On October 15th, we are honored to welcome Dr. Bo Yao from Manchester University to give us the first psychology lecture that was held in SCIE. As an experienced university professor, Dr. Yao has rich teaching experience on cognitive and neuroscience, his students had achieved great achievement under his witness. We can benefit a lot […]
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A week before the National Holidays, all G-level students from SCIE participated in an exciting camping activity at Dapeng Ecology Garden. Working in individual teams and competing against each other, all the students participated with full enthusiasm. Everyone used both their physical and mental abilities to earn as many points as possible for each of
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After about fourteen hours of flight, we, Russia field trip group from SCIE, leaded by James Fish, Jamie and Stuart, finally got to the Sheremetyevo International airport and coached to the hotel. We had a pretty delicious Russian style dinner and quickly went to bed because such a long flight is really exhausting to the
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10th October 2019 was the World Mental Health Day. To raise awareness of mental health on campus of SCIE, a gratitude board was put up all day for the students and staff to put anonymous post-it notes to say what they were grated for, and the library prepared some books dealing with mental health, also
BY PRINCIPAL (MR. MOBSBY) This morning, instead of being the Principal sitting in my office, I joined G1 as a student, following some of the students from Water2, G1.8 as they go through their lessons. The morning started at 7:50 with registration and a few minutes to read the Daily Bulletin on my laptop, then
Here comes April. Scorching weather of summer is conveying a massage – the end of this academic year is approaching. G2, A1 and A2 students are going to prepare for their international exams and study leave, while G1s still have to work hard and take classes in the campus, reviewing for the end of year
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In the graduation season of 2019, 252 graduates from SCIE have received more than 1,000 admission offers from world-famous universities across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Hong Kong and Japan by May 9. The total amount of scholarships has exceeded 13 million yuan. On the UK side, the G5 universities have issued 234
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Although this contemporary music lecture was arranged during the CIE examination period, music students were still participate in the lecture with passion and show their musical talents. The music conservatory visited SCIE today is the Musicians Institute (MI), a modern music school founded in 1977 in Hollywood, California, USA, located on the Hollywood Walk of
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British Sociological Association (BSA) is the largest organisations for sociology in UK. One of its aims is to promote sociology as a subject of study for high-schoolers. The BSA Teaching Group’s National A Level Competition invites essays and short videos from sociology students from AS level to AL level to enter. This year’s question “Using a
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On 27th of March, SCIE delegates and advisors took the earliest flight in that day off to Jeju island, South Korea for the most prestigious, academic-excellent international Model United Nations in South Korea——GECMUN. Other than two schools from China, the MUN also had international schools from Jeju island, Japan, United States and Philippines which makes
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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
