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Teacher education : Innovation, intervention and impact

- Brandenburg, Robyn, McDonough, Sharon, Burke, Jenene, White, Simone

Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , McDonough, Sharon , Burke, Jenene , White, Simone
Date: 2016
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Relation: Teacher Education : Innovation, Intervention and Impact
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Description: This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact is both a product of, and seeks to contribute to, the changing global and political times in teacher education research. This book marks an historically significant shift in the collective work and outreach of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) as it endeavours to become an even more active contributor to a research-rich foundation for initial teacher education and to a research-informed teaching profession. The book showcases teacher education research and scholarship from a wide range of institutional collaborations across Australia. Studies highlight the multiple ways in which teacher education researchers are engaging with students, teachers, schools and communities to best prepare future teachers. It informs both teacher education policy and practice and is ‘a must read’ for those engaged in the education community. Above all it marks a shift for teacher educators to build a research rich teaching profession. © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.

Reflective theory and practice in teacher education

- Brandenburg, Robyn, Glasswell, Kathryn, Jones, Mellita, Ryan, Josephine

Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , Glasswell, Kathryn , Jones, Mellita , Ryan, Josephine
Date: 2017
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Relation: Self-study of teaching and teacher education practices Vol. 17
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Description: This book offers a detailed examination of reflective practice in teacher education. In the current educational context, where reflective practice has been mandated in professional standards for teachers in many countries, it analyses research-based evidence for the power of reflective practice to shape better educational outcomes. The book presents multiple theoretical and practical views of this often taken-for-granted practice, so that readers are challenged to consider how factors such as gender and race shape understandings of reflective practice. Documenting approaches that enhance learning, the contributions discuss reflective practice across the globe, with a focus on pre-service, in-service and university teachers. At a time when there is pressure to measure teachers’ work through standardised tests, the book highlights the professional thinking that is integral to teaching and demonstrates ways it can be encouraged in beginning teachers. Aimed at the international community of teacher educators in schools and universities, it also includes a critical examination of methodological issues in analysing and evaluating reflective practice and showcases the kind of reflective practice that empowers teachers and pre-service teachers to make a difference to students.

Children's images of identity : Drawing the self and the other

- Brown, Jill, Johnson, Nicola

Authors: Brown, Jill , Johnson, Nicola
Date: 2015
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Relation: Transgressions : Cultural studies and education No. 109
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Description: The understandings which children have of Indigenous identity provide means by which to explore the ways in which Indigenous identity is both projected and constructed in society. These understandings play a powerful part in the ways in which Indigenous peoples are positioned in the mainstream society with which they are connected. The research presented in this edited collection uses children’s drawings to illuminate and explore the images children, both mainstream and Indigenous, have of Indigenous peoples. The data generated by this process allows exploration of the ways in which Indigenous identity is understood globally, through a series of locally focussed studies connected by theme and approach. The data serves to illuminate both the space made available by mainstream groups, and aspects of modernity accommodated within the Indigenous sense of self. Our aim within this project has been to analyse and discuss the ways in which children construct identity, both their own and that of others. Children were asked to share their thoughts through drawings which were then used as the basis for conversation with the researchers. In this way the interaction between mainstream modernity and traditional Indigenous identity is made available for discussion and the connection between children’s lived experiences of identity and the wider global discussion is both immediately enacted and located within broader international understandings of Indigenous cultures and their place in the world.

Migrant Women Act

- Bursian, Olga

Authors: Bursian, Olga
Date: 2011
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Description: Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement. It also shows the vital role of public services in enabling these competencies to flower. Olga Bursian documents the stories of thirty migrant women from the former USSR, Vietnam, Lebanon, the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, by exploring their socialisation into non-Western understandings of the human being, of normal society and what is worth doing in life. The women speak about how they acted through displacement and resettlement overturning popular stereotypes about their cultures. The stories reveal their generosity, resilience and audacity in the face of multiple layers of unequal social relations and negative representations. The book includes a review of the role of public services in successful resettlement, even for the most resilient women. Open entitlement to these services for new citizens was the hallmark of multiculturalism prior to the reversals begun by the Howard Government in the mid 1990s. Olga Bursian uses wide ranging sources to back a rigorous policy and program analysis, pitched at professionals and decision makers. She has lived and worked across diverse cultures and was inspired to document the unbounded resilience of migrant women.

Australian war graves workers and World War One; Devoted labour for the lost the unknown but not forgotten dead

- Cahir, David (Fred), Weuffen, Sara, Smith, Matt, Bakker, Peter, Caminiti, Jo

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Weuffen, Sara , Smith, Matt , Bakker, Peter , Caminiti, Jo
Date: 2019
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Description: This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving families in Australia had a physical grave which they could mourn the loss of their loved ones. By presenting biographical vignettes of eight men who undertook this work, the book examines the mechanics of the commemoration of the Great War and extends our understanding of the individual toll this onerous task took on the workers themselves.

"My Country all gone the white men have stolen it" : The invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870

- Cahir, David (Fred)

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred)
Date: 2019
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Description: "The Wadawurrung are the Aboriginal people whose Country includes the cities now known as Ballarat and Geelong. Fred Cahir examines the contact history in the period 1800-1870 of the Wadawurrung and the ngamadjidj (generally translated as white stranger belonging to the sea). Divided into chronological and thematic section, the book chronicles three waves of invasion: the early invasion period incorporating trespassers predominately from the sea, the sheepherders or squatters who followed in their wake and usurped the Wadawurrung of all their Country for sheep runs, and the third wave of invaders - the gold seekers. This historical study is transformative as it presents a compelling argument of how the Wadawurrung were active agents of change and sought cultural enrichment in the midst of the frontier war on their Country." --back cover.

Aboriginal biocultural knowledge in South-eastern Australia : Perspectives of early colonists

- Cahir, David (Fred), Clark, Ian, Clarke, Philip

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian , Clarke, Philip
Date: 2018
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Description: Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and under-appreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.

Located research: regional places, transitions and challenges

- Campbell, Angela, Duffy, Michelle, Edmondson, Beth

Authors: Campbell, Angela , Duffy, Michelle , Edmondson, Beth
Date: 2019
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Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges
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Description: This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of ‘wicked’ problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times ‘bespoke’ methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere. © The Author(s) 2020.

Case studies : Financial accounting & disclosure

- Carnegie, Garry

Authors: Carnegie, Garry
Date: 2005
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Description: "Case studies are invaluable in assisting students to place their theoretical knowledge in a real world context. Case Studies: Financial Accounting and Disclosure enhances students; understanding of the complex financial accounting environment and gives them the opportunity to apply accounting theory. In examining topical contemporary issues the book illustrates that, in reality, accounting is not always black and white. The cases in this book require students to use practical judgement and decision-making acumen to solve or otherwise deal with everyday and unusual accounting problems and issues. This approach to case study resolution emphasises the role and importance of professional judgement in the practice of accounting. Case Studies: Financial Accounting and Disclosure is suitable for both the introductory and postgraduate market and can be used as a stand alone text, support material, or in conjunction with a prescribed text..." --Thomson.
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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.

The children of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate : An anthology of their reminiscences

- Clark, Ian, Cahir, David (Fred)

Authors: Clark, Ian , Cahir, David (Fred)
Date: 2016
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Description: During the life of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate from 1839 until late 1849 some 35 children of the Protectors were associated with the Protectorate. These children have been largely neglected by scholars and rendered historically invisible. Six of them have however left 28 distinct records of their experiences. In this work we hear the voice of Protectorate children - the authors bring them out of the shadows of their fathers and allow them to appear as influential actors in their own right, with their own motivations, goals, ideas, and relationships with Aboriginal people. Detailed biographical entries, where possible, are included on every protectorate child and on their spouses. For the first time, the reminiscences of William Jackson Thomas and Albert Le Souef are published in their entirety, and all of the writings of the Protectorate's children are brought together so that their contribution to our understanding of the Protectorate may be acknowledged and interpreted.

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