Educated Caring: The Emergence of Professional Identity Among Nurses

This article examines the formation of occupational identity in a nursing program. The normative and ideological dimensions of this process are revealed in the program’s goals and the views of educators and students through qualitative data from observations and 30 in-depth interviews. Educators seek to socialize students toward professionalism to raise the occupation’s status by emphasizing the scientific and technical basis of nursing. Yet students uphold a gendered discourse by identifying a normative dimension of caring as central to their occupational identity. The dilemma between professionalism and caring is reconciled as students construct an occupational identity based on “educated caring,” where these two dimensions are equally valuable and significant.

Imagined interactions,family money management patterns and coalitions,and attitudes toward money and credit

This study explores the imagined interactions college students have with their parents about money and credit, their attitudes toward credit and money, the ways they say their parents deal with financial decisions, and the communication coalitions regarding finances they perceive existing within their family. Students’ imagined interaction pleasantness is greatest when parents jointly form a plan for paying off credit card debt and lowest when parents argue. When family coalitions exist, students report more frequent imagined interactions. Imagined interaction frequency and pleasantness are related to credit and money attitudes.

Is Work-Family Policy Use Related to the Gendered Division of Housework?

Researchers have proposed that work-family policy use may either reinforce or challenge the existing gendered division of labor within couples, but results from prior studies have been inconclusive. Using data from a regional survey of work and family life, we extend this research by focusing on how housework is divided within couples and by differentiating between traditionally female- and male- typed housework tasks. Results show that among dual-earning women, policy use is not related to share of female- or male-typed tasks. Among dual-earning men, policy use is positively related to share of female-typed tasks and negatively related to share of male-typed tasks. These findings suggest that work-family policy use does not reinforce the gendered division of housework.

The development of social work education in Russia since 1995

This article presents the findings of a four-year survey on the development of social work education in Russia from 1995 to the present day. Through a series of questionnaires, interviews and discussions with Russian academics, practitioners and students, the study looks at a variety of issues including the high rate of attrition. It focuses on aspects of students’ practice placements such as the type, length and quality of practice placements, the students’ workload and the supervision provided. It also looks at the contribution that international collaboration has made to the development of social work education in Russia.

The survey concludes that there is a need to enhance the overall package for social workers and raise the status of the profession in order to retain qualified personnel. Longer practice placements which start in the first year and are adequately funded and supervised are seen as the key to retaining new graduates. It concludes that although international projects have made a difference to those participating at the time, it is difficult to disseminate these benefits beyond the immediate region. Now that international funding to Russia has been reduced it is critical that any remaining funding is accurately targeted and properly coordinated.     

Education CREATIVE THINKING AND INNOVATIVE EDUCATION IN THE DECISION SCIENCES

Creative problem solving is seldom addressed directly in the decision sciences literature. The first half of this paper reviews current thinking about creativity and its educational importance. The remainder addresses creative problem-solving processes and, in particular, the process developed by Parnes, Noller and Biondi [24] and Osborn [23]. This process has been integrated into an OR/MS problem-solving course which is described. Conclusions and implications for decision sciences education and practice in general are discussed.     

让政治课教学成为有灵魂的德育教育形式

现今中职学校的政治课教学,从课程设置、教学内容到授课形式,很多都是有科学而无灵魂的德育教育。政治课是学校德育的一个最基本的和最重要的组成部分,为了完成政治课德育教育的目的,必须让它成为有灵魂的教育形式。要使政治课教学变成有灵魂的教育形式,就要实施政治课教学内容、教学手段改革,教师课堂教学中确立以学生为中心的新型师生关系,并注意引导学生的个性发展。     

大学生思想政治教育的时代性要求

大学生的思想是随着时代的发展而发展的.对大学生的思想政治教育,只有与时俱进、突出时代要求才能收到好的效果.大学生思想政治教育的时代性内容丰富,要突出时代特色,关键是能反映时代脉搏,跟上时代发展步伐.     

从豪强宗族到文化士族——东汉马氏研究

豪族向士族的转变是汉晋社会变迁的一个重要历史事实,东汉乃转变的重要契机。扶风马氏本以军功而贵,至东汉为皇权笼络成为外戚豪族,在东汉经学兴盛、皇权对豪族的压制政策以及皇权有意对四姓小侯的经学培养大背景下,逐渐由一个豪强宗族转变成文化士族。马氏家族的文化化透露出东汉豪族社会向魏晋士族社会转变的个中信息。     

数智时代大学生主流意识形态教育的机遇、挑战与进路

数智技术的蓬勃发展为大学生主流意识形态教育的时空场域、交互方式、内容供给、治理变革等维度持续发展提供了重要机遇。与此同时,数智技术所带来的个性化算法推荐、娱乐化叙事方式、圈群化生存处境、数字化虚拟身份使大学生主流意识形态教育引领力被淡化、主导力被离散、传播力被削弱、约束力被消解。因此,本文就如何最大化发挥数智技术的优势,从价值引领、传播优化、素养提升、法律规范等角度提出大学生主流意识形态教育的创新发展路径。     

THE HARMS SHOE COMPANY: DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER MODEL FOR THE CLASSROOM

This paper describes a case that examines five key topics in production and operations management [1]—forecasting, inventory control, transportation planning, aggregate planning, and the disaggregation of the aggregate plan—in an integrated, realistic manner for upper-level undergraduate business majors [3]. The case structure stresses the linkage of these interrelated subjects and supplements the regular classroom presentations dealing with them. The case relies on computer calculations at each stage to provide the information input for calculations at the next stage. It is a static model with a twelve-month planning horizon. Students complete several exercises and assume several roles as the case unfolds. They act on their own in filling some roles and as members of teams in performing others. They do not compete with each other, as the purpose of the case is to help them develop an appreciation of the factors that persons performing the role must consider.