Photovoice as a Pedagogical Tool in the Community Psychology Classroom

Constructivist perspectives contend that individuals actively extract and make meaning from the world around them. In the classroom this means that students are not passive recipients or repositories for our theories and empirical findings; instead, they actively redefine and relate to (or not) the concepts presented. To simultaneously stimulate and build on this process, I adopted Photovoice as a pedagogical tool to situate students as observers of their own community and create space for them to engage in participatory, community-focused meaning making activities. By employing strategically crafted framing questions, students generated Photovoice data that served as a powerful jumping off point for discussing key community psychology concepts. In addition, the Photovoice process provided students the opportunity to directly experience a participatory research process as well as engage in basic qualitative data analysis. This article presents the general process my class undertook as well as qualitative feedback from students.     

Mineralogical and elemental data for soil discriminating and geolocation tracing

One of the key tasks of soil analysis in forensic sciences is to provide information about its diversities and geolocation. In fact, soil analysis is relevant for forensic geologists. In this study, a total of 80 soil samples were collected from eight Chinese cities (10 samples per city). Different minerals and their relative percentages were analyzed by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) method. In addition, the relative amounts of montmorillonite, kaolinite, amphibole, feldspar, calcite, and dolomite provided information about the origin of a soil, either if it came from a northern or southern city of China. The oxide weight percentages of 10 elements of Al₂O₃, SiO_2, Fe₂O₃, K₂O, Na₂O, MgO, CaO, P₂O₅, MnO, and TiO₂ were also obtained by using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) from the 80 soil samples. Moreover, principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) methods were performed for dimensionality reduction, elemental marker identification and soils classification to the city they came from purposes. The eighty soils analyzed in this study could be tracked correctly to their city of origin. The K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) model was done to evaluate the prediction ability based on the soil elemental composition, and it was confirmed by cross validation methods. The results demonstrated that mineralogical and elemental composition can provide powerful information for soil discrimination and source tracing.     

行政调解制度之比较法启示

行政调解是中国传统法律文化的精髓,作为一种"东方经验"在我国有近千年的历史。从比较法观察,强化诉讼外调解是现代法律制度发展的一大趋势,以日本ADR为代表的非诉讼纠纷解决机制在西方行政法上得以广泛适用。本文对国内外行政调解相关制度进行了考察分析和比较,以期促进行政调解法律制度的完善,为构建和谐社会服务。     

“以控为先，体现主动”努力提升驾驭治安局势能力

根据北京市公安局提出的“整体防控、精确指导、精确打击”的工作思路,东城分局在治安工作中提出了“以控为先,体现主动”的原则。这是主动把维护社会稳定放入整体防控工作中去思考的具体定位,切合了当前社会治安形势对治安管理工作的要求。     

某框架梁板裂缝原因及结构安全质量鉴定

某五层框架结构实验实训楼在建设过程中梁板构件出现大范围的开裂现象,严重影响了结构安全及正常使用性功能,基于现场检测数据和结构验算情况对该建筑物开裂构件的裂缝原因进行了系统的分析,对开裂构件提出了三种加固处理方案,并对第一种方案进行了详细叙述,其加固处理方案可供其他类似工程做参考.     

论"促进型立法"的形成背景

"促进型立法"作为一种新型立法,具有传统立法所不具有的诸多特点.在经济上,它是有限制的混合经济要求经济手段的多元化和经济的可持续发展的产物;政治上,它是国家职能从单纯的调控管理角色向服务促进角色转变的结果;在社会意识上,它是社会与政府平衡互动意识的兴起、特别是公众广泛参与政治经济生活的结果;立法模式上,传统立法模式的演进要求新型立法凸显法律的引导与促进功能.     

赛丹的检验

目的建立水中微量赛丹提取检测方法。方法利用活性炭富集法提取、气相色谱/质谱联用方法中的SIM方式检验水中赛丹。结果利用此方法可检验水中赛丹浓度达pg水平。结论该方法适用于案件检测。     

光谱成像检验技术

光谱成像组合了光谱技术和成像技术。通过运用成像光谱仪 ,光谱成像方法可以记录被检验物体在一个较宽光谱范围内均匀密集分布的窄波段反射光或荧光亮度分布影像 ,形成含有物体亮度信息和光谱信息的光谱影像集。这种技术方法可以用于物证的形态特征检验和物质成分检验。相对传统光谱检验或成像检验技术 ,光谱成像检验的能力和效果都具有明显优势。     

对安乐死立法的思考

安乐死的行为 ,是由于绝症患者面临死亡在极度痛苦中挣扎而要求实施安乐死的行为 ,为患者解除痛苦 ,也是对患者要求死亡的尊重。我国现行的法律虽未对安乐死做出认可 ,但也没明文禁止。为了替寻求安详尊严的离世者打开大门 ,给实施者以法律保障 ,又不使个别心术不正的人钻空子 ,就需以法律为依据。这样做不仅可以消除实施安乐死的消极因素 ,而且符合客观发展规律 ,有利于促进社会文明进步。     

Active citizenship through mobility? Students’ perceptions of identity,rights and participation in the EU

Globalisation has begun to transform the processes through which citizens are differentiated and non-citizens are excluded. This article provides an in-depth qualitative interrogation of these processes of differentiation and exclusion, and argues that the transformation in these processes compels us to reconsider the conceptual dichotomy of passive/active citizens along the stayers/mobiles distinction. This transformation is most apparent in Europe, with the introduction of European Union (EU) citizenship. The article builds on Bourdieu’s cultural capital in the cosmopolitan context, existing qualitative studies on citizens’ sense of EU identity and citizenship, and illustrative focus group evidence of visiting EU and home students’ perceptions of EU citizenship across three dimensions – identity, rights and participation. The evidence indicates that we can distinguish between four categories of citizens in the EU: passive EU citizens, including two groups of stayers; the potential EU (i) and member state-oriented (ii) citizens, and active EU citizens, including EU-15 (iii) and Central and Eastern European (iv) mobile citizens. These categories reveal that important distinctions are emerging between the perceptions and behaviour of stayers and mobiles as passive/active citizens.