Sudanese refugee youth and educational success: The role of church and youth group in supporting cultural and academic adjustment and schooling achievement

There is a burgeoning body of research about refugee youth that adopts a deficit approach by focusing on the problems and barriers youth encounter in adjusting culturally and academically to schools. Less research takes an asset approach through an examination of the strengths refugee youth bring to formal schooling and how these assets can be built upon to support academic achievement and cultural adjustment. In this article, we challenge these deficit notions, through examining the everyday spaces inhabited by Sudanese refugee youth living in regional New South Wales, Australia. Our research poses the question: what role do institutions outside school play in supporting Sudanese refugee youth as they move from one culture to another? The question is significant because little research has examined the role played by institutions outside school, e.g., church, youth groups and sporting associations in fostering the social and cultural capital required for refugee youth to integrate within the broader community, and to engage successfully in schooling. Drawing on Bourdieuian concepts of cultural and social capital and habitus, we suggest that religious affiliation enabled the young people to access social capital through “prosocial and proeducational moral directives” (Barrett, 2010; p. 467). Moreover, religious involvement provided refugee youth with access to socially legitimised forms of cultural capital. These forms of capital shaped the students’ habitus and contributed to school adjustment and achievement. We conclude that future research is needed to examine the role that church and other institutions outside school play in contributing to cultural and academic adjustment.     

基督教早期修道生活中罗马帝国社会精英扮演的角色

在基督教早期修道生活中,罗马帝国上层社会部分成员积极资助修道生活,他们成为修道生活的领导者,并通过宣传修道生活的理念推动了修道生活的发展和兴盛。     

论西塞罗的自然法思想对罗马法的贡献

一般认为,古希腊是西方法哲学尤其是自然法哲学的发源地,以至于包括西塞罗在内的罗马法学家的自然法思想并未得到足够重视。西塞罗自然法思想像一面镜子,典型地映射出罗马法深厚的自然法思想。他既秉承了前古希腊人的自然法传统,又有自己独到的创新,这对于罗马法的普及和传承起到了不可估量的贡献。     

论罗马法的浪费人保佐制度

罗马法将浪费人列寿保佐的对象之一,受其影响,现代欧陆各国建立了禁治产人制度,以限制浪费人的行为能力。我国民法亦应效仿罗马法和欧陆各国的作法,将浪费人纳入被监护人范畴。     

吉本《罗马帝国衰亡史》的史学贡献

作为具有批判精神的启蒙史学家,吉本在书中有许多新观念、新思想。吉本把孟德斯鸠等先辈开创的启蒙史学发扬光大,理论之光烛照了史学的黑暗。能寻找历史事件的因果关系,找出内在的关联性。吉本的垂训史观脱离了低俗,显示卓尔不凡。揭穿了宗友的神秘面纱,敢于闯荡教堂奥秘。揭示宗教的本质是人不是神。人类创造了宗教,塑造了神,神又愚弄了人类。把宗教神秘、神圣化是人类的一大错误。吉本初露民权民治思想具有前瞻性意义。《罗马帝国衰亡史》不仅是罗马帝国历史的最权威著作,而且在史识与史学思想上都为世界史坛做出重大贡献。     

由强化到弱化:近代中国教会大学宗教元素变化研究

在20世纪初,教会大学曾经在中国占据了很重要的位置,对中国高等教育发展起到了很大的推动作用。教会大学在融入中国教育体系的过程中,办学宗旨、宗教课程、宗教活动、基督徒人数等宗教元素逐渐弱化。采用文献法对教会大学宗教元素的弱化过程进行分析,有助于了解近代中国高等教育的生态环境与发展状况。     

The Foundation of Russian History,Jordanville, New York: A Decade-Long Travel Account

This column piece describes the Foundation of Russian History located on the grounds of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York and the author’s knowledge of the state of the collections today, how things have changed over the past decade, as well as future possibilities for development, collaboration and use.     

FOR THE PERIOD APRIL-JUNE, 2004

ABSTRACT

The history of Christian censorship up to the sixteenth century reveals scattered attempts to censor works of individual authors, but neither a systematic effort to formulate rules for regulating printers, booksellers, and authors, nor an effort to compile a comprehensive list of prohibited books. The first such attempt was made by the Council of Trent, which formulated a set of rules for printing, selling, and censoring books. These “Tridentine rules” were accompanied by a list of forbidden books, and together they formed the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1564). The Index underwent many revisions, the most important being the 1900 edition of Pope Leo XIII, which replaced the Tridentine rules with a set of Decreta Generalia on censoring and prohibiting books. Publication of the Index continued until its abolition in 1966. The reasons for its demise include the triumph of the Reformation and the rise of the nation-state, mass literacy, and mass communications.     

古罗马角斗表演场域中“人”的研究

古罗马角斗表演活动历史悠久,但参与或者观看角斗表演活动的各阶层却形态各异。奴隶阶层中只有部分奴隶参与角斗表演,绝大多数奴隶却是看台上欢呼的观众。罗马的皇帝表面上热衷于举办角斗表演活动,实际上他们通过角斗活动在拉选票,谋取政治利益。真正热爱角斗活动的是罗马的贵族和骑士,因为观看角斗活动不但是他们日常生活的一部分,而且是他们娱乐的主要内容。罗马平民也是角斗活动最狂热的支持者和观赏者,但他们是被动的,因为罗马统治者抛给他们的只有角斗表演活动。     

Engagement with empires: Irish Catholic female religious teachers in colonial South Australia 1868–1901

This paper addresses the roles of Irish Catholic female religious institutes for teachers in the context of the recent debates about education and empire. Nineteenth century colonial South Australia provides an opportunity to examine such institutes, for example the Irish Dominicans from Cabra Dublin, the Irish Mercy Institute from Baggot Street, Dublin, and to a much lesser extent, the English Dominicans from Stone in England. The discussion canvasses the notion of the role of these religious teachers within three empires: the British Empire, the Irish church acting as a ‘Second Empire’, and within a third empire, the ‘Woman's Empire’. Key aspects in examining the flow or transference of education by these Sisters in a colonial setting, lie in their own histories, their spiritual focus, the schools they established for their students, and the curriculum they adopted in the social and geographic environments in which they found themselves.