Tibetan Students in Shanghai

THE campus of the Shanghai Middle School for Hui Nationality is very beautiful. In the middle of the campus is a round lawn and in the center of the lawn is a tall cedar. Around the lawn are the classroom buildings, students' laboratory building, the cinema and an office building. Shades of green and bright flowers are seen everywhere. Just after a spring rain, the campus appears especially fresh and pleasing to the eye. More than 400 Tibetan students are studying and living at this beautiful school. They are mostly the children of ordinary Tibetan families from the Tibet Autonomous Region; all are top students     

Patima Abdurashit and Her Students

Every evening, beautiful melodies flew from a bungalow located at downtown Korla City. This is home of Patima Abdurashit, teacher with the Ounyi Art Studio of Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. Patima, 52, graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing).in 1966. The Uygur violinist is now member of the Chinese Musicians' Association and member of the standing committee of the Musicians' Association of the Bayinbuleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. Her 30-add years of career is marked with outstanding achievements and awards, and albums of her solo performances. The more than 200 children Patima has taught come from different ethnic groups, and Patima is thus granted with award as the "Model of Ethnic Unification."     

Foreign Students in the Countryside

THE pearl raisers at Shanxiahu Town inZhejiang Province welcomed the two youngCuban women who arrived to leam how toraise artificial pearls by giving each of them aChinese name — Ah Zhen and Ah Zhu (bothmeaning "pearls" in Chinese). Ah Zhen, 30 years old, was a graduatefrom the Oriental University of Cuba with aDoctorate degree in veterinary studies, whileAh Zhu was a 28 year-old graduate fromHavana University with a Doctorate inbiology. The two Cuban women had come toChina to learn the art of artificial pearl raising     

Foreign Middle School Students in Beijing

In recent years, as China's reform policies continue to progress, more and more foreigners are working in China. Their school-age children attend local schools. The following pictures show the life of some foreign middle school students in Beijing.     

Review on College Students＇ Leadership

大学生领导力是大学生为实现特定目标而表现出来的一种能力,它是大学生综合素质的体现。大学生领导力的开发有助于大学生的人格发展、非专业素质的培养和健康生活方式的养成。综合国内外相关研究文献,从大学生领导力的缘起、概念内涵、结构测量、前因变量和结果变量等方面,对大学生领导力的研究现状进行了梳理,掌握领导力的理论内涵和实践价值。未来大学生领导力的研究应关注文化差异性,完善研究工具和方法,更加深入地探讨大学生领导力的内涵与影响机制。     

Students’ Role Confusion When Working With Older Adults: The Voices of Foundation Students

A qualitative research project was carried out to investigate how first-year graduate students integrated their field work learning with their classroom leaning (N?=?17). The study reveals the students’ difficulty in integrating their practical learning with theoretical classroom knowledge. Using grounded theory analysis, two types of student reactions to integrating knowledge were found: role confusion and role clarity; most fit into the role confusion group. Performing supportive social work, working with involuntary clients, and the age of the client were all linked to the students’ role confusion. Implications for teaching strategies using reflective practice are discussed, as well as possible connections between beginning students’ confusion, ageism, and lack of interest in the field of aging.     

Students’ conceptualisations of critical reflection

Critical reflection involves the identification of deeply seated assumptions about the social world and the individual’s connection with it; however, its scope and practice are contested. While ambivalence about its definition remains, critical reflection is described as a threshold concept in social welfare and social work education. This study investigated students’ conceptualisations of critical reflection by analysing the ‘learned’ critical reflection curricula of five core units in an Australian University. A content analysis of 162 assignments submitted by 86 students in 2013 and 2014 was conducted. Findings revealed students conceptualised critical reflection as a process that raised self-awareness, supported the application of theory in practice and, reinforced aspects of their professional identity. However, students adapted the process to fit their purpose and, when personal views clashed with professional practice, rather than examining the tensions that emerged, students privileged professional practice and silenced their personal views. Students did not engage with critical reflection to foster social change; rather their utilitarian approach positioned them to demonstrate competence in professional procedures. These findings highlight the influence of the contexts within which critical reflection is practised and informs the further development of the authors’ pedagogy.     

Trip Fuels Imagination of Art Students

THE colorful paintings exhibited at the China's Art Gallery were done by the children's painting class at the Beijing Children's Palace. They project the innocence and joy of childhood. Little Artists Painting classes at the Children's Palace started in 1987. To date nearly 1,000 primary school students have learned received basic painting skills. The teachers have developed a curriculum geared toward children aged 5-12. The children learn how to sketch, paint in watercolor and in oils. Many talented students have emerged from these classes to go on to win painting competitions at home and abyoad. Sun Enqi, 51, is a kind teacher who is serious about his work and has the kind of face that has been marked by the passing years. He has devoted his life to teaching children how to paint.     

Chinese and Foreign Students Debate Gender Equality

WITH the Fourth World Conference on Women drawing near, more and more people are showing a strong interest in women's issues. On April 12 the debate "Is the Equality Between Men and Women Impossible?" was held at Beijing Language and Culture University. Hundreds of students and teachers crowded into the 200-seat university theater where the debate was held. The debate consisted of two teams representing positive and negative sides     

Rural Women Get Help from Women Students

SINCE more and more rural women have become involved in commercial production, they have become more and more eager to learn about scientific technology. The Women's Federation of Beijing had long been looking for a direct and effective way to help them. Luo Xiaolu, vicedirector of the Federation, found in her investigation of the present conditions of intellectual women in Beijing that women students were also eager to get in touch with society. Then she had an idea that women students in universities and colleges should go to the countryside. Thus, an activity developed called "women college students and rural women, hand in hand."     

Hope Project Aids Students in Guizhou Province

What is poverty? None of us young reporters has ever experienced poverty, so the idea of it strongly attracted us. Traveling across mountains and rivers, we visited seven counties and 14 townships in the Miao and Tong Nationalities Prefecture in Southeast Guizhou, the Buyi and Miao Nationalities Prefecture in Liupanshui City, and the Anshun region in South Guizhou. Between green mountains and blue waters, we saw poverty. And although we only saw the superficial aspects of people's lives there, it shocked and moved us.     

A Rural Woman Supports Five College Students

SEEING off her youngest daughter, Zhang Xiling, in her fifties and tired, leaned against a low, old and dilapidated house made of mud. The little hill village looked very quiet at dusk; the hilly road in the evening glow zigzaged further away. This common rural woman stared at the hilly road where she watched her dreams go as all her children went away one by one. In 1978, Nie Wenhai, her oldest son, was admitted to Harbin Col-     

Social Work Students ‘Juggling’ Field Placement

Field education is widely acknowledged as a central component of social work education. However, it requires a substantial commitment of time and energy from students which can present challenges to students who have multiple responsibilities. Based on a literature review conducted in preparation for doctoral research into social work student experience of juggling multiple roles and responsibilities with field placement, this article summarises what is known about the challenges they face and what helps them to complete placement. The findings have implications for students, schools of social work and field placement agencies. Further research should provide guidance for professional social work bodies, schools of social work, field educators and students.     

Korean Social Work Students’ Attitudes Toward Homosexuals

For this article, the Hudson and Ricketts Index of Attitudes toward Homosexuality (IAH) was used to measure levels of homophobia in a convenience sample of 124 students enrolled in social work programs in two major universities in the Republic of South Korea. The results indicated that BSW and MSW Korean students had high levels of homophobia, particularly in comparison to U.S. samples. In-class discussion of homosexuality was found to be significantly associated with lower levels of homophobia. The authors review these and other research findings and discuss implications for social work education in South Korea and the United States.     

Queen of Children Teacher Gives Heart to Students

WANG Huiqin, 48, is an English teacher at the Beijing Yanjingli High School. She started her career as "queen of children" at 20. After so many years of teaching, she has acquired unique skills that enable her to effectively educate and redeem students who lag behind the rest of the class. No matter how naughty or mischievous the     

Do Rural Students Really Perform Worse than Urban Students Do? Empirical Evidence from a University Entrance Program in Taiwan

Despite a major expansion in the number of students in higher education, students from rural areas continue to be underrepresented at selective universities. To reduce the urban‐rural imbalance of entry to selective universities, institutions in many countries of the world have implemented admission policies favoring rural students. Previous evidence has shown that rural students have lower academic performance than their urban peers, which leads to concern that rural students will reduce the academic excellence of selective universities. Using the introduction of a university admission policy favoring rural students in Taiwan and a unique administrative data set of students' academic records, we compare the academic performance of students from rural areas with that of their urban counterparts during their college years. The results show that rural students have consistently outperformed urban students in semester grade point averages and class rank percentile across time; however, the differences in academic performance are mainly attributed to the rural students' initial outperformance in the first semester of the freshman year.     

Students’ Willingness for Future Volunteering in Hong Kong

Volunteering is playing an increasingly bigger role in social services and schools both in Western settings and in the Hong Kong Chinese context. The demand for volunteers in the sector of social services is continually increasing (Sherr 2008). Little is known about the willingness of secondary school students to participate in future volunteering in Hong Kong. This study attempts to explore the phenomenon of youth volunteering through the theory of planned behavior and Personal and Social Responsibility, and identifies prior experience in community service as a main predictor of the willingness of the students to participate in future volunteering. A total of 1046 students from seven secondary schools in Hong Kong completed a structured questionnaire. Social workers, teachers, and volunteer managers could benefit from this study as they could foster students’ willingness to volunteer after graduation by actively engaging them in community service programs early on in a specific time in their life.     

College Students’ Perceptions of Media Portrayals of Divorce

This study takes an exploratory, qualitative approach to examine college students’ perceptions about divorce in the media. Findings suggest that participants perceived both positive and negative representations of divorced families in the media they consume, highlighting the complex nature of navigating and communicating through a divorce. Specifically, college students reported on aspects of the ex-spousal relationship, how children are affected, and the contrast between life pre- and postdivorce. An inductive theme analysis revealed several positive and negative media representations of divorce. Largely, college students perceive media messages about divorce to be accurate portrayals and impactful representations.