Promoting child protection, welfare and healing: the case for developing best practice

This paper presents a 'best practice perspective' on child and family work. This involves moving beyond the 'deficit perspective' which dominates how the literature examines practice negatively in terms of what is not being done well to one which sets out best practice positively as a model for learning and developing systems and practice competencies. The paper focuses specifically on the meanings and development of best practice in family support in the context of child protection work. This involves work that is not only sensitive to achieving child protection and empowering practice in the context of power differences, but which meets the challenges of engaging therapeutically with and ultimately helping (often resistant) service users. The paper argues that issues of trauma and healing, and self-actualization more broadly, need to move to the centre of how family support and child protection are theorized and done. The aim should be to promote child protec-tion, welfare and healing through the development of egalitarian relationships in what Giddens calls the 'democratic family'.     

Indigenous studies and intercultural education: the impact of a place‐based primary‐school program

The article presents a student‐impact assessment of a model two‐year place‐based intercultural approach to indigenous education. Students at Lewis & Clark Primary School in Missoula, Montana, connected face‐to‐face with tribal educators and members residing in the nearby American Indian reservation. The program’s learning outcomes included impressive gains in knowledge of Montana tribes, fewer stereotypical images, enhanced consciousness about the histories and cultures of the place in which students’ reside, heightened appreciation for and connectedness with Native Americans, and increased cultural awareness. The power of the place‐based intercultural‐education approach is that K‐5 students can acquire cultural knowledge, break stereotypes, and develop new appreciation for, and interest in, diverse peoples and issues by directly experiencing the local context in which diversity resides.     

The human genome diversity project

This article examines the relationship between indigenous sovereignty and identification as instanced by the legal and political debates informing the Human Genome Diversity Project. The HGDP proposes to map the history of human origins and migrations by the identification and measurement of populations. I analyze the impact of the criticisms of this agenda and methodology by indigenous nations, organizations, and advocacy groups, focusing on the incommensurability of populations with indigenous identifications as peoples. My argument is that the work of identification is the mediation of the terms and conditions of indigenous sovereignty in the very real places where their intellectual property rights and the ethics of scientific research are negotiated.     

滴水仪式、功德储备与德昂族保护环境资源的地方性知识

在乡土社会中,水是构建地方性知识的重要基础.在中国德昂族的佛教信仰体系中,每一种活动最后举行的滴水仪式以及仪式用水指向的功德储备的表意超越了本身的宗教含义,最终进入到保护环境资源的地方性知识体系中——把水滴人土地意味着滴水者在一系列轮回中会生活在有水滋养的肥沃土地上.在他们对女神Nang Wa SongDe Rui作为土地的化身以水的形式收录着众生各自所累积的功德的解释中,实际上表露出的是他们对生存之本的尊崇和对佛的虔诚.在功德通过生命之源储备于生存之本的过程中,通过舍功德、累积功德和记录功德表现出来,实践着该民族的生态话语权.在环境问题全球化的今天,这种地方性知识对应对当前的环保问题有积极的意义.     

温泉疗养院康复性景观规划设计分析

随着社会的不断发展,温泉疗养院康复性景观作为辅助治疗手段越来越受到人们的关注.温泉疗养院康复性景观具有定位多样化、服务特殊性和环境高感知性等特点,也具有康复疗养、休闲娱乐、文化教育和社会经济等功能,因此,疗养院景观规划设计应遵循可持续发展、以人为本设计理念,遵循整体性、生态性、多样性、特色性和经济性等设计原则,更多地关注使用者的生理与心理需求,利用自然景观来改善和维护人们的身心健康,把人与自然紧密联系起来,创造出生态和谐和人性化的温泉疗养空间.     

周道对大运河的启示： 本土遗产话语的道统源流

在国际遗产名录话语下，大运河的遗产意义定位面临诸多难题，无论作为水利工程、交通网络、景观或者民俗文化都不足以体现中华文化独特的人文深度。从经传所载的路径文化遗产，如《诗经》的“周道”、《尚书·禹贡》的“随山浚川”、《左传》的“邗沟”，以及其他相关记载，可探寻运河遗产的本土意义。周道所承载的德政之流、王道空间观，以及古人用注疏接续和再生遗产意义的阐述方式，对于打破运河作为物质还是精神遗产的争议、确立用经义申明遗产大义、以本土话语平衡西方遗产表述都有重要启迪。大运河遗产申报应该是“以古为新”、重新发现中华遗产道统源流的创新过程。     

The Sweat Lodge Ceremony for Spiritual Healing

Abstract

Of the many Indigenous ceremonies that have a spiritual component, few are as immediate and powerful in restoring a balance of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well-being as the sweat lodge. Sweat lodges are often incorporated into healing programs that serve Aboriginal people, and are also available to non-Indigenous people. Their appeal across cultural and religious traditions stems from a nondoctrinal view of spirituality. A preliminary study of effect of the sweat lodge ceremony indicated measurable changes in spirituality. Additional analysis of the data suggests that existential coherence among participants increases as a result of the ceremony. The sweat lodge ceremony may help participants to increase their sense of spirituality and connection to each other.     

Child Abuse Detection

No abstract available for this article.     

浮躁之源及其救治之道

浮躁是当今人类文明机体上的一颗“毒瘤”,它根源于现代人欲望的快速膨胀与能力的缓慢提升之间的冲突.生活节奏加快、工作量激增、竞争加剧、风险社会来临等催生浮躁的社会因素,都直接或间接地源于现代技术的快速扩张.然而,由于技术在社会生活中的基础支持作用,人们不可能通过放弃技术开发及其推广应用的方式根治浮躁.现代人应当通过技术的人性化、分工协作、构建休闲文化、重建精神家园等途径,从根本上逐步消除浮躁之风,进而走上健康发展之路.     

晋升锦标赛的历史作用与现实局限

文章探讨了晋升锦标赛的历史作用与现实局限，指出其历史作用为在法治建设是一个渐进过程下，晋升锦标赛能够有助于地方政府的市场化改革和硬化原来的预算约束。而现实局限为在地方政府仍控制大量经济资源下会产生新的软预算约束，以及忽视本土企业的发展，从而对长期推动经济增长造成威胁。结论是应该重视和建立本土企业与地区民众的呼声机制，以有效控制地方政府行为偏差，并最终淡化晋升锦标赛的作用。