introduction Of Wang Hualian And Wanli-Luxia Women Credit Union, Hualian Wang

South South Forum 南南論壇

我姓王名叫华连，44岁，家住江西省万载县白水乡永新村湾里组，现任村妇女主任，永新村和平鼓乐队队长，妇女互助储金会的委员。

1994年在香港中心的组织下，我们湾里、路下两组成立了妇女互助储金会，从事目的主要是种百合。

自从2008由和平妇女项目组织的在银川开会以来，我自己有三个愿望：第一我放弃了我开的那个饲料店，因为我受到了各界人世的启发，放弃了唯一为生活赚钱的生财之道；第二为了大家的健康，为了给自己增添自信，给村民们带来好的环境和气氛办起了鼓乐队；第三我要慢慢地改变其它人，为了我们的健康，为了我们的资源，我会尽力而为地要求大家去珍惜它（土地）。

I am Wang Hualian, 44 years old. I belong to Wangli group of Yongxin Village of Baishui Township of Wanzai Country in Jiangxi Province. Now I am the head of Women’s Association in Yongxin village, the leader of peace drum team. Meanwhile, I am also the committee member of Wanli-Luxia Women Credit Union.

In 1994, with the help of China Social Services and Development Research Centre, we established Wanli-Luxia Women Credit Union. One of its main activities is to practice collective production and fair trade of lily bulb.

In 2008, PeaceWomen Across the Globe held a meeting …

我社资金互助的几大好处和运作时应该注意的问题 = Some Benefits And Running Problems Of Our Financial Cooperative, Shuxia Wang

South South Forum 南南論壇

一.确实能解决社员的现实问题，比如：1.春天的种子，夏天的水肥问题。2.孩子上学和应急情况。3.统购统销农药、苹果、梨时会给社员一定的收入。4.共同请养猪、果树专家指导，很便宜很合适。5.社员的钱凑一块买了个耕地机，给社员耕的地又便宜又好。6.今年我们又注册了无公害水果，没有资金就很难办成，这样我们合作社的果农就会卖个好价钱。7.成立了资金互助，社员因对自己的原则，所以他们都会在开大会时集思广益，提出增加效益的好方法来。8.对大会的参加都很热心，因为学习好有关果树技术，养猪技术，沼气知识等技术，才能提高经济效益。

应该注意的就是要尊重社员的民主管理，多倾听社员的合理化建议，多召开社员大会，这样才能调动大家的积极性，减少很所麻烦，因为只有大家都认同，你才会少许多不该发生的问题、矛盾。即使有些有些矛盾发生，大家也能理解。

详细内容去了细谈

This financial cooperative does solve members’ realistic financial problems.

For example:

1. When they lack of money in purchasing seeds in Spring or fertilizers in Summer.
2. When they lack of money to afford tuition fee of kids or to deal with some emergencies.
3. Pattern of unified purchase and sale of pesticide, apple and pear could bring our members’ certain income.
4. Sharing the consultant fee for pig raising, fruit tree cultivation is cheaper and more suitable for our members.
5. Our members put their money together to buy a ploughing machine to save the cost of land ploughing.
6. This year, …

南塘合作社经验, Yunbiao Yang

South South Forum 南南論壇

南塘兴农合作社简介

南塘兴农合作社前身是南塘农民维权协会，2003年，经著名“三农问题”专家温铁军先生指点，协会转变思想，更新观念，搞起了乡村建设，于2004年4月正式成立兴农合作社。成立后，发展势头良好，至今已由成立之初的四十多户参与发展到现在的两县四区十三个村的四百余户，六百余股入社。

合作社由有机农业部、资金互助部、图书馆、后勤保障部、文艺队、老年协会、农资部构成日常主运营内容，归理事会管理。理事会与监事会由社员大会产生，向社员大会负责。有独立的会计制度。目前合作社运营状况良好，未来发展道路也很明确。

[A Brief Introduction on Nan Tang Xing Nong Cooperative]

Nan Tang Xing Nong Cooperative was formerly Nan Tang Society for Protection of Peasants Right. In 2003, with advice from Mr. Wen Tejin, the expert on "San Nong Issues " (agriculture, countryside and peasants ), the Society changed their mode of thinking and started to go into rural construction. In April 2004, the Xing Nong Cooperative was established officially. Since then, development momentum has been strong. The number of participating households has grown from over forty initially to more than four hundred households spanning thirteen villages in four …

Could Cities Feed Themselves? The Case Of The Urban Agriculture Movement In Cuba = 城市能否自给自足? 古巴城市农业运动调查报告, Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach, May Ling Chan

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Before 1990 the production and market of vegetables in Cuba was monopolized by a large state enterprise where horticultural techniques such as hydroponics and zeoponics are used (in zeolite subtract) with heavy use of chemical products. But, in 1991 due to the Collapse of Soviet Socialist System in Eastern Europe, the Cuban agriculture enters into crisis. Without chemicals pesticides and fertilizers, metal containers, and cement, the hydroponic-zeolite technology could not be used anymore. In this context, the Movement of Urban Agriculture was born in which people produce fresh vegetables intensively applying agro-ecological principles and Organic techniques, consume and directly sell …

Iccic / Gung Ho : Helping To Promote Chinese Cooperatives = 工合国际促进中国合作社的发展, Michael Crook

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In 1937, Rewi Alley, Edgar and Helen Foster Snow, and patriots in China initiated the Gung Ho Movement. They organized laid off workers and refugees displaced by the Japanese invasion to set up manufacturing cooperatives in aid of China’s resistance effort. This soon became a nation-wide civil movement of some 3,000 cooperatives.

To seek international support and promote the Gung Ho movement, Mme. Soong Ching Ling initiated the founding of the ICCIC - International Committee for the promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives - in 1939, and was elected honorary chair. British Bishop of Hong Kong, R. D. Hall, was its …

Current Situation Of Farmers, Peasants' Movement, And Ecological Agriculture In Nigeria, Arigbede Olaseinde Dr.

South South Forum 南南論壇

No abstract provided.

生存危机与生态危机 = Survival Crisis And Ecological Crisis, Song Tian

South South Forum 南南論壇

人类社会面临着两重问题，生存问题（survival problem）和生态问题（ecological problem）。所谓生存问题是指人类自身的问题，包含两个层面：一是如何获得生存必需的物质，免于饥饿、贫困；二是如何分配所获得的物质，追求公正、公平。前者关乎生产力，后者关乎社会制度。在人类的能力相对弱小的漫长历史中，生存问题的解决主要在于寻找更好的社会制度，或者改良，或者革命。进入工业文明之后，人类利用科学及其技术，可以从自然中获得越来越多的物质，生存问题的解决有了一个新的方向。即使分配不公平，每一方也能获得比从前更多的物质。生存问题得到了缓解。但是，生态问题却不期而至。所谓生态问题，是人类与自然的关系问题，表现为环境污染，生态破坏。

All kind of human society has to solve two issues: survival problem and ecological problem. The solution of survival problem has two aspects: 1, how to acquire necessary materials (from nature), to free of hungry and poverty; 2, how to distribute the material, to purchase equality and justice. The former refers to social productivity; the latter refers to social institution. In the long history when human only has weak ability to acquire materials from nature, the solution of survival problem focused on searching a better social institution, to reform, or to revolute. Making use of science …

Surviving The Fukushima Nuke Crisis : People’S Anger, Anguish, And Alternative Actions = 在福岛核泄漏危机中幸存下去：人民的愤怒、伤痛和另类行动, Masaaki Ohashi

South South Forum 南南論壇

The 2nd worst Nuke Crisis, which has begun 21 month ago in March 11, 2011 from Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station, has not settled in any sense, but is posing Fukushima people very difficult and unprecedented challenges. This presentation will examine following points:

1. A brief view on the troubled 4 reactors of the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Station, in terms of continuing radiation discharge, on-going but slow dismantling process that takes more than 30-40 years, higher radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture. etc.
2. The present location of Fukushima people, such as restriction areas (totally, night time etc.), locations and relocations(evacuations) …

Linking Food Systems And Human Health : Geographic Variations In China = 链接食物系统与人类健康：中国城乡之间的差别, Anthony M. Fuller

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This paper is exploratory. It seeks to link the two dominant food systems of Chinawith impacts on human health, as measured by the increasing but differential incidence of non-communicable chronic diseases. China is passing through the Nutrition Transition where traditional diets are being replaced by high fat and meat diets, high calorie snacks and meals with high protein and oil intakes.The argument is constructed on the basis that in general urban citizens increasingly consume processed foods manufactured by the industrial food system. Rural people on the other hand remain consuming their traditional diets. Process foods derive from industrial agriculture while …

Discussants On Session 7a : Surviving Crises, Vinod Raina Dr., Pan Jie Dr.

South South Forum 南南論壇

Vinod Raina

A physicist, resigned his job at Delhi University to work at grass roots on issues of rural education and rural development in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. With like-minded colleagues, he initiated the People’s Science Movement in India that attempts to combine knowledge and science to craft alternate development models that improve the quality of life of the disadvantaged sections of society, within the regenerative capacity of the Earth. He worked both at the level of theory and practice in the political, scientific and ecological economy of sustainability. He had been involved with the Bhopal Gas …