Reduction of Face‐to‐Face Contact Hours in Foundation Research Courses: Impact on Students' Knowledge Gained and Course Satisfaction

This study investigated the impact of reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours in a Masters of Science in Social Work (MSSW) foundation research course in an urban school of social work on students' knowledge gained and course satisfaction. A quasi‐experimental pretest/posttest comparison group design was used to test the following hypothesis: reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours will not negatively impact knowledge gain and course satisfaction in a foundation research course. The findings of this study suggest that reducing the number of face‐to‐face contact hours does not negatively affect student learning as both the comparison and the experimental group demonstrated an increase in foundation research knowledge. The level of course satisfaction was influenced by the number of hours completed in the program, age, and the number of hours worked in paid employment. Students who are especially vulnerable are younger students who have completed less course hours. They tend to struggle at the beginning to get used to new technology as part of their educational experience. This paper demonstrates that it is no longer ‘if’ web‐based and distance learning technologies are appropriate for social work education but rather ‘when’ and the degree to which their integration yields greatest educational value.     

Cool Styles for Your Face

GLASSES are a part of modern fashion. The right spectacle frames can not only add some demureness to you, but also perfect your face. To choose suitable frames for yourself, you must first know your own features. Comb all your hair backwards to show your entire features clearly in front of the     

Middle-Ageo Women Face Early Retirement

A woman worker in Shanghai recently wrote to the Shanghai Municipal Women's Federation: "With the deepening of the economic reform, our factory has started to make huge reductions in the staff and has made it a rule that all women workers aged 45 or older must leave their posts and wait for retirement. I am one of them. Of course, society won't progress if we don't carry out the reform. But don't the interests of society and the interests of women coincide? Where is the answer out for China's women workers?" At the end of 1992 an investigation by the Women Workers Department under     

The New Face of Hancunhe Village

Hancunhe Village. 40 kilometers southwest of Beijing, has witnessed rapid development of its large-scale village-run construction company and related firms. The richest Beijing suburb, Hancunhe has successfully pioneered a road to development for rural communities in China.     

Neoliberalism With a Community Face? A Critical Analysis of Asset-Based Community Development in Scotland

In this article, we trace the ideological and social policy roots of asset-based community development (ABCD) in the United States and the United Kingdom, and explore how this approach has been legitimized in Scotland. We argue that ABCD is a capitulation to neoliberal values of individualization and privatization. Drawing on findings from our empirical work, we discuss how ABCD generates dilemmas for community development. Although some practitioners are able to adapt ABCD to focus on renewing Scottish democracy, several practitioners are using ABCD to privatize public issues such as inequality and justify dramatic cuts to the Scottish welfare state.     

Libya's ‘Black’ Market Diplomacies: Opacity and Entanglement in the Face of Hope and Horror

In this essay, I explore some of the values, exchanges and economies (moral, political and libidinal) characteristic of everyday life and official diplomacies in Libya. Through a consideration of multiple sites of estrangement and their related mediation practice, the essay engages the moral alibis, entangled yet unacknowledged relations, ontological commitments and duplicitous exchanges that made ‘Gaddafi's Libya’ possible. By patiently engaging the morally ambiguous mediation practices, violence and the bodies in pain that are erased by recognizable diplomatic regimes and discourses, I interrogate both the habitual ways of thinking about and relating to Libya and the uncritical exuberance that marks the celebration of the insurrectional present. Such a diplomatic rendition of the situation in Libya raises the ethical and political stakes of our analyses of the uprising by illustrating that there is more going on in this place than the Pan-African, Orientalist and humanitarian reductionisms tell us.

En este ensayo, yo exploro algunos de los valores, intercambios y economías (morales, políticos y libidinales) característicos de la vida diaria y las diplomacias oficiales en Libia. A través de una consideración de múltiples sitios de distanciamiento y su práctica relacionada de mediación, el ensayo emplea la coartada moral, enredada aún con relaciones no reconocidas, compromisos ontológicos e intercambios engañosos que hicieron posible a la “Libia de Gadafi”. Yo interrogo tanto a las formas habituales de pensar relacionadas con Libia, como a la exuberancia acrítica que marcan la celebración del presente insurreccional, empleando pacientemente las prácticas de mediación moralmente ambiguas, violencia y cuerpos en sufrimiento, que están borrados por regímenes y discusiones diplomáticas. Tal rendición diplomática de la situación en Libia levanta la apuesta ética y política de nuestro análisis de la insurrección mediante la ilustración de que está sucediendo mucho más en este sitio que lo que nos cuenta el reduccionismo panafricano, orientalista y humanitario.

本文作者探索利比亚特有的日常生活和官方外交中的一些价值观念、相互交流和经济情况（包括道德的、政治的和本能的）。通过考察多个地方的疏远失和及与之相关的调解实践,本文引入道德缺位、混杂而未公开承认的关系、本体论义务以及双重交流这些使得“卡扎菲的利比亚”成为可能的要素。通过耐心地介入道德上模糊的调解实践,以及被可识别的外交机构与论说抹去了的暴力和肢体痛苦,作者拷问了思考和联系利比亚的习惯方式,以及标志着庆贺当前反叛的无批判的繁盛。通过详细说明实际正在发生的情况多于泛非、东方主义和人道主义还原论所告诉我们的,证明此种对利比亚局势的外交表演,提高了我们对起义进行分析的道德和政治意义。     

Chinese Women Face the Issue of Sexual Harassment

THE definition of sexual harassment has been a subject for discussion in recent years in China. As society deepens its acceptance and understanding of the principles of equality between men and women, this kind of infringement of women's rights becomes ever more disturbing. People are also increasingly aware of the negative social influences of sexual harassment, and the psychological     

Face à l'économie informelle au Mozambique: volontarisme ou maintien du statu quo?

L'économie informelle fournit l'essentiel de l'emploi dans nombre de pays émergents. Selon la théorie de la régulation, l'activité économique est régie par un ensemble complexe de règles formelles et informelles. Les auteurs examinent, à partir du cas du Mozambique, les éléments qui favorisent ou entravent la transition vers l'économie formelle, ainsi que les diverses formes de régulation, en s'appuyant sur une enquěte qualitative conjuguant observation directe et entretiens avec des personnalités locales. Les données recueillies font apparaître un rôle ambivalent de l'Etat, qui se montre parfois volontariste et soucieux de réformer la réglementation et les institutions et parfois partisan du statu quo.     

Stepping Back in Time in Xi'an

AS a metropolitan resident who is used to seeing towering buildings, an incessant stream of vehicles and people, I've always longed to have a taste of an ancient civilization, which is vigorous but exquisite, bold but elegant, natural but mysterious. I realized my dream when I went to Xi'an, a capital with a history of over 1,000 years. Xi'an was once the capital for eleven dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang. This is the place where China's ancient civilization developed. Ancestors at Banpo created exquisite painted pottery; the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1,066-771 B.C.) saw the height of the splendors of the bronze culture; the Qin Emperor Shi Huang (Qin Dynasty, from about 221-206 B.C.)     

哈根达斯in南昌

南昌人的特点之一是:热衷于尝试新鲜事物,酷爱美食和购物,有着令人意想不到的消费热情。今年10月23日,全球极品冰淇淋品牌——哈根达斯正式进驻南昌,让南昌的哈迷们大饱眼福和口福了。与哈根达斯以往城市的开业典礼不同,素有冰淇淋中"劳斯莱斯"之称的哈根达斯,在开业典礼举办了其一场"寻找舌尖上的甜蜜奢华——极品冰淇淋品鉴会"。     

Living in Beijing

AS she stuffed her family's belongings into the back of the car waiting for them at the Beijing International Airport, Yoshie Saito was not sure what was waiting for her and her family in the next three years. She looked at her two children, Hiroki, 11, and Akane, 6, and worried. Will the children be able to cope with the life in a foreign country?     

Traveling in Sichuan

The highest peak of Mt. Emei, Wanfoding, rises 3,099 meters above sea level. Mt. Emei, at the southwest comer of Sichuan Basin, Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui, and Wutai Mountain in Shanxi are known as the Four Famous Mountains of Buddhism.     

Participation in decision-making in out-of-home care in Australia: What do young people say?

Drawing on qualitative research with 28 young people in Australia, this article explores children and young people's views and experiences of participation in decision-making while in out-of-home care. It initially examines the value of participation, before focusing on two key questions. First, do young people feel they had the opportunity to participate in decisions made about their lives during their time in out-of-home care? Second, on which issues do children and young people in care want to have a say?     

Fish in Mutton

Ingredients:500 grams mutton and 750 grams live fish Condiments:Salt for taste, ginger, scallion, soup, water chestnut powder, gourmet powder Method: 1.Quick-boil the clean mutton. then put scallion, ginger, salt, gourmet powder and pepper powder into it and cook until     

Firm in Spirit

IN July of 1992, Henan Province was ravaged by floods. A farmer from Xidianzi Township, Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, sent 100 yuan there, the money she had just earned by selling peaches on the market.     

Hospitals in Beijing

IN recent years in Beijing, milky white buildings with red crosses have risen from the ground one after another as have clinics and wards. Those that have opened will offer better services for patients. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing's medical policy has been to "stress grassroots organizations, put prevention first, balance urban and rural areas and     

Guests in Beijing

The participants of the Fourth World Conference on Women manage to find time to go sightseeing at Tian'anmen     

Bazaar in Kashi

52This open market is a good example of how commerce and trade are booming in Kashi,an open city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of western ChinaBazaar in Kashi