当代青年博客现象透视

博客是青年在网上展现自我、表达个性的一种平台。博客在给青年发展带来正效应的同时，也产生了诸多消极影响。随着中国网络的日益普及，青少年博客群体也在不断扩大。对于青年博客现象，要有清醒的认识和正确的引导，全社会应该通过制度安排和科学技术的不断完善，全方位、多层次地保护并促进青年“博客文化”的健康、持续发展。     

SEX EDUCATION LEFT AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE SCHOOL DOOR: STRICTER REQUIREMENTS FOR PARENTAL OPT‐OUT PROVISIONS

Current state law creates the risk that, if sex education is not provided to a child in public school, no similar instruction will be given to the child. Legislatively enacted opt‐out provisions give parents broad control over their child's education by granting them the option to have their child excused from any sex education requirements within a public school's curriculum. Through public school sex education, professionals provide youth information aimed at protecting them from the dangers of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). A stricter statutory opt‐out provision should be enacted by state legislatures that only allows parents to excuse their child from sex education after a parent attends a 90‐minute STD prevention course and receives the instructional material used in the school's sex education curriculum. Parents should be provided up‐to‐date information and a structural framework designed by the school to encourage them to discuss with their child the many sexual issues addressed within a school's sex education curriculum.     

Alternative South–South development collaboration? The role of China in the Coega Special Economic Zone in South Africa

Aid, in the form of financial aid and investment, has become increasingly prevalent in both bilateral and multilateral partnerships in the BRICS. In Africa, the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation provides the official framings for forms of development assistance to the continent, with financial forms of aid available through the New Development Bank and the China–Africa Development Bank (CADFund). This article explores how Chinese international development assistance has influenced South Africa's economic growth and development strategies and is reshaping South Africa as “gateway” to Africa and continental leader. Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a prioritised form of BRICS development collaboration particularly in terms of Chinese trade and investment expansionism into Africa through South Africa. Chinese international development assistance and foreign direct investment in South Africa in particular are very notable and have been strengthened during the Chinese official state visit prior to the Johannesburg BRICS Summit in 2018. The article critically analyses the development policy discourse on BRICS spearheading an alternative model of South–South international cooperation by examining the Coega SEZ in South Africa, hailed as the most SEZ in Africa. The article critically examines the development alternative potential of the Coega SEZ.     

Why is there no securitisation theory in the Korean nuclear crisis?

Despite the fact that the Korean nuclear crisis is one of the most protracted security issues in the world, the research analysing the crisis from the perspective of securitisation theory is curiously absent. This article attempts to pin down some distinguishing features of South Korea’s securitisation of the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, thereby investigating why one rarely sees the implications of securitisation theory in the way that the Copenhagen School theorists would suggest. Borrowing the key components of securitisation theory—existential threats, referent objects and extraordinary measures—this article suggests three elusive characteristics of the South Korean actors’ speech acts as sources highlighting the dilemma. To make the article’s arguments clearer, I hold Floyd’s classification of securitisation theory, which separated the securitisation process into two different stages: securitising move and security practice. While acknowledging the importance of the differences between illocution and perlocution in a securitisation process, this article takes this logic one step further by suggesting the limits of the perlocutionary effect in making the securitisation process complete.     

手机上网对青少年的影响及应对措施

当计算机互联网作为＂第四媒体＂方兴未艾时,以手机上网为平台的＂第五媒体＂——手机互联网悄然兴起。手机网民中青少年群体占主体。文章从分析手机互联网对青少年产生的影响入手,提出应从互联网管理、宣传教育、网德培养等方面进行应对,减少或避免手机互联网对青少年的负面影响。     

浅谈趣缘群体对青少年的影响及引导措施

趣缘群体对青少年的成长成才有重要影响。文章从趣缘群体的定义及特点出发，分析其对青少年的正面及负面影响，并就负面影响提出了引导青少年合理参与趣缘群体的各种措施。     

A Multidimensional Ecological Examination of a Youth Development Program for Military Dependent Youth

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to conduct a multi-method evaluation to investigate the effectiveness of a youth development program for military dependent youth entitled, Youth Action Program. The dimensions of an ecological program are used to examine the program post-de-facto. The comparison with elements of ecological programming provided reasons as to this program's perceived impact and its weaknesses. A multi-dimensional evaluation is employed that examines the processes and outcomes in their natural settings. Youth and parents overwhelmingly believed that this program had made a positive difference in their lives. Youth demonstrated an improvement, although not significant, in their self-concept; however, participating youths' levels of social isolation and withdrawal from social contact remained at a high level. The results and need for future research are presented related to evaluating youth development programs and the ecological model.     

青少年底线道德教育探析

我国青少年道德教育一直实行道德理想主义教育,内容过于理想化而脱离实际。当前青少年底线道德存在诸多问题,需从底线道德教育的生活性、实践性、制度规范和教育方式等方面着手,提高青少年底线道德教育的实效性。     

行走间隔年：中国青年幸福感的自我体验

幸福是人生的终极目标,不同的社会人群都在努力提升自己的幸福感。青年群体作为社会的中坚力量,幸福体验的重要性不言而喻。通过检视可以发现,很多青年人都沉迷和陶醉于自我营设的虚幻幸福感中,内心却非常苦闷。间隔年旅行可以帮助青年人获得幸福感的自我体验,在欣赏大自然的奇绝与壮美中,在与异域人群的接触与交往中,在劳动创造和挫折经历中,在义工和志愿活动中,青年经受着岁月流年的洗礼,把成熟、仁爱与自信熔铸于内心,同时也体味和获取着别样的幸福感受。