Disabled people,choices and collective organisation: examining the potential of cooperatives in future social support

Major shifts in funding, demography, personal expectations and the rise of a global disabled people’s movement require new and creative solutions to the choices and rights agenda into the twenty-first century. Direct payments and the individual employment of personal assistants is one clear and recognised path to independent living. However, there have been some reservations about the nature, process and impact of the broader personalisation agenda more generally within which direct payments and personal budgets are located. Some commentators point to the loss of the collective impulse in personalised approaches – ideas that were central to the development of the independent living movement and its founding principles. Some countries have seen the rise of collective responses to direct payment developments. This is explicable in terms of a suspicion of individualist underpinnings of personalisation coupled with a collective vision of social life. This article is based on an exploratory study of collective approaches in the field of direct payments where choice and social solidarity are being combined. Drawing on developments in Sweden, England and Wales, the article aims to inform possible future debates about direct payments and cooperative approaches and argues that greater user-control is not inimical to enhanced collective action.     

英语学习自主性能力培养与形成性评价体系的运用

教学目标的实现,会受到教学手段和评价机制的相互制约,只有二者共同作用才会产生高质量的教学。对学生自主性的培养,关键是增强学生的自信心,而形成性评价方式将有助于提升学生的自信心。本文探讨形成性评价在大学英语教学中对培养学生自主性学习所起的作用及其运用。     

关于情感因素与日语自主学习的实证研究

情感因素在外语学习中具有重要作用,是影响学生自主学习的主要因素,直接关系到学习效果。对日语专业的学生调查结果显示：习得日语的自信心、日语的喜爱程度等感情,与学习者的学习态度和努力程度之间有显著的相关性,是影响自主学习和学习成绩的重要因素。     

市场营销专业自主探究式教学模式初探

市场营销专业是一个理论与实践紧密结合的专业。引入自主探究式教学模式是培养学生自主学习能力、创新能力的有力保障。以此从自主探究式教学模式的现状及存在的问题出发,提出了构建自主探究式教学模式的几点建议。     

Enhancing the Career Planning Self-Determination of Young Adults with Mental Health Challenges

The impact of an intervention on the self-determination and career planning engagement of young adults with mental health challenges was studied. Sixty-seven young adults, 20 to 30 years of age, with mental health diagnoses (e.g., depression, bipolar disorder) were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. Statistically significant greater increases were made by the intervention group versus the control group for self-determination and career planning engagement, and self-determination at least partially mediated increases in career planning engagement. With career planning self-determination interventions, young adults with mental health challenges might be able to achieve better career and life outcomes than is typical for this population.     

The Relationship between Adult Students' Instructional Technology Competency and Self-Directed Learning Ability in an Online Course

The main purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between adult students' self-directed learning (SDL) ability and instructional technology (IT) competency in an online course. The study also investigated motivation and learning strategies that the students used to learn IT. The research involved surveying 198 continuing education professionals who took online courses at a large Midwest state university. The results indicate a statistically significant positive correlation between SDL ability and IT competency in students with above average SDL ability. The results also indicate that motivation is an important factor for learning technology in an online course regardless of the students' SDL ability. Additionally, the results show that students with higher level of SDL ability are likely to exhibit higher level of self-efficacy for learning and performance, and higher level of effort regulation.     

工作场自我导向学习的双子模型

自我导向学习是员工在工作场地中学习的一条重要路径.由于工作场地环境的特殊性以及自我导向的学习自身的特殊内涵与规律,影响自我导向学习的因素也区别于学校环境中的学习.总体上看,制约工作场自我导向学习的因素可以分为内部因素和外部条件两大类,内部因素包括策略、调控、评价、兴趣,外部条件包括自主性经验、自我能力的经验、组织和谐度的经验.两类因素相互作用,构成了工作场自我导向学习的双子模型,制约着学习的过程与结果.     

导向型自主学习在计算机基础课程教学中的研究

计算机基础课程教学在本科教学中具有十分重要的意义。但随着计算机技术的迅速发展和大学新生计算机水平"非零起点"的新趋势,迫切需要加大改革力度,寻求一种高校计算机基础课程教学新体系和新方法。本文旨在计算机基础教学中溶入一种先进的教育理念,改变教学方法和教学环境,形成提高学生自主学习能力的土壤和条件,从而构建计算机基础课程为导向型自主学习课程。     

Action and Reflection in Work with a Group of Homeless People

The paper reviews work with a group of homeless men and women and explores contradictions which became manifest for the worker as he engaged clients who are economically and therefore socially and politically a part of an oppressed class. The work of Paulo Freire informs the discussion and illuminates practice principles toward a more radical approach to group work with poor, institutionally oppressed people. The paper also addresses clinical aspects of the group. Thc contention is that the historical split between social action and clinical work can be healed when work is focused at the psychosocial interface.     

Exploratory Analysis of Factors Associated with Participation in Self-Directed and Traditional Marriage and Relationship Education

Although self-directed marriage and relationship education (MRE) has the potential to reach a larger or different audience than traditional MRE, little has been done to examine the characteristics of self-directed MRE participants. This study examined whether various individual, couple, family, and sociocultural context variables predicted participation in both self-directed and traditional MRE programs. A series of logistic regressions were conducted on a cross-sectional data set. Different factors predicted participation for each intervention. For self-directed programs, factors predictive of involvement included older age, religiosity, higher education, being more self-regulated, having a neurotic partner, more open relationship boundaries, a history of divorce, more relationship problems, and more family-of-origin problems. A wider range of factors predicted participation in traditional programs. Some factors increasing odds for participation in one intervention decreased odds in the other. Implications for MRE are discussed. This study provides evidence that some higher risk couples may choose self-directed MRE over more traditional programs.