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Adapting to teaching and learning in open-plan schools

- Prain, Vaughan, Cox, Peter, Deed, Craig, Edwards, Debra, Farrelly, Cathleen, Keeffe, Mary, Lovejoy, Valerie, Mow, Lucy, Sellings, Peter, Waldrip, Bruce, Yager, Zali

Authors: Prain, Vaughan , Cox, Peter , Deed, Craig , Edwards, Debra , Farrelly, Cathleen , Keeffe, Mary , Lovejoy, Valerie , Mow, Lucy , Sellings, Peter , Waldrip, Bruce , Yager, Zali
Date: 2014
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Description: In recent years many countries have built or renovated schools incorporating open plan design. These new spaces are advocated on the basis of claims that they promote fresh, productive ways to teach and learn that address the needs of students in this century, resulting in improved academic and well-being outcomes. These new approaches include teachers planning and teaching in teams, grouping students more flexibly, developing more coherent and comprehensive curricula, personalising student learning experiences, and providing closer teacher-student relationships. In this book we report on a three-year study of six low SES Years 7{u2013}10 secondary schools in regional Victoria, Australia, where staff and students adapted to these new settings. In researching this transitional phase, we focused on the practical reasoning of school leaders, teachers and students in adapting organisational, pedagogical, and curricular structures to enable sustainable new learning environments. We report on approaches across the different schools to structural organisation of students in year-level groupings, distributed leadership, teacher and pre-service teacher professional learning, student advocacy and wellbeing, use of techno-mediated learning, personalising student learning experiences, and curriculum design and enactment. We found that these new settings posed significant challenges for teachers and students and that successful adaptation depended on many interconnected factors. We draw out the implications for successful adaptation in other like settings.

An historical geography of tourism in Victoria, Australia: case studies

- Clark, Ian, Dolce, Ever, Justin, Lisa, Sergi, Sharnee, Skidmore, Stephanie, Watson, Jaimee

Authors: Clark, Ian , Dolce, Ever , Justin, Lisa , Sergi, Sharnee , Skidmore, Stephanie , Watson, Jaimee
Date: 2014
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Contemporary developments in games teaching

- Light, Richard, Quay, John, Harvey, Stephen, Mooney, Amanda

Authors: Light, Richard , Quay, John , Harvey, Stephen , Mooney, Amanda
Date: 2014
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Relation: Routledge studies in physical education and youth sport
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Description: The teaching of games is a central component of any physical education or youth sport programme. 'Contemporary developments in games teaching' brings together leading international researchers and practitioners in physical education and sports coaching to examine new approaches in games teaching and team sport coaching that are player/student centred and inquiry based.

Development Corruption in South Africa : Governance Matters

- Pillay, Soma

Authors: Pillay, Soma
Date: 2014
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Description: Instances of corruption in South Africa are reported on an almost daily basis—there is no scarcity of scandals that illustrate the depth and pervasiveness of this corruption. In the wake of these scandals, awareness has grown about the economic, social, and political costs of corruption, which South Africa cannot afford. With increasing intolerance of these devastating effects, pressure from citizens and financial markets prove the need for a review of good governance matters. Development Corruption in South Africa examines governance matters with a focus on corruption. This rich empirical body on governance variables and governance performance is a welcome addition to South African government literature. Pillay's approach is unique as it improves the gathering, analysing, and disseminating of new data, which is valuable to various stakeholders. This volume analyses governance from a broad analytical framework and includes an analysis of current problems as well as future problems and their causes. Soma Pillay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Federation University Australia. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the subject areas of organizational behavior, human resource management, organizational management, and international management. Prior to joining academia, Pillay spent many years in the Public Service.

Ella Fitzgerald in Australia - a history

- Clark, Ian

Authors: Clark, Ian
Date: 2014
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Description: Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia four times (1954, 1960, 1970, 1978) in her long career that spanned six decades. This work presents a detailed history of Ella's tours of Australia using primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, and concert memorabilia that are assembled here for the first time. Other than some consideration of a racist event that occured en route to Australia in 1954, and the mistaken belief that Ella interrupted her 1960 tour to return to America to participate in J.F. Kennedy's pre-election inaugural gala, Ella Fitzgerald's tours of Australia have received very scant attention in her biographies and in studies of Australia's musical history.

Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering : Applications in Multistage Interconnection Networks

- Gunawan, Indra

Authors: Gunawan, Indra
Date: 2014
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Relation: Performability Engineering Series
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Description: This book presents fundamentals of reliability engineering with its applications in evaluating reliability of multistage interconnection networks. In the first part of the book, it introduces the concept of reliability engineering, elements of probability theory, probability distributions, availability and data analysis. The second part of the book provides an overview of parallel/distributed computing, network design considerations, and more. The book covers a comprehensive reliability engineering methods and its practical aspects in the interconnection network systems. Students, engineers, researchers, managers will find this book as a valuable reference source. © 2014 Scrivener Publishing LLC. All rights reserved.

Indigenous and minority placenames : Australian and international perspectives

- Clark, Ian, Hercus, Luise, Kostanski, Laura

Authors: Clark, Ian , Hercus, Luise , Kostanski, Laura
Date: 2014
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Relation: Aboriginal history
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Description: This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being undertaken in Australia and in countries such as Canada, Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Norway. The research presented here draws on the disciplines of linguistics, geography, history, and anthropology. This book includes meticulous studies of placenames in central NSW and the Upper Hunter region; Gundungurra cave names; western Arnhem Land; Northern Cape York Peninsula and Mount Wheeler in Queensland; saltwater placenames around Mer in the Torres Strait; and the Kaurna in South Australia.

Introduction to Nonsmooth Optimization : Theory, practice and software

- Bagirov, Adil, Karmitsa, Napsu, Makela, Marko

Authors: Bagirov, Adil , Karmitsa, Napsu , Makela, Marko
Date: 2014
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Description: This book is the first easy-to-read text on nonsmooth optimization (NSO, not necessarily differentiable optimization). Soving these kinds of problems plays a critical role in many industrial applications and real-world modeling systems, for example in the context of image denoising, optimal control, neural network training, data mining, ecomonics, and computational chemistry and physics. The book covers both the theory and the numerical methods used in NSO, and provides an overview of different problems arising in the field. It is organized into three parts: 1. convex and nonconvex analysis and the theory of NSO; 2. test problems and practical applications; 3. a guide to NSO software. The book is ideal for anyone teaching or attending NSO courses. As an accessible introduction to the field, it is also well suited as an independent learning guide for practitioners already familiar with the basics of optimization.

Lyotard reframed : Interpreting key thinkers for the arts

- Jones, Graham

Authors: Jones, Graham
Date: 2014
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Relation: Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Series
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Description: Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It also situates Lyotard's discussion of the postmodern within the context of his other key concepts: the figural, the libidinal and the sublime. Accessible in style and approach, Lyotard Reframed employs numerous examples drawn from the arts to critically examine and evaluate the nature, history and significance of these important concepts and explore their respective links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction.

Mullawallah : The last King Billy of Ballarat

- Newton, Janice

Authors: Newton, Janice
Date: 2014
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Description: The story of Mullawallah (the last King Billy of Ballarat) brings together excellent research and a sensitive and passionate approach to this early period of Ballarat's seldom-told history. It spans the life of one Wathaurung man, Mullawallah, known as King Billy. Janice Newton shows a thoughtful approach to the difficult subject of early contact and of the relations between Aboriginal leaders and Europeans. Images rarely seen before enhance the pages of this well research text. (From back cover).

Scots under the Southern Cross

Date: 2014
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Description: 'Scots Under the Southern Cross' is a collection of essays from speakers at the Scottish Symposium held in Ballarat 9-11 May 2014. The chapters reflect the many styles, themes and formats embracing the Scottish Diaspora in Australia. This publication complements the Art Gallery of Ballarat Exhibition 'For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation'. The five interrelated sections of 'Scots Under the Southern Cross' are: 'Retrospect', 'The Scots in Aboriginal Australia', 'Biographical Studies of Scottish Australians', 'Scottish Artists on Australia' and 'Commemorating Scotland in Australia'. The essays tell the stories of Scottish immigrants and their successful establishment of economic and cultural networks in Australia. These chapters hopefully will form a basis for expansion into research of the Scottish diaspora and the way the Scots and their descendants have contributed to adapted to Australian conditions.

The figure of this world : Agamben and the question of political ontology

- Abbott, Mathew, Watkin, Christopher

Authors: Abbott, Mathew , Watkin, Christopher
Date: 2014
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Relation: Crosscurrents
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Description: A fundamental re-reading of Agamben that defends and develops his philosophy as post-Heideggerian political ontology. What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. He shows instead that it engages in political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbott demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. He also positions it in relation to the thought of Benjamin, Nietzsche, Levinas, Nancy, and Wittgenstein. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding - and potentially overcoming - the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle. © Mathew Abbott, 2014.

The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Philip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Six : 10 June 1849 - 30 September 1852

- Robinson, George Augustus

Authors: Robinson, George Augustus
Date: 2014
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Description: The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, the Chief Protector in the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate from 1839 until early 1950 are an unparalleled source of information about the Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia and early colonial society. This is the sixth and final volume in the series, covering the period from 1849 until 1852. During this time the Aboriginal Protectorate was abolished; gold was discovered in country Victoria, and Robinson decided to return to England. The journal contains his on-board diary of his return voyage on the Medway. [From back cover]

The last matron of Coranderrk : Natalie Robarts's diary of the final years of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1909-1924

- Clark, Ian

Authors: Clark, Ian
Date: 2014
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Description: "Natalie Robarts was the last matron of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, from 1909 until 1924. Her husband Charles Robarts served as the station manager. This publication brings together Natalie Robarts's diary and other works, along with reminiscences from her son Maurice, and publications from her journalist son Oswald. It publishes in full, for the first time, the fourth part of her diary that spans the years 1917-1923. A Robarts family genealogy and family histories are also presented" -- from back cover.

The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Philip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Four: Annual and Occasional Reports 1841 - 1849

- Robinson, George Augustus

Authors: Robinson, George Augustus
Date: 2014
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Description: The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Four: Annual and Occasional Reports, 1841-49 is a collection of Official Reports from the Chief Protector. CONTENTS Part One: Volume 59 Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Official Reports - 1841, 1845; A. Expedition to Western Interior, 1841; B. Journey of 1,100 miles to the tribes of the North West and Western Interior, 1845; Part Two: Volume 60, Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Official Reports - 1846, 1847; A. Report of an expedition to the Aboriginal tries of the interior over more than ten thousand miles of country by George Augustus Robinson, March - August 1846; B. Report of a visit to the Goulburn, Loddon and Mount Rouse Aboriginal Stations by George Augustus Robinson, 1847; Part Three: Volume 61, Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Annual Reports of the Chief Protector, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849; Bibliography. [From back cover]

The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Philip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume One : Chief Protector's Office Journal 1839 - 1850

- Robinson, George Augustus

Authors: Robinson, George Augustus
Date: 2014
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Description: George Augustus Robinson arrived in Melbourne in late February 1839 to take up his position as Chief Protector in the Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. In late 1849, the government decided to abolish the Protectorate Department, and accordingly in March 1850 the department ceased to exist. Based in Melbourne, Robinson generally referred to his administrative quarters as 'Chief Protector's Office'. During the life of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, at least six locations served as his central headquarters: a hut on the Police Magistrate's paddock in what is now Jolimont (1839); the former Government Mission Station at what is now the Royal Botanic Gardens (1839); the jury room of the old Supreme Court building (1843); a change of offices, possibly in the same building (1847); rooms rented from William Willoughby (1848); rooms rented from JB Were in Collins Street (1848); rooms rented from William Willoughby in Queen Street (1849). During Robinson's chief protectorship, at least eleven men served as his personal clerk. Their terms of employment ranged from one week to 27 months. They were as follows: William Lansdown (1839-40); Godwin (1840); Thomas Martin (1840-41); McGill (1841); Thomas Martic (1841-42); Frederick William Dallimore (1842); CA Wallinger (1842-43); H. McClure (1843-44); Henry Boorn Foot (1844-47); Charles Forrest (1847-48); Henry Lingham (1848-50). This volume publishes the Office Journal of the Chief Protector's Office, and with few exceptions, the entries were made by Robinson's personal clerks. Entries by all clerks, bar McGill and Dallimore, have survived, and are here published. Dr Ian D. Clark, was born and raised in Ararat in western Victoria, and has a doctorate in Aboriginal historical geography from Monash University. He has been the History Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; the Manager of the Brambuk Living Cultural Centre; and Senior Researcher in the Koorie Tourism Unit in the former Victorian Tourism Commission. [From back cover]

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