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RECONSIDERING RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPANESE RESIDENTIAL CARE AND THE ROAD TO FICE JAPAN
No full textIn order to foster interactive discussions with other countries, this paper offers an overview of residential care for children in Japan and its ongoing development. Japan still relies especially heavily on the residential care system; this is due to the past process of development more than to traditional Japanese culture. The period from the post World War II era to the present is briefly described, including the rapid growth in the number of institutions before 1960, the rather stable period before 1990, the revision of the Child Welfare Act in 1997 permitting the privatization of institutions, and the movement towards problematizing child abuse in the mid 1990s, after which residential institutions were designated as the last resort for maltreated young people. In the present situation, smaller institutions and a foster care system are strongly promoted in accordance with international guidelines for alternative care and the recent governmental guideline based on the Child Rearing Vision of 2010 and the Child Welfare Act of 2016. The task of present Japanese residential care institutions is to realize a family-like environment and a better placement strategy, collaborate more with specialists to improve the standard of care, function in the community as centers for the care of children in need, and expand their care work for young adults and care leavers. The paper concludes by stressing the need for more international exchange among individuals and groups working in Japanese residential care
Semiotic analysis of the Facebook postings of grade 11 learners via syntax and semantics
No full textThis paper attempts to analyze the January Facebook postings of Grade 11 Students of Bunguiao National School. The analyses carried out in the paper covered the textual contents of the postings via the interplay of syntax and semantics—that is, the subject of the post, a grammatical function vis-à-vis the semantic role. This paper claims that the forgoing interplay analysis corroborates the findings in the themes (the semantics) of the different contents of the posts, the non-textual postings: photos, smileys/emoticons, and videos. The analyses of the semantic contents of the postings were analyzed via coding, categorizing and theorizing. As this paper is in part qualitative in nature, the participants, whose FB posts have been subjected to analyses, have been chosen purposively. A small facet of the paper involves a quantitative analysis, i.e. the frequency counts of the interpenetration of syntactic and semantic constituents of the textual postings of the participants. At some extent, this paper draws upon the mixed methods approach in its attempt to put the data under scholarly lucubration
Milk and Victorian Femininity in Thomas Hardy’s "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Tess of the D’Urbervilles"
No full textEpisode 4 - No Matter How Small: Child Witnesses in Canadian Criminal Courts
No full textIn this episode, we turn to Evidence Law in its criminal context. Our first guest is Jeff Westman, police officer and law student at the University of Calgary, who authored the paper “No Matter How Small: Child Witnesses in Canadian Criminal Courts” (Appeal). The second guest is Professor Deb Connolly, Chair of the Psychology Department at Simon Fraser University.Content warning: in this episode, we talk about child witnesses (and victims) to disturbing crimes. Please skip this one if that would be best for you.The song that plays in the intro and outro of this episode is “Two Pianos” by Tajirijus
