论图书馆专业人员的继续教育

通过对成人继续教育的论述 ,探讨了在新形势下开展图书馆专业人员继续教育工作的必要性、主要内容及形式     

和谐社会背景下的成人高等教育人才培养模式探究

构建和谐社会是社会主义社会的本质特征和要求。而高等教育又是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要基石。本文从和谐社会构建的视角出发,深入阐述和谐社会建设与成人高等教育的互动关系,在此基础上,从目标、课程、方法、师资与评价等方面探究构建和谐成人高等教育人才培养模式的途径。     

The Process of Entering into Cohabiting Unions

Over one half of young adults have lived or will live with a partner before marriage. Many studies indicate that the majority of cohabitors plan to marry their partners, yet research examining relationship progression is rare. This article deciphers the processes underlying entrance into informal unions. Data are from 25 open‐ended interviews with cohabitors who had lived together for at least 3 months. For many, the relationship progressed rapidly; over one half moved in with partners within 6 months of initiating romantic relationships. Primary reasons for cohabiting included finances, convenience, and housing needs; cohabiting as a trial marriage was not mentioned as the principal reason for moving in together. Plans for marriage remain abstract even when respondents determine that they and their partners are compatible.     

论成人教育外语教学的原则

成人教育是我国高等学历教育的重要部分。正确把握成人外语教学大纲、制定科学合理的教学计划和教学安排等诸多原则对搞好成人外语教学,提高成人外语教学质量具有积极的指导作用。本文就成人教育外语教学的原则进行探讨,旨在引起从事成人教育外语教学的同仁及管理者的广泛深入研究。     

儿童生活世界：冲突与共生——成人与儿童视域融合之视角

儿童生活世界应是强调“儿童在场”和“以儿童为场”的世界。成人视域下的儿童生活世界充满了对儿童的历史性误解和期望性建构,这种对儿童生活世界的理解具有成人化、未来化、功利化、技术化、知识化等弊端。它与儿童视域下的儿童生活世界具有明显的冲突。为寻求成人视域与儿童视域中儿童生活世界的共生与融合,文章借助胡塞尔现象学中的“生活世界”概念,论述了儿童生活世界应是对儿童开放性成长、游戏性学习及感受性体验的充分彰显,儿童生活世界应以“儿童在场”为基础对儿童的“教育场”、“游戏场”、“生活场”进行深度融合。     

“家长执照”与家长教育问题审思

中小学总有教育家长的冲动,这种冲动表现在"家长执照""家长学校"等所谓创新上。家庭比学校古老得多,家长过去一直主导着子女的教育,但如今家庭、家长的教育地位前所未有的下降。中小学及其教师教育家长的冲动正是家庭、家长教育地位下降的反映。问题不是不能教育家长,而是谁有资格教育家长。家长教育属于成人教育、非正规教育,只有成人教育机构才有教育家长的资格与能力。对中小学及其教师来说,家庭、家长是与他们处在平行位置的平等教育主体,是合作的对象,不是教育的对象。中小学及其教师从事的是基础教育,不是成人教育,不具备教育家长的资格与能力。越界而教,不但无益,反而有害,包括削弱家长的教育能力,放大学校教育体系的缺陷等。     

普通高校成人教育应将学历教育和技术资格培训相结合

论述了普通高校成人教育试行学历教育和技术资格培训相结合的必要性和可能性。阐述了重庆大学成人教育学院根据重庆地区经济、科技发展需要进行“双证”培养试点的实践。     

Bibliographical Note

In England in the Middle Ages, inheritance data were recorded of tenants who owned land from the Crown. Male adult mortality is estimated from these data. A tenant was allowed to sell his land. Only if he still owned land at death, his age at death was observed; so death was right censored by sell of all the land. The censoring times are not observed because sell of land was never recorded. This makes the estimation problem nonstandard. The age at death is left truncated, because a future tenant had to survive his testator to inherit the title “tenant” and the land and to appear in the dataset. Life span distribution and life expectancy are estimated before and during the outbreak of the Black Death, which started in 1348.     

Chapter 7 Sexual Abuse of Older Women Living in Nursing Homes

Abstract

Aggregated data from APS case files of sexually abused older women between the agesof70 and 89living in nursing homes were collected over a five-year period, yielding a total of 50 substantiated cases. The most common types of sexual abuse involved instances of sexualized kissing and fondling and unwelcome sexual interest in the women's body. All alleged perpetrators were male; they typically were 70 years of age and older and residents in the nursing home. In only three cases was the alleged offender prosecuted in court and only one of these cases was the offender convicted. Implications of these data for future practice and research are discussed.     

The Relationship of Social Support to Functional Limitations,Pain, and Well Being Among Men and Women

The purposes of this study were to assess the relationships of functional limitations, pain and well being to social support (emotional, tangible, informational and integrative) and to assess gender differences in these relationships. Except for integrative support, significant positive relationships were found between types of functional limitations and specific types of social supports among 15 men and 15 women (M = 67 years) with end stage joint disease. Pain was not significantly associated with any social support, but well being was related to informational and emotional supports. As compared to men, the relationships of tangible and integrative supports to well being, pain and functional impairment were signficantly greater for women as was the association of emotional support to limitations in mobility and physical activity. In contrast, women had signif~cantlys maller relationships of emotional support to limitations in ADL and household activities.