High School Retention Rates and Social Class

Sixth form retention rates were calculated for each State high school in the Wollongong urban area and correlated with two measures of social class (education and occupation) in each high school feeder area. The study found that retention rates in the Wollongong Urban Area ranged from 12.94% to 31.04%. The rates vary directly with the proportions of the feeder area populations in professional and managerial occupations (r = 0.94, p < 0.01) and with Leaving Certificate or higher education (r = 0.93, p < 0.01). The rates varied inversely with the proportions of feeder area populations employed in trade, unskilled and production process occupations (r = ?0.70, p < 0.05).     

The Effectiveness of Social Work in an Alternative School for High School Dropouts

A Graduate School of Social Work and a Private Alternative School collaborated to develop an educational treatment program for high school dropout youth. The treatment program incorporated a mutual aid framework which was administered in the context of a multi-component treatment program. The treatment program is described in some detail including a Social Group Work approach for intervening with the youth. The outcomes of participants were evaluated utilizing several pretest to post-test measures of behavioral and academic functioning. An external criteria for success was also used. T-test analysis of pretest to post-test changes showed statistically significant progress on several measures. Analysis of the external criteria indicated a 73% success rate.     

Language and the Shaping of Social Work

This article is concerned with the power of language to shapeand confirm social work’s identity and to control itsessential direction and task. Social work has perennially concerneditself with communication but paid surprisingly little attentionto the more abstract concept of language. The authors tracethe changing language used throughout social work’s UKhistory, placing this into socio-political and socio-economiccontext and analysing the discourses thus created and promoted.We identify three broad periods in the development of socialwork, characterized as the moral enterprise, the therapeuticenterprise and the managerial enterprise. We conclude by connectingthis discussion with some key challenges, issues and dilemmascurrently facing social work in the criminal justice and communitycare arenas, highlighting the language and discourse of punishment,risk management, consumerism and the market economy. The articleconcludes by arguing that social work must reclaim the languageof its activity as it engages with the challenges to its identity.     

灾区学校恢复重建与学校社会工作的有效介入——以重庆工商大学社工团队赴广元市嘉陵一中志愿服务为个案

地震灾区学校的恢复重建是眼前一项重要而紧迫的任务,学校社工的专业优势能够为灾区学校提供有品质的服务,促进灾后学校重建与发展。灾后学校社工志愿服务项目实施具有开创性和探索性,确保项目的服务品质,对于促进中国社会工作事业的发展具有极其深远的意义。文章以参与直接服务的经验,以被援助学校的工作实务为个案,探索有效介入灾后希望学校开展学校社工志愿服务和确保服务品质的方法。     

第二语言学习与母语习得的比较

从“语言习得机制”(LAD) ,即人们天生的、遗传的习得语言的能力入手 ,对该机制在语言教学中所起到的作用进行分析 ,找出母语与第二语言的共同点及母语习得与第二语言习得过程中文化和语用规则的区别 ,将其运用于语言教学实践 ,以使课堂教学更有成效。     

运用综合治疗模式介入个案社会工作

传统个案社会工作往往在理论上运用个别治疗模式,社会工作实践中使用多个,未能充分发挥其作用。该个案综合分析案主问题,伊始确立多种治疗模式综合介入,协助案主分析自身问题,有次序有步骤地帮助案主克服困难,解决学习生活问题。通过心理疏导及学习实践,改善了原有精神面貌及学习生活状况,达到治疗效果。     

运用综合治疗模式介入个案社会工作

传统个案社会工作往往在理论上运用个别治疗模式,社会工作实践中使用多个,未能充分发挥其作用。该个案综合分析案主问题,伊始确立多种治疗模式综合介入,协助案主分析自身问题,有次序有步骤地帮助案主克服困难,解决学习生活问题。通过心理疏导及学习实践,改善了原有精神面貌及学习生活状况,达到治疗效果。     

外语学习中的学习风格理论概述

现代外语教学的研究重点是学习者的个体差异,学习风格是个体差异的一个具体方面。本文初步探讨了在语言学习领域内颇有影响的几种学习风格理论,对它们作了较为系统的概述与分析,并且指出了对于学习风格理论展开研究的实际意义。     

Language Policy and Provision in Social Service Organizations

This paper reports the findings of a survey into minority languagepolicy and provision in social service departments and largevoluntary social service agencies in England and Wales. It foundthat many organizations lacked specific policies on the provisionof services to minority language communities and that most werepoorly prepared to meet their needs.     

The Language of Siege: Military Metaphors in the Spoken Language of Social Work

Correspondence to Chris Beckett, School of Community Health Studies, APU, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK. E-mail: c.o.beckett{at}apu.ac.uk Summary This article discusses the language that is used by childrenand family social workers when talking about their work, andspecifically the metaphors that such language draws upon. Thequestion of the relationship between language and reality thathas been raised by postmodernist theory is considered, but itis argued that it remains sensible to see language as ‘areflection of reality’, however partial. Drawing on ideasabout metaphor from other disciplines, it is suggested thatby identifying the sources of metaphors used in spoken languageit is possible to gain insights into underlying mental concepts.Metaphors in the language of social work are found to come fromseveral sources, including medicine, business and industry,but attention is drawn here in particular to terms with militaryconnotations, implying underlying conceptual metaphors thatequate social work with war. The implications of this are discussed.     

学校社会工作的本土化研究

在西方国家以及我国港台地区,教育界和社会福利部门均要求政府加强学校社会工作的服务,学校社会工作已在预防、补救和遏止青少年问题上起到了不可替代的作用。而在内地,学校社会工作的实务及研究尚处于开拓阶段,迫切需要探讨出一种切合实际的本土化的发展模式。     

Influence of Language Technologies on Language Life and Social Development*

In the course of historical development, language media have advanced from sound waves to light waves to electronic waves, adapted in each case to a diversity of contexts and a variety of communicative tools. Over time, languages have enriched their vocabulary, grammar and expression, with resultant progress in language function. Language technology has exerted a significant influence on language life and even on the development of society. As humanity steps into the age of online media, “language apparatus” has improved markedly, as has language life. Taken with the development of new media language, this presents new challenges to contemporary linguistics.     

关于Krashen的第二语言习得理论

Krashen的第二语言习得理论在语言教师中影响很广泛。然而作为一种理论 ,其理论过于简单化。构成其理论的五个假说在理论中存在着不科学性 ,在实践中常常难以验证。许多语言学家、第二语言习得理论学家、应用语言学家等对Krashen的理论提出了质疑。这些异议可以帮助语言教师更深入地理解语言习得理论和语言教学实践 ,在教学中更好地借鉴这一习得理论对语言教学的指导作用。     

以德治校桃李芬芳--访盘锦高中

像往年一样,9月10日教师节这天,李顺太老师又接到几个来自北京高校的电话,祝他节日快乐.那一天李顺太也真是乐得够呛,他说,学生有出息,教师最快乐.他还说,学生离开学校还忘不了老师,待以后出国留学,就不会忘记自己的祖国.     

The Social Adaptation of Children of Mexican Immigrants: Educational Aspirations Beyond Junior High School

Objective . This article draws on the concept of segmented assimilation to analyze the values toward, aspirations for, and realistic expectations of pursuing formal education among Mexican–origin students in southern California. Methods . Survey data inform the analyses, which include regression of educational aspirations and expectations on a series of potentially significant independent variables. Results . The evidence of segmented assimilation is mixed. Informants are nearly unanimous in professing positive values toward formal education. However, length of residency in the United States is negatively and fluent bilingualism in Spanish and English is positively associated with educational aspirations and expectations. Conclusions . At the cusp of entering high school, Mexican–origin students profess positive educational values, aspirations, and expectations, belying documented elevated rates of high school dropout and low rates of college attendance.     

我的高中我的高考

每年的6月都是中学生痛苦及期待的月份,痛苦的是要参加中考、高考,期待的是终于要结束一段时间的学习了,参加完考试就可以尽情休息了。而我在11年前也经历过这样的折磨,只不过是在7月份,那时高考还没有提前一个月。现在的孩子们比我们幸福,7月份的骄阳下参加高考真是很痛苦。高中那段时光虽然过得很辛苦,但在我的大脑休息下来的时候,总是不自觉地就想起高中的那些同学,那段生活。中考时我以一分之差告别了第一志愿:中专。家庭条件又不允许念自费,我只能选择我们那里最普通的高中。现在还能清晰地记得第一天去高中报到的情景,当时我爹的脚在…     

Towards Establishing School Social Work in Malaysia

This paper calls for the introduction of school social work in Malaysia. Many industrialized countries have introduced school social work, partly because teachers are not able to tackle students' personal and social problems. Teachers are burdened with teaching tasks and are not trained to handle social problems. The introduction of school social work in these developed countries was an admission that there was only so much teachers could do in addressing the problems of school children. Even with school counselors, the problems have not decreased. Many parents in Malaysia perceive schools to be incapable of providing sufficient education to excel in the major exams. The existence of many private tuition institutions and private teachers is a testimony to that perception. If society has already deemed these teachers to be incapable of providing quality education, to expect them to look after students' social problems is presumptuous on society's part. The need for school personnel who understand the social ills of the community is urgently needed, and it is the contention of this paper that school social workers are best equipped for that responsibility.     

学校社会工作在高校学生工作中的介入探析

随着社会的进步和高校改革的进一步深入,大学生群体出现了许多新情况新问题,传统的学生工作系统不能及时对此做出回应,很难满足大学生的个别化的需要。社会工作在我国已经有了20余年的发展,已经积累了相关的研究和实践,在高校学生工作中引入学校社会工作的时机日渐成熟。     

Broadening the Conceptual Lens on Language in Social Work: Difference, Diversity and English as a Global Language

Language is infused in multiple dimensions of human behaviour,and social work is essentially a language-centred activity.Yet, despite the pivotal position of language to many socialwork activities, its significance has rarely been explored interms of difference. Moreover, the linguistic diversity thatcharacterizes the local and global contexts in which many practitionersoperate has been given minimal attention in the social workliterature. In this paper, I contend that how language is conceptualizedin social work both shapes and constrains the way that practitionersperceive issues relating to linguistic diversity. The papermaps out the limitations of some of the existing conceptuallens used for viewing language in relation to the multilingualmilieu in which social work takes place. It also draws attentionto the global pre-eminence of English, the significance of bilingualismand the limitations of a monolingual frame of reference forsocial work. A case is made for augmenting the existing knowledgebase on language with a multidisciplinary approach to languagethat incorporates bilingual perspectives. Rather than providinga definitive model for understanding language, I suggest thatsuch an approach expands the conceptual landscape for exploringlanguage and difference in social work.     

北京打工子弟学校的困境及学校社会工作的介入——以北京石景山HA打工子弟小学为例

随着越来越多的农民工子女进入了城市的打工子弟学校,关注打工子弟学校发展存在的困境及解决措施是有必要的。本文论述了打工子弟学校的缘起及其存在的内外困境,然后结合学校社会工作的理论和笔者参与的实务工作说明学校社会工作者的介入对于打工子弟学校的作用,从而探讨学校社会工作介入的模式和方法。