应中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所（简称“社科院民族所”）的邀请，加拿大里贾纳大学经济系教授江怡安（Marion E. Jones）博士和里贾纳大学研究生院副院长茹东燕（Dongyan Blachford）博士于2008年11月27 日到访社科院民族所。江怡安博士在北京作了题为《加拿大劳动市场上针对弱势群体的培训方案》的学术讲座。
    
    中国社会科学院民族所副所长黄行教授会见了里贾纳大学研究生院副院长茹东燕和里贾纳大学经济系教授江怡安，对她们的来访表示欢迎，希望进一步加强双方业已建立的合作关系。参加座谈和学术交流的有中华教育创新协会会长张庆来先生，中国传媒大学李娜老师，中国社会科学院民族所加拿大研究中心周庆生、张继焦、彭雪芳、杜发春、姜德顺、木仕华、张小敏等10余人。中国加拿大研究会副秘书长杜发春主持了座谈会。
    
    江怡安博士首先介绍了自己目前正在进行的研究项目，她根据在卡尔加里和里贾纳开展的调查研究，围绕加拿大劳动市场上针对弱势群体的培训作了学术报告。她说，根据1：1的比例，开展焦点小组访谈，对象是那些难以融入加拿大劳动力市场，并且接受过劳动力市场提供的训练方案的人。访谈主要在72个对象中开展，保证了至少每一类都有代表，以抑制劳动力市场一体化，主要包括以下类别：较低的社会经济地位，原住民地位，单亲抚养，刑事司法历史，拥有残疾等。江怡安博士的主要研究发现是：与劳动力市场技能相比，受访者更看重生活技能，这与生命的意义和人际交往技能有关。价值认知是获得了对生活新的视角和实现过去对现在的影响。价值的行为包括：个人特质和动机，并建立积极的社会支持和社会资本。这些见解在理论上提供丰富的因素会大大影响劳动力市场的政策和做法，特别是因为大多数培训计划和政策的计划是为了达到人力资本的积累。江怡安博士认为，在卡尔加里和里贾纳开展的劳动力短缺情况下的案例研究，在了解加拿大及其他地区的人口老龄化状况时，特别有用。
    
    江怡安教授1994年获伦敦大学经济学博士学位，她的主要研究兴趣有：里贾纳和卡尔加里劳动力市场上的弱势群体参与、加拿大和中国的旅游业、加拿大萨省和中国农村妇女企业家及其妇女地位、中国西南的国家自然保护区和生态旅游等。
    
    加拿大两位教授此次是到中国云南作田野调查后顺访社科院民族所的。2009年9月2日，里贾纳大学研究生院副院长茹东燕博士曾访问社科院民族所，并作了题为《加拿大高等教育的国际化与加拿大华人教授的影响》的学术讲座。
    （http://iea.cass.cn/xs/xsdt/gn/html/mzs_2008112114313112332.htm）
    
    
    Regina University Two Professors Visited CASS
    
    A roundtable discussion on Canadian Labour Market Training Programs for Vulnerable Groups, held in the Chinese National Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) on 27th of November 2008 in Beijing. Dr. Marion E. Jones, Department of Economics, and Dr. Dongyan R. Blachford, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina in Canada, were invited to CASS to exchange academic views on Canada-China research. During this event, Dr. Marion E. Jones had a presentation on Tipping Points: What Participants Found Valuable in Labour Market Training Programs for Vulnerable Groups.
    
    Dr. Marion E. Jones introduced their research programs in Canada. She said that based on 1:1 and focus group interviews with people who have experienced ongoing difficulties integrating into Canadian labour markets, and who had completed a labour market training program. Interviews were conducted with 72 individuals who were representative of at least one (an This paper is d often several) categories that inhibited labour market integration: low socioeconomic status, Aboriginal status, single motherhood, criminal justice history, and possessing a disability. The major finding: respondents valued life skills rather than labour-market skills, and these involved life meaning and interpersonal skills. Valued cognitions were gaining a new perspective on life and realizing the past impacts the present. Valued behaviours included personal characteristics and motivations, and building positive social support and social capital. These insights provide theoretically rich considerations could considerably influence labour market policies and practices, particularly since most training programs and policy programs are geared towards human capital accumulation.  The major finding is that the cases studied in Calgary and Regina under significant labour shortages particularly useful in examining conditions under population aging in Canada and beyond.
    
    Dr. Marion E. Jones got her Ph.D in Economics from the University of London (1994). Her Research Interests: labour market participation for vulnerable peoples in Regina and Calgary, sustainable regional development in rural areas of Saskatchewan and China, women entrepreneurs and the status of women in rural areas - Saskatchewan and Rural china, industrial tourism in Canada and China, national parks policy and nature tourism in Southwest China, theoretical issues regarding sustainability.
    
    Ten Chinese scholars attended this seminar and exchanged views with Canadian Professors. On 2nd of September 2008, On 2nd of September 2008, Dr. Dongyan R. Blachford was invited by the CASS, her talk is Internationalization in Canadian Higher Education and the Impact of Chinese-Canadian Professors.
    （http://iea.cass.cn/xs/xsdt/gn/html/mzs_2008112114313112332.htm）