Intergenerational income mobility and inequality in South Korea

Using data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), recent trends in intergenerational income mobility were explored, examining the relationship between income mobility and income inequality in South Korea. The study found that the intergenerational elasticity of income is about 0.2 and there is no clear‐cut trend in intergenerational income mobility. In addition, this study showed that there is no systematic relation between rising income inequality and intergenerational income mobility in contemporary Korea. Overall, the results indicate that intergenerational income mobility is irresponsive to the income inequality the respondents experienced growing up. It is assumed that education and welfare transfer programs might offset the consequences of income inequality by leading to upward mobility for children from low‐income households.     

从“画”到“诗”:论音乐剧本土化的创制实践

运用《拉奥孔》中“画”与“诗”的经典观点,对音乐剧艺术形式的本土化创作进行阐释,以一部具有浓郁本土色彩的音乐剧《牵手》为例,分析如何通过“时空转换”,把一张在网络媒体上传播的牵手新闻照片,融入地方民俗,创制为本土音乐剧,完成从“画”到“诗”的转换过程,探究音乐剧本土化创制的一般性规律。     

Left behind: How to encourage biological parents' involvement in their children's group homes

This paper addresses the challenges and benefits of involving biological parents in group homes in Israel and presents various means to encourage their involvement in care. Using family systems theories and the concept of co‐parenting, it analyses the fragile and complex relationship caseworkers and foster parents have with biological parents. The paper presents four components that might play a role in encouraging parental involvement to benefit their children's adjustment. The components are demonstrated through case studies and include assessing the family profile; addressing the family's needs within the child's intervention plan; training biological and foster parents; and building co‐parenting between biological and foster parents.     

Foster care placement breakdown in the Netherlands and Flanders: Prevalence,precursors, and associated factors

Family foster care is the option of choice for children in need of out‐of‐home care in Flanders and the Netherlands. Foster care is however a vulnerable intervention, and questions can be raised as to its efficacy. Although the literature on placement breakdown has made significant progress during the last years, empirical knowledge regarding breakdown in Flanders and the Netherlands remains scant. Consequently, this study aimed at investigating prevalence and precursors of breakdowns in long‐term foster care, the duration of placement before breakdown, and the association of child and placement characteristics with breakdown. Case files of 271 Dutch and 309 Flemish foster children were analysed with a coding scheme designed for this study. After 6 years, 398 placements had terminated: 169 placements broke down and 229 placements ended positively. Placements broke down mainly because of behavioural problems of the foster child, foster parents' parenting problems, and conflicts between birth and foster parents. Foster children with behavioural problems, older foster children, foster children denied treatment, and foster children in care because of sexual abuse were more at risk of breakdown. Assessing these factors is important when evaluating the appropriateness of a family foster care placement.     

Better educational inclusion of migrant children in urban schools? Exploring the influences of the population control policy in large Chinese cities

The educational inclusion of rural–urban migrant children in Chinese urban schools has been promoted in the past decades. This paper provides a contextualized interpretation of recent policy developments governing large Chinese cities and evaluates its impact upon the status of migrant children's education. Drawing on data collected from 1,331 migrant children in urban inclusive schools, this study compared current migrant children's family backgrounds and psychological sense of belonging at school in relation to educational outcomes at the primary education level. Results showed that migrant children's socioeconomic status (SES) levels were slightly higher than their counterparts in inclusive schools and a salient SES stratification of migrant students was found. This correlates with students’ reports of fewer incidences of discrimination than hypothesized. Furthermore, capital in migrant families was positively associated with the psychological sense of belonging and academic achievement. These results reveal a significant change to migrant students’ SES as a result of the recent population control policy pertaining to China's large cities since 2014. Implications for research and educational practice, especially with at‐risk migrant students of low‐SES, are discussed.     

私人生活的公共转向——基于个体化视角的广场舞分析

广场舞象征个体的私人生活正在向公共空间扩展,基于个体需求自发形成具有公共性的组织化形态。在家庭核心化与个体崛起的背景下,广场舞对个体而言既是一种健身运动,进行身体展示与个体审美追求,个体也渴望在广场空间找到属于自己的位置,实现为自己而活的身份追求。作为具有公共属性的广场舞并没有形成紧密封闭的公共生活,在团体内部出现了“抱团”与“找朋友”的双重公共生活,前者体现了群体内部的圈层互动,后者呈现了个体希望通过主体间的互动建构群体归属感。总体而言,广场舞刻画出一个松散而开放的公共社群生活,凸显了私人生活的公共转向,实现了个体私人生活与公共空间的有效联结。     

A Support Group for Caregivers of Children with Craniofacial Differences

ABSTRACT

Caregivers of children with craniofacial differences (CFD) experience psychosocial stressors; however, few groups are described for this population. The authors outline an eight-session group and qualitative analysis of caregivers’ experiences. The majority of participants (n = 100) were mothers (76%) of children who were female (75%) and identified as Latino (79%). Children’s mean age was 10.6 (SD = 2.8) years, and they were born with cleft lip/palate (56%) along with other CFD diagnoses. Themes included: group appreciation (21%), mutual acceptance (18%), coping (18%), parenting skills (17%), learning (9%), resiliency (7%), empathy (4%), diagnosis information (3%), and self-care (3%). Caregivers’ reported experiences largely corresponded with group goals.     

Educational inequality across three generations in Australia

The transfer of advantage and disadvantage across multiple generations is receiving increasing attention in the international literature; however, transfers of resources across multiple generations in Australian families are less well understood. Using a longitudinal dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across three generations in Australia, but also investigate the gendered nature of these transfers, which has been a limitation of other studies. We find no evidence of individual grandparent education effects on numeracy and reading scores for grandchildren in Year 3, independent of parent educational attainment and other covariates. However, significant effects on numeracy and reading scores were observed for children in families where both the grandmother and grandfather in maternal and paternal grandparent sets had high educational attainment (a diploma or university qualification), and where either or both the mother and father had a university qualification. These results suggest that the contribution of grandparents to the academic achievement of grandchildren cannot be fully explained by the parent generation and that the concentration of human capital in families contributes to educational inequalities across multiple generations that can be observed by eight years of age.     

家庭经济地位与教育期望之间关系的实证研究

个体早期教育期望对于其未来教育地位具有重要影响。在前人对地位获得模型的研究基础上,以中国教育追踪调查数据CEPS（2013～2014基线数据）为样本,以中学生为研究对象,采用多元线性回归以及二元逻辑斯蒂线性回归方法,探讨了家庭收入对青少年教育期望的影响。研究发现:出生于家境贫寒的青少年,其教育期望年限更高,更期望上大学,希望接受硕士、博士等精英化教育;在职业教育与大学本科教育的选择中,家庭收入的影响不显著,表明青少年并没有因为其家庭条件不好就降低对自我的教育期望,选择进入次优的大学专科教育。研究结果表明,贫穷不一定导致青少年较低的教育期望,反而正是这种艰苦的家庭条件,对青少年起到了激励作用,使其对改变家庭命运、实现向上流动具有更强的信念,希望通过接受更高层次的教育,实现阶层的跃迁;对此的政策蕴含在于要积极创造条件,帮助寒门学子超越自身及家庭的不利条件,使之获得力争上游、实现高等教育梦的机会,促进社会合理有序的流动。