Teachers' Representations on Adoptive Families and Educational Practices: New Challenges in Teachers' Preparation

In Italy, as in Europe, the number of internationally adopted school-aged children is increasing. The school is the first place where they can meet their new context, enabling good achievement of the whole integration and adoption processes. The research uses a qualitative method to explore the representations and the strategies that guide the educational work of 268 teachers of eight primary schools in relation to the adoptive family. ATLAS.ti 7.0 software was used. The results show an ambivalent representation of the adoptive family, which is reflected in the contents and strategy used by teachers to address issues of adoption.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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。     

防范利用资产减值准备操纵利润的思考

资产减值准备是一把双刃剑,它既能一工程度上遏止利润操纵。又因为会计制度关于计提资产减值准备现有的可选择空间较大,而给企业留下较大的可操纵利润空间。目前,一些企业利用计提资产减值准备操纵利润等问题严重。其主要原因是目前公司治理结构与外部环境容易形成内部人控制控制的局面。因此,应建立完善的企业效绩考评体系,加强有关会计控制方面的法制建设,加强中介机构的审计作用及培养和树立会计人员应有的诚实价值观及信誉等措施来防范对利润的操纵。     

日语动词体的表达方式

体是日语动词重要的语法法范畴之一。体表示动作或状态所具有的内在界限。日语动词体的表达方式有三种 :一是动词连用形后通过接续动词“て”,再接补助动词 ;二是动词连用形后直接接辅助动词 ;三是借助于一些惯用型来表达。关于体的分类 ,诸家提法不一。笔者从中国学生学习和理解的角度着眼 ,参照语法学派的一般观点 ,分成 8大类 :即将体 ,起始体 ,持续体 ,存续体 ,完成体 ,备放体 ,趋向体 ,试做体