Whether your child is heading to new school for the first time or is a seasoned student, they sometimes have a tough time making the back-to-school transition. As with any new or unsettling situation — like starting school for the first time or entering a new grade or new school — give teens time to […]
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What a topsy turvy year! With so many challenges and moving to a new campus in the middle of the Oxbridge application cycle, our student accomplishments are all the more remarkable. SCIE means striving to be the best with ‘Students in a Challenging InternationalEnvironment’. This year our student body really has shown resilience, sense of
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As the semester is approaching an end, all G1 physics students were given a particular task that would draw a meaningful end to the school year – the Mousetrap Car Project. As an iconic STEM contest integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the project is very popular worldwide. With only a simple mousetrap as the
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SCIE has been fortunate to be able to host internal CPD face to face. There have been a range of exciting activities to support the training of all SCIE staff. There has been training taking place for both current middle leaders and aspiring middle leaders. Interactive sessions have included looking at high performing teams, learning
Team VAR Team SCAR We would like to congratulate team SCAR and team VARS for reaching the semi -finals of the Global Social Leadership (GSL) competition. These projects have been chosen from thousands of projects globally to progress to the next stage. The judges were very complimentary and shared this feedback with us. “We have
We started when the theater went through irregular maintenance and the drama studios were nowhere to be found. The rehearsal space might be in the theater, might be in the classroom on the 6th floor, or just the outdoor seatings of the cafe. As actors, we all held the same notion: get the lines done
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Prime Minister’sQuestions is a tradition of the British Parliament asa symbol of the unique political philosophy of British constitutional government. In keeping with parliamentary tradition, the Prime Minister has a half-hour Q&Asession every Wednesday from 12pm to 12.30pm. The PrimeMinisterwill be questioned about his policies by the opposition party and will have torespond. Parliamentmembers from
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In April, we had the second session of the Jazz Lecture Series — Jazz Piano. The Music Department was honored to invite the Deputy Director of the Department of Modern Music of Shenzhen University, to present a lecture on jazz piano and improvisation techniques in our SCIE new campus. Both music students and non-music students
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When they ask you about the SCIE objectives, what the goals for the year are… Well, at the end of the day, it’s always the same, right? We must win, always. One, two, three, SCIE! “We have to attack!” “Use your heads, guys, use your heads!” Come on, let’s play as always. That ambition to
Previous Next Last Saturday, the Alumni Homecoming Party was held in SCIE Antuo Shan Campus. Wandering at the school surrounded by streams, bamboos and trees, the alumnus could not help to taking photos to record every corner of their new home. Sitting in the Halo Theater and watching the Old Shui Wei Campus video, which
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
