Strength in Numbers: Encouraging Every Staff Member to Work to Capacity

Libraries play a critical role in enhancing the learning landscape of the schools they support. In order for any library to become a powerhouse and a community meeting place, all library team members need to align with the library's vision, own it and begin to add their own strengths and talents purposefully. This article explores practical strategies for developing a visionary team, including supportive leadership, daily stand-up meetings, weekly staff meetings, special-focus teams, rostering and the “five conversations” approach. These effective strategies can be implemented across a broad range of library workforce contexts in order to ensure the most effective workforce teams are built.     

积极心理教育在高职和谐宿舍建设中的应用

宿舍是高职学生中一种较为特殊的形式,这样一个群体具有＂正式群体＂与＂非正式群体＂两重性。根据这一群体的特点,运用积极心理教育来开展和谐宿舍的建设工作。     

Community College Counseling: Why Are Research Outcomes So Elusive?

This article focuses on counseling research in the community college context. The article suggests the need for a robust community college knowledge base, describes some limitations of the current community college literature, and suggests a framework for more effective work in this area. The authors’ own experiences and selected examples of published studies are used as illustrations of the hurdles encountered and solutions available when examining counseling theories, practices, and outcomes in 2‐year settings.     

School context and instructional capacity: A comparative study of professional learning communities in rural and urban schools in China

This study examines the teaching gap between rural and urban schools in China from the perspective of teacher professional learning communities (PLCs). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 36 primary school teachers, the study finds striking disparities between rural and urban schools in the working of Teaching and Research Groups (TRGs). These disparities in TRGs result in divergent patterns of instructional capacity building in rural and urban schools. The evidence shows that teaching and teachers are strongly shaped by the school organizational context. It suggests that strengthening school-wide PLCs is an important way of narrowing the rural-urban teaching and learning gaps.     

Community sport and social inclusion: international perspectives

Abstract

This opening article examines the relationship between community sport and social inclusion in research and practice. We discuss the notion of community sport, its multifarious meanings and diverse applications in different parts of the world. We further explore the conceptual and practical links between community sport and different conceptions of social inclusion. In doing so, the article draws together key themes, issues and debates addressed in the collection of articles in this special issue. We conclude by formulating implications and directions for future research and practice.     

城市化视角下的城市社区治理创新研究——以合肥市为例

近年来,随着城市化的加快推进,城市规模越来越大,这给城市治理提出了极大的挑战. 社区是城市的细胞,城市社区治理的好坏直接影响城市的形象和发展. 文章通过对合肥市城市社区治理进行深入调研,了解社会转型期城市社区治理存在的问题,分析其原因,探索新的解决方案和举措,以期进一步完善当前的城市社区治理存在的不足之处.     

大学生个性教育初探

在市场经济和竞争的新形势下,个性对事业和个人发展越来越显示其重要性。大学阶段是个性培养和发展的重要阶段,这个阶段可分为3个递进的层次:朦胧个性——意识个性——和谐个性。个性教育就是了解和掌握人的个性心理变化的规律性,针对不同的人的心理状态,采取适当的方法,按一定的规范把每个人的个性的方向和积极性调动起来,更重要的是进行教育、培养、引导和实践的结果。学生思想政治工作者除了了解大学生个性重要性及基本知识外,还要从各种渠道积极主动为个性充分地尽最大可能发展提供良好的环境、培养的措施和正确的引导。     

志愿服务与弱势群体的权利保障

在仅仅依靠政府和社会难以全面实现对弱势群体的基本权利保障的情况下,充分发挥青年志愿者组织对弱势群体的志愿服务的特色和优势,切实保障弱势群体的基本权利,以弥补政府和社会相关服务的不足,对促进社会的公平与和谐,具有重要的意义。鉴于对弱势群体的志愿服务的长期性、复杂性及较强的专业性等特点,青年志愿者的相关服务尚有一些需要进一步完善之处。     

关于将礼仪教育列入文明社区建设的几个问题

在机关、企业、学校的礼仪教育中忽视了一个重要环节，就是文明社区建设中的礼仪教育和规范。社区成员的言行规范直接反映着该社区乃至该城市的文明程度高低。走向世界的中国人应有哪些涵养，应掌握哪些礼仪规范，应引起各级组织和各界人士的高度重视。礼仪与文明都属于文化现象，这是构成社会主义精神文明的基本要素，它可以从社会的角度陶冶社会成员的心灵，规范社区居民的行为，培养高尚的审美情趣。用礼仪教育来营造良好的社会秩序和社会风气，用礼仪文化促进文明社区的发展，是提升文明社区形象的一大举措。     

构建和谐舆论:公共舆论与执政党互动关系的制度安排

在和谐社会建设过程中,研究和践行公共领域和公共舆论构想,发挥其民主调控等功能,急切的不是概念的再造和义理的辨析,而应是建立健全当代中国和谐社会建设过程中的公共领域和公共舆论运行机制,促进社会和谐。其中,公共舆论与执政党的互动机制是公共舆论运行机制复杂体系的重要组成部分。这一机制体系包含若干具体的运行机制,这些机制的构建与实际运行,将保障公共舆论与执政党的良性互动关系,既使民意得到切实重视与贯彻,又使民意得到理性的引导和调控,从而为构建和谐社会提供公共舆论支持。