The ‘right time’ – negotiating the timing of interviews with vulnerable young people

Participant retention is a key factor in determining the success of longitudinal research. Challenges in re-locating and retaining participants over the long term are major issues for researchers working with young people who face adversity and experience frequent changes in circumstances. This article reports on a study of vulnerable young people and their transition into adulthood. Rather than the more conventional schedule-based approach to locating and re-interviewing young people, a relational process, the ‘right time’ framework, was used to facilitate young people's involvement in the study. Embedded in the ‘right time’ framework is recognition of the diverse and fluctuating circumstances that shape young people's availability for interviews. Several case examples are considered which amplify the way that the ‘right time’ framework allowed the research to navigate around these circumstances. The case examples highlight the value young people attached to being involved in the research, the influence on the ‘right time’ of wider relational tensions for young people and the need to negotiate researcher status as a different sort of adult. The ‘right time’ framework contributed to a high retention rate in the study generating a more representative sample and enhancing the subsequent data analysis by providing valuable insights into the lives of these vulnerable young people.     

‘Becoming’ a possible threat: masculinity,culture and questioning among unaccompanied young men in Sweden

A debate on masculinity and immigration rose across Europe in 2015 after an incident with sexual harassments taking place in Cologne, Germany. The incident refuelled a debate positioning unaccompanied young men as a possible threat. This article is based on a research project where we during this time ethnographically followed 20 young men, having arrived in Sweden as ‘unaccompanied’ minors. The aim is to examine how the young men themselves talk about, reflect on and negotiate masculinity and gender during this period. The article concludes that masculinity cannot be approached as something stable easily being inherited or transferred from one’s origins. One difference for ‘unaccompanied’ young men is how conflicts or tensions emerging in relation to issues of gender and masculinity tend to be interpreted differently, and publicly, putting the young men in a ‘gendered situation of questioning’.     

论邓小平对选拔培养中青年干部的思想

建设有中国特色的社会主义市场经济 ,需要一大批杰出的人才。如何选拔培养中青年干部成为我们党和国家一项重大课题。运用邓小平理论中关于选拔培养中青年干部的观点并指导实践 ,将会对我国的四化建设起到积极作用     

对第二语言习得中“年龄小优势论”的辩证分析

多数人认为:在第二语言习得过程中,年龄小的人比年龄大的人学得好;儿童比成年人学得好。通过对大量的有关年龄因素如何影响"第二语言习得"(SLA)的资料的辩证分析,肯定了在自然条件下,就语音和语法方面而言,年龄越小,学得越好,但年龄大的人在读写方面的优势以及成年人比儿童能够更快地习得第二语言语法的事实证明了:在"第二语言习得"中,年龄小的人并非总是比年龄大的人学得好,从而论证了"年龄小优势论"具有一定的片面性。     

试论信息时代学报编辑的信息意识

信息时代为高校学报的发展带来了契机,同时对学报编辑提出了更高的要求,学报编辑工作的每一个环节都离不开信息,信息意识的强弱与学报的学术质量息息相关。研究新时期学报编辑信息意识的内涵,对高校学报事业的持续发展具有重要的意义。文章在阐述学报编辑信息意识内涵的基础上,提出了学报编辑具备信息意识的重要性及培养信息意识的基本对策。     

编辑理想主义的缺失与重构

编辑理想主义的实质是个人的信仰与社会理想在编辑出版事业上的统一,主要表现为对自身价值的不懈追求和强烈的社会文化使命感.市场经济体制的确立以及价值取向多元化趋势的进一步加深,正逐步解构编辑理想主义,出版社的市场化进一步加剧了市场对编辑理想主义的冲击.重构编辑理想主义已是出版界必须面对和急需解决的重大课题,经济全球化和社会建设理性的回归为编辑理想主义的重构提供了难得的历史性机遇.     

低龄化写作:众力胁迫下的泛文学景观

低龄化写作并非真正意义上的文学现象,而是后现代语境下的一道泛文学景观。该现象的出现有创作主体主观上的原因,更是文学之外的其他力量胁迫的结果。     

编辑的文化视野与价值取向

编辑的文化视野、社会角色、知识结构与精神产品密切相关。反映时代主流的文化视野决定了编辑对精神产品的取舍更多地指向现实和未来;关注社会现实的文化视野决定了编辑对精神产品的取舍服从于社会现实,并着力体现出社会的主流文化和价值导向;导向性的文化视野决定了编辑在对精神产品的选择、加工活动中引导并影响人们的价值取向。编辑的社会角色有社会的规范性角色、学科权威角色和内化式角色,编辑对自己社会角色的认识过程决定了其对精神产品选择时的价值取向。编辑运用自己的知识结构对精神产品的内容进行取舍和加工,同时又通过这一活动丰富、升华自己的知识结构。     

Young helpline callers and difference: exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision

This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two‐thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood out as being different in this respect. Until recently, literature on gender and help‐seeking has tended towards making a blanket identification of males as experiencing difficulties in negotiating pathways to help. Although this difficulty of males is evident in relation to both help‐seeking and access to helplines, our study suggests that, at least in relation to helpline usage, when we take culture, ethnicity and sexuality into account, the help‐seeking situation may be more nuanced. This has implications in terms of enabling a cross‐section of young people to access helplines as well as with regard to helpline service development.     

试析高校青年教师群体心理特征

高校青年教师群体是自发的、松散的、非正式的群体。他们因共同的理想信念、相同的兴趣爱好、相近的情感习性以及共同的地域等因素而自发形成不同类型的非正式群体。由于青年教师的成长环境、学历层次、社会地位以及所承担的繁重的教学科研任务和巨大的事业发展的压力等,使得高校青年教师的群体心理具有一定的特征。