How Japanese Families Cope with Fragile Elderly

Coping with caring for ill, fragile elderly is taxing the families in Japan, where longevity statistics predict early in the twenty-first century it will have the highest percentage of aged in the world. Interviews with 20 families revealed that although the culture mandates families care for their elderly, many are having considerable ambivalence and conflict, and caretakers suffer in the process unless they have assumed the defense of a martyr stance. Most do not seek nursing homes but are turning to government for supportive services. The trend in Japan, in spite of tradition, is for adult children to delay taking parents into their homes until they are unable to care for themselves.     

Technology at the planning table: Activity theory,negotiation and course management systems

Abstract

This paper presents results from a qualitative inquiry into how online courses in UK and US HEIs are shaped by stakeholder negotiations around course management systems. The investigation used a multi-theory framework composed of Cervero and Wilson's (1994) negotiation of power and interests model and activity theory. Forty-six stakeholders from seven sites participated in the study. The findings identified four primary benefits that prompt stakeholders to employ specific course management systems and described two types of relationships that exist between the stakeholders and their CMS.     

Usability Study of a Distance Continuing Education Website for Human Service Professionals

ABSTRACT

A usability test of a distance continuing education website for human service professionals is discussed. The website's purpose was to help meet the continuing education needs of human service professionals in a largely rural Midwestern state. The purpose of the usability evaluation was to assess the website's ease of use, efficiency, and user satisfaction in a representative sample of human service professionals. Users completed eleven basic search tasks with the site and report their impressions of the information presented. In addition, performance data including success, time on task, and efficiency were gathered. Implications of user satisfaction and performance data highlight the importance of stakeholder's involvement in the early stages of website design.     

辅导员助理制度在大学新生教育管理工作中的探索与实践

面对高校在校生人数持续上升、专职辅导员人数严重不足的情况,运用高年级优秀学生的自身优势,参与对低年级尤其是新生的教育管理,一方面可以提升高年级优秀学生的管理素质;另一方面利用他们之间年龄、兴趣、成长阶段的相似性,达到对学生更好的沟通和管理。     

宋代书籍设计、插图及美学特征

宋代雕版书籍之设计一般而言体现出朴实之显著特色。这同雕版技术及雕版书籍最早发明于中国民间及其农业文化具有渊源关系。宋代奠定的这种朴实的书籍形制设计理念,使得书籍得以广泛传播,真正成为一种空间意义上的大众媒介。宋代确立了雕版印刷术普遍采用后中国书籍的基本形制。宋代雕版书籍确立了书籍史上最早的平装典范。宋刻书籍,采用不同字体、不同字号以及特殊的标识符号区分或标示不同的编辑语言,使版面上的编辑语言及其功能十分明确。这种编辑语言及其书籍体例奠定了中国古代雕版书籍版面编辑语言的基本格局,为之后中国雕版书籍一直沿用。宋代书籍插图已比较普遍。插图的普遍应用,使得宋版书籍图文并茂,不仅书籍内容更加完整,意义更加丰富,而且书籍的视觉效果和阅读效果也更加理想,书籍文本知识和意义的传播也由此变得更加生动、直观、多彩。宋版书籍最入目者,正是其风神别具——没有二种书籍书刻之字体完全相同者——正字书体的美。宋代书籍之美,乃在于其书籍内在的宋代文化精神之美。     

资助低收入学生就读高等教育：美国的经验

资助低收入学生就读高等教育 ,是世界各国都十分重视的一项公共政策。美国在实施学生资助过程中 ,规定了低收入学生、财政需求、就学价格、家庭预期贡献等重要概念的标准和计算办法。受多种资助理念影响 ,美国学生资助是一种典型的多元混合资助模式 ,政府、高校、社会等机构通过奖学金、助学金、贷学金、工读计划等方式资助低收入学生。这种模式对于维系美国多元庞大的高等教育体系具有十分重要的意义     

高校继续教育学生党建工作研究

在论述继续教育学生特殊性的基础上,对高校继续教育学生党建工作的现状进行客观分析,并针对其表现出的入党动机功利化、网络信息庞杂的消极影响、党员发展标准的偏差及＂简单程序化＂和党员教育管理机制缺乏活力、学生党员先锋示范作用不突出等问题,从加强党员继续教育和支部建设,以及推进党建和思想政治工作电子化、网络化等方面提出了积极的建议。     

我国高职教育校企合作的演变趋势与深化策略

我国高职教育校企合作从初起到深化,有着明显的阶段特征,在加快转变经济发展方式的大背景下将迎来新的发展机遇。高职院校要在深化教育教学改革中,积极探寻基于不同需求类型的校企深度合作模式,努力实现从"点状"到"块状",再到"网状"的合作,以此提高校企合作的效能与活力,推进高职教育的可持续发展。     

基于现代服务业的高职文科专业人才培养模式探讨

在大力发展现代服务业的政策背景下,对于高职文科专业人才培养来说,必须着眼现代服务业的发展特点,积极调整专业设置,科学定位人才规格,注重优化人才培养模式,坚持走以产业链建构专业链,依托专业＋实体的发展路子,积极推行＂1＋0.5＋0.5＋0.5＋0.5＂的工学结合模式,培养兼具岗位适应性和职业迁移性的复合型人才。     

浅析全球化对我国大学生道德形成的影响

20世纪末,随着全球化进程的加快,人们的价值观念、思维方式和行为方式发生了剧烈变化,传统的道德规范受到强烈冲击。本文拟就此背景下,中国大学生道德所受到的来自各方面的影响,及重构大学生道德观念、规范的问题做一梳理。