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TL;DR: The adolescents described in the preceding companion article had experienced multiple changing caregivers until at least 2 years old, and were more oriented towards adult attention, and had more difficulties with peers and fewer close relationships than matched comparison adolescents, indicating some long term effects of their early institutional experience.
Abstract: The adolescents described in the preceding companion articles (J. Child Psychol. Psychiat.30, 33–75, (1989) had experienced multiple changing caregivers until at least 2 years old. Such maternal deprivation did not necessarily prevent them forming strong and lasting attachments to parents once placed in families, but whether such attachments developed depended on the family environment, being much more common in adopted children than in those restored to a biological parent. Both these groups alike, however, were more oriented towards adult attention, and had more difficulties with peers and fewer dose relationships than matched comparison adolescents, indicating some long term effects of their early institutional experience,
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a summary of the social policy of the old state-socialist regimes, some description of the legacy of social problems which they bequeathed to...
Abstract: This article is divided into four parts. First there is a summary of the social policy of the old state-socialist regimes, some description of the legacy of social problems which they bequeathed to...
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TL;DR: The Hidden Curriculum as discussed by the authors, a covert pattern of socialization which prepares students to function in the existing workplace and in other social/political spheres, has been largely ignored by social studies curriculum developers.
Abstract: This paper reviews recent studies on the relationship of classroom life to larger social/political institutions. It analyzes the phenomenon which Philip Jackson has identified as the “hidden curriculum”, that covert pattern of socialization which prepares students to function in the existing workplace and in other social/political spheres. The authors argue that this pattern has been largely ignored by social studies curriculum developers. By ignoring the values contained in the social processes of schooling, social studies developers failed to influence school programs in a fundamental way. To promote a more complete understanding of the dynamics of classroom life and its relationship to the larger society, the authors have identified social processes of school and classroom life which give specific meaning to the term hidden curriculum. They argue that a new set of processes will have to replace existing ones if the goals of social education are to be realized. In the latter part of the paper, ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the condition of state social work in England today is explored based on interviews with experienced social workers employed by local authority social services departments across the north of England, and they provide a penetrating insight into the diverse ways in which their work has been transformed and degraded and the manner in which the needs of clients have been largely ignored.
Abstract: Summary The article explores the condition of state social work in England today. It is based on interviews with experienced social workers employed by local authority social services departments across the north of England. These front line state social workers provide a penetrating insight into the diverse ways in which their work has been transformed and degraded and the manner in which the needs of clients have been largely ignored. From their perspective, the election of a Labour government in 1997 proved to be a massive disappointment and many social workers reported that it has further undermined state social work practice, workers and clients. The paper seeks to offer an explanation by noting the neo-liberalism of Labour’s social policy and the dire consequences which flow from New Labour’s fixation with waged work as the principal solution to social exclusion and poverty. Above all, it seeks to provide an opportunity for the views of front-line state social workers to be heard. A good friend of mine has been sending me press cuttings for the past three years, many of which concern the activities and strategies of New Labour. It is a sign of his originality as a social scientist that he has included in these bundles sheaves of public sector job adverts that provide a most important collection of data concerning New Labour’s particular imprint on social policy reform and change. One of many New Labour’s mantras—taken straight from the US corporate world of management speak—is ‘making a difference’. Nearly every senior job created as a consequence of New Labour’s flood of policy initiatives (projects, task forces, New Deals, ventures, agencies, pilots, beacons and the like (Parris, 2001, p. 2)) is advertised under this slogan; come and ‘make a difference’. New Labour under Tony Blair is very concerned to make a difference and can be guaranteed to fight all and any elections on
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