Children and Young People Living Through a Serious Family Illness: Structural,Interpersonal and Personal Perspectives

This study explores the experiences of children and young people in Britain living through a serious family illness. The study considers the interplay between social structures, social relationships and individual agency. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to estimate the number of children and young people affected nationally and on seven in‐depth interviews to understand young people’s experiences and the effects on their daily lives. Living through a serious family illness impacts on young people’s educational achievements, mental health and social relationships over long periods. Policy and service responses are suggested.     

‘Befriend them but not be their friend’: Negotiations of youth practice in a digital age

ABSTRACT

‘You’ve gotta befriend them but not be their friend’ is how one youth worker thoughtfully described the secret to successful youth practice. This paper draws on experiences of youth workers in the United Kingdom to consider how the growth of digital technologies comes to be negotiated and articulated in professional practice. Situating these experiences alongside young people’s accounts, this article highlights a distinction between young people’s relationship with the digital and adult perceptions of youth and technology. The aim of this paper is to consider what factors contribute towards this divide and where adult perceptions come from, if not from the experiences of young people themselves. The article then goes on to discuss the potential consequences of the presence of technology and discourses surrounding the digital for youth worker’s engagements with young people in professional practice. Overall, this article argues for the enduring relevance of youth workers and physical youth centres in a digital age and joins several scholars in critiquing the chronic under-investment in youth workers and provision in the UK and beyond.     

Editing the project of the self: sustained Facebook use and growing up online

Now in operation for 12 years, Facebook comes to serve as a digital record of life for young people. With significant parts of their lives played out on the site, users are able to turn to these profiles to reflect on how their use of Facebook has come to constitute a life narrative. In this paper, we report on findings from qualitative research into sustained use of Facebook by young people in their twenties in Australia and the UK. We focus on the ‘editing’ or re-ordering of narratives that our participants engage in while they scroll back through their years of disclosures – and the disclosures of others – that make up their Facebook Timelines. We present our analysis through three arenas (employment, family life and romantic relationships) subject to what we argue is a reflexive re-ordering of life narratives. We argue that Facebook profiles represent visual manifestations of Giddens [1991. Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press] reflexive project of the self, that serve not only to communicate a sense of self to others, but that also act as texts of personal reflection and of growing up, subject to ongoing revision.     

Young people’s participation in Fiji: understanding conceptualizations and experiences

Young people’s participation has become a cliché in western democracies. In the case of Fiji, it is a novel concept, not because young people have not participated before but because they are exposed to new and different ways of involvement. This paper is one of the earliest attempts to explore young people’s understanding and experiences of participation in Fiji. It is based on data drawn from an exploratory study conducted with a select group of young people in Suva, Fiji. Forms of young people’s engagement although diverse are dominated by the traditional discourse of participation represented in ‘performance and responsibility’ and tend to be represented in the media and policy circles. This paper shows that young people are not bound by these conceptions but talk of participation as experienced in the hybridized settings of their everyday reality. The study offers a window into understanding young people’s participation in Fiji and suggests that a deeper appreciation of this facet of their lives can be achieved with an emphasis on participatory talk with and an exploration of spaces where young people are constantly negotiating the traditional expectations of being young, being dutiful citizens and self-directed individuals.     

Pathway planning with unaccompanied young people leaving care: Biographical narratives of past,present, and future.

This article presents findings from a qualitative study with Unaccompanied Young People (UYP) who have sought asylum alone in the UK without a parent or guardian. The findings explore how UYP create biographical narratives of their past, present, and future as they prepare to leave care, suggesting that UYP who have settled immigration status create coherent biographical narratives that reconcile the past with a positive imagined future. Themes of return and reciprocity emerged in their narratives as they developed aspirations to reunite with their families and return support received in the past by succeeding in education and careers. Unaccompanied young people who did not have settled status struggled to create biographical narratives and could not imagine the future or the past. These findings have significant implications for pathway planning with UYP, suggesting the need to recognise the interconnected nature of the past, present, and future as well as the role of families and education in future plans. Pathway planning for UYP with uncertain immigration status can be complex as young people struggle to maintain a biographical narrative. Further research is necessary to support young people and professionals with these challenges.     

新式学堂与平民教育：清末半日学堂述论

为了有效地解决夜间车辆检测这一难题，提出了一种新颖的基于有限状态机的夜间车辆检测算法。该算法将车辆检测的问题转变成一个有序状态转换的模型，即检测所选择区域内的车辆到达、车辆移动和车辆离开。先计算所选区域内的明亮像素点的数量以及他们之间的差异，然后将结果输入到所提出的状态机来检测车辆，最后输出检测结果。实验结果证明，该算法简单且易于实现，对检测夜间道路车辆有很强的鲁棒性。     

“十二五”时期科学发展与加快转变经济发展方式的重点、难点和对策

"十二五"规划以科学发展为主题,以加快转变经济发展方式为主线。"十二五"时期,经济结构战略性调整、保障和改善民生、坚持改革和扩大开放是重点;如何促进消费、投资、出口并驾齐驱、如何保障现阶段收入分配差距不致过大、如何解决国民经济发展中的主要问题和矛盾是难点;进一步改造提升传统制造业、积极培育发展战略性新兴产业,就业优先、强农惠农,.坚持和完善基本经济制度、推进行政体制改革、深化金融体制改革是关键的应对之策。     

辽宁省高等学校师德建设调查分析

为了深入了解高等学校师德建设情况，从教师的视角对辽宁省高等学校师德建设的现状进行了调查和访谈；调查结果表明，当前辽宁省高等学校师德的总体状况良好，广大教师敬业爱岗、职业认同感和教书育人的积极性不断提高。同时，高等学校在师德建设方面还存在表面化、形式化的现象，对师德考核的认识不足，措施不力；加强高等学校师德建设，必须规范教师职业道德，加强教师师德修养，建立科学的师德考评体系。     

近代以来大同思想的嬗变及其向社会主义的转化

传统大同思想是一个具有历史生命力的＂轴心期命题＂。在近代以来的社会变革和现代化追求中,它在进化论的影响下实现了从传统向现代的嬗变,并且在与西方社会主义的共鸣中与之实现了贯通,成为批判封建主义、判断资本主义的根据,为中国人民认同社会主义,以它为目标选择现代化的道路打下了基础。     

族源神话的展演及其象征性——白依人历史记忆的器物承载、身体实践与仪式操演

历史记忆是一个族群在社会发展进程中形成并逐渐为本群体所共享的文化意识。居住在滇西鹤庆县六合乡境内的白依人是一个彝族支系。作为一个无文字族群,白依人族源神话表现在社会生活中的服饰、乐器、舞蹈、古歌、仪式等方面,这体现了祖先的影响在现代社会中延伸。社会生活是族群历史记忆在世代中展演的舞台。历史记忆在日常场景中通过器物、身体实践和仪式操演的象征性重构,表现出族群试图建立一种与祖先相互关联生活方式的期待。