高校大学生信息导航服务实践与启示——以佛山科学技术学院为例

阐述大学生信息导航队伍成立的背景、作用和意义,分析该队伍开展信息导航服务的实践和效应。指出开展学生信息导航服务,有利于发挥大学生的信息技术优势,是创新与发展地方院校信息素质教育的重要举措。     

我国商贸流通服务业拢略问题研究

当前形势下加快我国经济转型面临许多深层障碍,从商品流通领域入手,寻求宏观经济层面新的解决方案是合理的选择之一。本文针对商贸流通业发展存在的种种问题,提出商贸流通服务业深度参与“转方式、调结构”战略,政府机构改革、职能转变先导战略,商贸流通服务业新思路促消费战略等系列前瞻性、战略性观点。     

太谷农民专业合作社科技服务及培训问题研究

太谷县农民专业合作社依托山西农业大学和山西省农科院,扎实开展科技服务及培训工作,不仅有效整合了当地科技资源,成为科技服务的重要组织平台,而且提高了农民的科技文化素质与生产经营能力,成为农民科技培训的重要主体。但在服务及培训过程中,还存在着人才匮乏、产学研脱节、资金短缺及农民参加培训积极性不高等问题,为此,要进一步加强创新型科技人才队伍的建设,完善产学研协同创新的机制,建立资金投入稳定增长的机制,提高农民参加培训的积极性,以促进农民专业合作社的持续健康发展。     

我国农村社区卫生服务的现状与对策

农村社区卫生服务是我国卫生事业改革的重要课题,也是建设社会主义新农村的重要内容。经过近些年的努力,我国农村社区卫生服务取得了较大成绩,但仍然存在硬软件、资金、管理及服务内容不到位等方面的问题,基于当前现状,应着力从服务理念、政府主导功能、多元化资金渠道、信息化建设以及服务评估制度等方面加以完善。     

民主监督与村民自治制度的完善——以广东省蕉岭村务监督制度的实践为例

自2007年起,广东省梅州市蕉岭县纪委创造性地在当地开展＂村务监事会＂试点工作,使得监事会对村务的监督权得以落实并形成与决策权、执行权分列的村级＂三权分立＂状态,增强了村委会的公信力,完善了村民自治制度建设。蕉岭县的村务监督工作制度和实践经验,对指导当前村级民主发展、完善村民自治制度,加强基层民主政治建设、预防村官腐败,巩固农村基层政权、维护群众利益、保证新农村建设顺利发展,具有普遍意义。实践证明,村务监事会今后还应在规范监事会的监督权力来源、监督流程、建立对监事会监督工作的评估制度等方面进一步加强与完善。     

When practice and policy collide: Child welfare workers' perceptions of investigation processes

This qualitative study examines variability in practices surrounding Child Protective Services (CPS) investigations regarding the allegations of child maltreatment. Working under the auspices of a community-research collaboration with Department of Human Services officials, university researchers conducted a series of focus groups with CPS caseworkers in a state that was under court-ordered consent decree to improve child welfare investigations. Focus groups with caseworkers sought to better understand caseworkers' common investigative practices and their perceptions of best practices in conducting child welfare investigations. Two main areas were noted for improvement: (1) the need for ongoing training of CPS workers, particularly at the stage of initial intake of the allegations of maltreatment, and cross-training of police and hospital staff who regularly work with CPS, and (2) implementation of an improved risk assessment tool. These recommendations are discussed in detail.     

Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Maximising Learning Transfer from Learning and Development Activity

This article builds on the learning gathered from the evaluation of a Scotland-wide child protection training programme. Based on Kirkpatrick's four-level framework, the study aimed to evaluate the impact of the learning programme on the practice of participants in the workplace. The study prompted the authors to examine the literature on maximising learning transfer across a range of occupations. This literature is discussed in the light of the findings from the evaluation and the experience of the authors in designing and implementing continuous professional development programmes in social services.

The practice of inspection, monitoring and audit seems to have impacted negatively on staff's willingness to participate in data collection, and coupled with what appeared to be confusion about data protection legislation, the perceived burden of audit and inspection has significant implications for research and evaluation activity.

Suggestions are made for the future design, delivery and evaluation of learning and development activity, and the role of managers is explored in relation to their responsibility for preparation, support and follow-up of workplace learning.     

Integrating Services for Older People in Aging Communities in The Netherlands: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Approaches

ABSTRACT

The aim of this article is to discuss approaches to services integration for older people in urban and rural aging environments in The Netherlands, and the preliminary effects of these approaches on local aging conditions. In urban areas, services integration revolves around the creation of functional spatial hierarchy. In rural areas, the emphasis is on forging links between service providers. Outcomes for health and use of professional care services are similar. Out-comes for housing, informal care, and accessibility of services differ between urban and rural areas in ways that can be traced back to local aging conditions and elements of the specific approach to services integration used. In both urban and rural areas, much more could be done to connect formal programs to the lifeworlds of older dwellers.     

Is Sweden Being Torn Apart? Privatization and Old and New Patterns of Welfare State Support

This article examines the potential impact of institutional change on popular welfare support. The encompassing welfare state of Sweden provides an interesting case where the privatization of social service delivery has been widespread over the last decades. We use survey data from five rounds of the Swedish Welfare State Survey (1992, 1997, 2002, 2006 and 2010) in order to study how public preferences for the financing and organization of welfare services have changed over time. Based on a theory describing an ideal‐typical pattern of public support for an encompassing welfare model, we derive three types of public preferences: support for a pure state model, a pure market model and a mixed model (welfare services are funded by taxes but provided by private firms). We begin by tracking the development of these ideal‐typical attitude patterns between 1992 and 2010. We then investigate how preference patterns vary across municipalities displaying different degrees of privatization of social service delivery. Our results show that welfare support among Swedes over the last decades is better characterized as dynamic rather than stable. Swedes seem to take an overall more ideologically based position on the role of the welfare state over time. The share of respondents expressing such ideologically based preferences has increased from 54 per cent in 1992 to 78 per cent in 2010. This change is principally manifested in increased support for the state and mixed models. This trend seems to be parallel to the increasing share of private welfare service providers over the last decade. We also find a link between the municipal degree of privatization and support for our three ideal‐typical welfare models. Public support for a mixed welfare model and, to some extent, a market model, is comparatively stronger in municipalities where welfare services to a large extent are carried out by private actors. Conversely, data shows that public support for the traditional Swedish state model is more widespread in municipalities having a low degree of welfare services privatization. Lastly, we discuss some theoretical implications of our findings.     

农村养老保障政策取向 ———基于情境认知的视角

借用情境认知理论审视新中国成立以来农村养老保障政策,可以发现,情境切换引致政府情境认知的变化,最终导致农村养老保障政策的“格式塔”转换。当前,我国政府对农村养老保障的情境认知表现为“以人为本”的政策价值和“构建城乡一体化的社会保障体系”政策目标,但需要在情境认知的牵引下对农村养老保障政策进行优化,即在扩大农村养老保险覆盖面和提高待遇水平的同时,发挥政府、社会、市场三方的作用,积极发展农村养老服务。