Fight Books in Context: Martial and University Cultures at the Edge of Modernity

In my country's higher education system, school dormitories are an important position for college students' study and life. College students spend more than half of their time in dormitories. Therefore, as a learning treasure and life paradise for college students, completing the construction of dormitory culture in colleges and universities, and exerting its educational function has become an important content of college ideological and political education. This article is based on the current status of the construction of dormitory culture in colleges and universities, and explores the way to realize the education of dormitory culture in colleges and universities under the cultural background of the new era, aiming to better play the role of students' self-management and self-service.

No bibliometric or analytic studies of the fight books have been conducted and few reference publications offer analyses of the genre as a whole. Moreover, the existing bibliographies all have their own limitations and do not allow for an investigation of the larger corpus. This contribution applies a typology developed by the author to the corpus of those fight books created between 1305 and 1630, for a total of 187 sources (manuscript and print). It also updates the bibliography published in 2016 for the same chronological framework. The author’s typology allows for a study, based on objective criteria, of the corpus and the genre alike. It analyses the impact of the development of printing technology on the production of knowledge about the art of fighting, as well as the main characteristics of the fight book genre. The limits of any bibliometric study and implementation of a typology are due, on the one hand, to the conservation of the primary sources compared to the documented corpus, and on the other to the extent of scientific investigation conducted into each element. Such limits are flagged and discussed in order to offer a proper classification of the fight books’ production prior to the Thirty Years War, where major changes affected books about fighting in Europe.

Different domiciled groups experience belonging differently within university contexts, with China-domiciled students studying in UK Business Schools often finding it more difficult to integrate into university culture than their European counterparts, partially contributing to the sector awarding gap between these groups studying Business and Management subjects. With recognition that the pandemic induced move to teaching online exacerbated challenges to belonging for all students, 17 Chinese and 16 UK finalist undergraduates were interviewed about their experiences of belonging before the pandemic, during the pandemic, and once face-to-face teaching had resumed. The research contributes to an increasingly nuanced understanding of the university habitus and its relationship to belonging as both contextual and temporal, revealing commonalities and differences in establishing a sense of belonging in heterogeneous student cohorts. The research extends the four domains of belonging; academic, social, surroundings and personal space to include the digital space, a previously unexplored dimension of student belonging that gained greater prevalence with the move to teaching online. The research uncovers the exclusionary effects of social media platform adoption and contextualises this inequality through ideas of digital habitus. Findings highlight the importance of the transition to Higher Education and the ongoing work required to foster a secure sense of belonging for all students, but particularly those who enter into university with a cultural background that is very different to the culture of the university.

Despite the increasing mobility and exchange of education around the world, education still faces the challenge of adapting to rapidly changing social needs and promoting innovation and lifelong learning. This paper analyzes the differences and similarities in the setting of educational functions between China and Britain by taking the university motto in the construction of campus culture as an example. This paper analyzes the differences in educational objectives between Chinese and British higher education institutions due to their different historical and cultural backgrounds. The concrete manifestation is: the mode of education, the idea and the way of teaching. And the establishment of cultural construction has a very great positive effect on education. Based on this, this paper puts forward the following suggestions: to deepen the understanding of the construction of campus culture, to promote the cultivation of international perspectives of students and educators in various ways, and to help students and educators understand the educational practice under different cultural backgrounds. To improve the quality of education, and always provide profound insights and theoretical support for the development of education in the era of globalization.

The final disposal of spent nuclear fuel is a huge undertaking. It raises enormous and highly significant questions, ranging from ethical and philosophical foundations through scientific, technical, financial, political, sociological, and many other issues. Not surprisingly, it attracts profound interest from many quarters. Thus, we need science and technology, and we also need information. Sweden is fortunate in that long ago, foresighted people realized that disposal would be required, and arranged for the necessary funding. A disposal method has been devised, and an application for a license to use that method is now being scrutinized by the authorities. Much information is available about this, but different users need different kinds of information. The license applicant, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB), provides a wealth of easily accessible folders, web pages, and other means of obtaining an at-a-glance understanding. They also provide an overwhelming number of erudite, detailed, and indispensable (but sometimes not all that palatable) technical reports. Between these extremes, there is a demand for detailed information in a scientific journal with the full rigor of peer review and scientific references, yet reasonably accessible even to seriously interested lay readers. Many scientific disciplines are involved and scientists need information at the edge of their own area of expertise (and honestly, may wish to refresh their own core knowledge). The independence of a scientific journal is particularly important for politicians. The concise format and the careful attention to style of AMBIO are helpful for interested laymen. The present Special Issue of AMBIO intends to satisfy these needs. However, it dawned on us at an early stage that the information would be useful in a much wider context than just nuclear waste disposal. In the long run, that could be the most important aspect of this Special Issue, since long-term forecasting of possible developments is required in lots of situations. As a first stage, SKB invited scientists who had participated in writing technical reports underpinning the license application to a meeting in October 2011. The outcome was that the project would indeed be possible and desirable. An editorial group was convened formally, comprising Ulrik Kautsky (project leader for the initiation, research coordination, and organization of this issue), Tobias Lindborg (project leader for the biosphere site description, “SDM—Site,” and the summing-up phase of the biosphere safety assessment project, “SR-Site”), and myself (independent Guest Editor, former senior regulator, and senior radiological protection adviser). The Special Issue does not cover every detail of the safety assessment behind the license application. However, we knew in May 2012 that the papers envisaged would form a coherent and adequate description of the assessment. Now that the final product of our labors is emerging, I am grateful, proud, and pleased to have been part of the project. I wish to thank SKB for rendering the project possible, my editor colleagues for many patient explanations and for frequently helping me back on track and schedule, and AMBIO for all practical assistance and understanding. In particular, I am grateful to all the authors and the many reviewers without whose diligent efforts this Special Issue would not have been possible.

In music education in local colleges and universities, the targeted dissemination of local music culture in teaching and the rational development and utilization of local music resources are the trends of music curriculum reform. Professor Xie Jiaxing said that music culture and national culture not only depend on the inheritance of artists, but also need the dissemination of more music culture practitioners. We must stand firm and pay attention to local music culture. The author is engaged in music education in local colleges and universities. He has initially carried out teaching and scientific research on this topic, and has collected and sorted out local music in Baoding. In the music education of local colleges and universities, we should first pay attention to the construction of local music education courses and the integrity of the curriculum education system, and take local music culture as the main content of music education, so that students can further understand their own nationality through the study of local music courses. Music style, music form and music culture background stories, stimulate students’ interest and enthusiasm in local music learning, and improve classroom teaching effect.

Slavoj Žižek was born on March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the former Yugoslavia. Žižek studied philosophy and sociology as an undergraduate student and completed a master of arts degree in philosophy in 1975 at the University of Ljubljana, writing a 400-page thesis on French structuralism. In 1981, he earned his first doctor of arts degree in philosophy, writing his dissertation on German idealism. Four years later, Žižek successfully defended his second doctoral dissertation titled, “Philosophy Between the Symptom and the Fantasy,” a Lacanian reading of Hegel, Marx, and Kripke, which he completed under the direction of Lacan’s son in law, Jacques-Alain Miller, in Paris. Žižek is one of the most prominent members of the Ljubljana Lacanian School, a group of theorists who have been affiliated with the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana since the 1970s. Žižek also cofounded the Liberal Democratic Party in Slovenia and ran as its candidate in the first multiparty presidential elections in the country in 1990, narrowly missing office. Later, he completely broke with Slovene public space and became engaged in global radical Leftist politics. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana; the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London; Eminent Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; returning faculty member of the European Graduate School; and visiting professor at the German Department of New York University. Since 1991 he has also held visiting positions at different universities in the United States and United Kingdom. He is also the editor of three major book series, including WO ES WAR, Short Circuits, and SIC Series. In 2012, Foreign Policy listed Žižek as one of its top influential 100 global thinkers, and in 2018 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain). Ever since the publication of his first book in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in 1989, Žižek has become known as one of the most provocative and innovative philosophers in the world. Žižek has developed a challenging dialectical materialist philosophical system that appropriates the late Lacan to reload and retrieve Hegel through Marxism, Christianity, and quantum physics in order to describe the structure of reality (ontology) and to articulate the basis for collective revolutionary change through a wide range of cultural, folkloric (jokes), literary, religious, political, scientific, and philosophical references. Žižek has published extensively, almost a monograph a year, on a wide range of topics, and has been engaged in many debates and controversies that attest to his commitment to reformulating the questions that philosophers, psychoanalysts, political scientists, activists, and the general public have been asking about common everyday notions about reality and its relationship to the subject. Žižek has consequently established a phenomenal presence in the lecture circuits, online, and in the media that has made him a household name and one of the most iconic international public figures and philosophers in the world.

Media language encompasses literary and ‎scientific elements, technical terminology, and cultural references. Effectively conveying its message to the target audience from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds can be challenging. This highlights some of the subtleties of media language that might add to translation difficulties. Media translation is a complex process, which involves information, knowledge, and analysis from a wide range of disciplines, including art, economics, literature, politics and science. In translating media content, accuracy in communicating cultural allusions, technical terms, and nuances ‎ to the intended audience is equally crucial as translating plain text from one language to another. This study explores the linguistic and cultural barriers that may occur while translating English-Arabic online media, with a focus on findings from BBC Online News articles. It attempts to further contribute to a deeper understanding of media translation by focusing on bridging the linguistic and cultural divide while translating English to Arabic in online media. The results of this study suggest that a translator with advanced ‎proficiency and a thorough comprehension of the subtle linguistic and cultural ‎differences that exist ‎in both languages is required to provide high-quality ‎English to Arabic translation. In other ‎‎words, skilled translators who can ‎understand and incorporate the linguistic and cultural quirks of both ‎‎languages, creating a seamless connection ‎between the translation and media ‎domains, are essential for efficient media translation.

Brief Synopses of New Arabic Language Publications

This chapter examines the factors impacting students' well-being within university settings, drawing on contemporary research and theoretical frameworks. Psychological factors, such as anxiety, depression, and academic pressure, exert effects on students' mental health and well-being. Social factors, encompassing interactions with peers, faculty, and staff, shape students' sense of belonging, support systems, and satisfaction with university life. Academic factors like workload, performance expectations, and perceived competence significantly impact students' well-being. Environmental factors, comprising physical surroundings, campus amenities, safety measures, and resource accessibility, play a pivotal role in shaping students' well-being. Societal factors, such as socioeconomic status, cultural background, family dynamics, and societal norms, intricately shape students' perceptions, values, and coping strategies within their university experiences. By fostering a supportive and empowering university culture, institutions can promote the well-being and success of their students.

Academic literacy support is an important support service that enables undergraduates’ academic success. As Murray and Nallaya (Stud High Educ 41(7):1296–1312, 2016) point out, all students need to develop a competent level in academic literacies regardless of their cultural backgrounds or language proficiency. Competence in these socially situated literacies will also help students to become members of respective disciplinary communities. At the National University of Singapore (NUS), there is a comprehensive academic support system to strengthen students’ communication skills that facilitate their smooth transition into and engagement with relevant disciplinary communities (Tan, Writing classes a must for NUS freshmen. The Straits Times, Home, B1. 31st October, 2011). NUS is committed to the development of thinking and writing programs for undergraduates in each intake (Tan, Of whales and the campus Tsunami. State of University Address. Friday, 12th October, 11 am, University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore, 2012). In response to the diverse cultural and language competence levels required to negotiate the rigorous academic literacy demands of English-medium universities, the Center for English Language Communication’s (CELC) academic literacy provision spans a range of types and levels of support. These provisions are also embedded or integrated, to different degrees, within discipline modules (Briguglio and Watson, Aust J Lang Lit 37(1):67–76, 2014). This chapter outlines the implementation of three programs which provide academic literacy support for the undergraduates. In addition to sharing the cases of academic literacy provision at NUS, this chapter discusses the challenges of integration between academic literacy support and the main disciplinary curriculum. These academic support services are illustrated by case studies at the lowest, intermediate, and highest level of integration and show how different models of academic literacy for students can be organized to address the academic writing needs of the undergraduate student population in the university.KeywordsAcademic literacy supportEmbedded literaciesLanguage proficiencyCommunication skills

The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus

The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus

Abstract: University sports culture is an important component of the national cultural system. It is the crystallization of material and spiritual civilization in university sports, as well as the precipitation of sports culture and sports philosophy. However, in the new era, university sports culture presents problems, such as valuing intelligence over physical fitness, lacking in sports culture concepts, and separating spirit and material. In university education, more attention is often paid to academic and intellectual development, while sports and physical exercise are lightly regarded. In fact, university sports culture often focuses only on physical education and sports events, while ignoring the development of other aspects, resulting in an imbalance in the whole sports culture system. The insufficient investment of the school in sports facilities and equipment leads to a lack of necessary material support for students to engage in physical exercise. At the same time, the students’ understanding and pursuit of sports often remain on the surface, lacking in the pursuit of the spirit of the deep-seated. In review of university sports culture, dialectical materialism can be used to analyze the connection among the social background, development trend and mutual influence of sports culture. The perspective of social constructivism can also be used to explore the social construction process of sports culture, all participants’ roles and interactions, and the significance and influence of sports culture in society. Therefore, in order to better solve the problems existing in university sports culture, promote the rapid development of university sports culture in the new era, enhance the confidence of campus sports culture and build a strong sports culture, this article used dialectical materialism method to analyze the current situation of university sports. It explained the relationship between philosophy and sports culture from a philosophical perspective, as well as the current problems in sports culture. Finally, it used the method of social constructivism to explain it from different perspectives. Finally, through the social constructivism method, it examined the university sports culture in the new era and, dialectically, analyzed the forms, functions, reconstruction paths and future thinking of university sports culture. Research has found that the sports culture of universities, in the new era, plays an important role in cultural, educational, and political aspects. The reconstruction and future development of university sports culture, in the new era, need to combine Eastern and Western cultures, inherit excellent traditional culture and achieve innovative development of sports culture.

One Century of Allgemeine Psychopathologie (1913 to 2013) by Karl Jaspers