Permanent residents in caravan parks, managers and the persistence of the social
- Authors: Newton, Janice
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Health Sociology Review Vol. 15, no. 2 (2006), p. 221-231
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- Description: Until recently, permanent residents in caravan parks were often absent from discussions about homelessness and housing in the Australian context. When permanent residency was recognised and legislated for in the 1980s, efforts were made to ensure scope for standard community infrastructure such as roads, sewerage and community gathering places. Although the number of long term caravan parks in Australia has recently decreased, on the edge of Melbourne some parks are expanding to cater for a growing clientele reflecting a new and partly de-institutionalised society. This society is characterised by mobile, temporary and casualised work and changing, volatile family relationships; each trend creating a need for different forms of housing. In this paper, preliminary interviews with ten caravan park managers from the outskirts of Melbourne reveal their role in the complex relationship between space, community formation and social solidarity; a relationship which directly impacts on the health and well-being of caravan park residents.
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Lalor, Peter (1827–1889)
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present Chapter p.
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- Description: Peter Lalor achieved fame as the leader of the gold diggers in their revolt against the British government at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria in 1854. Lalor was born in Ireland in 1827, the youngest of 11 sons of Patrick and Ann Lalor of County Laois, Ireland. His father sat in the House of Commons with Daniel O'Connell in the Reform Parliament, and the family became involved with the movement for repeal of the Act of Union and for land reform in Ireland. The eldest son, James Fintan, became a Young Irelander in 1848 and gave his life for the cause.Such were the family influences on the engineer Peter Lalor when he immigrated to Australia in 1852. By October 1854, Lalor was a gold miner in Ballarat and was drawn into the protest movement against the unjust and corrupt administration of the Ballarat goldfields. On November 30, 1854, Lalor drew on his Irish nationalist heritage and stepped forward to lead the radical arm of the movement on Bakery Hill. Lalor mounted a stump under the Southern Cross flag and called on those present to swear an oath that would ring passionately down the generations:We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other, And fight to defend our rights and liberties.Lalor's oath inspired men with revolutionary fervor. They marched away to form a defensive stockade on the Eureka Lead and commence collecting arms. [EXTRACT]
Global encounters in Japanese social thought during the Meiji era
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Prato, Italy : 20th May, 2004
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- Description: Postwar approaches to Japan’s modern era have functioned within a metanarrative of modernization. Contemporary comparative analysis approaches Japan from the vantage point of civilisational sociology and a paradigm of multiple modernities. The development of sociological thought itself in Japan could also be interpreted through this framework, although there has been little research to date along these lines. This paper explores how Japanese social thought coalesced in global encounters in the 1870s and 1880s. It analyses the radical reinterpretation of classical Western sociology in the reception of Comte, Mill and Spencer by Japan’s scholars and modernisers in the nascent public spheres of Meiji society. Special attention is paid to the philosophy of Nishi Amane.
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Reversing housing and health pathways? Evidence from Victorian caravan parks
- Authors: Newton, Janice
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Health Sociology Review Vol. 20, no. 1 (2011), p. 84-96
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- Description: The aim of this article is to highlight a link between housing and health that may have been underestimated: the pathway from poor health towards marginal housing in caravan parks. Almost all research on links between housing and health is derived from large-scale surveys and correlational analyses which suggest a causation path from poor housing to poor health. The big picture of such studies may in fact disguise a reality for a smaller group where poor health leads to class 'slide' and reduced housing options. Qualitative data and life histories from interviews probe such 'reverse' links and also flesh out contextual backgrounds. It is argued in this article that evidence from interviews with 10 caravan park managers and 50 residents from 16 parks in outer Melbourne and rural Victoria supports general arguments that poor health appears to be a pathway leading to marginal housing. Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd.
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian connection : Origins and legacies
- Authors: Oppenheimer, Melanie , Collins, Carolyn , Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2018
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- Relation: Australian Historical Studies Vol. 49, no. 3 (2018), p. 324-340
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- Description: Within the context of the war on poverty and an acknowledgement of the wider global phenomenon of a ‘post-industrial society’, the Australian Labor Party under Gough Whitlam sought out a range of reforming and innovative social policy programs. This article explores the origins of one such program, the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), and its connections, similarities and differences to the Canada Assistance Plan. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history sources, it offers a comparative analysis of both national programs, then outlines how international social planning and community development ideas, especially from Canada, infused the AAP and its predecessor, the Geelong Experiment.
Predicting and controlling the dynamics of infectious diseases
- Authors: Evans, Robin , Mammadov, Musa
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2015; Osaka, Japan; 15th-18th December 2015; Published in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; p. 5378-5383
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- Description: This paper introduces a new optimal control model to describe and control the dynamics of infectious diseases. In the present model, the average time to isolation (i.e. hospitalization) of infectious population is the main time-dependent parameter that defines the spread of infection. All the preventive measures aim to decrease the average time to isolation under given constraints. The model suggested allows one to generate a small number of possible future scenarios and to determine corresponding trajectories of infected population in different regions. Then, this information is used to find an optimal distribution of bed capabilities across countries/regions according to each scenario. © 2015 IEEE.
Atlantic capitalism, American economic cultures
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age p. 339-359
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- Description: This essay brings together theories of capitalism with historical and comparative research into the varieties of capitalism in the Americas.1 The combination is supplemented by a focus on regions. There are compelling reasons for such a revision. At first glance it may seem perverse to suggest that comparative inquiry focuses our attention on the sheer diversity of societal forms more so than accounts derived from the well-known globalization paradigm do. After all, the latter takes the entire planet as its scope. However, I point to what is the widely accepted critique that the globalization paradigm has conferred on the social sciences the thesis that societies are predisposed to convergence on a global plane. When applied to the Americas, an unavoidable impression is cast of British North America as born modern contrasting with the southern Iberian societies that are traditional and waiting to catch up. This geography of tradition and modernity sets up an undifferentiated archetype of two American civilizations that suppresses analysis of a fuller variety, which is needed with respect to the economic structures and cultures of the Western hemisphere.
Accountability and oversight of state functions : use of volunteers to monitor equality and diversity in prisons in England and Wales
- Authors: Roffee, James
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: SAGE Open Vol. 7, no. 1 (2017), p.
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- Description: This article offers an evaluation of the use of volunteers in providing accountability of state detention in the prison system of England and Wales through a review of their efforts to monitor the humane and just treatment of those held in custody. A content and dialogical analysis was conducted on 280 reports submitted to the Secretary of State to analyze their practice of reporting and monitoring of equality and diversity. The article argues that the use of volunteers is appropriate to performing monitoring functions that act to enhance intelligent accountability, but volunteers are ineffective for the purposes of improving technical accountability. Evidence suggests some role confusion and use of volunteers for the achievement of both intelligent and technical accountability. The use of volunteers for the latter may result in poor quality repetition of other reporting mechanisms. In addition, it is argued that members require better training, and clearer communications concerning expectations from their reporting functions, which in turn is linked to the quality of their monitoring. The volunteers’ monitoring and surveillance of the detention estate can be more than symbolic and may act as a crucial antidote to technical accountability, furthering the humane and just treatment of some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens. © The Author(s) 2017.
Class and class relations
- Authors: Archer, Verity
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Sociologic : analysing everyday life and culture Chapter 6 p. 98-118
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- Description: James Arvanitakis, who put this book together, tells the following story in his lecture on class: It is a cool winter’s morning and I’m sitting in a café at a beach in Sydney with a good friend. We have just had a swim in the sea and we’re talking about the merits of what makes a good co ee when she turns to me and states: ‘You swim like a public schoolboy.’ I am a little stunned. ‘Sorry,’ I replied, ‘What did you say?’ She smiles and repeats: ‘You swim like a public schoolboy. You see, where I grew up in Tasmania, I went to a private school. We had access to pools and swimming lessons and my friends and I are all good swimmers. When we used to go swimming at the Launceston Gorge, we used to make fun of the boys from public schools who couldn’t swim very well. You swim like one of them.’ She is right— I did go to a public school, and the only access we had to swimming pools was at the annual swimming carnival. I begin to protest, but after thinking of the way she left me behind when we were swimming, I withdraw my protests and sink behind my co ee. This concept of dividing by those who have access to di erent levels of income and resources is known as ‘class analysis’. The issue of class is one that has been debated by sociologists and cultural theorists for centuries. One reason for this is that, although class essentially refers to social groups denied by their access to economic resources, the exact meaning of ‘class’ varies. While some argue that we should de ne class in terms of wealth, others believe that status is more important. In modern societies such as Australia, many believe that class is now irrelevant.
- Description: James Arvanitakis, who put this book together, tells the following story in his lecture on class: It is a cool winter’s morning and I’m sitting in a café at a beach in Sydney with a good friend. We have just had a swim in the sea and we’re talking about the merits of what makes a good co ee when she turns to me and states: ‘You swim like a public schoolboy.’ I am a little stunned. ‘Sorry,’ I replied, ‘What did you say?’ She smiles and repeats: ‘You swim like a public schoolboy. You see, where I grew up in Tasmania, I went to a private school. We had access to pools and swimming lessons and my friends and I are all good swimmers. When we used to go swimming at the Launceston Gorge, we used to make fun of the boys from public schools who couldn’t swim very well. You swim like one of them.’ She is right— I did go to a public school, and the only access we had to swimming pools was at the annual swimming carnival. I begin to protest, but after thinking of the way she left me behind when we were swimming, I withdraw my protests and sink behind my co ee. This concept of dividing by those who have access to di erent levels of income and resources is known as ‘class analysis’. The issue of class is one that has been debated by sociologists and cultural theorists for centuries. One reason for this is that, although class essentially refers to social groups de ned by their access to economic resources, the exact meaning of ‘class’ varies. While some argue that we should de ne class in terms of wealth, others believe that status is more important. In modern societies such as Australia, many believe that class is now irrelevant. Sociologic: Analysing Everyday Life and Culture, edited by James Arvanitakis, Oxford University Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ballarat/detail.action?docID=4747936.
On gambling research, social science and the consequences of commercial gambling
- Authors: Livingstone, Charles , Adams, Peter , Cassidy, Rebecca , Markham, Francis , Rintoul, Angela
- Date: 2018
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- Relation: International Gambling Studies Vol. 18, no. 1 (2018), p. 56-68
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- Description: Social, political, economic, geographic and cultural processes related to the significant growth of the gambling industries have, in recent years, been the subject of a growing body of research. This body of research has highlighted relationships between social class and gambling expenditure, as well as the design, marketing and location of gambling products and businesses. It has also demonstrated the regressive nature of much gambling revenue, illuminating the influence that large gambling businesses have had on government policy and on researchers, including research priorities, agendas and outcomes. Recently, critics have contended that although such scholarship has produced important insights about the operations and effects of gambling businesses, it is ideologically motivated and lacks scientific rigour. This response explains some basic theoretical and disciplinary concepts that such critique misunderstands, and argues for the value of social, political, economic, geographic and cultural perspectives to the broader, interdisciplinary field of gambling research. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Angela Rintoul” is provided in this record**
The regional trifecta: Entrepreneurs, managers and community leaders - an Ethnographic typology of leaders collaborating in a Regional Vicrorian Community
- Authors: Isham, Amy
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This doctoral thesis explores a socioeconomic model for understanding and analysing leadership in the regional area of Horsham and its hinterland communities. This thesis critiques accepted models of regional development policy and leadership theory and in doing so argues for a new approach emphasising the roles that leaders adopt to achieve goals. These roles comprise the entrepreneur, manager and community leader that this thesis terms the regional trifecta model of leadership. This is a model that explores the ways that leaders attain mutuality within social and economic eco-systems in order to achieve long-term regional economic sustainability and liveability for residents. This doctoral study uses a critical qualitative ethnographic exploration of Horsham and its surrounding region drawing on researcher, the informant participant’s observations from a wide range of industries and social backgrounds. This thesis discusses themes of policy barriers to environmentally sustainable entrepreneurship, social ostracism of female leaders, a sense of futility in bureaucratic compliance, passive and unsupportive communities, tempered with the critical hope of social enterprise and potential partnerships. In examining these themes the thesis argues that entrepreneurs are overwhelmingly values driven. It also asserts that they experience barriers of unreliable labour and unsupportive external partnerships. Managers are also strongly values driven and can experience many barriers from internal partnerships within their own organisations. Community leaders are values driven and struggle against the barriers of bureaucracy with the organisations they partner with. The thesis provides a new contribution to the literature. This includes a critique of psycho-social approaches to leadership through role-based explorations that emphasise a collective responsibility for success within an eco-system. It also examines the types of people that become leaders and their motivations in regional Victoria. From this emerges a discussion about the tension between formal governance and power structures and the informal agency of leaders. The recommendations that emerge from this research are that policy-makers, local, state and federal governments acknowledge and support the role of existing informal leaders and the significant social and economic benefit they bring to regional Victoria.
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The bad mothers club: In Cyberspace, you can hear the unruly women laughing
- Authors: Goriss-Hunter, Anitra
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Who’s Laughing Now? Chapter five p. 61-74
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- Description: Despite feminist interventions, it is obvious that there are serious problems with the ways in which maternal bodies are described and defined. Representations of good and bad mothers offer narrow, restrictive, and prescriptive scripts for maternal bodies. Searching for some possible solutions to the issues concerning restrictive representations of maternity, I found the maternity website, Bad Mothers Club (BMC). BMC is a British website, edited and published by Stephanie Calman, that was set up in response to the increasing volume of information about pregnancy and childrearing from a variety of domains, which arguably seek to regulate, control, and profit from. maternal bodies "From introduction"
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities: a viewpoint on social policy education
- Authors: Bennett, Bindi , Ravulo, Jioji , Ife, Jim , Gates, Trevor
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International journal of sociology and social policy Vol. 41, no. 11/12 (2021), p. 1257-1263
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- Description: Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice.Design/methodology/approach. We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experience of Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color (BIPOC) co-authors, co-authors who are Allies, extant literature and practice wisdom as social policy educators. FindingsUniversities are sources of knowledge production, transmission and consumption within society. We provide critical recommendations for what social policy education within universities can address human rights and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.Originality/valueCulturally responsive inclusion for BIPOC has only just begun in Australia and globally within the context of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This paper adds critical conversation and recommendations for what social policy programs might do better to achieve universities' teaching and learning missions.
The impact of teaching culture online during COVID-19
- Authors: Bennett, Bindi
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International social work Vol. 64, no. 5 (2021), p. 739-741
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- Description: This article speaks to an Aboriginal academic’s experience during COVID-19 teaching cultural content via the Internet and an online platform. It highlights the challenges of teaching deeply spiritual content online in a unit where being able to develop relationships and trust before these units are offered would be beneficial.
Wayanha: A decolonised social work
- Authors: Green, Sue , Bennett, Bindi
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian social work Vol. 71, no. 3 (2018), p. 261-264
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- Description: After much careful consideration of what we would like to say to social workers and the social work profession, we wanted to start with the acknowledgement that social work, for the most part, has owned its own actions of the past and is taking steps to make amends for past actions and to learn and grow from past mistakes. However, there is still something missing. As a profession, whether that is in the field, within education and training, or as the professional body, we do not seem to be able to quite get there. So, what is it that we are missing?
Social sport and exercise psychology
- Authors: Polman, Remco , Borkholes, Erika , Sanchez, Xavier
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Applied Social Psychology Chapter 16 p. 342-360
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- Description: The physical, mental, cognitive, and health benefits of regular physical activity, exercise and sport participation are today well documented. Regular exercise positively influences most of our physiological systems and helps in protecting against, and rehabilitation of, several chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, numerous cancers, diabetes, stroke, and metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity). It also builds muscle and strengthens bones, preventing osteoporosis. In the elderly, it helps in maintaining balance, thereby reducing the risk of falls and maintaining independent living. This is particularly important as falls and related injuries are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in people aged 65 years and older. Exercise also helps to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression and buffers against stress. Moreover, there is good evidence to suggest that regular exercise maintains brain integrity and improves cognitive functioning across the lifespan. It has been suggested that, if exercise could be packed into a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine. Regular exercise appears to be a ‘magic bullet’ for human health and well-being. Physical inactivity or sedentary behaviour, on the other hand, is also an important cause of health problems in Western societies. The amount of sedentary behaviour we engage in on a daily basis (e.g., watching television, surfing the internet, reading, or playing videogames), independent of how much physical activity or exercise we do, predicts ill health. For instance, a large longitudinal Canadian study showed that those who sat a very long time in one block had a 50 per cent increase in mortality in comparison to those who sat for shorter periods in one block. This study showed a dose–response relationship (positive correlation) between sitting time (duration of blocks) and ill health, which was independent of the amount of physical activity people engaged in (Katzmarzyk, Church, Craig, and Bouchard, 2009). This suggests that the time we spend sitting and its distribution across the day is related to morbidity and mortality, independent of being less or more physically active. This is why many governments across the globe have developed campaigns to promote physical activity, exercise, and sports. In this chapter, we will demonstrate that social psychologists can contribute in important ways to reach these goals.
Aboriginal social work academics: failure to thrive due to having to fight to survive?
- Authors: Bennett, Bindi
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian social work Vol. 75, no. 3 (2022), p. 344-357
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- Description: The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation of Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In the last decade, this has resulted in an increase of Aboriginal students, staff, and researchers. This article presents a qualitative research study in which Aboriginal social work academic participants described their experiences of curriculum changes, workload, and research in the academy. Implications for universities, and social work programs, in particular, show where more is needed in the form of antiracist action plans and follow-through with these to address failure to thrive due to having to fight to survive in the academy. IMPLICATIONS Aboriginal social work academics are continuing to find academia to be socially and politically unsafe and unfairly competitive. Universities are experienced by Aboriginal social work academics as being often unsupportive and untrustworthy workplaces. Non-Aboriginal social work academics need to increase their commitment to, and actions regarding, antiracist practice with their Aboriginal colleagues.
What do they do digitally? Identifying the home digital literacy practices of young children in Turkey
- Authors: Ozturk, Gulsah , Ohi, Sarah
- Date: 2022
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- Relation: Early years Vol. 42, no. 2 (2022), p. 151-166
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- Description: Young children develop understandings about literacy from birth through experiences of print in their home environments. Today, written text is often present in children's homes in both print and digital forms. What kind of technologies are young children accessing at home and for what purposes? This paper discusses research findings from questionnaires completed by parents about the home digital literacy practices of 105 Turkish children aged 5-7 years and the nature of parental support for digital technology use at home. Parent interviews with five families further identified the technologies used, the children's repertoire of digital literacy practices and issues confronting parents about children's use of technology. The study revealed that children were actively engaged in multimodal practices through the use of digital technologies in play and learning in their homes. The main implications of this study are that it is important that educators be aware of children's existing digital home literacy practices as a foundation for further literacy learning and that parents may need support in understanding how technology use can contribute to children's literacy learning. Further research is warranted in this area.
Thinking with a landscape : the Australian Alps, horses and pedagogical considerations
- Authors: Jukes, Scott
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian journal of environmental education Vol. 37, no. 2 (2021), p. 89-107
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- Description: This paper proposes some possibilities for thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept, inspired by posthuman theory. The idea of thinking with a landscape is enacted in the Australian Alps (AA), concentrating on the contentious environmental dilemma involving introduced horses and their management in this bio-geographical location. The topic of horses is of pedagogical relevance for place-responsive outdoor environmental educators as both a location-specific problem and an example of a troubling issue. The paper has two objectives for employing posthuman thinking. Firstly, it experiments with the alternative methodological possibilities that posthuman theory affords for outdoor environmental education, including new ways of conducting educational research. Secondly, it explores how thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept may help open ways of considering the dilemma that horses pose. The pedagogical concept is enacted through some empirical events which sketch human-horse encounters from the AA. These sketches depict some of the pedagogical conversations and discursive pathways that encounters can provoke. Such encounters and conversations are ways of constructing knowledge of the landscape, covering multiple species, perspectives and discursive opportunities. For these reasons, this paper may be of relevance for outdoor environmental educators, those interested in the AA or posthuman theorists. [Author abstract]
Understanding K-12 STEM Education: a Framework for Developing STEM Literacy
- Authors: Falloon, Garry , Hatzigianni, Maria , Bower, Matt , Forbes, Anne , Stevenson, Michael
- Date: 2020
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- Relation: Journal of science education and technology Vol. 29, no. 3 (2020), p. 369-385
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- Description: In recent years, arguments have signalled the value of STEM education for building discipline knowledge and an array of capabilities, skills and dispositions, aligned with the needs of young people functioning productively and ethically in dynamic, complex and challenging future work, social and political environments. This combination has been termed STEM literacy and positioned as a desired outcome from STEM education programs. However, knowledge is limited on ways this can be developed in K-12 schools. This article introduces a framework that conceptualises the integrated nature of the characteristics of STEM education. It identifies and maps key characteristics of STEM education, recognising different entry points, curriculum designs and pedagogical strategies for school programs. The framework provides practical guidance for planning and implementing STEM education in schools.