Integrating Identities: Facilitating a Support Group for LGBTQ Students on a Christian College Campus

College can be a challenging time for young adults, as many are experiencing life on their own for the first time, adjusting to new lifestyles, new social groups, and new ways to express themselves. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) college students, the challenges are increased as they face harassment, discrimination, and struggles with identity. For LGBTQ students on a Christian campus, the integration of spiritual and sexual/gender identities can pose even more challenges. Research has shown that LGBTQ individuals are at a higher risk for mental health issues, as are those who fail to integrate spiritual and sexual/gender identities. This article will use a review of the current literature to address the need for LGBTQ support groups on Christian college campuses as a means to help these students resolve internal identity conflicts. This article also will demonstrate a rationale for why these groups are needed, identify specific interventions that can be effective, provide implications for counselors, and offer suggestions for future research.     

Learning and the development of social identities in the subjects Care and Technology

This article discusses the way in which social identities structure the learning processes of students in two subjects in the Dutch secondary school curriculum—Care and Technology. It analyses interviews with 23 students and their teachers with a view to explaining the disappointing results in these subjects in terms of breaking through gender and class‐related preferences and learning outcomes. The subjects Care and Technology refer to social practices with which groups of students identify in different ways. On the other hand, students also appear to make active use of these subjects in their identity development. The authors argue for explicitly combining the notion that learning is peripheral participation in social practices with analyses of the power relationships that structure those practices. Also, the question should be addressed of how the relative autonomy of the school can be used for organizing learning experiences in such a way that the constraints of social position and identity are reduced, and the restrictive character of social identities is challenged.     

化解阶级阶层和利益群体矛盾,实现社会和谐

改革开放以来,中国社会阶级阶层结构发生了巨大的变化,逐步形成了不同的阶级阶层和多种利益群体,同时社会分化明显,利益矛盾突出,利益关系复杂化,收入差距拉大,利益矛盾两极化.因此,必须采取建立容纳利益表达机制,创设利益均衡制度,领导者从思想上牢固树立爱民思想等措施,在工作方法上抓主要矛盾,并运用不同方法化解不同的矛盾,才能实现构建和谐社会的长远目标.     

The Post-Modern Student

Abstract

The differences between present-day post-modern students and educators from older generations require changes in educational approach, but also challenge post-modern trends. Students' postmodern experiences may lead them to seek individuality among diverse sources of identity, seeing knowledge as a throwaway consumption good, and education promotes flexibility and “edutainment.” However, professional education trains people for structured managerialist organisations and the accumulation of shared professional knowledge. Social work education needs to be reframed as a process of emergence in which educators and students work jointly to create knowledge and identity in their professional area. To operate in an increasingly complex and changing society, students need to create a strong professional identity and learn how to transfer knowledge and values from one situation to another. In this way, social work education connects with the Danish managerial concept of “chaos pilots” in which students are prepared to deal with cultural and social change.     

浅谈高职院校农村贫困新生的心理调适

农村贫困生的心理障碍,与新生入学时的心理冲突得不到及时调整密切相关。高职院校的学生工作者应深入分析了解贫困新生面临的各种心理冲突,完善助学体系,提供贫困生施展才华的舞台,引导贫困生正确评价自我,正视新环境中遇到的困难和挫折,树立科学学习观,建立起良好的人际关系,学会心理保健技巧,远离心理危机。     

Subtractive Schooling and Identity: A Case Study of Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam

This article examines the impact of subtractive schooling, including language use in education, on the identity of a group of ethnic minority students in Central Highlands of Vietnam. Drawing on semistructured interview data, a deeper look is taken into the ways in which these students identify themselves with their languages, cultures, and social relations. Findings reveal that the subtractive power of the school language and the institutional milieu profoundly influenced their identity construction by creating the conditions for (a) the devaluation of their language and cultural identity as a consequence of the invasion of their sociocultural territory by the dominant language and culture and (b) the segregation and disunity that affected their identity construction through social relations. Although subtractive schooling apparently facilitated students’ integration into the mainstream, its invisible power forced them not only to integrate but also to bear the full burden of constructing new identities to adjust to the school environment and the mainstream society.     

浅谈大学生心理健康教育

大学生心理健康教育是促进大学生全面发展、提高人才培养质量的重要途径和手段。本文通过对大学生在社会适应、自我认知、人际交往等方面存在的心理冲突进行分析，提出了对大学生进行心理健康教育的措施。     

大学生社会责任感教育存在的问题及优化策略

大学生的社会责任感意识如何,直接关系到我们国家的未来和民族的前途。然而,在社会转型的宏观背景下,部分大学生的社会责任感缺失现象日益凸现。对此,高校应坚持＂以人为本＂的教育理念;以社会主义核心价值体系为导向,深化社会责任感教育的内涵;构建社会、家庭、学校通力协作的一体化教育体系,提升社会责任感教育的实效;加强社会实践,拓展社会责任感教育途径。     

National identity,patriotism and studying politics in schools: a case study in Hong Kong

After reunification with the People's Republic of China in 1997, Hong Kong was turned into a special administrative region. The new government has repeatedly emphasised the development of national identity and patriotism. One of the locations where these issues might be expected to appear is in the teaching of Government and Public Affairs (GPA), an optional subject offered to secondary students aged 15–18. The aim of this paper is to study the perceptions of GPA teachers in order to address two issues. First, how do GPA teachers who teach politics in schools construe ‘national identity’ and ‘patriotism’? Second, do the teachers believe studying politics through the subject GPA can enhance national identity and patriotism among the students? The findings show that the teachers understand national identity and patriotism critically. They insist politics should be taught in a rational way. At the same time, they think teaching politics in a rational way, with no appeal to the emotions as is the current practice, will enhance neither the students' sense of national identity nor their patriotism.     

“Bridging Old Relations”: The (De)Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Educational Context of Bosnia and Herzegovina From the Teachers' Point of View

The present study focuses on an educational arrangement in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) known as “two schools under one roof.” The term refers to two different ethnic groups (Bosniaks and Croats) physically sharing the same school building, but maintaining separate administrations, teaching staff, and curricula. The purpose of the study is to explore the manner in which teachers (seven Bosniak and four Croat) from the two ethnic groups perceive and construct their group identities within this context. Findings indicate that the teachers’ sense of belonging to different ethnic groups is strong and that the use of language functions as a vital marker for expressing group identity. In addition, satisfaction with the current situation and perceptions of interactions and discrimination differ substantially between the groups. We argue that this type of educational organization may reignite dormant tensions between the groups and accentuate ethnic differences in terms of (de)constructing ethnic identity.     

Community,self and identity: participatory action research and the creation of a virtual community across two South African universities

Fourth year students in psychology and social work from two South African universities worked together across boundaries of race and class in a course which required them to engage in a personal reflexive way with issues of community and identity. A combination of face-to-face workshops and online tutorial groups was used. The course was demanding of both staff and students, but preliminary analysis suggests that the creation of virtual communities may be of benefit in assisting students in their preparation for the challenges of working in a diverse and unequal society.     

教育福利：弱势群体解困的根本途径

在构建社会主义和谐社会和服务型政府的背景下,如何解决弱势群体问题迫在眉睫。针对目前我国解决弱势群体问题的不足。提出教育福利是弱势群体脱贫的根本途径。主要从保障弱者平等受教育权、消除身份歧视,提供公平的教育机会、遏制贫困传递,以及关注弱势学生、改善综合能力不足三个方面论述了教育福利如何使弱势群体摆脱困境。     

民族预科生文化素质培养的实践探索——以怀化学院为例

民族预科生的文化素质培养应立足本校的实际状况与生源实际,既要优化第一课堂的课程体系建设,又要结合校园文化、社会实践等第二课堂,构建立体交叉的文化素质教育载体。     

新疆高校华裔留学生的群体特征及华文教育策略探讨

文章通过对新疆高校华裔留学生的群体特征从生源特点、语言背景、汉语现状、认同意识四个方面进行分析,认为新疆高校华裔留学生:来源地、族属与新疆关联;均具有双语或多语背景;汉语水平的差异性明显;对居住国及祖籍地的"双重"认同;在此基础上对新疆的华文教育提出了以下策略:以汉语言学习为载体,以中华文化认同为目标;以情感培养为理念,消除误解和隔阂;精心打造新疆华文教育,使之间接服务于祖国边疆稳定。     

National or global: The mutable concepts of identity and home for international school students

This article examines a selection of responses about identity and belonging among students in an international school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who must often move from one continent to another because of the nature of their parents?? work. A review of the literature highlights some of the issues these students face within an international school community, including social, psychological, and academic difficulties. The students were interviewed about their nationalities, their sense of belonging, and their thoughts about the future. Their responses were video-recorded and analyzed by thematic groupings. Initial findings indicate three distinct groups of students: those who know exactly which country they come from, those who are not sure, and those who feel an attachment to a global rather than a national identity.     

Exploring inclusive pedagogical practices in Hong Kong primary EFL classrooms

Social diversity is now commonplace in many communities in today’s globalised world. This diversity can be seen in any classroom of learners, and international studies have shown the complex ways in which disabilities, race, ethnicity, gender and social class can determine a child’s opportunity to succeed or fail in the education system. In Hong Kong, like in many educational contexts around the world, teachers are grappling with increasing diversity amongst their students, including teaching students with special educational needs (SEN) and non-Chinese speaking students (NCS) living in Hong Kong. This paper examines how three primary TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teachers are constructing identities as inclusive practitioners as they grapple with enacting the inclusive education policy recently introduced into Hong Kong schools. The data are drawn from a small-scale collaborative reflective inquiry for teacher professional development. Drawing upon a sociocultural and critical framing of identity theory, we trace the three teachers’ identity construction as EFL teachers and inclusive education practitioners. We view the role of discourse, self-positioning and social context as key processes in teacher identity formation. Implications for furthering the development of inclusive education in EFL classrooms are offered.     

“抗税”背后的土客冲突与认同困境——以浙江“织里群体事件”为个案

土客冲突日益成为外来人口聚集区社会矛盾冲突的聚合点,对土客冲突的错误认识和应对,将会导致冲突的扩大和升级,以至于给社会稳定与经济发展带来重大损失。以浙江湖州“织里群体事件”为个案,以织里童装产业的现状为背景,详细地分析了抗税事件冲突的始末,并从群体的非理性和集体行动的合理性两个角度解析了冲突的生发逻辑,最后从产业、税收、租金、加工费、社会管理公共服务等角度详细地分析了土客冲突背后的认同困境。     

高职院校“以人为本”学生事务管理服务体系构建探索——以青岛职业技术学院为例

高职教育在社会发展和经济建设中发挥着越来越重要的作用。高职院校学生较普通高校学生特点明显,其受重视欲更强,更希望能得到个性的释放和自由的发展。“以人为本”是科学发展观的核心,高职院校积极构建“以人为本”的学生事务管理服务体系,是适应新时期、新阶段、新形势的必然选择。     

The discursive negotiation of international student identities

Research about identity has undergone a discursive turn in recent years, with a shift from conceptualising identity as an essentialistic, pre-existing construct that drives social interaction, to a more fluid and hybrid construct that is constituted through discourse. As a result, a number of recent studies investigating the construction of international student identities have supposedly adhered to this latter, postmodernist-inspired notion of identity in their analyses. However, upon closer examination, these studies appear to be premised on the assumption that what international students say can be equated with their identities, without critical attention being paid to the way in which identities emerge as a conjoint construct through interaction. In this paper, it is argued that identities are invariably jointly constructed by participants through discourse, even in interviews and focus groups where the researcher is ostensibly taking a neutral stance, and thus more attention needs to be paid to the ways in which identities are discursively negotiated through interaction.     

The Centros Concertados in Spain, Parental Demand and Implications for Equity

In Spain, the exercise of choice by parents of a suitable school for their children is not practised by all families in the same way. The evidence shows that an increasing social polarisation and a substantial disequilibrium in schooling are taking place in compulsory education. There is a high concentration of immigrant students in public schools in contrast with what happened in the centros concertados (private schools with public funding). This situation is especially unbalanced in some Autonomous Communities, such as the Community of Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia and Andalusia. The inequalities in the distribution of students in the network of public schools and private schools financed by public funds are producing significant responses from parents, teachers, experts, and also from other social groups. Some of the proposals made by different experts and by the Spanish Ministry of Education are analysed in order to reach to a quality education in more equitable conditions for all students.