Students’ health engagement and affective relations in Danish upper secondary school

To increase our understanding of the dynamics of young people’s embodied engagement in health, this article analyses Danish upper secondary school students’ understandings and practices of health and the role of the school environment in these dynamics. Participatory, visual and narrative data were collected during fieldwork with 37 students aged 16–17. Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of the body is applied to analyse the affective relations and emerging body-health assemblages within the students’ school life, which generated force and vitality (here conceptualised as health). Through becoming within sensuous, social and political body-health assemblages, the students attempted to curb school stress, sustain social belonging in an individualistic school environment and both reproduce affirming power discourses and subvert their territorialisation. The study proposes an analytical shift in perspective on young people’s health away from an individualistic ‘components approach’ towards a relational understanding, and suggests that students’ health at school relates to collectivity, quality, rhythm and co-produced engagement, rather than individuality, quantity, rules and performance, which increasingly characterise Danish health discourse and school policy.     

The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media

ABSTRACT

In a high-choice media environment, there are fears that individuals will select media and content that reinforce their existing beliefs and lead to segregation based on interest and/or partisanship. This could lead to partisan echo chambers among those who are politically interested and could contribute to a growing gap in knowledge between those who are politically interested and those who are not. However, the high-choice environment also allows individuals, including those who are politically interested, to consume a wide variety of media, which could lead them to more diverse content and perspectives. This study examines the relationship between political interest as well as media diversity and being caught in an echo chamber (measured by five different variables). Using a nationally representative survey of adult internet users in the United Kingdom (N?=?2000), we find that those who are interested in politics and those with diverse media diets tend to avoid echo chambers. This work challenges the impact of echo chambers and tempers fears of partisan segregation since only a small segment of the population are likely to find themselves in an echo chamber. We argue that single media studies and studies which use narrow definitions and measurements of being in an echo chamber are flawed because they do not test the theory in the realistic context of a multiple media environment.     

Historic Preservation and Elementary Student Extracurricular Community Service

Elementary students survey buildings in an extracurricular community service project to learn social studies and historic preservation. From these experiences students formed values and dispositions by engaging in a constructivist process of creating knowledge by examining their community. They gathered data, transformed it into information, and shared it with the larger community. Because students learned what community means in reality, not just reading about it, they had a different understanding of how they related to the place they called home. Examining these types of questions helped elementary students have significant experiences that helped them to connect community members with the importance of place. The built environment is the context for historic structures. Student engagement with the social studies curriculum allowed them to create investigations with architecture to broaden their understanding of their world.     

Young people's educational aspirations: psychosocial factors and the home environment

Utilising data from Understanding Society (2010–2013), this study examined the contribution of young people's psychosocial and background factors and home environment to their educational aspirations in the UK. Young people's general well-being and self-efficacy emerged as good predictors of their educational aspirations as did some aspects of their home environment. Interestingly, filial dynamics such as emotional closeness to parents and cultural capital (e.g. participating in cultural events, discussing books) were better predictors of 10–15-year-olds’ aspirations than were more school-driven parent–child interactions (e.g. homework, extra-curricular activities). Furthermore, the findings from this study showed no shortage in young people's educational aspirations although interesting demographic trends emerged with certain groups (i.e. preadolescents, males) being less aspirant than middle adolescents and females. These findings have significant implications for family and educational policy, especially with regard to ‘raising aspirations’ and reducing early school leaving and, also, for reconsidering the role of the home environment as a web of emotionally and intellectually charged relationships between parents and children rather than an extension of the school day. Finally, discussions on young people's educational aspirations should not be polarised but informed by notions of opportunity (structure) and what young people make of it (agency).     

文明网络环境对青少年健康成长的理性思考

网络环境对于青少年成长发展具有双重影响和作用,是一把双刃剑。分析网络对青少年健康成长负面影响的因素,找出应对的措施,是营造青少年健康成长的文明网络环境的必要条件;网络负面作用的扩大在一定程度上反映出我们教育的滞后,加强青少年网络素质教育,营造文明的网络环境尤为重要。     

人口变动的生态经济效应分析

人口数量的增长、人口生活质量的提高、人口增长分布的不均都有可能导致生态环境的恶化。按照现行的衡量标准,生活质量的提高在某种程度上对生态环境的影响更大。控制住人口不仅能提高我们的生活质量,而且能为我们提供一个适宜的生存环境。生活质量的提高不仅仅体现在GDP的增加上,更应体现在生态环境的优化上。     

中国当前的经济环境与会计国际化策略选择

伴随着经济全球化和金融市场国际化前进的脚步,会计国际化已经成为世界经济贸易发展的必然趋势。经济环境直接影响和制约着会计国际化的程度,由于中国现有的经济结构、市场化程度、会计环境等方面特殊情况,决定了中国实现会计国际化还需要走很长的路,最主要的是逐步解决经济环境这一深层次问题。     

加强高校图书馆现代化建设的思考

本文针对当前网络信息逐渐进入高校图书馆的现实,在文献资源建设目标、培养大学生信息素质、提高馆员信息能力方面提出了一些新的思路和方法。     

本科院校培养大学生创新能力的探索与实践

培养大学生的创新能力,不仅是知识经济社会对人才的要求,也是国家、民族以及大学生个人持续发展的需求。在新形势下,本科院校怎样合理定位自己的人才培养目标,如何培养具有创新能力的合格人才,是一个值得深思的课题。结合长沙理工大学的实际,探讨了本科院校培养大学生创新能力的基本思路和有效途径。