Incidence and situational factors surrounding sexual assault against delinquent youths

This study reports the results of extensive interviews with an intact sample of moderately delinquent adolescents concerning their sexual assault histories. Findings indicate a surprisingly high incidence of victimization among the females interviewed which, the authors suggest, may characterize the larger population of delinquent females. The behavioral-situational contexts of reported victimization experiences are examined for salient commonalities and the following composite rape scenerio can be cast from the data: An unsupervised, 14-year-old female, who has been consuming alcohol or marijuana, is sexually assaulted, following threat and/or force, to the point of penile-vaginal penetration, by an older male friend or acquaintance (who has also consumed alcohol or marijuana) in his home or vehicle or other place where she is inherently unprotected. Some comments are offered concerning the requirements of an effective technology of child rape prevention.     

Critical Thought within the Social Welfare Policy Course

Critical thought is a necessary element for proficient practice in social work at both the micro and macro levels. For this reason, social work educators must seek to integrate critical thought in BSW and MSW curricula. This article provides a method for achieving this integration in the social welfare policy course. The method includes the four following phases: instruction regarding logical errors, presentation of logical errors in contemporary political debate, demonstration of critical thought in policy position analysis, and self-assessment of one's own logic. The implications of this method for practice in a values-based context are discussed.     

Employers’ support for adult higher education students in liberal post-socialist contexts

In most European countries, the proportion of adult students among both full-time and part-time workers has increased significantly over recent decades. Undertaking paid work is also increasingly common among traditional students. The opportunities to work while studying depend largely on the role of employers in promoting learning. However, both theoretical frameworks and empirical studies typically focus on the behaviour of firms in providing training. The support of employers for formal adult education has remained a marginal topic. The aim of this article is to analyse the contributions of employers to the acquisition of higher education from the perspective of the adult learners; we investigated how employers support their staff in higher education studies. We also tried to identify which kinds of learners have a better chance of receiving various benefits. We used two different data-sets: quantitative data from a study of adult students in higher education and qualitative data from interviews with managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises and at least one employed participant in formal adult education, collected in the framework of the international research project Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: The Contribution of the Education System supported by the EU Sixth Framework Programme.     

Teaching the language of mathematics at three levels of an English-medium primary school

This study, situated in a multilingual, English-medium educational context, draws on theory from mathematics and language education to capture teachers’ perspectives on the place of language in their mathematics pedagogy. The benchmark study explored this topic through surveying and interviewing teachers. Additionally, it sought to relate teachers’ views to their practice by focusing on observing three teachers’ mathematics lessons at primary one, three, and five. Findings are that mathematics teachers placed importance on teaching language, being specifically concerned with language as input and comprehension. They taught vocabulary and reading skills in supportive ways explicitly yet differently at the three grade levels. Particularly at the lower levels, teachers contextualised language in the concrete examples employed for mathematics teaching. At all three levels, prominence was given to teaching pupils how to read word problems as well as how to solve them. However, at primary three, a tension was observed between the two aims of teaching mathematical vocabulary and teaching the reading skills for word problems. This paper illustrates the tension and discusses its possible causes.     

演说辞情景语境和语篇衔接的特点——Gettysburg Address演说辞的语篇分析

以韩礼德系统功能语法的框架,从情景语境与纯理功能的关系以及衔接系统的度,对葛底斯堡演说辞进行语篇分析。     

基于情境感知的移动英语学习软件设计与应用

随着智能手机的普及,移动学习成为常规学习方式的有效补充,而情境感知技术的兴起则有效地解决了移动环境下时间碎片化的问题。在对移动学习和情境感知进行现状分析的基础上,设计并实现了基于情境感知的移动英语学习软件。对比试验表明,基于该软件的英语学习具有良好的效果,不仅能够切实帮助学生提高口语水平,同时也可以在日常生活中帮助使用者更好地使用英语交流。     

西方语境化教学初探

外语教学中语境化教学是最佳的教学手段之一。文章简要回顾了西方语境化教学的指导意义、研究内容,总结了语境理论在语境化教学中的深化、发展,介绍了西方语境化教学在外语基础性教学中的应用。总结指出西方语境化教学对我国外语教学发展具有指导意义。     

On the determinants of employment-related organised education and informal learning

This paper analyses the distribution of employment-related organised education and informal learning in the Canadian workforce. The paper draws on a large-scale survey, the Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL), which was based on structured and standardised telephone interviews with a representative sample of 5783 Canadian members of the employed labour force. In exploring the determinants facilitating employment-related informal learning, three analytical categories of factors derived from previous research on learning participation were used: individual-level factors, job characteristics and workplace environment. The analyses focus on differences in individuals, jobs and workplace characteristics among adult workers who acquired or improved their job-related skills through different training pathways. In addition, analyses were performed to compare the extent to which these factors differ in their influence on learning decisions among workers who combine both organised education and informal learning and those who receive only informal learning. The results indicate that important predictors of participation in employment-related organised education and informal learning are age, educational attainment, learning skills, occupational class, education-job relation, degree of autonomy, degree of labour intensity, principal area of production and organisation size.     

全球化背景下比较教育的多重身份及其构建

本文分析了比较教育身份危机的表现形式和生成原因,提出应从二元对立、非此即彼的思维方式中解脱出来,站在更加开放的平台上来理解比较教育;同时,结合全球化的时代背景,指出在全球化浪潮带来的种种机遇和挑战下,比较教育应着力构建多元一体的新型身份,应立足于国际合作和整体发展,促进多元文化背景下各种教育相互尊重与国际理解.本文认为比较教育身份应具有融合的视野、开放的胸襟、创造的智慧等学术品格.     

对中国非正规部门就业的研究与思考

中国正面临日益严峻的就业形势,作为劳动力就业主渠道的正规部门吸纳劳动力的能力不断下降，而非正规部门，以其覆盖行业广泛、门类繁杂、就业形式灵活机动的特点，正成为吸收大量劳动力就业，缓解城乡就业压力的主力军，成为推动中国就业结构调整的重要力量。文章根据对中国非正规部门就业历史发展与现状的研究，总结出中国非正规部门就业的特点,并对有关问题提出了对策建议。