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Proceedings of the 2023 International Symposium on Children and Youth Health and Well-being

2024-06-28T02:55:07+00:00

Bridging theory and practice, the up-to-date evidence from these proceedings marks an important contribution to the advancement of children and youth health and well-being professions in the issues of technology, health, stress, inclusion, and resilience. The empirical research reported here examines the perceptions of parents, social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals concerning their awareness of child protection and parent-child relationships.

These proceedings serve as a catalyst for action, enabling researchers and practitioners to reference and view the newest research through the lenses of diverse themes that focus on children and youth health and well-being, and to impact the younger population at micro and macro levels. This key text has several important features:

1. It emphasizes the impact of digital technology on well-being among children and young people in this digital age, and how to involve different stakeholders who can help to respond to emergent and existing challenges.

2. It introduces learning disabilities and issues in the field of mental stress and the biopsychology of developmental needs in school settings in addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

3. It advances health knowledge and care practice through practice-oriented research, establishing new benchmarks in health care work, identifying its possibilities and constraints.

4. It enriches knowledge in the field of safeguarding for adults, including parental involvement in identifying and responding to children and youth well-being.

Prof. Jacky Ho is an Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China. He is also the Director of the Macao Observatory for Social Development. He has been conducting programs and studies on the long-term health effects of lifestyle habits and desynchronization of the wake/sleep cycle across lifespans.

Prof. Helen Liu is an Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China. Her research interests are primarily on promoting child and family well-being, together with fostering family resilience and positive developmental outcomes in children and adolescents.

Largada

2024-01-15T09:41:34+00:00

Four titles are collected in this collective book. 1. The New Great Learning Oneness Epistemic Model: A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Oneness and its Application in Veganism 2. 探討澳門中學生學習困難︑師生關係及學習動機之個案混合研究摘要 3. Teachers’ Perceptions of Performance Appraisal In A Secondary School In South-East Asia: A Case Study 4. The Financial Valuation of Walmart Inc.

(Un)directed Reading

2023-07-06T03:40:09+00:00

These days, we rarely find youth engaged in reading or writing books. Yet, the joy in these activities is inevitable. When first exposed to reading, the new reader may find themself drawn into new worlds of excitement, amazement, emotion, philosophy, and adventure.

This compilation of short stories includes work written by students from different degree programmes at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Macao, China, in 2021. Students involved in this project include students from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Bachelor of Communication and Media, Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Fashion Design.

“(Un)directed Reading” is also an installation designed to randomly generate extracts from the selected work edited below. It aims to get the general public and interested individuals to come to the front of the kiosk and be surprised.

Jornalismo e Qualidade no Mundo de Expressão Portuguesa

2023-03-14T13:25:35+00:00

“Jornalismo e Qualidade no Mundo de Expressão Portuguesa” propõe uma análise sobre a paisagem do jornalismo nos oito países de língua oficial portuguesa – Portugal, Angola, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe e Timor-Leste – e na Região Autónoma Especial de Macau. O livro é uma reflexão sobre a legislação, o plano jurídico-constitucional que enquadra os media no espaço lusófono, os contextos de mercado, as especificidades inscritas em fatores históricos e económicos, em percursos políticos, bem como sobre as relações entre os media e os jornalistas e estes e o poder regulador do Estado.
Os trabalhos reunidos nesta obra escrita por autores que partilham entre si um dos idiomas mais falados do planeta, mostram as diferentes realidades do jornalismo no espaço da língua portuguesa, nomeadamente as suas redes de conhecimento, de empenho na promoção da qualidade da informação, de intercompreensão entre povos e culturas, de novas e inovadoras formas de parcerias sociais com vista à partilha e à construção de mundividências.

-- JOSÉ MANUEL SIMÕES

Memory and Identity :

2023-06-26T07:14:36+00:00

Inspired by John Paul II's 2005 book "Memory and Identity: Conversations at the dawn of a New Millenium", staff and students of 38 member universities of the Association of South and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities met at the St Paul's Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in August 2022 to reflect upon memory and identity. This book contains four of the keynote papers given at that conference, addressing the major themes of the conference.

Succession in Chinese family business

2024-04-08T02:32:08+00:00

Macao is well known for its gaming industry. However, there are also many traditional small-to-medium enterprises which are family-owned and run. There is no doubt that social capital is one of the key competitive advantages that family businesses possess, particularly when it comes to Chinese businesses with strong family values that emphasize the importance of trustworthiness and guanxi (relationships). As opposed to other forms of capital, social capital cannot be passed from one generation to another through the will of the incumbents. So, how is social capital passed on in family businesses from one generation to the next? Based on an in-depth study of five cases of successful family businesses in Macao, this research identified the forms of social capital present in business families and the succession process of these firms. From the generalizations drawn from the five cases, a theoretical framework is proposed to understand the intergenerational transmission of social capital in Chinese family businesses.

Interaction design for a contemporary learning and teaching environment

2024-04-08T03:38:08+00:00

The world is perpetually changing, and the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that the future is full of unforeseen challenges and potentialities. What are the implications of the advancement in technology on education? How are teachers coping with contemporary educational expectations? Is there a need to redesign the learning environment? What is the exact nature of the forces driving such a change? Is there anything we can learn from successful innovations around the globe?

The goals of this dissertation include designing a learning/teaching app and redesigning classroom furniture for primary-level education. A design thinking methodology is used, working through the phases of empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing the two potential designs.

Pilgrimage

2024-04-08T03:49:54+00:00

In the light of the many kinds of journeys that have been considered pilgrimages, this book uses phenomenology as a method to examine the claim that pilgrimage is a journey to the ‘center’ during which pilgrims seek meaning s for themselves. First, by analyzing a phenomenology of Christian pilgrimage, this work attempts to identify what commonalities, as well as differences, exist between Christian pilgrimage and secular pilgrimage in terms of ‘natural attitude’.

Next, by using a phenomenological method, such as transcendental reduction, the distinction between these two types of pilgrimage could be clarified that the happiness sought in Christian pilgrimage is both intentionally spiritual and sustainable, while primarily intellectual or sensory in secular pilgrimage. Lastly, this work seeks to establish whether or not ‘being at leisure’ is the primary element for pilgrims whose aim is to attain an understanding of happiness during a pilgrimage.

Retrieving the sense of the sacred

2024-04-08T03:57:50+00:00

In the course of history, the experience of silence has always been a slice of glorious treasures in the Roman liturgy. Silence as Sacred is not only a historical issue but also a practical one in modern liturgical experience. As a liturgical minister in our time, the author reflects on this phenomenon and explores a theological disposition on the liturgical foundation of silence.

The research is conducted in a context-theology-paradigm approach, of which it aims to investigate the theology of liturgical silence with the aid of actual pastoral experience—the common liturgical experience in modern Catholic worship.

Therefore, the content of this book deals with the intrinsic connection between the Sacred—the mystery which the liturgy celebrates—and the theological implication of silence in Catholic worship. By embracing various theological disciplines: Philosophy of Religion, Biblical Studies, Christology, Patristic Theology, Christian Worship and Liturgical Music, a proper and comprehensive theological investigation of liturgical silence is presented.

The author intends to justify Silence as a liturgical paradigm: a proper means of enhancing the celebration of modern Catholic liturgy. Sacred silence, as prescribed in Sacrosanctum Concilium (The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), truly revives the spirit of the Second Vatican Council.

To recover a proper liturgical value of silence in the liturgy is to recover the sense of the sacred in the living world.