Young people and high school in Mexico: subjectivisation,others and reflexivity

This article is based on the finding that for many students, high school is a place for young people's life and living together, a place for subjectivisation. The process of subjectivisation is approached through a discussion that questions conceptions of students as strategists of their school trajectory, as well as conceptions of youth life as the excitement of vibrating together. The claim is made that young people's life at school is a process of finding meaningful Others: other styles, other friends, and the other gender. Faced with options and risks, students also develop reflexivity. These topics are examined in three different scenarios: a general high school that is part of the university system in Mexico City, a technical high school in the metropolitan area, and community intercultural high schools in an indigenous rural zone.     

Encounters with identity: reflexivity and positioning in an interdisciplinary research project

This paper discusses researcher identity, positioning, and reflexivity as they relate to the experience of a researcher on an interprofessional research project. The project collected video recordings of students and healthcare professionals in university and clinical settings. During the process of data collection, ‘conversations’ emerged between the researcher and participants. They occurred before and after recordings took place and outside of the planned methods of data collection. These unaccounted-for-encounters between the researcher and participant produced a negotiated understanding of who each other were and how it related to the research process. But dichotomous notions of insider and outsider identity seemed too fixed to examine the social construction of knowledge produced in these encounters. This paper examines the methodological reflections on those unaccounted-for-encounters, which emerged as instances of participant focussed reflexivity. It aims to demonstrate how positioning can offer a more refined means with which to highlight the processes and practices which participants and researchers undertake in interaction. These researcher–participant encounters were sites of knowledge construction transversing professional and educational territories and transient opportunities for negotiated intersubjectivity. As such, they highlight the role that positioning can play in not only individual methodological matters but for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary research teams.     

Identity and Intimacy in Religiously Observant and Non-Religiously Observant Adolescents and Young Adults in Israel

Abstract

Ego identity and intimacy are two sequential stages, according to Erikson's theory. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between ego identity and intimacy, as two continuous multidimensional variables among religious and non-religious individuals. Eight sample groups (age × gender × religious observance) comprising 308 subjects responded to The Adolescent's Ego Identity Scale (AEIS) (Tzuriel 1974 Tzuriel, D. 1974. Well-formed ego identity as contrasted with diffuse identity as a function of cognitive complexity, ethnocentrism, and nationality identification among oriental and western adolescents (in Hebrew), M. A. Thesis Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University.  [Google Scholar]; 1984 Tzuriel, D. 1984. Sex role typing and ego identity in Israeli oriental and Western adolescents. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46: 440–457. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; 1992a Tzuriel, D. . Ego identity and emotional disturbance at adolescence. Paper presented at the 25th International Congress of Psychology. Brussels.  [Google Scholar]) and to The Sharabany Intimacy Scale (1974). There was a difference in the ego identity variables' predictive profile for the various intimacy dimensions and the general intimacy score among the religious groups and among the non-religious groups, both for the two age groups (adolescents and adults) and for the two genders. A characterization of each group results from understanding these differential relationships. This research was conducted under the auspices of Orot Israel College.     

Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship: struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world

This paper presents research findings from an ethnographic study carried out with 24 low‐income youths (ages 14–16) living on the economic fringes of urban inner‐city Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Our primary aims are: to expose the stratified subcultural articulations of citizenship as they are expressed, through language and symbol, by the young people within our study; and to demonstrate how critiques of (neo‐)liberalism in political thought, when combined with a cultural sociology of youth, might alter our subcultural reading of young people's conceptions of citizenship under the dynamics of radical social change. Our ultimate goal is to develop a more nuanced sociological examination of the ways in which young people deploy and utilize the language of citizenship as part of their own cultural struggles, exacerbated in times of state retrenchment, to classify themselves and others as one method of achieving visibility and legitimacy in urban concentrations of poverty.     

中小学教师教学风格调查表的研制

教学风格是教师在教学过程中的偏好性与习惯化的行为方式,是具有多维度的心理结构。参照有关文献并结合省内的调查研究,编制出中小学教师的教学风格调查表。通过对183名浙江省中小学教师测量结果的因素分析,得出教学风格的六个因素,分别命名为情感陶冶、知识训练、教师中心、学生中心、严格严谨和体系形象。该量表因素结构清晰,信度、效度较好,符合心理测量学的要求,可以作为评定中小学教师教学风格的有效工具。     

Young people in the argentine education system: Their inclusion and exclusion

Graduate in political sciences, University of El Salvador. Post-graduate in education and society, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Argentina). Co-ordinator for education and society, post-graduate professor of education and society and of the diploma in social sciences (educational management) for FLACSO. Invited post-graduate professor at the University of Bologna. Consultant to the OEI, CEPAL and INAP. Professor of educational policy at the National University of La Plata. Editor of the reviewPropuesta educativa [Educational offer].     

Young people, citizenship and citizenship education in Zimbabwe

Citizenship education in Zimbabwe is based on the claim that young people lack citizenship virtues. This study set out to investigate these assumptions by assessing high school students’ knowledge of, attitudes towards and participation levels in citizenship issues. Findings show that while students are knowledgeable about citizenship issues they are however, hesitant about involvement in political activities. The study concludes that the reported claims are partly not valid. In a politically sensitive environment students are unwilling to engage in political activities. They accurately assess the situation and adopt a position which other citizens in similar circumstances might take.     

数学解题中的模型化思考

数学解题中重视数学模型化方法对培养学生的能力是十分有意义的。不少复杂问题,如果有意识地引导学生从题目的特点出发,恰当地构建数学模型,不仅能在解题时另辟蹊径、避繁就简,而且还能培养学生的数学建模能力。     

Young people,education and hope: bringing VET in from the margins

Vocational Education and Training (VET) plays an important role in the reshaping of upper secondary school curriculum. Retention to the end of secondary education in Australia went from 35% in 1980 to 72% in 2000. This increase caused major problems for the senior school curriculum which historically prepared students for university entrance but now has to serve multiple purposes. While the purposes of VET suit different groups, our interest is those students alienated from, reluctant to complete, or attempting re-entry into senior secondary education. Our objective is to understand policy reforms in this area, in order to assist stopping the spiral of disadvantage in which these young people are caught. We shall argue that VET has the potential to re-engage young people with education. With the labour market becoming more knowledge-based, such re-engagement becomes increasingly important. We ask to what extent is the post-compulsory curriculum serving student and family ambitions for employment in a way that is equitable and inclusive?     

Survey of the Living and Working Conditions of Young Intellectuals

Since February 1982, the students enrolled after the reform of the college enrollment system have graduated and been assigned to work in various fields. These 1981, 1982, and 1983 graduates have become reinforcements for the contingent of intellectuals and a vital new force for the cause of the four modernizations. If we truly want to implement the Party's policy on intellectuals an all-round way and to avoid "treating the head when the head aches and treating the foot when the foot hurts" in our work on intellectuals in the future, we should get a timely understanding of how these young intellectuals fare in life, work, and study as well as their mental attitude, to provide an objective basis for the leadership to formulate policies. With this in mind, we surveyed a number of young intellectuals in institutions of higher learning, research institutes, secondary schools, and industrial and other units in Shanghai in June 1984. The survey adopted the method of random sampling. The data were collected from respondents' answers to the questionnaires distributed, and from panels we held. The following is a brief summary of the survey results of the living and working conditions of the 120 young intellectuals whom we used as our sample.     

Consulting About Consulting: Young people’s views of consultation

The increasing recognition that children and young people should be consulted and involved in decision‐making about their lives is reflected in national and international legislation. A great deal of this legislation, stemming from the UN convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), requires education authorities to consult children and young people when making decisions about their education. However, little is known about how children and young people themselves would like consultation to proceed. This study held four focus groups of young people with and without Additional Support Needs (ASN) to address this question. The young people came up with many suggestions which can be used to guide future consultation work, but the main message was one of individual choice. Children and young people want to be consulted but the consultation should be tailored to their individual needs if it is to be truly successful. There are lessons to be learned for EPs and other professionals who regularly seek the views of children and young people.     

新课程实施背景下的班主任工作理念

有什么样的课程体系 ,就会有什么样的班主任工作与之相适应。新课程的顺利实施要求班主任树立新的教育理念 ,本文主要从全面、综合的教育观 ,民主、平等的学生观 ,人本、自律的管理观 ,多元、发展的评价观等方面作了探讨。     

关于一个角能否作出的问题

本文给出了一个有理数度的角能用尺规作出的充要条件     

Capturing habitus: theory,method and reflexivity

Bourdieu’s career long endeavour was to devise both theoretical and methodological tools that could apprehend and explain the social world and its mechanisms of cultural (re)production and related forms of domination. Amongst the several key concepts developed by Bourdieu, habitus has gained prominence as both a research lens and a research instrument useful to enter individuals’ trajectories and ‘histories’ of practices. While much attention has been paid to the theoretical significance of habitus, less emphasis has been placed on its methodological implications. This paper explores the application of the concept of habitus as both theory and method across two sub-fields of educational research: graduate employment and digital scholarship practices. The findings of this reflexive testing of habitus suggest that bridging the theory-method comes with its own set of challenges for the researcher; challenges which reveal the importance of taking the work of application seriously in research settings.     

Personal Narratives of Young People Working in a Caring Environment

Abstract

This article provides some insight into the biographies of young adults undertaking a Youth Training (YT) caring course in both National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and non‐NHS settings in England. The data form part of a wider ethnographic account of the personal narratives of young people on government‐sponsored vocational schemes. In general, the study explores aspects of their world of work, but in particular this article looks critically at the trainees’ experiences of their practical placements during their first year on the programme.     

The language of friendship and identity: children’s communication choices in an interfaith exchange

The development of partnerships between schools and school children of different religious and cultural backgrounds is currently being promoted at national level in an attempt to encourage social cohesion in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. This article reports on one such partnership, a programme of email communication between children from primary schools in Leicester and East Sussex. It uses concepts of presence and space to analyse the different linguistic and paralinguistic devices children employ to construct their identities as friends and as representatives of their communities, and to project these identities across a cultural divide. Evaluation of the children’s language choices identifies tensions and limitations as well as possibilities. The article makes use of Derrida’s deconstruction of hospitality as it questions a too ready adoption of the discourse of friendship for children’s intercultural encounter, and suggests that the development of a more sophisticated language of interest, politeness and respect provides them with a firmer foundation for positive and productive dialogue with religious difference.     

Young people learning about health: the role of apps and wearable devices

ABSTRACT

Young people’s engagement with digital health technologies is dominated by risk narratives. Yet, there are very limited understandings, from the perspectives of young people, about the health-related issues and opportunities generated by digital health technologies. This article presents new evidence on the types of health-related apps and devices young people find, select and use, and the reasons for their choices. Data were generated from a participatory mixed method design with 245 young people (age 13–18). The data were analysed using a content-led pedagogical framework. The data illustrate, vividly, young people’s agency in digital health contexts and the complexity and fluidity of young people’s decision-making. Schools, PE lessons and sport, as well as family members and peers, were powerful influencers on young people’s digital health-related knowledge and behaviours. It is argued that better understanding young people’s agency in digital health contexts offers important insights into developing effective health-related pedagogies.