External Assets as Predictors of Positive Emotions Among At‐Risk Youth in Malaysia

The present study is among the first to examine external assets as predictors of positive emotions among at‐risk youth. The study aims to examine the associations of external assets with positive emotions, determine external assets as a predictor of positive emotions in phase 1, and see if these predictors were consistently established in phase 2. At first contact, 403 participants from low‐income apartments in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, aged 13–25 years were asked to complete the 25 Developmental Assets, Malaysian version. The participants were also invited to participate in social activities organized by the PERMATA community. The same participants were approached four months later to examine the stability of measures. Multiple regression analysis revealed support is the most significant predictor of positive emotions at phase 1 whilst positive peer influence, family boundaries and caring neighborhood are the significant predictors at phase 2. Results suggested that the presence of other external assets can enhance the positive development of at‐risk youth, however, the support must be present to some extent in the first place.     

共青团贯彻“三个代表”重要思想的思考

"三个代表"重要思想不仅是我们党必须长期坚持的指导思想,也是共青团必须长期坚持的指导思想.共青团要贯彻"三个代表"重要思想,就要引导广大青年投身全面建设小康社会伟大的实践,要用先进文化塑造青年,要不断为青年的成长成才服务,为青年的就业创业效劳.     

论来源原则在办公自动化系统中的应用

将电子文件的来源信息著录在元数据之中,可以从根本上保证电子文件的证据价值.然而,要以档案学的来源原则为指导在办公自动化系统中做到这一点,就必须首先更新传统的来源观念,代之以"广义的来源"观.它比西方学者提出的"概念来源"更适于在OA系统中应用.具体在全宗层次,除传统的主体全宗以外,还应该划分客体全宗,其划分标准有三点;在系列层次,则可以根据职能来源自动标引系列号;此外,还应该组织虚拟案卷,以便著录最微观层次的来源信息.如此构建形成虚拟存在的"电子全宗"、"电子文件系列"和"电子案卷",则可以看作传统全宗及案卷形态的异化.     

综合实践活动课教师培训的组织设计

为了在短期内培养足够数量的、能够有效促进综合实践活动课开展的优秀教师,需要对新课教师培训进行组织设计,主要包括组织结构设计和组运行设计两个方面。根据综合实践活动教师培训的组织原则,在组织结构设计方面,我们应该选择适当的培养模式;在组织运行方面,我们需要完善每个管理环节。     

"问题"与"主义":两种思想谱系的历史演绎--从知识社会学的视角看《新青年》和《每周评论》的衔接

“问题”与“主义”的论争在本质上还是意识形态内在规定性的冲突。五四以来两种思想谱系分别以不同的变形进行着思想的交锋。从《新青年》和《每周评论》演绎出的思想史命题来看,今天的学术立意不应该总是停留在孰胜孰负的判别上。作为启蒙思想史的一桩公案,“问题与主义之争”是思想史上一次双赢的典型个案。     

《红豆》与《青春之歌》对爱情的双重理解

50年代小说《红豆》和《青春之歌》都描写了知识分子的情感生活 ,真正从爱情本身出发 ,写出了丰富性和复杂性 ,是对当时“革命 +恋爱”小说模式的反拨。但那个年代的作家无法挣脱政治意识的束缚 ,她们的思想和创作都无法避开“为政治服务”的套路 ,爱情则成了神话 ,而且一旦背离了革命 ,将必然走向崩溃 ;只有依附于革命 ,爱情才有可能获得新生。     

知青运动与毛泽东的"三农"思想

知青运动是20世纪中国具有广泛影响的社会政治运动.从社会历史的角度看,知青运动归根结底是为了解决青年的社会就业问题,它与毛泽东的"三农"思想密切相关.毛泽东认为,农村是个大有作为的广阔天地,农民是吸纳性最大的劳动群体,农业是劳动就业的主要通道,因此,提出面向农村的就业方针,并以运动的形式付诸实施.毛泽东在考虑青年就业问题时,基本上是从政治角度考虑,而不是从经济角度考虑.     

Communicating science to the public through targeted messages

The process of communicating science-based information through the mass media is often not the most effective way to meet the information needs of audiences. In many instances these needs can be met more effectively and efficiently through targeted messages. These are communication products that fill, in as direct a manner as possible, the information needs of specialized audiences.Although targeted messages occasionally are prepared for the mass media, more often they are communicated via booklets, brochures, audiovisual materials and other media that best reach the intended audience, allowing for limitations of budget and time.A model for producing and disseminating targeted science messages in the area of youth and family development is presented, and several case histories are described. The principal benefit of this model is that it permits scientists a measure of responsibility for the accuracy and validity of what is being communicated, and at the same time, assures that the product meets the needs of its audience.     

“Adding Their Flavour to the Mix”: Involving Children and Young People in Care in Research Design

Abstract

Children and young people are often the subjects of research but are not usually thought of as codesigners of research projects contributing to the development of tools and resources so that research about them and their peers is more likely to be appropriate and effective. This paper describes and analyses the involvement of a group of 14 children and young people who have been in out-of-home care. They assisted in the design of a research project that sought their views on what makes a “good” foster carer. The impetus for this study arose from a desire to include children and young people as stakeholders in improving the foster care system and a long-held belief that they could and should be active partners in creating change. The study demonstrated how children and young people could be engaged creatively in individual and group conversations and activities in relation to potential research questions and research methods and tools. The paper concluded that capturing their views will ensure that research will be of benefit to other children and young people and to policy makers and practitioners working in the field.     

CULTURAL STUDIES IN GERMANY REVISITED

By drawing upon the insights of the Bakhtin Circle, this paper explores the extent to which the public sphere can open up possibilities for resistance to dominant social relations through ‘traces of meaning’. The author wishes to show how a public space for execution in seventeenth and eighteenth century London opened up a place at different levels of abstraction for a popular plebeian public sphere to flourish. When this public sphere disappeared in 1783, it is shown how its traces of meaning still survived in popular culture. These traces of meaning were re-combined through a royal crisis by more political labouring movements in the early nineteenth century that, in the main, unintentionally re-accentuated the same seventeenth- and eighteenth century-public space in London. By exploring the changing form of this public sphere it is shown how a dominant discourse changes over time and how this dominant discourse can be rendered in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin as ‘heteroglossic’ and refracted into modes of public resistance in specific spaces. To demonstrate this, the ideological form of the public sphere in early nineteenth century Britain is outlined and is then shown how it became refracted within the royal scandal which, in turn, came to be refracted within a specific space in London.