Identity and Spatial Experience of Community Youth in Relation to Career Guidance

In order to investigate the self identity and vocational identity among community youth in Shanghai and their associated spatial experience, 4 focus groups, made up of 14 individuals were interviewed. We assigned numbers to indicate each interviewee as well as the general theme of each transcription of the interview. Results are as follows: community youth are in a transitional period in their lives, especially in regards to self concept, family, and how they experience their role in society;there is a notable distance between reality and the ideal career goals;the family space and community space have distinct characteristics for community youth, and there are specific interactive patterns that exist between the two types of spaces. Based on these results, we have introduced several insights into career guidance for this population.

East and West:Explorations in Research on Work and Learning

In modern society,there is one particular relationship between work and learning which clearly stands out.“Learning in the workplace”is a specialized field of study which is new within educational science.Whether we look at the field of human resource development(HRD)emerged in 1970s in the United States,or examine the 1990s European and Commonwealth version,“Research on Work and Learning,”the pivotal attention has been on learning activities in the workplace.Learning may improve the employee’s work competences,promote their individual development,and result in the organization’s competitive advantage within the globalized knowledge economy.In this way workplace learning has also become the central stage for analyses of and discussions about the role of lifelong learning in societal development on the whole.

International Student Mobility in Crises: Globalization and Foucault’s Rhetoric Question

Introduction During the current difficult time of the worldwide fight against the pandemic,international organizations,governments,and civil society have been heatedly debating the strategies and measures that should be taken by the affected countries.Given the situation that China could call upon the whole nation to battle against the COVID-19 and currently put the epidemic under control,while countries in other continents are at the stage of coronavirus outbreak and struggling with death,depression,and shortage of medical supplies,the battle of narratives also breaks out,reflected by mass communication and varied media.However,mass media and social media not only report and depict the outbreak in China and now in other places but may also be utilized by politicians to stigmatize other countries,to provoke controversies,and to criticize human rights and political systems in other countries.The recent Nature Editorial also responds to such chaos and appeals the public to stop the coronavirus stigma(“Stop the Coronavirus Stigma Now”,2020).The article points out“the pandemic is fueling deplorable racism and discrimination,especially against Asian people”(2020,p.165)and makes“people of Asian descent around the world subjected to racist attacks”(2020,p.165).