The provision of sexual health education in Australia : primary school teachers' perspectives in rural Victoria
- Authors: Smith, Amanda , Fotinatos, Nina , Duffy, Bernadette , Burke, Jenene
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sex Education Vol. 13, no. 3 (2013), p. 247-262
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- Description: In Australian schools, one significant component of whole-school learning in sexuality education is to provide students with developmentally appropriate curriculum and learning opportunities, with the intention of influencing positive health and well-being. In the situation where the usual classroom teacher is under-prepared or unwilling to teach sexuality education to their students, the use of external providers who are experts in puberty and sexual health is crucial. While the provider is a key influential factor in any sexual health programme, reliance on external providers for the provision of sexuality education in regional Australian cities is not well documented. This mixed-method study aims to address this gap in the literature with a specific focus on Ballarat, where the provision of sexuality education, particularly in primary schools, is heavily reliant on several external providers. Participant schools highlight the need for further positive synergies between the classroom teachers, external agencies and the accessibility of a rigorous curriculum to sustain the delivery of an effective programme to young people in schools. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
- Description: 1117 Public Health And Health Services
- Description: 1302 Curriculum And Pedagogy
- Description: 1699 Other Studies in Human Society
- Description: 2003010671
Ensuring the future of rural social work in Australia
- Authors: Brown, Grace , Green, Rosemary
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Rural Society Vol. 19, no. 4 (2009), p. 293-295
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- Description: The article focuses on several approaches to improve social work in remote, rural and regional locales in Australia. It says that despite the need for social work services, human service agencies face difficulty in retention and recruitment of qualified staff. To address such problems in rural social work, it suggests the involvement of urban universities, which provide social work education, by supporting rural student placements. It mentions the need for industry support to encourage and assists student in rural placements. It also states that distance education can be an alternative for students from rural locales. Moreover, it says that continuing professional development opportunities should be provided for rural social workers.
- Description: 2003007962
Older men's lifelong learning : Common threads/sheds
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at CRLL 4th International Conference: The times they are a-changin': Researching transitions in life long learning, University of Stirling, Scotland : 22nd-24th June 2007
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- Description: This paper is based primarily on a suite of completed research in Australia into informal learning by older men in community contexts. Based on extensive survey and interviews, this suite forms part of the first prong of a proposed, new international comparative study of older men's(defined as over 45 years) informal learning across countries and cultures. The research into older men's lifelong learning was originally motivated by knowledge of the relatively low proportion of older men involved in adult and community education (ACE) settings in Australia. It was widely believed that older men were not interested and therefore not involved in learning. A number of research projects since 2002 in rural and remote Australian communities sought to look beyond what are conventionally regarded as education providers and closely examine whether and what learning takes place informally by older men who participate in community-based organisations. The research began with studies of men's learning in volunteer rural fire brigades, football and senior citizens clubs, land care as well as adult and community education providers. It led to as study of the learning role and function of rural fire brigades and emergency service organisations in small and remote towns across Australia. The research has most recently focussed on informal learning through men's sheds in community contexts. These workshops specifically for older men have recently sprung up and proliferated across much of southern Australia. What has emerged from the research is a picture of older men with a strong desire to socialise and learn, particularly with other men, in productive, informal contexts, wherever possible outside. Older men's experiences of learning as well as their lives generally have often been adversely affected over a lifetime by negative experiences of formal learning, starting with school. This paper takes what has been learnt from this suite of studies, pulls together some of the common threads, and places the findings against what is known from the wider international research literature about older men's learning. These include an examination of common motivations for older men to learn, common barriers, preferred pedagogies as well as some common valued outcomes. It seeks to determine whether what has been found from this research in Australian community contexts is similar to or different in what has been found other countries and cultural settings. Part of the paper includes consideration of issues associated with men's identities as they age as well as gender issues associated with learning. It also critically examines the role and legitimacy of creating learning spaces and organisations for men and older men in particular.
- Description: 2003007969
- Description: 2003005534
Mathematics education in rural schools
- Authors: Mousley, Judith , Marks, Genee
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 30th Conference of the International Group for Psychology in Mathematics Education, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic : 16th-21st July 2006 p. 411
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Men's learning in small remote towns in Australia
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Lifelong Learning, Participation and Equity Chapter 16 p. 175-203
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003007641
- Description: 2003002084
Men's lifelong learning in Australian rural towns
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Diversity and Difference in Lifelong Learning, Brighton, United Kingdom : 5th July, 2006
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001323
40 degrees above or 40 degrees below zero : Rural social work and context in Australia and Canada
- Authors: Bodor, Ralph , Green, Rosemary , Lonne, Robert , Zapf, Michael
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Rural Social Work Vol. 9, no. December (2004), p. 49-59
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000963
Who's doing the hunting and gathering? An exploration of gender segmentation of adult learning in small remote communities
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research reading Chapter 17 p. 225-241
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- Description: Adults in Australia have tended to return relatively recently to learning in patterns that are significantly different by gender. These patterns of gender segmentation for adults are particularly noticeable in the findings of recent research by the author into adult, community and vocational learning in small and remote towns in Victoria. The issues associated with such patterns form the basis of this exploratory paper.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000772