Exploring relational engagement practices in stroke rehabilitation using the Voice Centred Relational Approach

While discussions on patient engagement commonly focus on patient behaviors, a small body of research highlights the patient-practitioner relationship as critical in engagement. Understanding this relationship might be facilitated through a relationally-oriented methodology. The Voice Centred Relational Approach is one such qualitative methodology. Within this paper, we present one turn in a long conversation about this methodology. Drawing on our longitudinal observational study of engagement practices in stroke rehabilitation in New Zealand, we explicate how a theoretical framework can inform how the Voice Centred Relational Approach is enacted in the research process, from entering the field to dissemination. We detail how we adapted the associated analytic techniques (the Listening Guide and i-poems) for use with multiple forms and sources of data. We propose that the underlying relational ontology and relational orientation of this methodology makes it a useful approach in researching relational practice in healthcare.     

Generations learning together: pilot study for a multigenerational program

Generations need to spend time in meaningful activities to facilitate more healthy interactions. An interdisciplinary team worked together to implement an enriching, intergenerational project with 4 year olds, college students, and older adults. College students played an active role in planning/facilitating activities. The overall objective of the research was assessing perceptional change between the generations using pre/posttests with college students, pre-post interviews with older adults, and pre-post teacher led discussions with children. Findings suggest that older adults and college students had improved perceptions. Children’s perceptions remained negative with some positive perceptions.     

A relational approach to responsibility in organizations: The logic of gift and Lévinasian ethics for a ‘corporeal’ responsibility

The main purpose of this article is to classify some of the main theories on responsibility in organizations using a relational approach, according to the logic of gift. Since the logic of gift can be quite ambiguous and ambivalent, it will be necessary to clarify what this logic means from a philosophical point of view. In order to reach this purpose, a Lévinasian approach to responsibility will be used. After having clarified the concept of responsibility here adopted, the article will focus on relationships and their meaning. I argue that many of the theories on responsibility in organizations lack of the complexity and pluralism that the logic of gift can provide for the comprehension of relationships of responsibility. After having mapped the main theories on responsibilities in organizations using the logic of gift, the article will propose an evolutionary path to develop existing or new theories according to this approach.     

也谈人的本质问题

正确理解马克思主义关于人的本质的科学理论 ,必须把握三点 :一要正确认识自然属性虽是人性的重要内容 ,而人的本质特指人的社会属性。二是正确认识社会属性的内容 ,把思维、语言或理性、自觉能动性等一一列举作为人的本质属性缺少概括性、逻辑性 ,人的本质属性可概括为生产劳动与人类思维两个方面。三要正确认识马克思关于人的本质是一切社会关系总和的著名论断 ,是针对并批判费尔巴哈脱离社会关系的抽象人性论 ,旨在强调人的本质是由现实、具体的社会关系决定并由一定的社会关系体现的 ,而并非说人的本质属性即指社会关系本身     

Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds

Family relationships across several generations are becoming increasingly important in American society. They are also increasingly diverse in structure and in functions. In reply to the widely debated “family decline” hypothesis, which assumes a nuclear family model of 2 biological parents and children, I suggest that family multigenerational relations will be more important in the 21st century for 3 reasons: (a) the demographic changes of population aging, resulting in “longer years of shared lives” between generations; (b) the increasing importance of grandparents and other kin in fulfilling family functions; (c) the strength and resilience of intergenerational solidarity over time. I also indicate that family multigenerational relations are increasingly diverse because of (a) changes in family structure, involving divorce and stepfamily relationships; (b) the increased longevity of kin; (c) the diversity of intergenerational relationship “types.” Drawing on the family research legacy of Ernest W. Burgess, I frame my arguments in terms of historical family transitions and hypotheses. Research from the Longitudinal Study of Generations is presented to demonstrate the strengths of multigenerational ties over time and why it is necessary to look beyond the nuclear family when asking whether families are still functional.     

E-governance and Corruption-developments and Issues in Ethiopia

This paper reports the results of a survey of 400 respondents in Ethiopia about factors generating corruption and the potential of e-Governance to mitigate corruption. It is suggested that e-Governance can help not only in weeding out corruption but also in the establishment of sounder government citizen relationships in Ethiopia. While e-Governance cannot cure all the structural factors that breed corruption in the society, strategic implementation of e-Governance can help improve the critical variable in combating corruption-government citizen relationships. It is argued that while e-Governance initiatives can make important contributions to improving public services they can best do so by helping improve overall relationships between governments and citizens.

旅游目的地利益相关者管理战略研究——基于社会网络视角

旅游目的地各利益相关者群体之间因旅游发展事宜,相互联系,互相博弈,形成了多元关联、交错纵横的关系网络.该网络的网络结构直接影响着目的地管理机构(DMO)对其利益相关者的管理战略.运用社会网络分析法,尝试突破二元结构分析范式,对DMO与利益相关者之间的多元关联进行剖析,并根据网络密度和中心性指标,对DMO面对不同的网络结构时应采取的利益相关者管理战略进行探讨.研究结果表明,当DMO处于低中心性、高密度的利益相关者网络时,应采用服从战略;当DMO处于高中心性、高密度的利益相关者网络时,应采取妥协战略;当DMO处于低密度、高中心性的利益相关者网络时,应采用控制战略;当DMO处于低中心性、低密度的利益相关者网络时,应采用独立战略.     

Patterns of Bully/Victim Problems in Mixed Race Groups of Children

This study investigated the extent of bullying within and between British Asian and White girls and boys (n = 156) and some of the reasons why it occurs. There was no significant difference in the percentage of peers that nominated Asian and White children as either bullies or victims. Contrary to our prediction (derived from Tajfel's social judgement theory), both Asian children and White children were significantly more likely to be named as bullies of same-race classmates than to be named as bullies of other-race classmates. Again contrary to our prediction, for Asian boys and White boys there were no significant correlations between general racial preferences/attitudes on the one hand, and the extent to which they were named by classmates as bullies of other-race children on the other hand. In order to investigate the types of bullying directed at own-race and other-race pupils, a subset of the sample of children (n = 60) were also asked about the specific types of bullying they had experienced, and who was responsible. Some significant racial differences emerged, most notably that proportionally more Asian children than White children reported that they had been teased about their colour or race by children of the other-race, and the opposite was the case for non-racial types of teasing. The implications of these results for children's social development, and for school's attempts to remove bully/victim problems, are discussed. One recommendation was that teasing, and especially racial teasing by racial majority pupils, should be a focus for intervention.     

人的社会本质与人的发展--《德意志意识形态》关于人的社会本质的论述及其当代语境

人的社会本质在于人的社会关系。社会关系是指许多个人的合作或许多个人的共同活动。它实际上决定着一个人能够发展到什么程度。人在社会关系面前是受动的,又是能动的,二者的统一构成了人的社会本质发展的动力。私有制条件下人获取自己的社会本质和实现这种本质的发展有重重的障碍。应该充分认识我国社会关系的当代转向,借鉴西方现代化过程中人的世界的发展与物的世界的发展的不同步性、不平衡性的教训,确立新的发展理念,实现人的社会本质的发展与社会的发展、人的社会本质的现代化与社会的现代化的统一与协调。