Adolescents’ motives for selling sex in a welfare state – A Swedish national study

In addition to money or other compensation, other motives for selling sex may be important in a welfare country such as Sweden. The aim of this study was to carry out an exploratory investigation of adolescents’ motives for selling sex in a population-based survey in Sweden. A total of 5839 adolescents from the third year of Swedish high school, mean age 18.0 years, participated in the study. The response rate was 59.7% and 51 students (0.9%) reported having sold sex. Exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to identify groups of adolescents according to underlying motives for selling sex. Further analyses were carried out for characteristics of selling sex and risk factors. Three groups of adolescents were categorized according to their motives for selling sex: Adolescents reporting; 1) Emotional reasons, being at a greater risk of sexual abuse, using sex as a means of self-injury and having a non-heterosexual orientation. 2) Material but no Emotional reasons, who more often receive money as compensation and selling sex to a person over 25 years of age, and 3) Pleasure or no underlying motive for selling sex reported, who were mostly heterosexual males selling sex to a person under 25 years of age, the buyer was not known from the Internet, the reward was seldom money and this group was less exposed to penetrative sexual abuse or using sex as a means of self-injury. In conclusion, adolescents selling sex are a heterogeneous group in regard to underlying motives.     

The Mystery Room: discovering the flexibility of an information literacy-based educational escape room

Abstract

The Mystery Room is an educational escape room based on information literacy and applied to multiple audiences, including first-year students and library student employees. In this article, we explain how we developed the game, its theoretical underpinnings, and why it’s a flexible workshop for a variety of audiences.     

辽宁省专业运动队文化教育状况及对策分析

采用文献资料法、问卷调查法、座谈访问法、数理统计法 ,对辽宁省专业运动员的自然情况、文化教育的需求情况、教练员以及运动员对文化教育重要性和迫切性的认识等情况、运动队的领导、一般干部进行了调查。经分析发现辽宁省专业运动队文化教育存在五个方面的问题 ,针对存在的问题提出解决的对策 ,这对于加强辽宁省专业运动队文化教育、提高运动员的科学文化素质具有一定的实践价值。     

Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.     

论青少年运动员自学能力的培养

竞技体育事业的腾飞需要全面发展的优秀运动员,青少年运动员的文化学习是培养全面发展优秀运动员的一个重要方面,青少年运动员文化学习的特殊性更要求打破传统的教学方式,培养其学习能力,尤其是自学能力。论述了培养自学能力的重要意义,青少年运动员文化学习的特殊性和必要性,并提出了培养青少年运动员自学能力的方法及策略。     

关于聋校识字教学的思考

长期以来,聋校学词识字教学的效率较低,一直在少、慢、差的沼泽中徘徊,严重影响了聋生阅读能力的提高。其影响因素有聋校教材的编排、汉字识别中的笔画数和熟悉度、聋生对字形结构的理解能力。笔者主张在教学实践中采用字理识字、随文识字、游戏识字相结合的形式,努力提高聋校识字教学的效果,为聋生以后的学习和交流打下坚实的基础。     

国内外信息素质教育及民办院校信息化建设的思考

简要介绍了国内外信息素质研究及相关教育活动发展的情况。探讨了在当代信息环境下开展信息素质教育对中国特别是对民办高校的现实意义,通过对信息素质教育内涵及我国相关教育发展现状与所存在问题的分析,对推进民办高校信息化建设提出了若干建议。     

Correlates of verbally aggressive communication in adolescents

This investigation identifies demographic, media, and social correlates of verbally aggressive communication in adolescence. Mail surveys were completed and returned by 2,300 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15. These adolescents were asked about the prevalence of verbal and physical aggression, the context in which it occurred, demographics, and the interpersonal and media influences in their lives. The results indicate that verbal aggression is widespread, that committing and experiencing verbal aggression is largely reciprocal, that there is a strong relationship between committing verbal and physical aggression, and that peer social influence and listening to violently oriented music are mildly related to verbal aggression in adolescents. These findings suggest more resources should be allocated to teaching adolescents to understand and control verbal aggression. Further, they provide important answers to many prevention and intervention programmatic questions, including context, content, and targeting concerns. Since the negative consequences of verbal aggression are severe and long lasting, decreasing this destructive communication behavior should significantly improve the lives of many adolescents. These and other practical implications are expanded upon and discussed.     

青少年身体自我的研究

通过文献综述法，对身体自我的概念、国外与国内的相关研究及青少年身体自我意义进行了论述与研究。     

美国图书馆协会信息素质研究进展报告简介

198 9年 1月 ,《美国图书馆协会信息素质主席委员会总报告》指出 ,由于社会环境的变化 ,社会应加强对人们的信息素质基础教育。该报告公布至今 ,美国对社会公众的信息素质教育已取得了不小成就