国际残疾人奥林匹克委员会

中共北京市委、北京市人民政府发布的《人文奥运行动计划实施意见》第2条第3款中明确规定：人文奥运行动计划将“优化无障碍环境。建设无障碍环境，是办好残奥会，弘扬人文奥运理念，推进首都精神文明建设的重要内容。要有计划地积极推进全市无障碍建设和改造，在主要道路、地铁、车站、机场、大型交通枢纽和其他重要公共场所设置必要的无障碍设施，为残疾人、     

从人文奥运看普通高校人文体育教育

通过对人文奥运精神的阐述 ,说明高校人文体育教育的重要性和必要性     

2008年北京奥运会与社会福利事业

关心残疾人福利事业是人文奥运的重要内容中共北京市委、北京市人民政府发布的《人文奥运行动计划实施意见》第2条第3款中明确规定：人文奥运行动计划将“优化无障碍环境。建设无障碍环境,是办好残奥会,弘扬人文奥运理念,推进首都精神文明建设的重要内容。要有计划地积极推进全市无障碍建设和改造,在主     

人文奥运与社区体育建设

人文奥运理念的提出,标志着中国体育文化新的发展阶段.在人文奥运理念指导下,必将促进中国社区体育建设迅速发展.通过对人文奥运与社区体育相互关系的评析,提出了新时期发展社区体育建设的途径.以进一步推进人文奥运理念与社区体育发展的相互促进、共同进步.     

试论新人文奥运精神

通过对“人文奥运”理念的渊源和内涵进行了初步研究。结果表明 :古希腊和文艺复兴运动中的人文精神是奥林匹克理想的重要源泉。新世纪的奥林匹克运动需要从人文的视角重新审视自己的发展。一切以人为中心 ,推动奥林匹克运动中东西方文化的互补、互动 ,将体育与教育相结合 ,是“人文奥运”理念的主要内容     

绿色奥运、科技奥运、人文奥运三大理念是奥运非物质遗产

奥运遗产与奥运会的水平、特色有紧密的关系。北京奥运会的特色是通过绿色奥运、科技奥运、人文奥运三大理念和目标的实现来体现的,它的重要影响是打造了2008年北京奥运会的人文特色。2008年北京奥运三大理念所带来的"后奥运"效应,将凸显北京奥运的特色和亮点,将充分证明"绿色奥运、科技奥运、人文奥运"是2008年北京奥运会奉献给奥林匹克运动的独一无二的宝贵遗产。     

"人文奥运"对高校校园体育文化的影响

"人文奥运"反映了中国高校体育教育的发展趋势,确立了以人为本,健康第一的体育文化理念。注重学生个性发展与奥林匹克运动文化相融合应成为高校体育教育的基本价值取向。     

人文奥运与赛场观众

赛场文化是“人文奥运”的重要组成部分。奥运赛场上 ,中国体育观众将向全世界展示自己的风采。从赛场展示中国的文化、中国人的素质、中国人的体育精神、中国人民的友好感情     

人文奥运的思想渊源及影响

“人文奥运” ,从人文的视角审视奥林匹克运动的发展 ,既涉及体育伦理的理念 ,也涉及经济全球化中的文化问题。人文奥运拓展了蕴含在奥林匹克运动中人文思想的适用范围 ,从社会更广阔的层面上提出了人文的问题。人文奥运突破了奥林匹克运动人文理念的适用范围 ,在人文内涵上有所丰富和发展。奥林匹克运动虽然从一开始就包含着人文思想 ,然而自觉地从人文的视角审视奥林匹克运动的发展 ,当属中国北京     

科学发展观及对人文奥运的探索与思考

本文认为 ,以人为本 ,全面、协调、可持续发展的科学发展观 ,表明了党中央治国治理社会的新理念 ,具有里程碑的意义。这一新理念为深入理解 2 0 0 8年在北京举行的奥运会的人文奥运精神 ,提供了根本的依据     

Development and Application of a Standards-Based Inventory of Foundation Competencies in Social Work with Groups

The International Association for Social Work with Groups Standards for the Practice of Social Work with Groups is an essential document for advancing practice and teaching about social work with groups. However, surveys have reported that many group workers know little about the Standards or about how to teach or apply group work knowledge and skills. This article summarizes the research on the development of a reliable and valid inventory based on the Standards and an effective teaching strategy to improve learning about the Standards. The inventory and teaching method provide tools for advancing evidence-based practice and teaching.     

History of the Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups: A Partial View

This article provides a historical and first-person narrative about the development of the IASWG Standards for Social Work with Groups by someone intimately involved in their germination and development. Beginning with review of early roots of standards for social work with groups, this article presents a journey through the formation of the Committee for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups in 1979, framing ideas that found their way into the first edition of the AASWG Standards of 1998, and the process of developing the second, current edition. It provides a rare look into how a professional organization struggled to create a seminal document.     

Ceremony,charters and social memory: property transfer ritual in early medieval Catalonia

ABSTRACT

Work on the use of documents in the Middle Ages has now accepted that written record-keeping in Europe did not collapse with Roman rule, to be replaced only by orality and memory, but continued throughout the period, albeit to greater or lesser extents from place to place. Nonetheless, much remains unclear about how documents were actually used and understood following the Roman collapse, and how far that reflected continuity with the past. Using the numerous early medieval charters from modern Catalonia, this article argues that, instead of registration in public archives as under Rome, documents here were validated by social consensus about their contents, created by repeated recitation of the texts. This could even be used to create new documents. The article argues that this was an innovative replacement of older institutions of record intended to enable continuing document use, but that it blurs categories both of literacy and orality and of continuity and change; continuity of the land charter was here maintained despite the discontinuity and irrelevance of many other practices. Both documents and their users were agents in these processes, in ways that can instruct us about institutional survival and replacement in times of social change.     

Dilemmas of Environmental Planning in Post‐Urban New Jersey*

Objective. New Jersey's state land‐use plan, designed to preserve open space by directing growth to urban centers, rests on the assumption that nature (the “environment”) and the urban constitute separate objective spheres, such that nature can be preserved as an end in itself. Through a spatial transformation that de‐populated the cities and suburbanized the countryside, however, the urban and the environmental have become overlapping discursive categories, each expressing the absence of the other, and raising serious dilemmas for environmental planning. Methods. This article uses Census data to document the extent of New Jersey's urban and racial transformation over more than half a century, and examines county and municipal reviews of the state's proposed land‐use plan to document the resulting contradictory interpretations of nature articulated in political debate over state‐plan implementation. Results. The attempt to forge a statewide consensus on environmental and open‐space preservation has been stymied by the contradictory perspectives of urban and suburban constituencies, whose responses focus on the urban rather than the environmental implications of proposed land‐use controls. State planners seeking political support for environmental protection find themselves embroiled in often vitriolic debates about urban and suburban lifestyles, with implicit racial subtexts, and about the legitimacy of state intervention perceived as supporting antithetical values. Conclusions. Contrary to the state's attempt to separate the urban and the environmental, the route to environmental protection in New Jersey may lie through urban revitalization.     

The Political Role of Social Work: Grasping the Momentum of Working Through Interorganizational Networks in Belgium

ABSTRACT

This article explores how social workers deal with the ambiguity that arises from their ability to transform the private needs of individuals into issues of public concern. It is argued that the current shift towards joined-up working, which is epitomized by the creation of interorganizational networks, could encourage new opportunities for social work. These horizontal and nonhierarchical forms of cooperation serve as platforms for debate to ensure regular discussions about the causes of and potential solutions to complex societal problems. This article relies on a case-study of bottom-up networks in two Belgian cities where social workers from various policy fields voluntarily joined forces to look after hard-to-reach groups of homeless people. The primary data were obtained from document analysis, semi-structured interviews with network participants, and direct observations of network meetings. These data were analyzed by conducting a directed content analysis. The examination shows that the joint creation of welfare services leads to substantial debates among social workers about the criteria which homeless people must meet in order to be provided with welfare services and primary care. The paper shows that despite being aware of differing viewpoints by their engagement in such debates, social workers are reluctant to challenge the dominant conceptualizations underlying their own day-to-day practices, and that this impacts on the potential to induce local policymakers to take further action with regard to reducing homelessness.     

Controlling children's lives: covert messages in child protection service reports

This article presents central findings from a detailed examination of written documents in 50 child protection cases from the Norwegian welfare state. In so doing, it explores issues related to the social consequences of document writing in welfare state services. Using a frame drawn from Foucault's theory of discursive rites, it looks at the writing of certain documents as ritual performances involving on the one hand, various chains of power and on the other, processes reinforcing ruling definitions of normality. The examination shows that documents do more than satisfy bureaucratic demands for record keeping about the delivery of child protection services. These records also serve as distributors of social identities and social positions for children and their families. Moreover, the examination also reveals the contours of a paradox whereby, activities intended to help and to protect some children often involve using these youngsters to reaffirm normality in society and to confirm the existing social order. These findings indicate that there is a need for greater sensibility to ethical issues involved in documents writing.     

Harriet Tubman's last work: the Harriet Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Negroes

This article focuses on the important contributions the venerable Harriet Tubman made to the field of housing for older persons and other populations at risk. It uses an historical approach to document the importance of early housing and self-help initiatives in the African American community. It embraces Harriet Tubman and other early housers for their good works and acknowledges them as contributors to the rich legacy of community social work practice and its sage principles of empowerment and self-help. The article presents a nexus between the current housing status of older Blacks and the double jeopardy status imposed by historical discrimination.     

Enhancing Social Support for Migrant Families: A Case Study of Community Services in a Shanghai Urban Village and Implications for Intervention

Recent years have witnessed the growing emphasis of the Chinese central government to develop community services as a method of building communities and strengthening social solidarity. With the increased involvement of multi‐generation households in China's internal rural‐to‐urban migration, however, little is known about what community services are available for migrant families. Nor do we know much about how such services can enhance social support for migrants, which is crucial for their psychological well‐being in managing the ongoing challenges that arise from migration and further integration into cities. This article presents a case study conducted in Shanghai where social services are emerging in a few urban villages. We begin with a brief background on China's rural‐to‐urban migration and the emergence of urban villages, followed by a discussion of community services and social support for Chinese migrant families. We then document existing services in an urban village to explore how they can influence migrant families' social support. Drawing on the perspective of service providers, we highlight the effects social work interventions can have on improving social support for migrant families. Finally, we propose an intervention framework based on multi‐dimensions of social support, emphasizing an integration of formal and informal social support through community services for migrant populations.     

Ethics in behavioral genetics research

As research in behavioral genetics uncovers the genetic contribution to human behavior, it will undoubtedly further our understanding of normal human variation in many behavioral traits, such as personality, intelligence, and sexuality. This research also shows great potential for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses. Recent findings underscore this potential and document the increasing validity of research methods--methods that in the past have led to mistaken inferences about genes "for" violent behavior and homosexuality. Although all research with human subjects requires adequate attention to its ethical aspects, certain ethical issues involved with behavioral genetics are particularly acute and deserve careful attention. This article reviews these selected major ethical issues arising in (1) the conduct of behavioral genetics research; and (2) the application of its research findings. While some of the ethical concerns in the latter category are likely to be of substantial importance and animate considerable popular concern, they currently fall outside the realm of traditional research review. Determining how to deal with these concerns should be a focus of future scholarly work.