Frog bogs, turbines and biodiversity : bringing children's sustainability knowledge to life through handmade artefacts
- Authors: Green, Monica
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations p. 153-172
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- Description: Globally, sustainability is a complex and contested term with multiple meanings and interpretations. This chapter highlights research that was undertaken by a FUGuE (Federation University Australia Gippsland) academic who used a participatory arts-based methodology to frame research with Gippsland children involved in sustainability education. The study originated from the author's involvement in the Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (known as RCE Gippsland), a global network of formal, non-formal and informal education organisations responsible for the mobilisation of education for sustainable development (ESD). Drawing on RCE Gippsland's inaugural Sustainable Schools Expo, an event that supports primary school students to engage in sustainability themes and workshops and share their respective education for sustainability initiatives, the study involved working with children who were keynote Expo speakers. A key innovation of the study was the use of sustainability artefacts created by children, which represented their sustainability learning and knowledge and were used in recorded dialogical conversations. Findings from the study highlight regional children's well-developed views about the state of the world, including their concern for humankind's impact on planetary sustainability and the subsequent decline of ecological systems locally and globally. Further to this, the immersion of regional children in places where they lived and learnt was highlighted as integral to their sustainability knowledge and understanding. The chapter concludes with a discussion about the methodological contributions of the study and its capacity to illustrate the voice of regional children and their place-oriented lifeworlds. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.
Everyday local nearby healthy childhoodnature settings as sites for promoting Children's health and well-being
- Authors: Dyement, Janet , Green, Monica
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research Chapter 61 p. 1155-1180
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- Description: In this chapter, we highlight the central role that healthy, vibrant, and functioning “everyday, local, and nearby” childhoodnature ecosystems can play in both keeping children healthy and in helping them to understand the relationship between ecosystem health and their own health. By understanding these interconnections, children can learn that they are not separate from or superior to nature. Rather, these settings become sites where children can refresh and reimagine understandings of nature and their relationships as, within, of, and to nature. Healthy settings are, we believe, a foundation for healthy children. A focus on health is particularly timely for two reasons. First, there are mounting international concerns about children’ health – be it around issues of physical activity, mental illness, social resiliency and belonging, overweight and obesity, and spiritual grounding. But it is not only children’s health that is of concern: there are deep and mounting international concerns about the health of ecological systems, be it around issues of global warming, acid rain, species loss, air pollution, urban sprawl, waste disposal, ozone layer depletion, and water pollution. This Chapter is framed around the World Health Organization’s definition of health and explores the ways in which local nearby natural childhoodnature settings can promote physical, mental, social, and spiritual health and well-being of children. To illustrate these concepts in action, we profile a case study from our research in Australia. This chapter concludes with a discussion on the ways that healthy childhoodnature settings can unite, inform, and support the interests of educators, environmentalists, and children’s health advocates who have an interest in the health of children and ecosystems.
Muddling upwards : The unexpected, unpredictable and strange on the path from care to high achievement in Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Golding, Frank
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice Chapter 7 p. 135-154
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- Description: Education is a key avenue to personal, social and economic success; and its lack can lead to lifelong deprivation and social exclusion. The chapter focuses on the specific educational challenges that confront children in out-of-home care (OHC), and those who have been discharged from Care as young adults. A very small percentage of care leavers complete education, and some of the core reasons for this are discussed. The two authors, themselves care leavers, provide emblematic case studies by recounting their own experiences. They conclude that many of the obstacles they had to surmount were, and are, common to care leavers of their generations and also those currently in OHC. The chapter closes with a brief summary of policy reforms necessary to ensure educational equity for care leavers. © The Author(s) 2016.
Introduction: new context in Australian public history: Australia's institutionalised and incarcerated
- Authors: Ashton, Paul , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children p. ix-xiv
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- Description: During the twentieth century in Australia more than half-a-million children grew up in 'out-of-home' care in over 800 institutions, including children's homes, foster homes, industrial schools and orphanages. A regime of mass institutionalisation was sanctioned by legislation and administered by either the state or by non-government bodies such as churches and welfare groups. Around 7,000 children were child migrants from Britain, Ireland and Malta; up to 50,000 were Indigenous 'Stolen' children and more than 450,000 were non-Indigenous children. The contributions to this groundbreaking book constitute an eclectic mix of scholarship drawn from a diverse group of historians, social scientists, artists, performers, freelance writers and stakeholders, including former state wards and Forgotten Australians. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of history and memory work that is taking place on and around places of incarceration and confinement in Australia
The Parramatta female factory precinct and the National history curriculum
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Russell, Peter , McCart, Simon
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of women and children Chapter 11 p. 132-145
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- Description: In September 2013 a conference was held to commemorate and promote a site which those present unanimously acknowledged as bemg of ma;or historical significance, but which is all but unknown in the wider Australian community. The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP) is one of a handful of historical sites chat represent the history of women's and children's incarceration and institutionalisation in Australia. Of that handful, the PFFP is by far the most extensive site in area, in operational longevity and in the number of extant structures it comprises. It thus stands as arguably che premier institutional exemplar in the historical field and has in recent years become a locus embodying the experiences of the Forgotten A
Invariance of parent and teacher ratings of the ADHD Symptoms for an Australian community sample of primary school children
- Authors: Gomez, Andre , Gomez, Rapson
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 66 Chapter 11 p. 291-302
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- Description: DSM-IV conceptualizes Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in terms of two symptoms groups, namely inattention (IA; 9 symptoms) and hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI; 9 symptoms). The current study used confronatory factor analysis to examine the invariance of parent and teacher ratings of the ADHD symptoms for an Australian community sample of primary school children. To achieve this goal, parents and teachers of 1475 children completed a DSM-IV based ADHD rating scale. The results indicated support for configural invariance, and for full metric, scalar and error variances invariance. Findings also indicated invariance fro IA and HI latent variances, covariance between these factors, and their latent mean scores. These findings extend existing data in this area. The clinical and theoretical implication of the findings are discussed.
Inclusive school leadership strategies based on student and community voice : Implications for Australian education policy
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries: Mapping the Terrain and Making the Links to Educational Policy Chapter p.
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Australian children's literature
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: A companion to Australian literature since 1900 Chapter 30 p. 417-428
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- Description: B1
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Self-subversion in Andrew Adamson's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Considering Fantasy Chapter 25 p. 239-247
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Kissing the toad in twentieth century children's literature
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cinderella Transformed: Multiple Voices and Diverse Dialogues in Children's Literature Chapter 23 p. 142-149
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- Description: 2003000947
The trials and tribulations of two dogsbodies : A Jungian reading of Diana Wynne Jones's Dogsbody
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Diana Wynne Jones : An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom Chapter 13 p. 138-148
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000188