The school experience of children in residential care: A multiple case study

Children in residential care are the out‐of‐home population group with the lowest rate of access to postsecondary education. Research aimed at understanding their situation within the school context suggests that besides learning progress and outcomes, subjective experiences should be taken into account. Qualitative research based on a multiple‐case study was designed and carried out in Spain with the aim of deepening the understanding of the individual school experiences of three children in residential care. Each case was analysed from the perspective of the child, the educators and the teachers. Semistructured, one‐to‐one interviews were carried out, and children's files were consulted. The results pointed to emotional distress and accumulated educational delay as common traits of the three children in the study. In shaping each particular school experience, the key themes identified included (1) individual characteristics, (2) the children's academic aspirations and strategies, (3) relationships with peers and teachers, (4) response experienced in school, (5) the complex structure of the residential centre, (6) the sense of belonging to the residential centre, (7) team work and (8) political action and investment in inclusive education.     

浅析北方地区村镇住宅的自然通风设计

针对我国北方地区村镇住宅存在能源消耗大、室内热舒适度较低等问题，阐述了自然通风的原理和使用条件。提出了促进自然通风的措施：优化建筑布局；合理布置进出风口的位置与高度；合理设置进出风口大小；通风墙的应用；设置屋顶太阳能通风井。     

Choose who’s in your circle: how women’s relationship actions during and following residential treatment help create recovery-oriented networks

ABSTRACT

Women in recovery from substance use disorders often have difficulty establishing recovery-supportive networks. This exploratory study uses qualitative thematic analysis to examine how 88 women in recovery describe the actions they take to manage their personal social networks 12 months after intake into residential substance use treatment. Participants describe disconnecting or limiting contact with recovery-endangering people and adding recovery-supportive people to their networks as primary relationship actions for maintaining recovery. Their actions to build recovery-supportive networks can provide a focus for clinical work to help them become integrated into their communities.     

Quality of experience in residential care programmes: Retrospective perspectives of former youth participants

This exploratory study examined perceptions of care quality within parent‐pay youth treatment programmes such as therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centres, wilderness therapy programmes, and intensive outpatient programmes. Reflecting on their personal experiences as youths, 214 adults reported on a total of 75 different treatment settings. Two indices developed for this study measured participants' perceptions of quality of experience and the totalistic programme characteristics of their care settings. Regression analyses and ANOVA tests of means indicated a negative relationship between totalistic programme characteristics and quality of experience index scores. Significant relationships were not found between quality of experience and forcible transport, intake decade, or the amount of time in treatment.     

Navigations between regulations and gut instinct: the unveiling of collective memory in decision‐making processes where teenagers are placed in residential care

The decision to take a young person away from his or her family into out‐of‐home care and treatment is the most drastic intervention within the statutory powers bestowed upon social services. The results of reports on the quality of residential treatment reveal that state supervision has not proven to be a good substitute for parental care. In this paper we analyse the decision‐making process when young persons are placed in residential care. Focus groups and individual interviews with different stakeholders were conducted. The results show that the placements are a collective process involving negotiations between the different parties with a coordinating social worker in the middle, with the aim to bring something to build hope on in often desperate situations, regardless of the specific treatment method used. To inform the process, the social workers draw on a ‘collective memory’ shared among colleagues in the department. Important signs of quality of a residential unit were the relational and collaborative competence from the staff. The inclination to use soft, diffuse information in decision‐making shows a striking lack of evidence upon which social workers can build well‐informed and knowledge‐based decisions.     

北京市家庭生活用能消费的基本格局与政策取向

近年来,北京市生活用能增长较快,消费结构呈现清洁化趋势,但城乡差距明显,消费波动较大,不同收入家庭之间的用能消费不均衡现象严重。在这种情况下,如何制定合理的政策,解决用能消费不均衡等问题,是北京市的经济建设能否可持续发展的一个关键因素。     

住宅小区公共配套设施建设及现状研究

住宅小区配套在提高楼盘档次、改善城市居民居住条件和完善城市新区功能上具有一定的社会意义。本文以广州市为例,通过调查和收集数据,对住宅小区公共配套设施的总体配置状况与完善程度及其地区分布状况进行分析,并在此基础上提出相应的改进措施,以求满足人们＂享受生活＂、＂追求健康、舒适＂的居住需求。     

城市居民居住行为特征及对城市住宅的要求

随着我国城市化进程加速,城市居民居住的多样性、流动性与不确定性带来了多元化、个性化的生活方式,大规模的城市住宅建设所形成的单一性、集合性的住宅空间已成为现代城市住宅发展的阻碍。文章讨论了城市居民居住行为的变迁对城市住宅的新要求,认为现代城市住宅设计应具有一定的超前性,并能留给城市居民住宅改进发展的弹性空间,以适应不同人群对住宅功能不同的要求。     

Professionals' perceptions of offending in children's residential care

This paper reports on and discusses the results of part of the author's PhD study. It focuses on professionals' perceptions of the factors that contribute to young people in residential children's homes coming to the attention of the criminal justice system, with consideration given to how such perceptions might impact on responses to the young people. As part of a case study of a particular local authority area, the author undertook semi‐structured interviews and a focus group with 31 professionals from the care and criminal justice systems. The implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.     

加拿大土著同化教育的兴衰——以布鲁奎尔斯印第安寄宿制学校为例

历史上,开办寄宿制学校是加拿大政府对土著人实施同化教育的途径之一。布鲁奎尔斯印第安寄宿制学校的历史变迁为了解加拿大土著教育的发展历程提供了一个窗口。透过寄宿制学校的生活状况及联邦政府对土著教育采取同化、隔离、融合与自主的政策变化历程可以一睹加拿大土著寄宿制学校的兴衰。其衰落标志着教会与政府联合实施的同化教育的失败。随后,土著人重新掌控教育权,土著教育与西方教育相结合的模式既使土著年青一代适应了现代社会的需求,也确保了土著民族的价值观、认同感、语言及传统文化得以保留与传承。