'Moral panic" internet use and risk perspectives in educational organisations
- Authors: Hope, Andrew
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Risk, Education and culture Chapter 5 p.63-77
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- Description: Media coverage of Internet risks in wider society has been labelled as exaggerated, sensationalistic, and inciting 'moral panic'. In considering 'moral panic' and risk perspectives in educational organisations, several issues need to be addressed. These are the nature of risk perspectives, the validity of 'moral panic' as an analytical concept and the impact of 'moral panic' upon risk perspectives. Before focusing upon the concept of 'moral panic', the writings of Ulrich Beck draw upon to consider the nature of risk perceptions in late modernity, and explore their connection to the mass media. Media coverage of risks arising from chat-line use has been singularly focused on the activities of paedophiles, portraying both children and youths as simply being in danger. Staffs were concerned about risks posed by the activities of paedophiles in chat rooms as well as the adult nature of some of the language use.
'More than a whisper : the incredible beguiling of teaching off campus learners Indigenous studies'
- Authors: Heckenberg, Robyn
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Collected Wisdom: Off Campus Learning and Teaching Symposium p. 97
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'No less than a palace' : Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , Nichols, David
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Places of pain and shame : Dealing with "Difficult Heritage" p. 247-262
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- Description: This chapter's objective is to move beyond standard understandings of places of pain and shame in the existing body of literature. It introduces a multidisciplinary heritage approach, focusing on the Kew Lunatic Asylum in Melbourne. This vast, impressive and prominent building highlights the level of government and public focus on benevolence, and benevolent incarceration, prevalent in Victorian era colonial society. When it opened, the Kew Asylum was among the largest such complexes in the world, its creators aspiring to bring forth a model institution that was not only an exemplar of colonial Victorian society but also of the British Empire.
'No they're not digital natives and they're not addicted': an essay critiquing contestable labels
- Authors: Johnson, Nicola
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Fast capitalism Vol. 8, no. 2 (2011), p. 1-5
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- Description: Reducing complexity is often our focus when we explain new phenomena. However when we label things in simplistic ways, we may be in fact causing harm, in fact performing symbolic violence (Bourdieu 1998) by using and promoting essences of the phenomena in question. This essay gives examples of these simplistic, inappropriate categories that essentialize people into inflexible boxes, and argues that labeling is a simplistic practice, which gives us (mis)certainty. To me, there is a need for nuanced understandings of phenomena versus reductionist suppositions. We need insight rather than generalizations and essentializations. Many (mis)assumptions are based on a lack of evidence. This short essay argues against the constant complexity reduction apparent in popular (and to a certain extent academic) discourse. It highlights the ‘good’ of a society shaped by and shaping the Internet. It draws together the two labels of digital natives and Internet addiction to provide examples of how symbolic violence is being inflicted.
'Not everyone has a perfect life' : Becoming somebody without school
- Authors: Robert, Hattam , Smyth, John
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Pedagogy, Culture & Society Vol. 11, no. 3 (2003), p. 379-398
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- Description: This article draws on the Students Completing Schooling Project, conducted in Australia, which has developed an account of early school leaving though listening to how 209 young people made sense of their experiences of leaving school. In this study, we were keen to understand the way young people deliberate upon how schooling fits into their plans for living a life: for 'becoming somebody'. We propose understanding early school leaving as a tactical manoeuvre and part of the complex process of identity formation. Our interview material indicates that a powerful 'interactive trouble' contributes to the non-completion of school and involves underestimating the demands of private life, especially for those living in poverty.
- Description: 2003003524
'Of one blood': An appreciation of the life of Yarley Yarmin
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pay Dirt Chapter 3 p.
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'Ordinary kids' navigating geographies of educational opportunity in the context of an Australian 'place-based intervention'
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Education Policy Vol. 29, no. 3 (May 2014), p. 285-301
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110102619
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- Description: This paper addresses the vexed educational policy aspects of area-based interventions (ABIs) in neighbourhoods designated as 'disadvantaged' in an Australian context. We find that the way in which the policy of ABIs is supposed to operate and impact education is highly problematic. What we present instead in this paper is a much more complex process by which aspirations are formed, sustained, contested and maintained by young people who regard themselves as 'ordinary' and as being engaged instead in a process of navigating educational opportunities on the basis of resources available to them.
'Parisian Angel' and 'Falling Angel'
- Authors: Davidson, Stephen
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Submitted for Flanagan Prize (2009) shortlisted- St Patrick's College Ballarat
'Perfect Hiding Spot', 'Quick Exit' & 'Under the Fold'
- Authors: Anderson, Kimberlee
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Wall drawings & framed drawing at the AIR8 Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
'Post DECO' Exhibition
- Authors: Hinton, Shelley , Gervasoni, Clare
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Post DECO Exhibition held at University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery 2 - 13 September 2008. Multiple meduims, 130 works by 67 artists. Post DECO showcased the work of 67 Ballarat based artists in postcard sized works inspired or influenced by the Art Deco period. All the artwork exhibited was created specifically for the exhibition and assisted in furthering the understanding in the community of the Art Deco period and style. This event was part of the larger Art Deco Regional Festival held to coincide with a major Art Deco exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and associated conferences.
'Postcards from practice': development of an innovative learner-centred online interprofessional learning program
- Authors: Stupans, Ieva , Paliadelis, Penny , Jarrott, Helen Mary
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
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- Description: This paper reports on the design and development of an innovative online learning program for clinical educators in Australia. The design was based on a story telling framework to engage learners. Each story had links to relevant multi-media resources to support and enhance skill development. The program featured some didactic resources; however there was a heavy emphasis on reflective activities. The program home page was developed as a series of attractive 'postcards from practice'. The program design which used a learner focused eclectic storytelling framework is potentially adaptable to other learner groups.
'Power, regulation and physically active identities' : the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls
- Authors: Casey, Meghan , Mooney, Amanda , Smyth, John , Payne, Warren
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Gender and Education Vol. 28, no. 1 (2016), p. 108-127
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0990206
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- Description: Drawing on interpretations of Foucault's techniques of power, we explored the discourses and power relations operative between groups of girls that appeared to influence their participation in Physical Education (PE) and outside of school in sport and physical activity (PA) in rural and regional communities. Interviews and focus groups were conducted in eight secondary schools with female students from Year 9 (n = 22) and 10 (n = 116). Dominant gendered and performance discourses were active in shaping girls' construction of what it means to be active or sporty', and these identity positions were normalised and valued. The perceived and real threat of their peer's gaze as a form of surveillance acted to further perpetuate the power of performance discourses; whereby girls measured and (self) regulated their participation. Community settings were normalised as being exclusively for skilled performers and girls self-regulated their non-participation according to judgements made about their own physical abilities. These findings raise questions about the ways in which power relations, as forged in broader sociocultural and institutional discourse-power relations, can infiltrate the level of the PE classroom to regulate and normalise practices in relation to their, and others, PA participation.
'Prism' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Visual art work exhibited at the The Light In Winter Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne 5 June - 5 July 2008, This work depicted a multi layered image of India reference various cultural, religious and historical traditions. It comprised laser cut highly reflective panels attached to the steel fabric of a buildign in Federations Square. It was alternately backlit and front lit with coloured lights to convey a sense of drama reminiscent of Diwali Festival of Lights.
'Qualifications for work and further learning': The Australian approach to hybrid qualifications
- Authors: Smith, Erica
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Hybrid qualifications: Structures and problems in the context of European VET policy p. 227-240
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'Right' for publication: Strategies for supporting novice writers across health and medical disciplines
- Authors: Paliadelis, Penny , Parker, Vicki , Parmenter, Glenda , Maple,
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Health Review Vol. , no. (2014), p.165-168
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'Skin Deep' Exhibition
- Authors: Button, Loris , Miller, Sally
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition held at Space 22 Gallery, Ballarat,25th November -12th December This exhibition aimed to consider the ways in which we experience and inhabit our skin. The visual expression of that experience, premised in my case on place, memory and ageing, provided a key thematic link between two individual bodies of work. My works were triggered by a visit to a Korean Buddhist Temple in 2010. The drawings were intended to give visual expression to my continuting meditation on ageing in contemporary culture, and were therefore strongly influenced by that brief encounter with the spiritual strength and beauty of age old Buddhist artistic and spiritual practice at a critical time in my life.
'Some kids climb up; some kids climb down' : Culturally constructed play-worlds of children with impairments
- Authors: Burke, Jenene
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Disability and Society Vol. 27, no. 7 (2012), p. 965-981
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- Description: In this paper, the author explores how children with impairments can act as self-monitoring, autonomous individuals in their play in a community playground. In addition, the notion of children with impairments as creative agents in their play is examined. The evidence presented in this paper is derived from the views and perspectives of children with impairments as playground users, and was collected from the children's photographic scrapbooks and the researcher's own observations of children's play in a naturalistic playground setting. The theoretical perspective for this paper draws on the emerging 'social model of childhood disability' and provides scope to attempt to understand the culturally constructed play-worlds of children with impairments. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
'Sunless lives': district nurses' and journalists' co-construction of the 'sick poor' as a vulnerable population in early twentieth-century New Zealand
- Authors: Wood, Pamela , Arcus, Kerri
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Contemporary Nurse: Health Care Across the Lifespan Vol. 42, no. 2 (2012), p. 145-155
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- Description: Portrayals of vulnerable groups in public media, government reports and professional accounts tend, by definition, to focus on their deficits in order to identify need and shape appropriate health care responses. This article within the cultural history of nursing considers a different construction of one vulnerable group in the past, the 'sick poor' in early 20th-century New Zealand. The research analysed primary historical sources that offered rich descriptions of the sick poor, drawn from one major daily newspaper and the country's professional nursing journal, 1900-1920. The article argues that in co-constructing the sick poor as a vulnerable group, district nurses and journalists primarily used the trope of 'sunless lives'. However, they also constructed them as resourceful, resilient and determined. This article offers the construction of the sick poor by district nurses and journalists in early 20th-century New Zealand as an example of a more nuanced construction that goes beyond a one-dimensional portrayal of vulnerability.
'Switch off Hazelwood' : policing, protest and a 'polluting dinosaur'
- Authors: Baker, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Current issues in Criminal Justice Vol. 20, no. 1 (2010 2010), p.
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- Description: Traditionally, the policing of protest has been a vexed and problematic issue. The contemporary policing of climate change protests and camps challenges police capability both to facilitate such protests and to maintain control and order. The case study of the policing of the September 2009 protest against the Hazelwood coal-fuelled power station in the Latrobe Valley presents a microcosm of the dilemmas faced by both police and protesters in negotiating effective and peaceful protest. The eclectic and disparate nature of the climate change protests based on affinity groups affronts the police bureaucratic structure. This article argues that police-protester dialogue and negotiation, although limited by traditional suspicions, polarised organisational structures and diverse mindsets, are vital for the successful facilitation of peaceful protest, especially in relation to ongoing climate change dissent against coal-fired power plants.
'That wild run to London' : Henry and Bertha Lawson in England
- Authors: Tasker, Meg , Sussex, Lucy
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Literary Studies Vol. 23, no. 2 (2007), p. 168-186
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- Description: C1
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