Civic Engagement Among Older Adults in a Rural Community

Abstract

This is a report of the second and final stage of a research project evaluating courses for community activists in Israel. We compared 286 graduates of Schools for Community Activists, of whom 198 were still active in their communities and 98 were not, with 138 activists and 131 non-active residents of the same neighbourhoods who had never participated in courses for activists. We noted no significant socio-economic or demographic differences between the graduates and the non-graduates. However, on a range of variables, we found consistent and generally significant differences between the graduate and non-graduate activists: the former reported higher levels of activism, knowledge and skills, higher community involvement and deeper community roots, and assessed more highly the prestige of community involvement. Few differences were noted on their assessment of the benefits and losses of community activity. Since the graduates and non-graduates come from similar backgrounds, we conclude that the courses made a significant contribution to the development and socialization of those activists who participated in them.     

Assessing program impact using latent growth modeling: a primer for the evaluator

Latent growth modeling (LGM) has emerged as a flexible analytic technique for modeling change over time because it can describe developmental processes at both the inter- and intra-individual levels. The LGM method can also provide a means for testing the contribution of other variables in order to explain variability in growth trajectories. This paper didactically illustrates the use of LGM as an analytical tool in program evaluation. Specifically, a hypothetical evaluation of a high school drug prevention program was used to demonstrate: (a) how LGM can be used to assess the longitudinal impact of a prevention program by comparing treatment and control populations with respect to individual differences in initial status and in rate of change; and (b) how predictors of initial status (post-intervention) and growth selected on the basis of a particular program theory can be incorporated in the model to explain program impact. Some advantages and limitations of using LGM in program evaluation are highlighted.     

真实、深刻、本土化——评刘树纲荒诞剧《一个死者对生者的访问》

刘树纲的荒诞剧《一个死者对生者的访问》，立足中国本土，借鉴西方荒诞派文学，在荒诞中的特有真实、荒诞中的特有深度、荒诞艺术的本土化上，均有瞩目成就，并全方位体现在作品立意、作品结构、作品艺术手法等各个方面，认真总结有利于新时期以来的文学建设。     

“多元整合”程序教法在球类教学中的运用研究

通过教学试验，研究了“多元整合”程序教法在球类教学中的运用效果，结果表明：“多元整合”程序教法以整合练习带单项技术，符合球类技术的掌握规律和学生的学习心理。     

教育哲学的大趋势——主体性教育

主体性教育是一种教育观念：它认为现代教育是以对真、善、美的追求为理想，以对受教育者的主体性的确认为依靠，以受教育者能动性和创造性的开发为核心，致力于促进人的主体性发展的教育。     

教育心理学在学生教育教学工作中的应用

本文首先具体叙述了教师的角色定位，表明了教师研究教育心理学的重要性，将教育心理学具体理论应用于课堂教学不仅可以提高教学质量，而且可将心理学适当地应用于学生教育工作，从而起到提高学生工作效率的作用。本文就是从具体的现实状况出发，用教育心理学里面的具体理论适当地应用于学生教育工作所起的具体作用。另外，本文以西安小学生的学习及教育为主要研究对象。     

Assessing the benefits of a rising tide: Educational attainment and increases in neighborhood socioeconomic advantage

An emerging approach to studying associations between neighborhood contexts and educational outcomes is to estimate the outcomes of adolescents growing up in neighborhoods that are experiencing economic growth in comparison to peers that reside in economically stable or declining communities. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), I examine the association between education attainment and changes in socioeconomic advantage in urban neighborhoods between 1990 and 2000. I find that residing in a neighborhood that experiences economic improvements has a positive association with educational attainment for urban adolescents. Furthermore, race-based analyses suggest consistently positive associations for all race subgroups, lending support to protective models of neighborhood effects that argue high neighborhood SES supports positive outcomes for adolescents residing in these contexts.     

Demonised,impoverished and now forced into isolation: the fate of disabled people under austerity

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced in the United Kingdom explicitly to help offset the extra costs of disability. The scrapping of DLA and its replacement with the so-called Personal Independence Payment is causing massive concern across the United Kingdom, not least because it comes in the wake of a large number of other cuts, all of which impact disproportionately on disabled people. These changes reflect the retraction of ‘welfare’ across many European countries. As the government has refused to perform a cumulative impact assessment to date, it has been left to grassroots organisations such as DPAC to assess the damage and put the bigger picture together. An article in the New Statesman reports research showing that by 2018 disabled people are set to lose an astonishing £28.3 billion worth of financial support. These changes are going to affect up to 3.7 million disabled people in total.     

失衡的消费与生活之重——城市中等收入阶层按揭购房后的生活质量调查

本文从当前社会热．最——住房消费问题进行研究。对城市中等收入阶层按揭购房后生活质量进行大量的调查。在充分掌握第一手资料的基础上采用SPSS软件对数据全面的分析，得出城市中等收入阶层在按揭购房后出现了明显的生活质量的变化——呈下降趋势。阐明问题的重要性并分析问题的原因，再提出具有可行性与较为科学的政策建议。     

高校网络德育的实效性及实践探索

高校网络德育在理论上有探索但没有完成，在实践上有尝试但没有成熟，其实效性也就更难以保证。高校网络德育的要件与一般意义的德育基本一致，而高校网络德育主体与客体的“分离性”与“间接性”决定了其实效性要件具有相对特殊性。从其特殊性出发，学校采取可行的措施，教师积极参与，主动介入并引导学生网络生活，适当开展网络德育活动，是提高网络德育实效性的一条比较可行的途径。