When the Norwegian child-welfare services get involved: parents making sense of referrals

There is limited research exploring parents' views and understanding of referrals to the child-welfare services (CWS). This study explores parents' understanding of the circumstances leading to a child-welfare referral, and their understanding of the reporter's objectives in making the referral. Qualitative content analysis and frequency analysis was performed on open-ended survey responses from a sample of 683 Norwegian parents in contact with the CWS. The results showed that the majority (60.2%) of the parents perceived the referral to be initiated solely because of parental difficulties and multiple family life stressors. Some of the parents (22.8%) believed the referrals were initiated exclusively because of their children's problems, whereas a few (13.3%) perceived it to be a combination of parental/familial difficulties and children's problems. The findings reveal that close to half of the parents (46.4%) felt the objective of the person making the referral was to help the child, their parents and the family. Some (36.5%) saw it as a routine or mandated action by public or official services, while others (18.7%) reported that they did not know why referrals had been made, or gave no answer to the question. A small group of parents (6%) viewed the referral as an act of harassment. The main implications of these findings are discussed.     

Conceptualizing reflection in experience-based workplace learning

This paper seeks to understand key dimensions of reflection in experience-based workplace learning for research being collaboratively undertaken by scholars in Dutch and US research institutions. We systematically explore and compare Tara Fenwick’s analysis of five perspectives on cognition to distinguish among constructivist, psychoanalytic, situative, critical-cultural, and enactivist perspectives on reflection. Our aim is to examine how to conceptualize reflection so that one or more perspectives can complement our understanding of learning through experience at work. We position reflection not only from a practical but also from a theoretical perspective that moves beyond the individual focus of the constructivist perspective. Fenwick’s five perspectives are described in terms of whether and how reflection is utilized, key activities in the process of reflection, relative focus on the individual and/or the context, triggers for reflection, role of power and positionality, role of emotions, and reflection outcomes. We conclude that adding other lenses to the dominant constructivist perspective helps expand our understanding of reflection as well as identify and attend to other tools, people, and factors in the work situation that influence reflection processes and learning outcomes. The paper closes with a discussion of promising new approaches that have emerged since Fenwick’s analysis.     

Close encounters: Exclusion and marginalization as an intersubjective experience

The following paper will review current writings in intersubjective literature in order to examine how the issues of race and ethnicity color the therapeutic encounter in relation to paradigms of power and authority, transference, and countertransference and the “ethnic third.” It will then use two case vignettes to illustrate that therapists and clients coming from different cultural and ethnic groups can find ways to bridge their differences around race and culture through mutual experiences of exclusion and marginalization. The vignettes will illustrate some of the intersubjective interplays that are possible through the use of cultural rituals and symbols, both in order to form an empathie connection and in order to examine how race and culture shape the therapeutic relationship.     

生态人类学的理论源流及其后现代特征

生态人类学是文化人类学的一门新兴的分支学科,已成为西方当代文化人类学的重要流派,并对文化人类学的发展产生了很大影响。生态人类学的不同流派以不同形式反映了“环境决定论”的基本思想,对人类中心主义、科学主义和理性主义等现代性的批判表现出明显的后现代主义思想特征。     

参与观察、类型比较和文化变迁的经验基础--评费孝通与利奇之间的理论分歧

本文对费孝通和利奇的理论作了较为详细的对比分析 ,并找出了他们的分歧所在 ,有助于社会人类学学者对我国社会问题的进一步研究     

中国特色社会主义理论体系方法论中的传统智慧

中国传统思维方式中的思想精华和合理内核,是中国特色社会主义理论体系方法论的一个重要来源,并在中国特色社会主义理论体系中得到传承和发展,主要表现在从“经世致用”到理论与实际相结合、从“一多统一”到主导性与多样性相结合、从“循序渐进”到顶层设计与摸着石头过河相结合、从“重视整体”到整体思维与协调发展相结合、从“贵和尚中”到和谐相处与求同存异相结合、从“知行合一”到认识与实践相统一等方面。研究中国特色社会主义理论体系方法论中的传统智慧,有利于进一步增强民族文化自信,坚持和发展中国特色社会主义,促进马克思主义中国化。     

生态伦理视阈下习近平生态文明建设思想论析

当代中国,在决胜全面建成小康社会和实现国家现代化的进程中,人民群众在享受改革开放和现代化建设丰硕成果的同时,正遭受到环境恶化和生态危机的严峻挑战。当前保护自然环境和保持生态平衡,既是人类面临的重要伦理道德问题,也是我国必须正视的重大现实课题,必须坚持马克思主义生态观,积极吸收中国传统生态伦理思想,推进生态文明建设。中国传统文化中蕴含着天人合一的生态和谐理念、珍爱生命的生态人文精神、物人平等的生态伦理思想和可持续发展的生态价值取向等深刻的生态伦理思想,为当代中国生态文明建设提供了重要借鉴。马克思主义生态观中关于人类来自于自然又依存于自然、人与自然具有相互影响与和谐统一关系的思想,强调自然界是人类生存和发展的基础、为人类社会延续提供了重要物质保障的论述,关于人既属于自然界又是自然界长期演进的产物、人类必须尊重自然、绝不能凌驾于自然界之上的观点,已成为中国特色社会主义生态文明建设的根本指导。当代中国在以习近平同志为核心的党中央带领下,积极顺应当今世界发展潮流,以马克思主义生态观为指引,吸收借鉴我国传统生态伦理思想的积极成分,在新时代的历史境遇中采取切实可行的科学路径,持续推进生态文明建设。一是树立生态文明理念、完善生态环境立法,为生态文明建设提供根本保障;二是倡导生态环境民主、提高民众参与意识,形成生态文明建设的巨大合力;三是提升政府生态服务能力、推动生态文明制度建设,为生态文明建设提供制度基础;四是优化国土资源开发、有效利用自然资源,为生态文明建设奠定基本前提;五是加强国际交流合作、积极借鉴学习,为共建人类生态命运共同体创造重要条件,真正走出一条独具特色的生态文明建设之路。     

毛泽东思想公理化理论体系论纲

毛泽东思想是个完整、系统的科学理论,公理化方法是自然科学研究中理论构建方法,应用公理化方法研究毛泽东思想理论体系是一种尝试。研究指出,实事求是、群众路线、独立自主是毛泽东思想的三大公理;实际、理论、实践、群众、自己力量是毛泽东思想的基本概念;以此为逻辑推理前提,可以逻辑地推导出毛泽东思想的所有理论命题,建立起毛泽东思想公理化理论体系。     

论江泽民“三农”思想的理论贡献

面对农业、农村、农民问题出现的新情况,江泽民同志从我国国情出发创造性地将三者综合考虑,系统、深入地论述了巩固农业基础、推进农村发展、保护农民利益的思想,为"三农"问题的解决做出了重要的理论贡献。江泽民同志的"三农"思想对全面建设小康社会特别是新农村建设有着重大的现实意义。     

公民参与:我国政府决策民主化的应有之义

现代民主理论的产生,为公民参与政府决策奠定了理论基础.就目前我国的实际情况而言,公民在意见表达、参与水平、及参与的影响力等方面存在很多问题,应从公民参与的制度层面、政治文化层面、组织规模层面提高公民参与政府决策的水平,特别是要保持公民参与和政府承受力之间的平衡.