Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Preschool Center Experience upon Literacy and Numeracy Development in Early Primary School

This study investigates the influence of aspects of home and preschool environments upon literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry and at the end of the 3rd year of school. Individuals with unexpected performance pathways (by forming demographically adjusted groups: overachieving, average, and underachieving) were identified in order to explore the effects of the home learning environment and preschool variables on child development. Multilevel models applied to hierarchical data allow the groups that differ with regard to expected performance to be created at the child and preschool center levels. These multilevel analyses indicate powerful effects for the home learning environment and important effects of specific preschool centers at school entry. Although reduced, such effects remain several years later .     

Race,Religion, and the Social Integration of New Immigrant Minorities in Canada1

The social integration of Canada’s new religious minorities is determined more by their racial minority status than by their religious affiliation or degree of religiosity, according to results from Statistics Canada’s 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey. Interview questions tap life satisfaction, affective ties to Canada, and participation in the wider community. Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Hindus are slower to integrate socially, mainly because they are mostly racial minorities. Degree of religiosity affects social integration in the same ways as ethnic community attachments in general, positively for some dimensions, negatively for others, and similarly for different religious groups. Patterns are similar in Quebec and the rest of Canada; results carry implications for the debate over “reasonable accommodation” of religious minorities in Quebec, and parallel debates in other provinces and countries.     

汉语亲属词概念结构的实验研究

采用自然情境下的分类、词的快速分类和配对词同一性判断的方法研究汉语亲属词的概念结构。结果表明:(1)汉语亲属词的概念结构由"亲属关系层数"和"姻亲/非姻亲"两个因素构成。(2)"姻亲/非姻亲"维度包含"姻亲"、"近亲"及"表亲和叔伯亲"三个成分。这一概念结构与语言学和分类学概念分析的结果有一致之处,但也有重要区别。     

土民、客人与乡绅:万历至乾隆的黄姚社会

明清时期是广西府江流域社会变革的重要阶段,导致这一变革的关键因素为万历府江僮乱的平定与清初客人的进入。本文以府江流域昭平县黄姚街为中心,将该社区的构建置于区域变动的大背景下展开讨论,力图理解在此过程中,土民、客人在具体的历史场景中如何透过变革祭祀系统、重述祖先故事以确立其社会地位。     

Immigrant Generation,School Procedural Justice,and Educational Attainment

There is much educational concern about the disproportionate punishment of racial/ethnic minority students within U.S. public schools. Research evidence indicates that school punishment exacerbates the already-known racial/ethnic inequalities within the educational system. What remains uncertain is if and how school punishment, justice, and fairness are moderating educational attainment for the children of immigrants. This study utilizes data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and incorporates multilevel analysis to examine how school punishment, justice, and fairness influence the educational attainment of children of immigrants. The study draws on straight-line and segmented assimilation frameworks to evaluate variation in these effects by immigrant generation. Findings do suggest that improved school procedural justice and fairness could enhance educational attainment as well as ameliorate the detrimental impact of school punishment; however, these patterns are segmented by immigrant generation and race/ethnicity.     

Institutional work through empathic engagement

A growing body of literature examines how actors engage with institutions and how they prompt institutional change and evolution. This article takes stock of this knowledge and contributes an affective dimension to the study of how institutional entrepreneurs achieve momentum and field-level impact. The article views institutional work as relational agency and conceptualises empathic engagement as a way for institutional entrepreneurs to relate affectively to other actors and induce cooperation. We demonstrate how empathic engagement by institutional entrepreneurs can nurture communities of practice that co-create change in institutional fields. Our argument hinges on the actors’ affective investment and advances the less developed non-cognitive dimension of institutional work. By integrating empathic engagement into institutional entrepreneurship, we demonstrate how institutional entrepreneurs nurture their ability to engage and cooperate with others to diffuse particular values through institutional work. This integration focuses on the way of knowing generated through empathic engagement: the ability to bring about a consensus by creating frames of reference and identities that others are enchanted by and subscribe to, as opposed to using coercive mechanisms.     

Reviewing the latest national policies and services for people with severe mental health disorders in government-funded institutions in Vietnam,and policy recommendations for service improvements

The aim of this paper is to provide the international community with a broad and updated picture of key policies and services for people with severe mental health disorders in Vietnam. In particular, the paper (1) reviews the most important national policies governing care for people with mental health disorders, (2) reviews the status of free-of-charge care provided to people with severe mental health disorders in a network of government-funded facilities across the nation and (3) discusses the future policy directions of Vietnam regarding people with mental health disorders.     

健全和完善村民自治：促进农村社会和谐的关键

农村社会和谐的构建关键在于村民自治的健全和完善。村民自治作为一项制度创新,它要在旧的体制中生存和发展必然面临许多矛盾和问题。为此,在构建和谐的农村社会中,要解决好乡镇政府与村民自治主体、村“两委”之间存在的矛盾;要充分发挥村民自治的作用;要从制度和体制的层面理顺和协调好乡镇政府与村民自治主体之间、村“两委”之间的关系,积极促进村民自治的健康发展。     

主位述位与英语写作阅读教学

本文分析介绍了英语语篇中常见的六种主位述位推进模式。作者指出 ,在英语写作教学过程中 ,教师向学生传授一点这方面的知识是有必要的 ,它可以帮助学生在写作的时候克服盲目性和困惑性 ,也有益于学生把握语篇发展的结构线索 ,从而提高阅读理解水平。