Sex work and students: an exploratory study

Available evidence suggests that changes in the funding of higher education have led to some students entering the sex industry in order to make ends meet. The current study comprises a sample of undergraduates (N = 130) in the south of England, who completed a cross‐sectional survey of their financial circumstances, health, psychological well‐being, substance use and lifestyle. A response rate of 74% was obtained. Data indicated that over 10% of all respondents knew of students engaged in sex work (defined as prostitution, escorting, lap dancing or stripping) in order to support themselves financially. Poor psychological well‐being, drinking problems and financial circumstances were associated with sex work, and although no direct evidence was found linking this to an earlier history of sexual abuse, there was an indirect relationship through the impact of abuse on mental health. A logistic regression model incorporating General Health Questionnaire scores, alcohol problems and hours worked outside of study strongly predicted whether respondents knew of students engaged in sex work. For lap dancing in particular the model was very strong. This study provides further evidence of students' participation in sex work and its association with economic circumstances. Further longitudinal work is required to clarify the nature of these relationships.     

非贫困生:高校资助育人工作不可忽视的群体

非贫困生是高校资助育人工作不可忽视的群体。他们的参与,可以减少"伪贫困生"的出现,可以及时了解贫困生的心理动态,是全员参与资助模式的应有之意,有利于全过程资助模式的顺利实施,有利于高校人才培养职能的顺利实现。     

Job satisfaction: perceptions of a national sample of teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing

The study examined the perceptions of a national sample of teachers of students who are deaf or hard or hearing to assess their level of job satisfaction. A questionnaire was developed and distributed; 610 completed surveys were analyzed. Overall, respondents appeared satisfied with their jobs. Of the 59 items in the survey, 51 were scored as positive for the group as a whole. Participants reported that their relationships with colleagues were the most enjoyable aspect of the job. Paperwork, state assessment tests, and lack of family involvement were identified as the least satisfying aspects. Data were also analyzed by comparing the responses of teachers across groups--itinerant, elementary, secondary, and resource room. Generally, this group-by-group analysis produced findings similar to those for the overall sample. Recommendations on addressing the specific factors that teachers responded to negatively are provided.     

A comparative study of the learning style preferences of students with learning disabilities and students who are gifted.

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether significant group, gender, and grade differences existed in the learning style preferences of students with learning disabilities and students who are gifted, using the Learning Style Inventory (LSI) (Dunn, Dunn, & Price, 1987). Subjects consisted of 53 students with learning disabilities and 64 gifted students randomly selected from two large public high schools. They were 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade students, aged 15 to 17. A three-way analysis of variance on the LSI raw scores revealed significant group differences in preferences for light, design, and kinesthetic modality, and in motivation, persistence, responsibility, parent motivation, and teacher motivation. Significant gender and grade differences were found in preferences for mobility and learning in the afternoon, respectively. A stepwise discriminant analysis revealed six variables that significantly discriminated between the two groups. Findings imply that incorporating the learning styles of students with learning disabilities and students who are gifted is important for individualizing educational programming.     

大学生兼职风险的成因及对策

大学生兼职已是大学校园里的一种普遍存在不可忽视的现象,兼职有助于大学生交际圈的突破,是大学生生活的润滑剂,也是大学教育在地域上的延伸。本文通过了解高校大学生的兼职状况,以期掌握大学生兼职风险的成因,进一步提出对策,从而为高校加强对大学生兼职工作的管理提供一定的参考。     

高校学困生：现状、成因与对策

随着我国高等教育规模的扩大和在校大学生总量的不断增加，高等学校出现了一个不容忽视的学困生群体，学困生不仅给自身的未来发展带来妨碍，也影响了高校的教育教学，已经成为高校学生工作中的重点和难点问题，大学生中的学业困难现象亟待引起高度重视和深入研究。     

依托社会实践促进大学生就业工作

依托社会实践促进大学生就业,需要完善工作配套机制,加强社会实践基地建设,大力培养创业能力,建立健全评价考核机制,探索建立社会实践长效机制。     

高校学生工作评估体系研究

根据高职教育目标,参照ISO质量体系标准,分别以学生工作者、家长、用人单位及学生个体为评估者,对学生工作质量进行评估,从而构建一个有效、科学的学生工作质量评估体系,为学生工作实践提供参考。     

新时期高校学生党建工作的思考

在新时期高校学生党建工作所处的新环境下,党员的党性意识明显增强,党的基层组织建设得到了加强。对学生党建工作出现的新问题,高校需进一步转变思想观念,改进工作方法、手段、体制,切实加强学生党支部的思想建设、组织建设、作风建设和队伍建设,并建立起学生党建工作的长效机制。     

Job design,progressive education and the correspondence between work and schooling

The theory of correspondence between school and work assumed a general process of deskilling and job fragmentation, setting up clear demands from industry for workers who were docile and passive rather than creative or adaptable. Critics of correspondence have either ignored this feature of the original theory or assumed a similar process of deskilling. Discussion of job redesign within industrial sociology suggests a more complex picture of the division of labour within industry. This suggests the possibility of other forms of correspondence between education and work and ultimately strengthens recent arguments pointing to the relative autonomy of education.     

Beginning teachers who stay: Beliefs about students

Beliefs serve as an adaptation that helps teachers organize their teaching world. Little is known, however, about how beliefs change and serve to help retain and sustain teachers, particularly for beginning teachers who are most likely to leave teaching. This study explores teachers' beliefs about students in the US (N = 67) and if these beliefs change during the first five years of teaching. Results indicate that teachers hold beliefs about students that capture pride and participation. Over time, these beliefs become more positive. Implications for teacher education and policy are discussed.     

Spelling improvement for college students who are dyslexic

Academic problems of the dyslexic child often persist in adult life. Such problems as spelling can interfere with the performance of such adult learners in college. Federal legislation requires reasonable accommodation for these students. At some colleges, this consists of allowing use of tape recorders in lectures and sometimes allowing extra time on examinations. Remediation of reading, writing, and spelling among dyslexic college students is often not addressed. This study reports the use of a modified Orton-Gillingham approach in comparison with a nonphonetic approach and with a group receiving no remediation. The results indicate a significant increase in spelling performance for the group receiving the modified Orton-Gillingham remediation. This contrasts with no significant change in the group receiving nonphonetic remediation and in the control group (no remediation), and indicates that adulthood is not too late for appropriate intervention for the dyslexic student. Colleges offering such intervention and the students receiving it will benefit from improved performance.     

本科毕业班学生工作精细化管理体系初探

通过对本科毕业班学生和班级的现状分析,提炼出本科生班级的管理难点,在对精细化管理的内涵进行思考的基础上,结合本科毕业班管理的实际情况进行实践,总结探索构建本科毕业班精细化管理的主要方法。     

Social Involvement: Deconstructing practices relating to the formation of students who work with autistic children in a university service-learning course

Participation in service-learning courses has always been considered a part of the informal education in tertiary education worldwide. Originating from the assumption that service-learning courses increase students’ civic engagement and bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, service-learning courses have gradually acquired the status of compulsory courses at universities. This being as it may be, it would seem that the nature of such courses would benefit from further analysis and discussion regarding their function in knowledge reproduction, and their role in teaching and education. The aim of this article is to examine and analyze a university service-learning course—the National Taiwan University (NTU) Star-Rain course with a commitment to serving children with autism—from a Foucaultian perspective, and reflect on how the process of putting knowledge during a service-learning course into practice comes to constitute the subjectivity of students who work with children who are autistic. We argue that the course under investigation has, in effect, become wholly entangled in the medical system’s treatment of autism in Taiwan. The service-learning process involves knowledge acquisition as well as long-term, detailed, concrete hands-on experience, and shapes, in a very complete way, students’ construction of their subject knowledge of autism.     

新时期大学生党建工作创新研究

本文根据目前大学生党建工作的实际情况,分析了当前高校大学生党建工作中存在的问题,提出了一些关于新时期高校大学生党建工作的措施,从而构筑新时期大学生党建工作的新形势,希望对各大高校大学生党建工作起到一定的促进作用。     

浅谈当代大学生择业价值观

价值观是主体按照客观事物对其自身及社会的意义或重要性进行评价和选择的原则、信念和标准。而大学生择业价值观实际上就是大学生这一主体对于社会职业这一客体的价值的评价。从价值观主客体的角度出发剖析大学生择业价值观现状、存在的问题及其形成原因,阐述大学生应该树立怎样的择业价值观并提出相关对策,对引导大学生形成正确的符合社会主流的择业观念具有极其重要的现实意义。     

成人高校学生思想政治工作的思路

成人教育是我国国民教育的重要组成部分之一,其主要的招生和培养对象是已经从事工作的在职人群,这些人主要的入学目的是为了进一步的提升自身的专业水平和学历水平。由于进入成人教育学校的学生在入学前已经具备了一定的工作经验,他们带着自身的经验和对社会生活的认知进入学校,这些学生对于教育教学的目的性和实用性和有一定的要求,对于成功学的追求和欲望相比较于传统的全日制的学生更加明显,成人教育的学生对于知识的学习具有明显的职业性的要求和实用性的要求,这些学生把自己的学习看做是高等教育的延续或者是对知识和学历和投资。但是由于其自身的经历和背景,成人教育的学生具有明显的自我意识,对于教育的接受和批判明显的淡化,因此,其思想政治教育工作的教育方式明显不同于全日制的教学,长期以来,成人教育思想政治工作被忽视,在教务教学管理中的地位模糊,没有被真正纳入到成人教育的教学管理中去。     

自主式教育与高校学生工作

高校学生工作要努力确立以学生的自主教育和自我教育为主的“自主式”教育和管理模式。因为这种新的教育模式确认了学生在学校教育中应有的主体性地位，充分体现了教育活动所必须遵循的原则和规律。要正确认识坚持学生自主教育、自我教育与加强对学生的正面教育和严格管理的关系，并注意在工作实践中处理好相关的矛盾和问题。