Teaching Social Work in an Online Environment

This article discusses the current debate surrounding online instruction (also known as distance) versus in-class social work instruction and reviews the relevant literature associated with those instructional models. The discussion specifically focuses on key issues, including the definition and growth of online education and the Blackboard revolution, and it addresses concerns about the effectiveness of teaching online compared to in-class social work instruction in areas related to students’ learning outcomes and satisfaction. Literature references also suggest that factors such as demographics may be related to outcome differences between distance and traditional students, while others found no significant differences between both student populations and their learning outcomes in particular courses such as research methods courses. Even today, however, the comparisons between online and traditional courses are unsettled, and many questions remain about the appropriateness or usefulness of these models. Therefore, the debate will continue to lead to even larger disagreements between researchers and educators on both sides. The concern about the effectiveness of teaching in an online environment is still the main concern of educational models in general and of social work education in particular. Even deeper concerns are found among educators and scholars about the ethical issues surrounding the entire online education debate.     

Addressing religious plurality – a teacher perspective on minority religion and secular ethics education

The Finnish education system recognizes religious plurality by offering education in pupils’ own religion or in secular ethics. However, little research has been undertaken on how plurality is addressed in classroom practice. This study investigates how 31 minority religion and secular ethics teachers view the task of supporting and including plurality within their classrooms. The findings of this study show how instruction places high demands on teachers due to religious and cultural diversity, as well as age differences in the classroom. Teachers generally made an effort to take diversity into account by considering the different backgrounds of pupils in instruction and engaging pupils in class. However, teachers frequently took a traditional rather than a modern perspective on plurality in religious instruction by assuming pupils’ religious belonging. Confessional elements such as religious family background and religious practice outside school were also commonly seen as vital. Consequently, teachers had at times difficulties in supporting pupils with plural or little religious affiliation. The findings show a need to strengthen the non-confessional character of Finnish religious education so that both modern and traditional plurality among pupils occupy an equal position in the classroom.     

Is gambling industry-funded research necessarily a conflict of interest? A reply to Cassidy (2014)

This article addresses the issue of industry-funded research and specifically responds to the critique that such research necessarily involves a conflict of interests. It also offers four areas that need attention in order to improve transparency in gambling-related research.     

红色文化在建设小康社会中的价值功用

麦金太尔对于德性伦理学的重述依赖于一种以实践概念为基础的目的论。这种目的论认为,人类目的就是实现内在于实践的善。实践概念必须参照叙事提供的背景条件才能获得其可理解性。能够提供这种背景条件的叙事就是追寻叙事,追寻叙事把人类生活描述为追寻善的统一体,人类的传统在这一叙事中完成了更替。这种叙事呈现了实践的历史,而实践的历史就是传统。麦金太尔对叙事和传统的强调使其德性伦理学带有强烈的历史主义倾向。     

Ethical injunctions: the University of the Western Cape in the face of the ‘here and now’

This essay poses the question of the ethical in relation to the work of memorialising the University of the Western Cape (UWC) after apartheid. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s statement on the ethical in The Logic of Sense and reading its implications through Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ and Jeremy Cronin’s ‘Even the Dead’, I argue that the ethical entails becoming adequate to the fracturing of event, leading to an understanding of the subject effect prior to its stamping by race, gender and identity. The ethical, in this formulation, reckons with the materiality of the past as its weight orders the present. It is this possibility of becoming adequate, of ‘not being unworthy of what happens to us’, which is offered in Ingrid Masondo’s photo-essay on UWC. I read Masondo as offering an encounter with images of the Leibnizian world as they appear at UWC, an encounter that registers alternate trajectories as they are expressed in ‘point of view’. Becoming adequate, here, involves registering the role of UWC (both conscious and unconscious) in the subjectification of persons during and after apartheid. This essay punctuates the rhythm of the memorialisation of UWC, by asking that this weight of the past be reckoned with while articulating alternate trajectories for both the university (and particularly the disciplines of the humanities) and for the understandings of subjectivity that attend to it, a demand that cannot be settled cheaply.     

Of cracked lenses: cultural translation,opacity and the African novel

This article investigates the function of different languages in African fictional texts by focusing on the kinds of social relationships expressed by narratives that tell their stories bilingually, or even multilingually. I argue that the layers of different languages within a text invite translation, both literally and figuratively. Alongside the postcolonial reading, which interprets the juxtapositions of different languages by stressing the contestatory function of re‐placing language, the reading advanced by this article explores such devices as forms of cultural translation. Cultural translation, it is argued, can account for the counter‐discursive reading that analyses relations of power; it can also account for a reading that foregrounds less hierarchical forms of address and thus expresses the quest for alternative subjectivities and relationships. The latter, the article suggests by adapting Judith Butler’s theory of an ethics of opacity, is gestured towards in narratives whenever the limits of intelligibility or translatability are exposed.     

传统伦理视域中的父子关系——构建支撑和谐社会的父子关系(上)

传统父子伦理关系在诸多封建伦理关系中的凸显经历了漫长的演变过程,它是封建社会秩序文化自觉的必然产物。父子伦理是双向度的伦理体系,既包括慈父伦理又包括孝子伦理,慈父伦理有父义母慈、正身率下、端蒙重教、爱子有道等,孝子伦理有养亲、尊亲、谏亲、显亲、继亲、祭亲等。     

西部新农合筹资公平性分析

新型农村合作医疗制度(以下简称新农合)是由政府组织引导支持,农民自愿参加,个人、集体和政府多方筹资,以大病统筹为主的农民医疗互助共济制度。实现这项制度的可持续发展,既是一项政治任务,同时也是一项经济活动。本文结合我国西部地区近几年新农合的运行情况对筹资的公平性进行分析并提出意见建议,以实现这项制度的可持续发展。     

基于诱因分析的高校学生突发事件预警模型研究

对高等学校学生突发事件的诱因进行了多层次的分析,设计了全面的预警评价指标。采用问卷调查法和专家打分法获取原始数据,并用因子分析法和层次分析法提取出9大关键因子,确定因子的权重系数,构建高校突发事件预警模型。     

培育大学生国家安全意识是社会主义核心价值体系的内在要求

培育大学生国家安全意识是社会主义核心价值体系的内在要求．是国家安全战略以及高校教育不可忽略的组成部分。为创新大学生国家安全意识的培育,工作中必须坚持社会主义核心价值体系的引导,构建起大学生国家安全教育新体系。