The ‘right time’ – negotiating the timing of interviews with vulnerable young people

Participant retention is a key factor in determining the success of longitudinal research. Challenges in re-locating and retaining participants over the long term are major issues for researchers working with young people who face adversity and experience frequent changes in circumstances. This article reports on a study of vulnerable young people and their transition into adulthood. Rather than the more conventional schedule-based approach to locating and re-interviewing young people, a relational process, the ‘right time’ framework, was used to facilitate young people's involvement in the study. Embedded in the ‘right time’ framework is recognition of the diverse and fluctuating circumstances that shape young people's availability for interviews. Several case examples are considered which amplify the way that the ‘right time’ framework allowed the research to navigate around these circumstances. The case examples highlight the value young people attached to being involved in the research, the influence on the ‘right time’ of wider relational tensions for young people and the need to negotiate researcher status as a different sort of adult. The ‘right time’ framework contributed to a high retention rate in the study generating a more representative sample and enhancing the subsequent data analysis by providing valuable insights into the lives of these vulnerable young people.     

‘Becoming’ a possible threat: masculinity,culture and questioning among unaccompanied young men in Sweden

A debate on masculinity and immigration rose across Europe in 2015 after an incident with sexual harassments taking place in Cologne, Germany. The incident refuelled a debate positioning unaccompanied young men as a possible threat. This article is based on a research project where we during this time ethnographically followed 20 young men, having arrived in Sweden as ‘unaccompanied’ minors. The aim is to examine how the young men themselves talk about, reflect on and negotiate masculinity and gender during this period. The article concludes that masculinity cannot be approached as something stable easily being inherited or transferred from one’s origins. One difference for ‘unaccompanied’ young men is how conflicts or tensions emerging in relation to issues of gender and masculinity tend to be interpreted differently, and publicly, putting the young men in a ‘gendered situation of questioning’.     

论邓小平对选拔培养中青年干部的思想

建设有中国特色的社会主义市场经济 ,需要一大批杰出的人才。如何选拔培养中青年干部成为我们党和国家一项重大课题。运用邓小平理论中关于选拔培养中青年干部的观点并指导实践 ,将会对我国的四化建设起到积极作用     

新形势下高校学报编辑需强化的意识与能力

高校学报能否在激烈的市场竞争中不断拓展生存与发展空间，保持良好发展势头，在很大程度上取决于学报编辑的意识和能力。高校学报编辑只有不断强化品牌意识、读者意识、作者意识和规范意识，不断强化选题策划能力、公关能力、外语能力和科研能力，才能适应新形势，应对新挑战。     

编辑主体性简论

编辑活动在中国已有上千年的历史,几乎与文化相伴而生,但又比文化更多几分主观观照。编辑是文明的阶梯,引导人们从蒙昧走向文明,其鲜明的方向性就在于编辑具有主体性。从中国文化发展的历程说明编辑主体性的重要性,阐述了编辑主体性的内涵,最后从中国现代化建设的现实需要出发,指出广大编辑工作者应充分发挥主体性,肩负起对时代的伟大责任。     

对第二语言习得中“年龄小优势论”的辩证分析

多数人认为:在第二语言习得过程中,年龄小的人比年龄大的人学得好;儿童比成年人学得好。通过对大量的有关年龄因素如何影响"第二语言习得"(SLA)的资料的辩证分析,肯定了在自然条件下,就语音和语法方面而言,年龄越小,学得越好,但年龄大的人在读写方面的优势以及成年人比儿童能够更快地习得第二语言语法的事实证明了:在"第二语言习得"中,年龄小的人并非总是比年龄大的人学得好,从而论证了"年龄小优势论"具有一定的片面性。     

低龄化写作:众力胁迫下的泛文学景观

低龄化写作并非真正意义上的文学现象,而是后现代语境下的一道泛文学景观。该现象的出现有创作主体主观上的原因,更是文学之外的其他力量胁迫的结果。     

关于期刊编辑主体疲劳心理的理论分析

期刊编辑在产生疲劳心理时,要有正确的认识目的和正确的克服方法。本文以编辑心理学理论为根据,运用劳动生理和劳动心理的知识,对期刊编辑主体在编辑活动中的心理现象———产生疲劳、积累疲劳和恢复疲劳的一般规律进行了理论分析,旨在培养编辑的心理素质,合理设计编辑工作模式,提高编辑工作效率。     

Young helpline callers and difference: exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision

This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two‐thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood out as being different in this respect. Until recently, literature on gender and help‐seeking has tended towards making a blanket identification of males as experiencing difficulties in negotiating pathways to help. Although this difficulty of males is evident in relation to both help‐seeking and access to helplines, our study suggests that, at least in relation to helpline usage, when we take culture, ethnicity and sexuality into account, the help‐seeking situation may be more nuanced. This has implications in terms of enabling a cross‐section of young people to access helplines as well as with regard to helpline service development.     

试析高校青年教师群体心理特征

高校青年教师群体是自发的、松散的、非正式的群体。他们因共同的理想信念、相同的兴趣爱好、相近的情感习性以及共同的地域等因素而自发形成不同类型的非正式群体。由于青年教师的成长环境、学历层次、社会地位以及所承担的繁重的教学科研任务和巨大的事业发展的压力等,使得高校青年教师的群体心理具有一定的特征。