‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.     

Discrete Choice Modeling in Education: An Innovative Method to Assess Teaching Practices

Self‐reported measures are an easy, time‐efficient, and low‐cost way to collect research data compared to other assessment methods. They are, however, characterized by several limitations regarding the quality and the clarity of the data they produce, especially when they are implemented in education. The main purpose of the current study was to use a method called discrete choice modeling (DCM) in education, in order to develop a self‐reported instrument that will reduce the bias for socially desirable responses and to assess teachers’ practices in physical activity. DCM method has the ability to overcome the respondents’ tendency to answer in a socially desirable way. A nationally representative sample of 531 Greek early educators participated in this study and were administered a self‐assessment questionnaire based on DCM. Results showed that the DCM based newly developed instrument manages to assess effectively educators’ practices and provided evidence of the applicability of the method in education. Further implications and future recommendations regarding the effective application of DCM in education are discussed.     

Parents’ son preference,childhood adverse experience and mental health in old age: Evidence from China

BackgroundSon preference is an enduring phenomenon in China and may often be related to childhood adverse experiences. According to a life-course perspective, adverse experiences during a childhood period may have a long-term effect on mental health in later age. However, little is known about this relationship between parents’ son preference, childhood adverse experiences and adulthood mental health in China.ObjectiveThe study aims to evaluate the association of parents’ son preference and individual mental health in old age in China. The mediating role of childhood adverse experiences was also estimated.Participants and settingThe China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2015 combined with CHARLS life history survey was analyzed (N = 11,666).MethodsMental health was measured by a shortened modification of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale including seven items, and higher scores indicated worse mental health status. A four-step mediating model was applied.ResultsRespondents growing in families with son preference had on average 0.75 (P < 0.001) points higher on the mental health scale than their counterparts, and the effects were consistent for both males and females. Childhood adverse experiences measured by physical maltreatment, emotional adverse experiences and witnesses of inter-parent violence mediated the relationship between parents’ son preference and individual adulthood mental health by 47.87%. For females, physical maltreatment and emotional adverse experiences explained the most parts of health effects of parents’ son preference, whereas witnesses of inter-parent violence was the most influential mediator for males.ConclusionParents’ son preference led to adverse childhood experiences, which influenced mental health in adulthood.     

试论田径运动中的速度

采用生物力学原理分析了田径运动成绩与运动这间的关系。认为田径运动成绩虽然表现在时间、高度和远度上，但实质是个速度问题。只有获得高的运动速度，才能有高水平的运动成绩。并进一步总结出与成绩关系最为紧密的3种速度，即跑的后蹬速度，起跳速度和器械出手速度。分析了速度产生的原因以及创造和保持高速度运动的条件。     

现代德国体育演变及其对我国学校体育发展的启示

详细分析了德国学校体育的发展历程,将其发展划分为三个阶段:理论不完备阶段,哲学性的人类学阶段和目的论形成及体育课程理论结构化阶段,并对其体育课程理论结构化阶段的理论与课程体系进行了深入探讨。对于该阶段对于我国学校体育借鉴作用作了深入分析。     

春秋战国时期军队的跑跳训练

在冷兵器时代，军队行军强调速度对作战胜负具有极为重要作用。因此，我国古代兵家十分重视加强对军队的体能训练。跑跳项目就是当时训练提高体能的重要手段，在军事理论和军事体育实践中积累了宝贵经验。春秋战国时期军队的跑跳训练便是冷兵器时代军队体能训练的典型。     

民国时期社会风俗现代转型的二重性特征

民国时期新旧递嬗、方生方死的持续过渡型社会形态,铸就了此期风俗文化现代转型鲜明的二重性特征:在中西新旧风俗文化的相互关系上,新旧纷陈的杂糅性、过渡性与中西会通、迎新纳异的兼容性、开放性并存;在移风易俗的力度、广度上,较前而言的深入性、广泛性与此期仍甚显著的迟滞性、不平衡性并存;在风俗变迁的社会效应上,推动社会文化发展的进步性与尚奢、崇洋之风日益滋长的负面性兼而有之。     

体育的本质及阶段表现特征

从历史唯物观出发，以辩证逻辑为方法论分析体育本质属性和历史阶段的表现特征；指出体育本质属性是多样的，同时，不同的阶段表现出不同的本质特征。     

论海商法追偿时效期间第二个起算点的完善

我国海商法追偿时效的第二个起算点在海事司法实践中碰到了诸多问题,对此理论界存在着“存”、“废”之争。本文通过比较研究和法意解释,主张在对第二个起算点保留的基础上进行有益的改进,并为此提出了立法建议。     

体育的发展及其阶段性特点分析

详细分析了世界体育的发展历程,将其发展划分为三个阶段:萌芽阶段,形成独立形态阶段和渐成科学体系阶段,并对各体育发展阶段的特点进行了归纳与分析。