Social Work Field Educators' Views on Student Specific Learning Needs

Each year a significant proportion of students withdraw from placement in time to avoid penalty, while others fail. This article reports on a small field education research project that identified common learning issues for first placement students. Eighteen experienced supervising field educators (FEs), participated in semi structured focus groups, and identified repeat areas of difficulty in student learning that they had managed as supervisors. They also identified strategies that had been efficacious in supporting student learning. The research undertaken in 2010–2011 identified three specific themes relating to difficulties in student learning: specific student characteristics that required additional support; the university/FE partnership; student proficiency in using supervision. The findings suggest that a students' right to privacy must be considered in the provision of educational support, and that support is most effective when there is a strong partnership between the FE and university. In addition, further development of field education pedagogy may be needed to embed theory and skills related to the use of supervision and reflective learning.     

Claiming a Space for International Social Work: Voices From the Field

Despite the rise in interest in international social work, surprisingly little empirical evidence exists outlining the knowledge, values, and skills required of social workers to succeed in the global arena. This qualitative study conducted from the spring through winter months of 2013 involved 10 semi-structured interviews with experienced international social workers triangulated with a content analysis of 52 international job postings. Findings suggest that social work professional perspectives including eco-systemic thinking, social justice principles, strength-based analyses, and foundational skills, such as developing empowering person-centered relationships, exhibiting cultural humility, implementing participatory approaches to research and practice, and demonstrating reflexivity, are not always valued by international colleagues nor sought in job advertisements. Furthermore, upon graduation, MSW social workers may lack key areas of expertise expected of international workers such as program monitoring and evaluation, grant writing, policy development, and communicating with media and high-level officials. Ultimately, the invisibility of foundational social work skills and lack of other technical expertise may not only challenge social workers' competitiveness on the global market but also threaten their maintenance of a professional social work identity over time. The authors provide guidance for schools of social work and accrediting bodies to improve social workers' readiness for international work and strengthen their presence in the international arena.     

The Struggle for the Soul of Social Work in England

There is a debate or struggle for the nature and future of social work in England. This tension is between a narrow or limited type of practice and a broader and emancipatory social work, grounded in the International Federation of Social Work and the wider conception of the profession in other European states. The limited model of social work seems to provide a dominant paradigm, which may result in the loss of a more visionary and humane social work. This is a qualitative study of an undergraduate social work programme in England. There were 48 participants, comprised of academics, students, service users and practice educators. Interviews and focus groups were used and a thematic analysis was undertaken. The key finding of this study is that the paradigm of state or statutory social work in England threatens to replace a broad conception of social work as understood in such definitions as the International Federation of Social Work and social work in other European states.     

The Integration of Personal and Professional Selves: Developing Students' Critical Awareness in Social Work Practice

How social work students incorporate personal and professional selves in the contexts of field education represents a cornerstone of effective and sustainable practice. This paper presents a qualitative component of a study that tracked 15 third-year bachelor of social work students across their first field placement to document their use of self, critical reflections and experiential learning. The project examined students' assessed ‘use of self’ assignments to understand their capacity for and development of critical awareness across this placement. Students were most articulate in being able to identify stressful situations that arose from placement in terms of what they were thinking (mind) and feeling (emotion) and to a much lesser extent to what they were sensing (body). Over time, students demonstrated a growing critical awareness to better identify and respond to their self-reported tensions. The findings provide developmental insights into how students integrate personal and professional selves and potentially shift from reflective and reflexive practices to incorporating praxis in their work. Through considering the linkages between self and practice, this paper explores student experiences whilst on placement and the associated developmental tasks of critical awareness.     

Family Structure and Quality of Life of Elders in Rural China: The Role of the New Rural Social Pension

Using data from a survey in Ankang district of Shaanxi province of China in 2011, this article examines the protective effect of the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP) on quality of life of rural elders, as well the moderating effect on association between family structure and quality of life. An instrumental variable approach is used. NRSP is shown to significantly improve the quality of life of rural elders, and a robustness check shows that this effect is consistent across different sets of subgroups. Compared with the elders who have at least one son, the quality of life of those who are childless or have only one child is significantly lower. The NRSP is more likely to significantly improve the quality of life of one-child elders. In addition, the associations between the NRSP and the different facets of quality of life of the elders are significant except for the facet of sensory abilities.     

认知方式与线索提示对学龄儿童基于事件前瞻记忆的影响

通过严格控制实验程序,首次考察认知方式和线索提示对8岁、10岁、12岁学龄儿童EBPM的影响,并分析学龄儿童EBPM的发展趋势后发现：（1）8-12岁儿童EBPM能力仍在持续向前发展;（2）认知方式在儿童EBPM加工过程中扮演着重要角色,对年幼儿童（8岁和10岁）来说,场独立者更善于完成EBPM任务,而对12岁儿童来说,场独立者与场依存者都可以很好地完成EBPM任务;（3）线索提示有助于学龄儿童完成EBPM任务,并能弥补场依存儿童EBPM能力上的不足。研究结果支持PM多重加工理论。     

《立法法》修改的宪法学分析

《立法法修正案(草案)》第5条缺乏宪法依据,该条规定将造成人民代表大会制度与依法治国(依宪治国)方略之间的冲突,且和《立法法修正案(草案)》第4条之间的逻辑关系混乱。《立法法修正案(草案)》第22条不是"根据宪法"制定出来的,其性质不能被视为对现行宪法第100条的修改或者拓展性解释。《立法法修正案(草案)》中没有涉及经济特区授权立法、民族自治地方立法方面的内容,也没有明确国务院发布的决定、命令相较于其他类型法律规范的位阶关系,应该将它们纳入其中。     

近代汉语中“与”“给”字式使役句研究

近代汉语使役句的句法结构可以表述为“主语＋使役动词＋兼语＋VP”,语义结构可以表述为“致事＋使役标记＋被使者＋结果”。通过对近代汉语“与”和“给”字式使役句句法和语义结构的分析,我们可以更加清楚地勾勒其发展变化过程,即使役动词从动作义到具体使役,再到抽象使役或被动义。     

非财务信息披露、管控能力和企业业绩

以主板市场上市的非金融、非ST且具有控股子公司的企业集团作为研究样本,借助管理控制系统相关研究的概念和思想,基于样本公司2011-2013年公开披露的各种管理会计相关信息,利用包括监督式机器学习等大数据技术,对会计信息进行量化分析,结合现有的治理和内控指数构建方法的思想,编制出一套反映企业管控能力的指数,并利用公司的财务绩效相关性对其进行效度检验.实证结果发现,该指数不仅具有当期的财务业绩相关性,也具有未来业绩的相关性,比较好地反映了企业的管控能力.     

《庄子》中“而”字用法研究

先秦散文《庄子》客观地反映了我国上古汉语用词的特点,其中的“而”字主要用作连词,亦用作助词和代词。用作连词主要连接词与短语、短语和短语,可表达并列、承接等10种语法意义。其余还有由“而”组成的“而况”“而今”“然而”“俄而”等几个复音词。《庄子》中“而”的一些用法非常特殊,一些用法已经逐渐消失,一些还沿用至今。