Childhood social anxiety and social support-seeking: distinctive links with perceived support from teachers

Social support-seeking is recognised as an important strategy used by children to cope with negative emotions. However, there are important gaps in our knowledge about children’s perceptions of different sources of social support, and the associations that these perceptions have with individual differences in socio-emotional functioning. The present study focused on elucidating the links between social support-seeking and social anxiety in children, with particular attention to support from teachers. One hundred and eight 11- to 12-year-olds completed measures of social anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as a questionnaire measuring social support-seeking processes for coping with a generic friendship problem. Preliminary analyses showed that teachers were less likely to be approached for social support than parents and peers, and were viewed as least available and least effective. However, social anxiety—independently of depressive symptoms and gender—was positively associated with a greater self-reported likelihood of approaching teachers for support. Moreover, this effect was partially mediated by the perceived effectiveness of emotion-focused support from teachers. These results point to theoretical and practical implications regarding the salience of social support in school for children with higher levels of social anxiety.     

Bounded Boards: a Commentary on the Limitations of Knowledge and Scope of Research on Boards of Higher Education

Innovative Higher Education - Despite the emergence of new scholarship, public higher education boards in the United States remain relatively under-investigated. While the literature on higher...     

新编地方志与当代区域社会史研究

新编地方志的编纂出版,恰逢国史和区域社会史研究肇兴,它不但是当代区域社会史研究选题的淘金地,而且为学者们进入并研究地方社会提供了路线图和资料库。地方志是研究区域史的基本资料,是研究历史的重要切入点。随着修志工作的不断完善,新志必然随着史学常新成为永不枯竭的史料来源,为我们提供新中国社会尤其是底层社会的全息图片,以揭示地方社会各个领域各个角度各个层面的不同面貌和本质特征。     

Closely Observed Training: an exploration of links between social structures,training and identity

ABSTRACT

This paper suggests that, while there is a wealth of work on the economic benefits of training, relatively little attention is being given to relationships between vocational training and broader social structures and trends. The focus here is on social processes within vocational training. The paper is based on ethnographic research into training for employment in the field of institutional care. This study documented dramatic adjustments in young people's attitudes towards work which occurred in the course of training. The paper explores ways in which training contributed to these adjustments. Two fundamental inter‐related processes are identified, which may also have wider relevance: screening for social and cultural attributes and discipline. The analysis of the discipline of training draws upon the work of Foucault in order to highlight the importance of current trends towards increased ‘surveillance’ and accountability at work. Through such processes, it is suggested, training may both serve to reinforce links between class, gender and occupational destinations and may also reinforce the control of labour within occupations.     

Practice chains of production and consumption: mediatized practices across social fields

The argument developed in this paper is that a focus on practice provides some resolutions to methodological problems facing Bourdieuian scholarship in education. In order to develop Bourdieu's work on practice to account for the interactions between practices, this paper presents a conceptualization of practice as chains of production and consumption. The first part of the paper reviews the account of practice offered by Bourdieu both embedded in practice games and as field effects. The second part of the paper introduces practice chains of production and consumption as a way to conceptualize practice by drawing on a case involving print journalists’ involvement with policy makers over the course of an Australian policy review. The final section presents a discussion of this conceptualization and highlights the potential of the concept for further research in understanding the processes of educational policy development.     

Education,social class and social exclusion

This paper begins by noting the centrality of the issue of working-class school failure within the sociology of education in Britain. It argues that recent government policies have taken insufficient account of sociological work on the impact of social class on educational success and failure. It also suggests that sociologists should pay more attention to middle-class education. The importance of this is illustrated through reference to research on the trajectories of pupils receiving different forms of secondary education. The paper then argues that social inclusion policies need to address a variety of forms of middle-class self-exclusion from mainstream public provision as well as working-class social exclusion. It concludes that education policy needs to be located within a broader social policy framework.     

基于互补能力的信息化投资决策与区域信息消费水平

不同经济主体特质所引起的信息化投资与消费意愿不同.经济主体累积的现实ICT互补能力是不同主体选择信息化投资水平存在差异的原因.建立了累积ICT互补能力所引起的进行信息化改造投资水平与消费水平选择模型.运用区域信息化数据,检验了信息化与区域信息化互补能力的关系,进一步证实了信息消费系数与研发强度、从业人员受教育水平之间的显著的正向关系,理论与实证证据都充分证实了,为了推进两化融合,政府必须强化对教育和研发的投入促进政策,提高区域创新能力.     

Private Higher Education in Russia: capacity for innovation and investment

This article considers the potential role of private institutions in the development of Russian higher education. After decades of a government centralised higher education system, there is a clear trend towards the privatisation of education institutions and the diversification of education practices. Some commentators consider this to indicate that the Russian State is losing control of education; others welcome private initiatives, both in formal and informal education. Russian higher education has also been greatly challenged by the current demographic gap: the total number of secondary school graduates expected in 2012 is half that of 2006. This strengthens the competition for the enrolment of students in private and public (federal and municipal) institutions. Based on recent interviews with senior management at a number of provincial private universities, this article suggests possible avenues for private universities to extend into the education market and considers the implications.     

疫情与教育:兼论绿色教育体系构建

疫情带来的灾难深重,重温《学会生存》可以让我们再次思考教育对“人”的回归。在此背景下,新时代区域教育在国家总体指引和部署下,必须以主动姿态回答时代的新命题,宁波教育必须坚持“绿色”发展理念,从体制机制、育德铸魂、课程和教学以及评价等方面,构建富有区域特色的绿色教育体系,以实现教育和人本身的健康、可持续发展。     

区域经济与职业教育

知识经济时代,一方面经济发展对职业教育提出要求,要求职业教育为经济发展培养所需要的劳动后备力量和各种层次、各种规格的专门人才;另一方面,经济的发展又为职业教育发展提供物质条件。经济的发展是职业教育发展的基础,经济的发展制约着职业教育的发展,要求职业教育的发展与之相适应。     

区域经济与高等教育的发展

区域经济的崛起，成为经济全球化过程中的重要支撑点，这就意味着，在这些崛起的区域中，区域的形象超越了大企业的形象，超越了国家与行政的边界，在全球化国际分工中显示出不可替代的作用。在区域经济发展过程中，区域创新又成为区域经济发展的主要动力，依靠区域创新，落后的区域经济可以实现跳跃式发展，而区域创新能力的强弱则已成为区域经济发展存在差异的重要原因，在知识经济社会，创新制度环境的各要素-政府、企业与大学，将以市场要求为纽带而联结起来，形成一种三种力量交叉影响的螺旋关系，那科研院所与大学将区域经济发展中发挥强大的技术创新辐射作用，而其中大学的作用尤为重要，因此，由于大学在促进区域经济发展承担了“动力源”的历史作用，区域高等教育发展的生命线，就在于满足区域经济发展对高智力综合因素需求，而要完成这一光荣艰巨的历史使命，个性化发展，将成为未来区域高等教育发展的主流方向，只有通过个性化发展，区域高等教育才能真正实现和社会经济相辅相成，共同发展。