Children's perception of dinner conversation with parents in Japan

The children's perception of dinner and dinner conversation with their parents was surveyed for sixth‐grade students of elementary school in Japan. The data were analysed from the gender of children and attending parents. The children had dinner and dinner conversation more frequently with their mother than with their father. With father attendance, girls and boys had the same frequency of dinner and dinner conversation, although, with mother attendance, girls had dinner conversation more frequently than boys. Most of the children felt happy when they had dinner with their parents. However, a lower percentage of children felt happy when having dinner conversation with their parents, thought that they were important to their parents and thought dinner conversation was useful. More children felt happy during dinner and dinner conversation with their mother than with their father. However, there was no perceived difference in the usefulness of the conversation based on the father or the mother attending. The contents of conversation were greatly affected by which parent was attending. Subjects concerning children's manners were talked about more frequently in conversation with mothers than with fathers. Children had more frequent conversations with their father about ‘social issues’ and the ‘parents’ surroundings’ than with their mother. Girls had more frequent conversations on a wider variety of subjects with their mothers than boys. Girls could more easily share in their mothers’ knowledge or sense of values through dinner conversation. Boys were, for the most part, excluded from this process in conversation with either parent.     

论文化身份对儿童文学译介的影响

本文运用多元系统理论中有关理论对文化身份对童文学译介的影响进行了探讨。文化身份制约了儿童文学翻译,影响译者对翻译作品的选择及翻译策略的选择。然而,文化身份的制约不是决定性的,译者的主观文化态度、不同文化间的相互需求也会影响儿童文学翻译。     

The importance of being earners: why women in South Africa need well-paid jobs

The ‘children fare better’ viewpoint claims that children tend to be better fed if their mother (as opposed to father) has sufficient income of her own for food. This paper assesses this claim for South Africa, using data from household surveys. It considers the possibility that this issue is related to domestic violence between husband and wife, and finds an apparent link between wife's earnings, child nutrition and domestic violence. Children's well-being seems more assured if mothers have an adequate income; but there is more risk of inadequate nutrition in households where there is domestic violence against wives.     

THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN TOURISM ENCLAVES: MAYAN CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF TOURISM BOUNDARIES

This paper adopts an interpretive approach to investigate children’s perceptions of their socio-spatial surroundings. It focuses on two tourism service towns, Akumal Pueblo and Chemuyil, and two major tourism centers, Akumal Playa and Bahia Principe, all located in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula. Drawing on scholarship related to tourism’s role in demarcating and segregating space and Lefebvre’s trialectics of space production, this inquiry focuses on ways in which Mayan children residing in Akumal Pueblo and Chemuyil render their surrounding spaces intelligible, while reproducing or challenging the boundaries, symmetries and inclusions/exclusions created by the tourism industry. Tourism scholarship has tended to ignore children. By contrast this study engages the geographies of childhood to understand the lived socio-spatial experiences of this demographic group.     

我国台湾地区儿童福利问题研究

儿童是社会的未来,是民族的希望。儿童福利是社会福利的重要组成部分,在经济高速发展的当今社会,福利体系的建设中儿童福利的发展与完善显得尤为迫切。笔者通过对儿童福利事业发展较为先进的台湾地区进行研究,从法律和政策、行政体系、发展趋势等几个方面进行剖析,最终分析台湾地区儿童福利发展对我国相关问题上的启发,以期对我国儿童福利体系建设起到积极作用。     

嘉兴地区儿童围巾的消费心理调研与分析

随着人们生活水平的提高,作为服饰点缀品的围巾越来越受到家长的重视,成为装扮孩子体现时尚的有效手段。本研究以嘉兴地区的儿童和家长为调研对象,开展了关于儿童佩戴围巾习惯、围巾价格、图案设计等方面的调研,以便了解儿童围巾市场目标顾客的相关要求,从而指导围巾的设计。     

教育场域中的生存心态与文化资本——基于厦门市农民工子女教育状况的实证研究

以布迪厄的"文化资本理论"为研究视角,从"教育场域"中"身体化""客观化""制度化"形态的"文化资本"和"生存心态"角度,对厦门市湖里区初中在读的农民工子女教育状况进行实证研究。研究表明,农民工子女在"文化资本"上呈现出较为弱势的特点,具体表现为固有的"文化资本"与学校主流的"文化资本"不相契合,"文化资本"生成较为困难且质量不高;学习愿望较强但学习动机并不明朗;就读于不同类型学校和来自不同流出地的农民工子女在接受教育状况上的差异较为显著。     

The impact of parental migration on non-cognitive abilities of left behind children in northwestern China

Despite the vast literature surrounding various aspects of left behind children (LBC)’s development in China, very few studies have examined the development of, and impact on their non-cognitive abilities as a result of parental migration. Using survey data consisting of 5002 eighth graders from 160 middle schools in northwestern China, this paper investigates how parental migration affects children’s non-cognitive abilities, as is measured by Big Five components of conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness, as well as children’s grit. We narrow our analysis to long run and short run migration subsamples and use the propensity score matching method to address the potential selection bias issue. Our results show that mother’s migration is particularly harmful to the development of children’s non-cognitive abilities, as mother is usually the primary caregiver and mother’s migration makes less economic contribution to the family. In the long run, LBC with migrant mother tend to have lower levels of conscientiousness and grit; they also have higher level of neuroticism (or lower level of emotional stability). In the short run, when mother migrates, children tend to have lower levels of conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness.