Role-played interviews with service users in preparation for social work practice: exploring students’ and service users’ experience of co-produced workshops

Abstract

Within a Theory and Practice of Social Work module, prior to embarking on practice placements, social work students practised professional communication skills with people who had used social work services. They undertook role-played interviews with service users about real issues, which had led individuals to seek assistance in the past. Using principles of co-production, the workshop was developed in partnership with members of the University’s social work service users and carers’ group. Care was taken to safeguard service users’ well-being, as well as developing an effective learning opportunity. Drawing on evaluations by students and feedback from service users, this paper discusses the process of planning and delivering the workshops, as well as perceived outcomes for both groups. Findings indicate that students valued the opportunity to engage with service users, gaining key learning about their own practice skills. Service users described a boost to self-esteem through contributing to students’ learning. The workshop provides an example of how service user involvement in social work education has evolved from a primary focus on sharing personal testimonies to active participation in student skill development. It underlines the importance of investment in service user involvement to achieve an appropriate context for such projects to develop.     

载银无机抗菌剂的制备及其性能研究

以磷酸氢钙为载体,银锌离子为抗菌剂,在1050oC氧化气氛下烧结制得抗菌性能显著,耐候性好的无机抗菌剂。研究了银锌离子用量及烧结对抗菌性能和耐候性的影响。实验表明:随着银锌离子质量分数的增加,材料的抗菌能力提高;加入锌离子不仅能提高材料的抗菌能力,还能改善材料的耐候性;当Zn(NO3)2的质量分数大于AgNO3的质量分数2倍时,可生产出不变色的抗菌剂;烧结使银锌离子与载体结合更牢固,有利于改善材料的耐候性。     

手性药物的不对称合成

近年来不对称合成法应用在手性药物及药物中间体的制备中,使手性药物得到了快速的发展,不少手性药物及其中间体已经实现了工业化生产。在各种不对称合成方法中,不对称催化由于它独特的优越性而倍受人们的青睐。本文介绍了手性药物的类型及获取手性药物的方法,对不对称合成法尤其是不对称催化法在手性药物工业制备中的应用进行了综述。     

一种分析圆柱凹型腔的新方法

本文基于横向谐振法,利用併矢格林函数理论导出了一种简单,直接的方法,用以计算加载和不加载圆凹柱型腔的谐振频率和调谐特性.该方法费时少,精度高,因而将在毫米波电路的计算机辅助设计中得到广泛运用.     

腔模问题的等效对称两镜腔方法

本文介绍了一种复杂腔腔模问题的等效对称两镜腔方法。这种方法,利用厚透镜等效,将待求腔简化为一个对称两镜腔,从而简化了运算。作为一个范例,使用这种方法讨论了连续波染料激光腔的稳定性条件及模式特性。     

End-of-Life Preparations among Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender People: Integrative Review of Prevalent Behaviors

Proactively making end-of-life (EOL) preparations is important to ensure high quality EOL care. Critical to preparation is the discussion of preferences with one’s primary health care providers. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people often experience discrimination from health care providers that will detrimentally affect their ability to communicate their care preferences. Structural barriers, such as those based on sexual orientation and gender identity, may impede timely and quality care when one is most in need. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of EOL preparatory behaviors among LGBT people, with particular focus on transgender individuals. Eight survey instruments with 30 prevalence estimates found in the literature were analyzed. EOL discussions between LGBT people and their primary health care providers were rare (10%). Transgender people were found to be even less prepared for EOL; they were 50–70% less likely than their LGB counterparts to have a will, a living will or to have appointed a healthcare proxy. A need exists for future mixed-methods research focused on LGBT populations accompanied by the cultural sensitivity needed to ensure their wishes are honored at the EOL.     

Convenience on the menu? A typological conceptualization of family food expenditures and food-related time patterns

One of the most fundamental, but also controversial, food trends of the past years is convenience food. This article investigates the underexplored relationship between the heterogeneity in (convenience) food consumption (a feature of a food culture’s cuisine) and meal patterns (characteristics of a food culture’s structure). This study hopes to illustrate that convenience food can be interpreted both as a means to maintain a food culture’s structure and as a means to overturn it. Latent Class Cluster Analysis is performed using data from the HBS 2005 survey on families’ food expenditures to conceptualize convenience-orientation and to examine the relationships with families’ meal behaviors. Whereas outsourcing cooking is most prevalent among single-person households; two-or more-person households are most likely to buy unprocessed and natural foods and to spend most time cooking and eating in. A higher consumption of convenience food is also more likely to affect individuals’ kitchen than table habits.     

提高中小学教师培养质量的若干策略

国际教师教育改革发展的趋势以及我国教师教育发展的价值取向,都要求我们要深入地探索具有中国特色的教师教育创新体系和人才培养模式培养。笔者在调研与实践的基础上,立足于我国中小学教师培养质量的现实问题,从四个方面阐述了提高我国中小学教师培养质量的具体策略:积极探索教师教育发展的新模式;全面提高师范专业学生的教育教学实践能力;进一步完善教师教育政策与法规建设;努力构建培养优秀教师的成长环境。本研究试图为指导我国中小学教师培养质量的提高提供一定的理论依据与可操作的实践策略。     

纯天然菠萝饮料的研制

利用来源丰富、价廉的成熟菠萝为原料,研制出保留其营养成分和风味物质的纯天然饮料.将新鲜的成熟菠萝榨汁、过滤、微波灭菌制成纯天然菠萝饮料.以灭菌前后菠萝汁中维生素C的含量及灭菌后菠萝汁的外观性状为考核指标,采用正交试验优选出关键工序微波灭菌的最佳工艺条件.微波灭菌的最佳工艺条件是灭菌功率为700W,时间为5min.在最佳灭菌条件下菠萝汁中维生素C的保存率为82.09%.采用微波灭菌工艺制备纯天然菠萝饮料可行,其维生素C的保存率较高.     

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Teacher Preparation: Providing Equitable Access for All Students to Learn Social Studies Content,Skills, and Processes

Abstract

Contextualized in the critical pedagogies of universal design for learning (UDL) and social justice education, our study aimed to equip teacher candidates (TCs) to provide students with equitable access to learning social studies content knowledge, skills, and processes as a way to equally empower all students to be civically engaged, and thus to disrupt the social reproduction of empowering privileged students and disempowering marginalized ones in the public schools. An earlier study indicated that our TCs did not transfer or generalize the UDL framework from foundation courses to subsequent classes or in practice. This case study describes how and in what ways elementary education faculty used a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the UDL framework taught in the foundation’s course into a social studies methods course to facilitate TCs’ continued learning and application of theory into practice. The results of this case study suggest that TCs that TCs had not yet internalized the UDL framework or critical consciousness and that these must be intentionally transferred and generalized to new coursework by the faculty on a consistent, ongoing basis.