Strategies for Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children: An Exploratory Study of an Exemplary Model of Care in Kenya

This qualitative study explored the extent to which programs in a religiously affiliated agency in Kenya incorporate 12 internationally sanctioned strategies for supporting orphans and vulnerable children in Sub-Saharan Africa (Olson, Knight, &; Foster, 2006 Olson , K. , Knight , Z. S. , &; Foster , G. ( 2006 ). From faith to action: Strengthening family and community care for orphans and vulnerable children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A resource for faith-based groups and donors seeking to help children and families affected by HIV/AIDS . Santa Cruz , CA : Firelight Foundation . [Google Scholar]). The results indicated that all 12 strategies were being employed, though to varying degrees. The authors describe how each strategy was used by the agency and make recommendations for practice and future research.     

African farmer-led irrigation development: re-framing agricultural policy and investment?

The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP), that identify as a priority the improvement in reliability of water control for agriculture. The paper argues that, for such initiatives to be effective, there needs to be a re-appraisal of current dynamics of irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly with respect to the role of small-scale producers’ initiatives in expanding irrigation. The paper reviews the principal forms such initiatives take and argues that official narratives and statistics on African irrigation often underestimate the extent of such activities. The paper identifies five key characteristics which, it argues, contradict widely held assumptions that inform irrigation policy in Africa. The paper concludes by offering a definition of ‘farmer-led irrigation’ that embraces a range of interaction between producers and commercial, government and non-government agencies, and identifies priority areas for research on the growth potential and impact of such interactions and strategies for their future development.     

Socio-economic differentiation and shea globalization in western Burkina Faso: integrating gender politics and agrarian change

In this paper, we examine the way a local manifestation of the globalization process, the boom in the shea trade in western Burkina Faso, has fueled socio-economic differentiation in shea activity as part of a wider differentiation process. We refer to the gender politics and agrarian change literatures to inform both within- and across-household mechanisms of differentiation. We analyze both the mechanisms of change and the resulting inequalities. Our results reveal the interplay between multiple drivers of change, and nuance the analysis of the winners and losers of globalization of shea activity.     

Integration in Kibbutz Day Schools

Summary

Since the 1970s, many kibbutz educational systems have moved from schools solely for one kibbutz to regional schools. Regional schools put the kibbutzim goal of maintaining their own uniqueness in tension with their need and desire to integrate with and contribute to Israeli society. Consolidation required attention to the differing educational abilities and capacities of diverse students and redefining community in heterogeneous, regional terms. These have benefited participating kibbutzim and, based on traditional strengths of kibbutz education, these regional schools have contributed principles of non-selective (inclusive) education, community and classroom values education, and acceptance of difference in others. Integration in regional schools requires schools to adapt to the diversity of the region but also to the uniqueness of participating communities.     

教育、社会分层与社会流动--以外来流动人口及其子女为例

教育与社会分层和社会流动有密切的联系。外来流动人口子女是城市未来稳定的重要力量和城市未来重要的人力资源来源。从边缘人角色的转变以及社会流动向上渠道的疏通等角度分析 ,外来流动人口子女受教育权力应受到重视。     

Age and Gender Effects on Coping in Children and Adolescents

The aim of this study was to investigate age and gender effects of childrens and adolescents coping with common stressors in 3 age groups (late childhood, early, and middle adolescence). Furthermore, age and developmental differences in situation-specific coping with 2 stress domains were examined. N = 1,123 participants (ages 8 to 13 years) were asked to complete the German Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (Hampel et al., 2001) in response to both an interpersonal and an academic stressor. Adolescent boys and girls, as well as girls from all age ranges scored lower on adaptive and higher on maladaptive coping strategies. With regard to interaction effects, female early adolescents coped maladaptively with common stressors, showing a decreased employment of adaptive (e.g., distraction, positive self-instructions) and an enhanced use of maladaptive coping strategies (e.g., rumination, aggression). Situation-specific coping did not differ consistently with age and gender. Implications of the findings for mental health care and developing clinical treatment of children and adolescents are discussed.Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology, Center of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation, University of Bremen, Germany. Received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin in 1994. Major research interests are stress, coping, and stress management in children and adolescents.Professor of Psychology, Center of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation, University of Bremen, Germany. Received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1977. Major research interests are diagnostics, clinical child psychology, and rehabilitation research.     

缩短工时能解决一切问题吗？ ——基于工作时间变化的文献研究

在社会学研究领域,工作时间已经成为不同分支学科共同关注的话题。本研究以西方相关文献为基础,回顾了多方力量在标准工作时间制度的建立、变化以及向非标准工时转变过程中的作用,分析了非标准工时和雇佣关系的相互影响。研究认为,工作时间制度的建立和变化,是一个复杂的过程,受工业化时代的生产技术和管理方式的进步、工人运动和集体谈判、国家立法和监管、后工业化时代的全球化和算法革命等多种因素的影响。工时和雇佣关系构成了相互作用的复杂关系,应该摒弃简单的“两分法”,正视工作时间和雇佣关系的非标准化进程,在灵活化中寻找新的劳动者权益保障方式。     

构建中职语文的有效教学模式

中职语文教学的职业化特征决定语文实用能力培养是教学的核心。在提倡有效教学的理念下,应根据教育理论和学科特点,根据学生的特点和差异,重新确立教学目标、课程体系和评价体系,确保教学的实效性。     

高等院校要加强通识教育

本文提出高等院校要把专业教育与通识教育结合起来。对为什么要加强通识教育 ,以及通识教育的内容和通识教育的途径进行了初步的探讨     

新时代劳动教育与高校思想政治教育有机融合的路径探析

全面加强新时代劳动教育是构建德智体美劳全面发展的教育体系的重要内容.本研究把马克思主义劳动观作为新时代劳动教育与高校思想政治教育有机融合的理论依据和价值引领,充分挖掘高校劳动教育的时代内涵,进而深入思考如何通过劳动教育推进高校思想政治教育的创新发展,使新时代劳动教育与高校思想政治教育相互渗透、有机融合.劳动教育与思想政...     

关于企业职工高校生存与发展问题的思考

本文针对企业职工高校面临的生存危机 ,提出了给予企业职工高校更高定位 ,提高其办学层次的观点     

切实加强高校二级工会的建设

高校二级工会是高校工会工作的基础,二级工会应该根据自身的特点和院系部的实际情况开展各项活动。组织好二级教代会或全体教职工大会,应搞好院系的院系务公开工作;建立最基本的民主监督程序,维护教职工的切身利益;坚持议大事,多办实事,为广大教职工谋利益;协助院系搞好教学科研中心工作;活跃院系部气氛,组织好适宜教职工的文体娱乐活动;力争院系党政支持,更好地搞好工会工作。     

高等职业教育改革刍议

根据高职班生源的具体特点和社会对人才的需求 ,调整教学计划 ,改革教学模式 ,扬长补短 ,以较低的教育成本 ,培养较高层次的复合型、实用型人才     

The Day I Will Never Forget: an interview with Kim Longinotto

The documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto talks to Catherine Fowler about her latest film The Day I Will Never Forget (2003) about female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa. Longinotto’s films have consistently interrogated our understanding of womens’ place in the world, and her latest film is no exception. She discusses how she found her subjects: Fardohsa, a midwife who has been campaigning against FGM, a group of girls who have (successfully) taken their parents to court in order to prevent FGM being practised, and Fouzia, a girl of nine who reads a poem that she wrote the day after she was circumcised, asking her mother to explain why she put her daughter through such a painful experience. Longinotto also discusses the ethical issues raised by her filming of a circumcision of two sisters, and the wider issues that her film engages: the powerless position of women in African societies, the confusion of religion and culture in discussions of FGM, and the impact of saying ‘no’ to this practice.     

浅谈寓教于乐教育方式在职工思想教育中的运用

直观形象、寓教于乐的教育方式,易于激起基层职工受教兴趣,便于理解教育内容,并可保证教育计划的落实和发挥教育的潜移默化作用,还有助于工会宣教干部掌握教育艺术,因此,理应在企业基层单位的职工思想教育中进行运用和推广。