庸常生活审美化:现代派诗的本体依归——新加坡五月诗社后期创作审美取向论析

五月诗社是新加坡当代一个面向现代诗人的同仁诗社,其诗有着丰厚的内蕴,既有对传统文化的体认,又有对现实、社会、人生的关怀,同时也不乏西方现代诗的技巧,体现着独特的审美趣味。而五月诗社的创作风格则随着时代的变化而变化。由"现代主义"到"现实关怀",再到多元化中对庸常生活的观照,展现了现代派诗歌发展的清晰轨迹。对庸常生活的审美观照无疑是诗歌在后现代工业社会发展的必然趋向。庸常生活的审美化趋向,意味着现代诗艺术向本体的美学依归。     

"汉语拼音"在新加坡的实践——历史与现状

文章除了考察汉语拼音在华文教学中的引进经过、发展历史、当前现状以及存在的主要问题,还对新加坡华文教育规划和人名拼音化两个问题进行了较详细的介绍.从语言社会学角度出发,在考察新加坡华语教育问题时,应批判地理解当前公共话语中对华文教育作为二语教学的定位.     

Welfare Attitudes of Singaporeans – Ambiguity in Shifting Socio‐political Dynamics

This article presents findings from a survey of 440 Singaporeans on their attitudes towards welfare and welfare recipients. Attitudes were generally favourable, but sentiments towards higher taxes to help the poor were ambivalent. Controlled for demographic characteristics, ‘poverty sympathizers’ and affiliates of opposition political parties held the most liberal views, but were not more willing to pay higher taxes. Instead, poor respondents on the one hand and highly educated respondents on the other hand were more willing to pay higher taxes. Knowledge accumulation and beliefs about causes of poverty were strong predictors of attitudes. Effects of personal values and self‐interest were less evident. Couched against the backdrop of an economy that has experienced rapid transformation and one of the widest income inequality in the developed world, the article discusses the critical juncture of social response and policy choices that Singapore finds itself.     

Factor structure of the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale among treatment-seeking adults in Singapore

The revised 12-item Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) is a measure designed to assess gambling symptom severity. However, its factor structure has not been examined. The present study investigates the factor structure of the G-SAS based on a treatment-seeking population in Singapore. Participants were 521 patients presenting with problem gambling at a tertiary psychiatric hospital. Patients completed the G-SAS, gambling-related measures and the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI), and were assessed by a psychiatrist for pathological gambling (PG) based on DSM-IV-TR criteria. Exploratory factor analysis resulted in a two-factor solution, with factors indicating (1) gambling impulse and (2) adverse consequences. Together, both factors explained for 77.10% of variance in G-SAS scores. The two-factor model was subsequently confirmed based on confirmatory factor analysis. Additionally, G-SAS scores were associated with multiple gambling-related indicators and discriminated between patients with and without a diagnosis of PG. Findings from the study suggest that the G-SAS consists of two factors, and is a reliable and valid tool for the assessment of gambling symptom severity in clinical settings.     

新加坡华语生存环境及前景展望

21世纪之初,伴随经济全球化,华商网络在世界经济的地位日渐突出,华文热在全球范围内日益升温。新加坡华语发展能否因此而带来生机、注入活力。本文就此进行分析,并展望其发展前景。     

悬壶济苍生,杏林弘真粹——访新加坡中医师公会名誉会长陈立健先生

介绍了新加坡中医师公会名誉会长陈立健先生,悬壶济世,杏林弘扬真粹的六十年.反映中医药在新加坡传播的历史,更看到中医事业发展的明天.     

Seeking and Processing Information for Health Decisions among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women

Information behavior includes activities of active information seeking, passive acquisition of information, and information use. Guided by the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study explored elderly Singaporean women’s health information behavior to understand how they sought, evaluated, and used health information in everyday lives. Twenty-two in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly Chinese women aged 61 to 79. Qualitative analysis of the interview data yielded three meta-themes: information-seeking patterns, trustworthiness of health information, and peripheral route of decision making. Results revealed that elderly women took both systematic and heuristic approaches to processing information but relied on interpersonal networks to negotiate health choices.     

新加坡学校公民道德教育的特点及其借鉴意义

新加坡在建国后的短短几十年间,创造了物质文明建设与精神文明建设的双重奇迹.这与其学校持续有效地实施公民道德教育密切相关.通过研究分析发现,新加坡学校的公民道德教育具有"植根东方传统文化,借鉴西方文明,广纳东西文化精华;挖掘家庭教育潜能,凝聚社会力量,构筑全民教育网络;依靠法制法规约束,强调道德活动.彰显德法兼施威力'等特征.分析新加坡学校公民道德教育的特点,吸取其中的有益成分,对创新与完善我国的思想政治教育工作具有重要的借鉴意义.     

The political economy of intergenerational income mobility in Singapore

Ng IYH. The political economy of intergenerational income mobility in Singapore This study used the Singapore National Youth Surveys of 2002 and 2010 to measure the intergenerational dependence of youths' income on their parents' income. The pooled estimate of 0.24 gave a scaled value of 0.44, which when compared internationally indicates an economy with moderately low intergenerational income mobility. The findings analysed against Singapore's political economy suggest that the 2009 recession, a widened safety net and immigration might have mitigated the negative effects that a developmental welfare state and rising inequality have on intergenerational mobility. The effects of Singapore's differentiated education system were unclear. However, despite the limitations in data and data availability in Asia, the findings provide useful points of departure for other countries. The findings also indicate the need for more extensive data and research on what effects the current economic and policy trends have on mobility.     

The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the Future by Stephen M. Golant and Joan Hyde (Eds.)

Abstract

The employment prospects of older workers in Germany are widely endangered because of age discrimination. The main indicator concerning recruitment is that from the age of 45 on the difficulties in finding a new job rise extraordinarily and, accordingly, the duration of unemployment rises. Concerning further training, there is a lack of participation by older workers in vocational training and, additionally, they face numerous risks in the deterioration of their skills. Given the long-term implications of the aging labor force, employers must adapt their approaches to recruiting and training older workers to prevent a further loss of skills and knowhow. A comprehensive strategy for integrating older workers and overcoming age barriers in employment is required. To promote recruitment, job-placement programs should be linked more closely to companies and public programs should be targeted to older unemployed workers. To promote further training of older workers, the workplace needs to create a learning environment, introduce a greater variety of tasks, and develop training schemes.