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Predicting the compactability of artificially cemented fine-grained soils blended with waste-tire-derived aggregates

- Soltani, Amin, Nguyen, Duc, O’Kelly, Brendan, Taheri, Abbas

  • Authors: Soltani, Amin , Nguyen, Duc , O’Kelly, Brendan , Taheri, Abbas
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology Vol. 10, no. 3 (2023), p. 365-390
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  • Description: This study investigates the possibility of extending the specific gravity ratio (SGR) modeling framework, originally developed for predicting the compaction properties of unamended fine-grained soils (with no binder) blended with tire-derived aggregates (TDAs), to artificially cemented soil–TDA blends. This was achieved by performing comprehensive statistical analyses on a large and diverse database of 87 fine-grained soil–binder–TDA compaction tests, covering a wide range of soil plasticity and including a variety of chemical binders (cement, lime, fly ash, slag, and liquid polymers) and sand-sized (0.075–4.75 mm) TDA products. The optimum water content (OWC) and maximum dry unit weight (MDD) for any fine-grained soil–binder–TDA blend (constant binder type and content) can be expressed as functions of the OWC and MDD measured for the soil–binder mixture (with no TDA), along with the soil–binder (SB) to soil–binder–TDA (SBT) SGR, as woptSBT=woptSB(SGR)

Prediction of secant shear modulus and damping ratio for an extremely dilative silica sand based on machine learning techniques

- Baghbani, Abolfazl, Choudhury, Tanveer, Samui, Pijush, Costa, Susanga

  • Authors: Baghbani, Abolfazl , Choudhury, Tanveer , Samui, Pijush , Costa, Susanga
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Vol. 165, no. (2023), p.
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  • Description: A better understanding of soil response to dynamic loads, including earthquakes, can result in safer designs that can reduce casualties. The damping ratio and shear modulus are critical parameters in soil dynamics, and several factors affect these parameters, including density and moisture content. The non-linear and multiple influences on these two parameters make their estimation difficult. Machine learning techniques are very powerful mapping tools with a remarkable capacity to perform nonlinear multivariate function approximations. In this study, to predict sand secant shear modulus and damping ratio from input variables, artificial neural networks (ANN) and classification and regression random forests (CRRF) were used as alternative estimators. The database was created using a series of simple shear tests that accurately assessed damping ratios and secant shear modulus to predict these two dynamic parameters. The input variables of the proposed predictive models included vertical stress, relative density and cyclic stress ratio, and its outputs included secant shear modulus and damping ratio. The Bayesian Regularization (BR) back-propagation ANN model produced correlation coefficient (R) and mean absolute error (MAE) values of 0.998 and 0.006, respectively, while CRRF models gave R and MAE values of 0.995 and 66.051, respectively. Additionally, sensitivity analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) models demonstrated that vertical stress and relative density played a vital role in predicting damping ratio, while all three parameters were important in predicting secant shear modulus. In this study, two developed artificial intelligence models were compared with existing literature models. According to the results, for test database, the existing models were able to predict the shear modulus and damping ratio with R of 0.911 and 0.918, respectively. However, the proposed ANN and CRRF models were able to predict shear modulus with R of 0.993 and 0.996, and damping ratios with R of 0.992 and 0.990, respectively. The results showed that ANNs and CRRFs were more robust than existing models for predicting damping ratio and shear modulus, as well as identifying the influence of input variables on sand dynamic properties. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd

Prefrontal cortex activity in siblings with and without developmental coordination disorder : an exploratory study

- Plumb, Mandy, Charity, Megan, Milla, Kimberly, Bodt, Barry, Getchell, Nancy

  • Authors: Plumb, Mandy , Charity, Megan , Milla, Kimberly , Bodt, Barry , Getchell, Nancy
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Motor Learning and Development Vol. 11, no. 1 (2023), p. 188-208
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  • Description: Background: Previous research suggests that children with or at risk of probable developmental coordination disorder (pDCD) activate different areas of the brain when performing certain motor skills compared with typically developing (TD) children. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to compare prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity in TD and pDCD during the completion of manual (three-dimensional [3D]) and computerized versions (two-dimensional) of the Tower of Hanoi (ToH) puzzle. Method: A total of 12 children (TD and pDCD; one female/11 male, -x = 10.36, SD ± 1.52 years) performed the two-dimensional and 3D conditions of the ToH disk tasks, with equivalent executive function but different motor requirements, with functional near-infrared spectroscopy to compare PFC activity. Results: Interestingly, brain oxygenation levels were more apparent in the 3D versus two-dimensional ToH. In the 3D, there were large differences between pairs of discordant sibling sets and this was located to the right medial PFC, with pDCD exhibiting less activation in this region. Conclusion: While only exploratory, we have identified potential differences in the right medial PFC region, which differs within sibling sets with different pDCD status. These results concur with previous studies and are an area that needs to be explored further with a larger cohort of TD and pDCD. © 2023 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.

Professionalising care into compliance : the challenge for personalised care models

- Cole, Clare, Mummery, Jane, Peck, Blake

  • Authors: Cole, Clare , Mummery, Jane , Peck, Blake
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 30, no. 3 (2023), p.
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  • Description: One of the most basic understandings of nursing is that a nurse is a caregiver for a patient who helps to prevent illness, treat health conditions, and manage the physical needs of patients. Nursing is often presented as a caring profession, which provides patient care driven by ideals of empathy, compassion and kindness. These ideals of care have further been foregrounded through the development and implementation of stress on patient centred care (PCC) and/or person-centred practice (PCP). Although the idealisation of nursing as a caring profession is common, and one certainly seen as integral by nurses and written into the heart of regulatory documentation, we contend that the actual delivery of care is being undercut by the very regulatory climate that strives to professionalise care. As we outline, with specific reference to the context of Australian Nursing, this transformation delivers a commodified, even McDonaldized, model of patient management rather than care. It seems that even with its explicit stress on PCC and PCP, Australian Nursing cannot live up to its own care ideals. Having outlined this problem, the paper then demonstrates the ways in which PCC is thwarted at the coal face of nursing practice and that there must be an institutionalised change to be able to provide genuine patient-centred care. © 2022 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Prosecutions in the summary jurisdictions

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

  • Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 5 p. 95-119
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  • Description: Police prosecutors play a critical role in the Victorian summary jurisdiction. While scarce, the available literature identifies concerns about the use of police prosecutors, including a lack of independence from investigative police the opaque police prosecutor decision-making the potential bias in favour of police informants the lack of uniformity in training requirements the high workloads and the lack of clear, uniform and public guidelines all which may have real or perceived impacts upon court outcomes for accused and victims alike and upon the public’s confidence in the administration of justice. This is particularly so in the context of increasing volume, complexity and seriousness of summary offences. This chapter supports the need for an evidence-based review of police-led prosecutions which includes the impacts on case outcomes, and whether certain reforms may be necessary.

Prospective associations between traditional masculinity and cannabis, hard drug, and alcohol use in Australian emerging adult men

- Teese, Robert, Van Doorn, George, Gill, Peter

  • Authors: Teese, Robert , Van Doorn, George , Gill, Peter
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 200, no. (2023), p.
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  • Description: The current study assessed the association between traditional masculine norms and cannabis use, hard drug use (e.g., amphetamines and cocaine), and hazardous alcohol use at two-year follow-up. The sample comprised 2170 Australian emerging adult men (18–29 years old) who completed Wave 1 (2013–2014) and Wave 2 (2015–2016) of the Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health survey. Lagged logistic regressions showed that the playboy (Odds Ratio [OR] ranging 1.30–1.65) and risk-taking (OR ranging 1.35–1.96) norms conveyed risk for each of hazardous alcohol use, cannabis use, and hard drug use at two-year follow-up. Several outcome-specific findings were also demonstrated across the hegemonically-masculine norms, with increased adherence to certain hegemonically-masculine norms conveying risk for engagement in substance use in emerging adult men. These findings suggest that treatments focusing on improving social supports might help emerging men avoid substance abuse issues. © 2022

Psychological effects of unemployment across the lifespan : a synthesis of relevant literature

- Taylor, Philip, Gringart, Eyal, Adams, Claire

  • Authors: Taylor, Philip , Gringart, Eyal , Adams, Claire
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Aging and Social Policy Vol. 35, no. 2 (2023), p. 154-178
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  • Description: Amid ongoing global economic uncertainty and long-standing efforts to tackle age discrimination and increase older workers’ labor force engagement, it is pertinent to consider age differences in the individual effects of joblessness. This is paramount for informing support services, policy formulation, and research. This article is based on a literature review of international peer reviewed quantitative research that has examined the relationship between age, psychological wellbeing and unemployment. Two hundred and twenty-six studies were screened and 36 were included. No relevant qualitative studies were identified. Among the studies, there was a broad consensus that there are age differences in terms of the psychological consequences of unemployment. However, they showed mixed evidence, and critical conceptual and methodological deficiencies were identified. We conclude that the body of evidence is weak and that drawing from it for the development of practice and policy in support of jobless individuals is to be cautioned against. © 2022 Taylor & Francis.

Public health messaging during disasters: Practice and attitudes of Australian emergency nurses

- Coombs, Nicole, Porter, Joanne, Barbagallo, Michael, Plummer, Virginia

  • Authors: Coombs, Nicole , Porter, Joanne , Barbagallo, Michael , Plummer, Virginia
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australasian Emergency Care Vol. 26, no. 2 (2023), p. 193-197
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  • Description: The growing frequency of disasters increases health system demands, increasing the need for emergency departments to provide public health messaging to prevent illness and reduce risk. This study aims to explore emergency nurse practice and attitudes in providing public health messages from the emergency department during disasters in Australia. Quantitative phase of a mixed methods study, using an explanatory sequential design. Australian emergency nurses were surveyed using a validated online questionnaire. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, an enumerative content analysis, participant profiling and a factor analysis. Disaster experience varied in 143 nurse participants. The perception of the emergency nurse’s role in providing public health messages is influencing practice. Embracing teachable moments and health promotion responsibilities, attributes to positive attitudes and practice. In contrast, negative attitudes, lack of confidence, time, policy, and training, are barriers to public health messages being provided in the emergency setting. These barriers suggest that Australian emergency nurses may not have the capability, the opportunity, nor the motivation, to provide preventative messages to their patients during disasters. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors need to be addressed, ensuring nurses are confident and supported in their public health messaging practice during disasters.

Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement : results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults

- Engel, Lidia, Brijnath, Bianca, Chong, Terence, Hills, Danny, Hjorth, Larissa, Loi, Samantha, Majmudar, Ishani, Mihalopoulos, Cathrine, Gerber, Katrin

  • Authors: Engel, Lidia , Brijnath, Bianca , Chong, Terence , Hills, Danny , Hjorth, Larissa , Loi, Samantha , Majmudar, Ishani , Mihalopoulos, Cathrine , Gerber, Katrin
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Death Studies Vol. 47, no. 9 (2023), p. 994-1005
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  • Description: Older people experience bereavements more often than any other age group. National survey data collected across Australia from 633 bereaved adults aged 65+ years showed that 21% met the criteria for prolonged grief. Their quality of life was significantly lower and loneliness significantly higher compared to older people in the general population. Risk factors for the low quality of life and high loneliness post-bereavement included being female, experiencing the death of a partner, and being the full-time carer of the deceased. Time since bereavement, expectedness, and cause of death were not significantly associated with quality of life and loneliness. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Quantum particle swarm optimization for task offloading in mobile edge computing

- Dong, Shi, Xia, Yuanjun, Kamruzzaman, Joarder

  • Authors: Dong, Shi , Xia, Yuanjun , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Vol. 19, no. 8 (2023), p. 9113-9122
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  • Description: Mobile edge computing (MEC) deploys servers on the edge of the mobile network to reduce the data transmission delay between servers and mobile devices, and can meet the computing demand of mobile computing tasks. It alleviates the problem of computing power and delay requirements of mobile computing tasks and reduces the energy consumption of mobile devices. However, the MEC server has limited computing and storage resources and mobile network bandwidth, making it impossible to offload all mobile computing tasks to MEC servers for processing. Therefore, MEC needs to reasonably offload and schedule mobile computing tasks, to achieve efficient utilization of server resources. To solve the above-mentioned problems, in this article, the task offloading problem is formulated as an optimization problem, and particle swarm optimization (PSO) and quantum PSO based task offloading strategies are proposed. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the system energy consumption, task completion time, and running time compared with recent advanced strategies, namely ant colony optimization, multiagent deep deterministic policy gradients, deep meta reinforcement learning-based offloading, iterative proximal algorithm, and parallel random forest. © 2005-2012 IEEE.

Race craft : a qualitative exploration of the development, implementation and reflection of tactical decision making in road cycling

- O’Grady, Mathew, Worn, Ryan, Owens, Julian, O’Brien, Brendan, Talpey, Scott

  • Authors: O’Grady, Mathew , Worn, Ryan , Owens, Julian , O’Brien, Brendan , Talpey, Scott
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching Vol. 18, no. 6 (2023), p. 2160-2170
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  • Description: Historically, research that has aimed to understand the determinants of road cycling performance has focused primarily on the physiological characteristics of successful performers. To date, little research has been conducted on the tactical strategies that underpin successful road cycling, especially from a qualitative perspective. This study reports the practices of seven high-performing Australian cyclists and coaches to inform how they prepare for competition, the tactical decisions they make during and reflective practices they use following a road cycling competition. Inductive qualitative one-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted using open-ended questions via an online meeting platform. A robust thematic analysis of the interviews was undertaken resulting in the establishment of themes aligned with pre-race, in-race and reflection upon tactical decision making. Prior to the race, themes related to the specificity of training, planning of a race strategy and use of training data emerged from the interviews. During the race, themes of the cyclist’s role within a team, in-race communication and race craft were established. Post-race, a theme related to the reflective practice implemented by each participant was evident. These results and discussion provide novel insights into the process of developing, implementing and reflecting upon tactical decision making used in high-level road cycling. This information is valuable for teams and governing bodies to inform and enhance coaching development and practice within the sport of road cycling. © The Author(s) 2022.

Radiative heat transfer in solar particle receivers

- Chen, Jingling, Kumar, Apurv, Coventry, Joe, Lipiński, Wojciech

Rainbow brick road report : A snapshot into LGBTQIA+ Lives in Gippsland, Summary report

- Porter, Joanne, Reeves, Jessica, Propikov, Valerie, Collaborative Evaluation and Research Group

  • Authors: Porter, Joanne , Reeves, Jessica , Propikov, Valerie , Collaborative Evaluation and Research Group
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Report
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  • Description: Summary of the findings of Gippsland Rainbow Brick Road Project report - Gippsland Pride Inc. embarked on an ambitious undertaking to capture the lived experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community across Gippsland through a series of professional development workshops and a Gippsland wide survey. A total of 119 people registered to attend the professional development workshops and a total of 214 surveys were collected, this report presents a summary of the findings from this data collection. The purpose of this evidence-based report is to highlight the thoughts and experiences of members of the Gippsland LGBTQIA+ community to inform future strategic plans.
  • Description: Summary of the findings of Gippsland Rainbow Brick Road Project report Gippsland Pride Inc. embarked on an ambitious undertaking to capture the lived experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community across Gippsland through a series of professional development workshops and a Gippsland wide survey. A total of 119 people registered to attend the professional development workshops and a total of 214 surveys were collected, this report presents a summary of the findings from this data collection. The purpose of this evidence-based report is to highlight the thoughts and experiences of members of the Gippsland LGBTQIA+ community to inform future strategic plans.

Reappraisal of linear shrinkage test for plasticity index determination and classification of fine-grained soils

- Soltani, Amin, Azimi, Mahdieh, O'Kelly, Brendan

  • Authors: Soltani, Amin , Azimi, Mahdieh , O'Kelly, Brendan
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Review
  • Relation: Applied Clay Science Vol. 238, no. (2023), p.
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  • Description: Among the multitude of alternate plasticity index (PI) estimation proposals, empirical correlations based on the linear shrinkage (LS) test, originally proposed in the 1967 edition of the British BS 1377 standard, seem to be gaining increased attention. This study has two main aims: (i) re-examining LS-based correlations for PI estimation to better understand their true potentials and/or limitations; and (ii) investigating the possibility of employing LS, as a proxy for the standard PI, for fine-grained soil classification. To this end, comprehensive statistical analyses were performed on the largest and most diverse database assembled of its kind, entailing PI:LS measurements for 265 different fine-grained soils [pertaining to the ‘soft’ base percussion-cup liquid limit (LL = 17–134%) and the Australian standard LS = 0.5–32.0%]. It was demonstrated that the LS can generally only provide a rough approximation of the actual PI. At best, only those predictions produced by PI = 1.86 × LS for low-plasticity soils (i.e., LL

Reducing the fear of re-injury during rehabilitation through mental imagery as a mental health strategy in sport and exercise

- Lindsay, Riki, McNeil, Dominic, Spittle, Michael

  • Authors: Lindsay, Riki , McNeil, Dominic , Spittle, Michael
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Review
  • Relation: Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity Vol. 18, no. 1 (2023), p.
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  • Description: Returning to sport and exercise following injury requires the athlete to become more confident in the ability to gradually explore the use of the injured area in increasingly complex and challenging ways. Emotional responses, such as fear of re-injury, are a key mental health barrier to a performer's return to sport and exercise. To navigate such psychological responses, performers need well-developed psychological strategies, like mental imagery (MI), to facilitate a successful return to pre-injury levels of sport and exercise. MI is a well-established strategy for dealing with negative symptoms associated with injury, providing a safe and less intimidating environment to practice movements that may be perceived as risky and otherwise performed within physical training due to the fear of causing further injury. This paper aims to provide sport psychologists with recommendations on how to utilize MI to reduce fear of re-injury during the rehabilitation process to successfully facilitate return to sport and exercise. Specific examples are also outlined and discussed. © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.

REER-H : a reliable energy efficient routing protocol for maritime intelligent transportation systems

- Zenia, Nusrat, Kaiser, M. Shamim, Mahmud, Mufti, Ahmed, Muhammad, Kaiwartya, Omprakash, Kamruzzaman, Joarder

  • Authors: Zenia, Nusrat , Kaiser, M. Shamim , Mahmud, Mufti , Ahmed, Muhammad , Kaiwartya, Omprakash , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Vol. 24, no. 12 (2023), p. 13654-13669
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  • Description: The Underwater sensor network (UWSN), also known as Marine Sensor Network (MSN), is gaining increasing attention due to its applications in the monitoring of the marine environment and assisting Marine Intelligent Transportation Systems (MITS). Such systems provide in-vehicle assistance services (i.e., traffic monitoring and driver alerts) by gathering transportation and environmental information. Though very promising, there are several barriers to developing energy-efficient communication protocols for heterogeneous MSN, including selecting optimal routing paths twinned with the lifetime of these sensor nodes along the path, which are restricted due to the limited energy storage capacity. Hereby, the selection of an optimal route path also necessitates harvesting and management of the sensor nodes' energy. To facilitate this, the current work presents REER-H, a Reliable Energy Efficient Routing protocol with Harvesting for cluster-based MSN capable of multi-source energy harvesting and an incorporated energy management technique. Incorporating three separate layers of the protocol stack, namely, network, MAC, and physical layers, REER-H uses its proposed adaptive scheduling technique to support collision-free data transmission by assigning adaptive time slots based on demand and data load. Also, the proposed integrated energy harvesting and management solves the energy hole problem and enhances the overall network lifetime. In comparison to the existing cooperative and cluster-based energy-efficient routing protocols for underwater maritime communication, the simulated results using Network Simulator-3 (NS3) reveal that the proposed scheme remarkably enhances the overall network performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, throughput, lifetime energy consumption, and end-to-end delay for MSN. © 2000-2011 IEEE.

Regionality and civilizations in the Americas : considerations on civilizational analysis in the context of American modernities

- Smith, Jeremy

Reliance upon contextual information can impede visual anticipation

- Müller, Sean, Brenton, John, O’Grady, Mathew

  • Authors: Müller, Sean , Brenton, John , O’Grady, Mathew
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: European Journal of Sport Science Vol. 23, no. 7 (2023), p. 1324-1333
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  • Description: This study investigated whether skilled batsmen in a state cricket pathway could anticipate ball types when congruency of field-placings was manipulated with a bowler’s action. Twenty-four male cricket batsmen were recruited who had played either first-class cricket (n = 6), were part of under 17 (n = 8) or under 19 (n = 10) state cricket squads. Participants completed a video-based temporal occlusion test where they were required to anticipate ball types from a swing bowler. In condition one, contextual field-placing information was presented to be congruent with the delivery type and bowler’s action, whilst in condition two it was incongruent. Results did not reveal skill level differences across conditions for anticipation. In the congruent condition, all skill groups predicted above the chance level at the beginning and end of the bowler’s delivery stride. In the incongruent condition, first-class players predicted above chance at the beginning of the bowler’s delivery stride, and to a higher magnitude above chance compared to other skill groups at ball release. Under 17 and 19 players could not predict above chance at the start of the bowler’s delivery stride with their magnitude of prediction lower than first-class players at ball release. Results indicate skilled batsmen find it challenging to integrate contextual and kinematic information to anticipate. This is likely due to greater emphasis placed upon contextual information in part supplied by data analysts. Findings have theoretical and practical implications respectively for lower body positioning for bat-ball interception and perceptual training to improve pick-up of kinematic cues. HIGHLIGHTS Skilled batsmen in a high-performance state cricket pathway could integrate congruent field-placings and bowler kinematics to anticipate ball types. First-class batsmen could integrate incongruent field-placing information to the start, but not the end, of the bowler’s delivery action to anticipate ball types. Under 17 and 19 batsmen could not integrate incongruent field-placings to bowler kinematics to anticipate ball types. Skilled batsmen who cannot use kinematic information to anticipate ball types should be given visual-perceptual simulation training to accelerate performance. © 2022 European College of Sport Science.

Respite, renewal, retirement and tensions : Australian Men's Sheds and the impact on significant others

- Foley, Annette, Golding, Barry, Weadon, Helen

  • Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry , Weadon, Helen
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Ageing and Society Vol. , no. (2023), p. 1-22
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  • Description: The health and wellbeing benefits of Men's Sheds to the men who participate have had significant research attention for over a decade. However, there has been little research into the broader impacts of Men's Sheds, particularly in relation to the impacts on significant others in the lives of the men who participate. Our paper aims to redress this lack of research by focusing on the interrelated perceptions and experiences of men and those closest to them in four Men's Sheds in regional Victoria, Australia. The research shows that the partners and carers of 'shedders' reported that the men's participation not only benefited the men but also had benefits for their significant others. The study also showed that the partners of shedders in the study found that their individual and joint adjustment to retirement was in some cases assisted by the men enjoying the social and structured environment of the Men's Shed, while in other cases it was seen by partners as an over-commitment and impacting negatively on the marriage. The findings also shed some important light on some tensions experienced by the partners associated with carer burden and adjustments to retirement. Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.

Responding to climate change through outdoor environmental education : pedagogy for confronting a crisis

- Jukes, Scott

  • Authors: Jukes, Scott
  • Date: 2023
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 11 p. 205-222
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  • Description: This chapter looks to address the fact that OEE has not responded in any significant way to the climate crises. Thus, this chapter confronts the issue of climate change by exploring some of the climate change education literature that may provide useful insights for OEE pedagogy. I then offer four examples of practice where climate change education is delivered through OEE. These examples include taking advantage of pedagogic moments, planning activities and experiences with climate change education in mind along with an example of tertiary curriculum development for climate change education within OEE. The chapter highlights that conceptualising and bearing witness to climate change are steps towards collective action and fostering response-ability. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.