Using ethical mapping for exploring two professional dilemmas in initial teacher education
- Authors: McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Reflective Practice Vol. 16, no. 1 (2015), p. 142-153
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- Description: Professional experience placements are recognised as a critical element in initial teacher education programs, however, supervising and mentoring pre-service teachers is challenging work as those involved in the process face professional dilemmas as they attempt to address the needs of various stakeholders. In this paper I draw from data collected in a self-study of mentoring and explore how critical reflection may provide a deeper understanding of these dilemmas. Through adapting and applying an ethical mapping framework as a cue for reflection, I examine the possibilities this approach offers in coming to an understanding of effective and ethical practice during professional experience placements. This paper focuses on two professional dilemmas to explore the way the cue can be used to critically reflect on mentoring and outlines the process I took in engaging in this reflection. I argue that ethical mapping offers university mentors and those working in initial teacher education with a structured approach for critical reflection to understand practice, and to articulate their pedagogy.
Legal risk management and injury in the fitness industry: the outcomes of focus group research and a national survey of fitness professionals
- Authors: Keyzer, Patrick , Coyle, Ian , Dietrich, Joachim , Norton, Kevin , Sekendiz, Betul , Jones, Veronica , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Law and Medicine Vol. 21, no. 4 (June 2014 2014), p. 826-844
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- Description: The Australian Fitness Industry Risk Management (AFIRM) Project was set up to explore the operation of rules and regulations for the delivery of safe fitness services. This article summarises the results of recent focus group research and a national survey of risk management practices by the AFIRM Project. Our focus group research in four States identified the following most important concerns: (1) the competency of fitness professionals; (2) the effectiveness of pre-exercise screening and the management of de-conditioned clients; (3) poor supervision of fitness service users and incorrect use of equipment; (4) fitness trainers failing to remain within their scope of practice; (5) equipment misuse (as distinct from incorrect use); and (6) poor fitness training environments. This information was then used to develop 45 specific items for a questionnaire that was disseminated throughout the fitness industry. The survey, which is the largest ever conducted in the Australian fitness industry (n = 1,178), identified similar concerns. Our research indicates that efforts to improve risk management in the fitness industry should focus, first and foremost, on the development and monitoring of safety policy, and improvements in the education and training of fitness instructors to ensure that they can incorporate risk management practices.
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On laughter and loss : Children's views of shared time, parenting and security post-separation
- Authors: Sadowski, Christina , McIntosh, Jennifer
- Date: 2016
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- Relation: Childhood Vol. 23, no. 1 (2016), p. 69-86
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- Description: Among the research, practice and socio-legal commentary on the substantial sharing of parenting time after separation, children's voices about their experiences remain overwhelmingly silent. This article draws on findings of a descriptive phenomenological study which investigated Australian school-aged (8- to 12-year-old) children's descriptions of two binary phenomena: security and contentment in shared time arrangements, and the absence of security and contentment in shared time parenting. Specifically, this article focuses on exploring parental behaviours and interactions recognised by children as sources of security in shared time lifestyles, through happy and needy times. Central to this is the juxtaposition of the child's experience of security and shared enjoyment with the present parent, against the absence of security emanating from unresolved longing for the 'absent' parent. The article provides an empirically derived formulation of children's advice to parents about shared time parenting, with relevance for family law related parent education forums. © The Author(s) 2015.
Who owns this data? using dialogic reflection to examine an ethically important moment
- Authors: McDonough, Sharon , Brandenburg, Robyn
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Reflective Practice Vol. 20, no. 3 (2019), p. 355-366
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- Description: There has been growing use of reflective practice as a means for examining ethically important moments that occur during research. Reflective practice enables researchers to be alert to the unfolding of these ethically important moments and to consider how they will respond to them. In this paper, we use dialogic reflection to explore an ethically important moment that occurred during one of our research projects. We present our dialogic reflective conversation as a means of exploring the ethical issues associated with data ownership. We draw on this conversation to describe a framework for dialogic reflection that provides researchers with a process for engaging in reflection on their practice as ethical researchers.
Writing reflexively to illuminate the meanings in cultural safety
- Authors: Cash, Penelope , Moffitt, Pertice , Fraser, Joanna , Grewal, Sukhdev , Holmes, Vicki , Mahara, Star , Ross, Charlotte , Nagel, Dan
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Reflective Practice Vol. 14, no. 6 (2013), p. 825-839
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- Description: With the introduction of cultural safety into nursing curricula, educators are grappling with ways to take their own understanding of the concept to create culturally safe places in their educational environments. The purpose of this paper is to share a process of writing as inquiry to surface new meanings in what might ontologically be understood as culturally safe environments. The writing illuminates individual and collective meanings of cultural safety from the perspectives of eight Canadian nurse educators. Using aesthetic texts and hermeneutic approaches, the meaning of cultural safety is exposed. Fluid depictions of the self as other, along with politicized taken for granted practices and multiple fields of meaning, bring clarity to a view that knowledge is always partial. Since knowledge is co-constructed, situated and socially produced, the representations of our evolving stories and cycles of reflection hold to an element of partiality in epistemological privilege The various texts shared offer insight into thinking about culturally safe spaces as horizons of new meaning. The implications for nursing education are in recognizing locations for both the educators and the learners. These writing and interpretive processes can be integrated into curricula to strengthen reflexive and relational practice. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
A cricket ground or a football stadium? The business of ground sharing at the Adelaide Oval before 1973
- Authors: Frost, Lionel , Lightbody, Margaret , Carter, Amanda , Halabi, Abdel
- Date: 2016
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- Relation: Business History Vol. 58, no. 8 (2016), p. 1164-1182
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- Description: Before 1973, cricket and Australian Football used the Adelaide Oval for major games during their respective seasons. Football's popularity as a spectator sport prompted its organising body to seek to build an improved stadium, but cricket authorities controlled the asset and acted to maintain its specialised character as a cricket ground. A case study of how the gains from a shared capital good are negotiated when asset controllers and users have different objectives is provided. A series of counterfactual scenarios based on football remaining at the Oval is constructed from archival sources and their outcomes projected based on data in financial reports.
Self-care for academics: a poetic invitation to reflect and resist
- Authors: O’Dwyer, Siobhan , Pinto, Sarah , McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2018
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- Relation: Reflective Practice Vol. 19, no. 2 (2018), p. 243-249
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- Description: In newspapers and blogs, on Twitter, and in academic papers, stories of struggling academics abound. Substance abuse, depression, failed relationships, and chronic illness are the casualties of a neoliberal university sector that values quantity over quality and demands ever more for ever less. Within the academic literature a growing counter-movement has called for resistance, collective action, and slow scholarship. Much of this work, however, has focused on strategies that can be applied within academia. Little has been written about the activities that academics do outside the university; activities that have no purpose other than enjoyment, rest, and renewal; activities that represent the valuing of the self as a human being, rather than a means of production; activities that could best be defined as self-care. Using reflective practice to construct a poem comprising three voices, this paper explores those activities. This poetic representation is an effort to create time and space for the authors, and a manifesto to encourage other academics to demand and protect the time, space, and reflective practice that are essential to both personal wellbeing and quality research and education.
Enacting a pedagogy of reflection in initial teacher education using critical incident identification and examination : a self-study of practice
- Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Reflective Practice Vol. 22, no. 1 (2021), p. 16-31
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- Description: This article examines what it means for a teacher educator to enact a pedagogy of reflective practice in an initial teacher education classroom using self-study methodology. The focus of the article is the examination of a critical interaction that occurred in a third-year Bachelor of Education mathematics education tutorial (N = 15). The critical incident prompted further reflection through collecting and analysing data that included pre-service teacher (PST) oral feedback during the tutorial; structured written feedback that was based on peer presentations during tutorials; and mid-semester and post-semester ‘freewrites’. Teacher educator journal reflections provided further data for analysis. Thematic analysis together with teacher educator critical incident analysis, revealed key understandings for both the PSTs and the teacher educator. These learning outcomes included the importance of identifying PST perceptions and practices associated with participating in peer assessment; the incongruities between oral and written feedback; the crucial need for PST scaffolding when providing feedback; the impact of the learning environment; and the role of the teacher educator in explicitly facilitating discussions associated with critical incidents, conversations and interactions. Using self-study methodology to examine teaching surfaced unspoken and assumed beliefs, and through examination, led to authentic, negotiated learning and improved outcomes for PSTs and teacher educators. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Evading labour market regulations to preserve team performance : Evidence from the Victorian Football League, 1930-70
- Authors: Borrowman, Luc , Frost, Lionel , Halabi, Abdel , Schuwalow, Peter
- Date: 2020
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- Relation: Business History Vol. 62, no. 8 (2020), p. 1303-1323
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- Description: Sports teams that seek to maximise the number of wins, rather than profits, may not comply with league labour market regulations that compress payroll structures to promote even competition. This strategic behaviour depends on others, as teams choose a strategy to create team incentives, to which rivals will respond. A case study of four teams in a semi-professional Australian Rules football league tests the effectiveness of strategies to evade these regulations on winning percentages. Both compliance and non-compliance within this labour market regulation regime, based on different wage structures and talent distribution, were effective strategies to improve team performance.
Coercive control of money, dowry and remittances among Indian migrant women in Australia
- Authors: Singh, Supriya , Sidhu, Jasvinder
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: South Asian Diaspora Vol. 12, no. 1 (2020), p. 35-50
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- Description: This paper examines how coercive control underlies financial abuse as men re-interpret the gender of money, stripping it of its moral safeguards. Financial abuse denies women access and agency over money. It works through male reinterpretation of how money is gendered–that is the way men and women own, inherit, use, manage and control money. Recent Indian migrant women experience coercive control when the male control of money is exercised without responsibility for the welfare of the wife and children. The family boundary of money becomes a way of extorting money from the wife’s family. Sending money home, a sign of filial responsibility, becomes abusive when the wife is not consulted, leaving the family in Australia without sufficient money for their settlement needs. This paper extends the theoretical and geographic breadth of studies of family violence among Indian women in the diaspora. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Southern lights : metropolitan imaginaries in Latin America
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Thesis Eleven Vol. 166, no. 1 (2021), p. 118-135
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- Description: This essay aims to examine metropolitan cities of Latin America with two aspects of the literature in anthropology, history, and sociology in mind. First, the essay addresses an imbalanced focus on cities in the USA and Canada by sketching the significance of migration, creation, and urban development in four major metropolises of Latin America. Second, in place of a framework of urban imaginaries, which has dominated the sociology of Latin American cities in recent years, I argue for a more precise notion of metropolitan imaginaries that better frames the creativity of particular cities and their level of integration into international and regional networks. With this more precise notion, I distinguish southern cities as highly connected places, which attract migrants and bring economic and cultural traffic to their shores, ports, plazas, and streets. They are lively centers of Atlantic modernity with connections that generate greater magnitude for creativity and, as such, bear international significance as places of architecture and urban design. In their informal settlements, impulses of organic creation further distinguish southern metropolises from their North American counterparts. The quality of international and regional connections distinguishes these cities from other urban centers in Latin America, a point underestimated in the literature on urban imaginaries. In this essay, I examine 19th and 20th-century Buenos Aires, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Each is distinguished from most cities by the magnitude of migration, the diversity of their populations, and the connections they have to global and regional developments. Crucially, each one stands out for the quality and impact of their metropolis-making, particularly in creative architecture and urban design. © The Author(s) 2021.