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Publication 15th Comparative Education World Congress 2013: New times, new voicesIn June 2013, Buenos Aries, capital of Argentina, was the venue for the 15th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCEES), attended by more than 1000 delegates from 80 countries. The Conference location was the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of University of Buenos Aries, in the heart of the city sometimes referred to as the Paris of Latin America. The Conference languages were English and Spanish, with excellent simultaneous translation provided in plenaries by students from the university. Each day began and ended with a panel discussion in plenary session. Of these, the standout one for me was entitled 'Fifty Years After Angicos - Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible'. For an hour and a half, several speakers who had worked with Paulo Freire used the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his first literacy campaign in Brazil to reflect on his work and legacy. One of the panellists was Professor Anne Hickling-Hudson from QUT, who worked with Freire in the Grenadan literacy campaign just prior to the US invasion in 1983. This panel generated spirited discussion, capturing some of the vibrancy of the popular education tradition in Latin America today.1502 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication 2005 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture: Tasmania and the Multiplicity of NationsI want to start by saying something about the history of Australian history. There is a general idea, I think, that interest in the Australian past is mainly a product of the federation yem's and since. In other words, Australians tend to believe that no-one paid any attention to the history of Australia until about the 1880s and '90s. We have the impression that the birth of a national historiography, or historical sensibility, was marked by the publication of the Historical Records of New South Wales, the Historical Records of Australia and Rusden's three-volume History, by the crystallisation of 'the Australian Legend', and by the erection of all those statues which today so powerfully remind us of high Victorian pieties and aspirations. It seems to make sense that there should have been no feeling for history in this country until we were in a position to think of Australia as a single nation: one community with a single past and future.1150 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal Article2015 ACCE Study TourThe Australian Council for Computers in Education began study tours in 2008 and has been led in the past by Tony Brandenburg, John Oxley, Jason Zagami, Trudi Sweeney and Karen Swift.
Typical of each tour is the camaraderie that develops between participants and the networking possibilities with other, like-minded educators.
The 2015 tour was no different: an eclectic bunch, which was wonderful, as we found we could offer alternative perspectives to one another, and gain a better understanding of one another’s roles in education.
The tour officially departed Sydney June 16, but several of our group were already in the US, on tour in their roles as Hardie Scholarship awardees.
The evening of June 16 saw the whole group meet for the first time in person, sharing ideas over drinks before the next, very big day.
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Publication 3D multimodal authoring in the Middle Years: a research project(School Library Association of Victoria, 2010); ; Chandler, PaulIn recent times, the phenomenal growth and spread of screen-based information sources such as video sharing, social networking, blogs, RSS feeds, search engines, web pages, wikis and a plethora of mobile communication devices offering immediate access to an extraordinary amount of online digital screen based content, has dramatically and fundamentally changed the meaning of communication in the 21st century. Within this prevailing and persuasive new media, screen-based landscape, communication is now primarily multimodal, where meaning is produced and received through combinations of different modes, broadly defined as written-linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial patterns of meaning (New London Group, 1996). Multimodal literacy, the reading and writing of multimodal texts, is essential to literacy education, now, and for the future. The draft English National Curriculum (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2010) states that: "through studying English students learn to listen, read and view, speak, write and create increasingly complex and sophisticated texts with accuracy, fluency and purpose" (p. 1, our emphasis); and 'text' is defined as written, spoken or multimodal material (Acara, 2010, p. 4). For the first time, 'creating' multimodal texts is included as a language mode alongside reading and viewing, listening and speaking, and writing. Acknowledging that writing is more than just producing print text is a critically important step in the construction of this new curriculum; however, what is not clear is what theoretical or pedagogic bases are available to support teachers in actually teaching students to 'create' or author multimodal texts.1405 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Adapting Middle Level Educational Practices to Current Research on Brain FunctioningMore has been learned about brain functioning in this past decade than in the entire history of human inquiry. One U.S. Presidential Committee even labeled the 1990's "the decade of the brain" (Rennie, 2002) and that research continues into the twenty-first century. Unfortunately, applications for much of that research are often slow to be revealed, for the more that is understood about the brain, the more of its mystery we discover. Has recent research produced new insights about brain functioning which can be applied to education? Does a better understanding of how the brain functions help educators in their work with young adolescent learners? This article outlines a positive response to these questions by considering how some current educational issues could be informed in light of current research evidence, including recent brain imaging studies conducted by cognitive neuroscientists at Oxford University.1237 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Adaptive Co-Management Thresholds: Understanding Protected Areas Policy as Normative Conflict(University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2013)Liljeblad, JonathanProtected areas have increasingly become a policy tool in biodiversity conservation. The popularity of these areas is reflected by increases in both the absolute number and geographic extent of the protection granted. In implementing policy, modern protected areas have turned to adaptive co-management strategies to resolve frequent issues between environmental welfare and human interests. Adaptive co-management is perceived as an effective policy strategy to resolve such problems in that it appears to allow a greater degree of procedural justice by calling for greater participation by local communities in policy decisions, thereby enabling a greater likelihood for distributive justice in locating nature-human interdependencies responsive to diverse affected interests. This discussion, however, posits that adaptive co-management as a policy strategy is flawed because its inherent dynamic destabilizes its capacity to resolve potential conflicts between protected areas and local communities. This paper construes such situations epistemologically, asserting that the dynamic of adaptive co-management extends beyond law and policy to an essential normative conflict. Hence, the adaptive co-management model should be viewed as a normative subject requiring a normative analysis.828 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Advanced Level Chemistry Students' Concepts Of Chemical BondingChemistry as a discipline is dominated by the use of models and modelling. Chemists use models to explain data, to predict events and to help understand chemical reactivity. As a consequence, chemistry teaching, especially at the advanced level, is also dominated by the use of models. These models, being highly abstract in nature are referred to as mental models. An understanding of students' mental models is important because teachers employ increasingly complex models throughout the degree program. However, there are many reports in the literature indicating that students' understanding and use of mental models is limited in comparison with desired teaching outcomes.2024 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Advertising of Pharmaceutical Products by Online Pharmacies: Need for Specific Legal GovernanceThe internet offers significant benefits to consumers in the form of greater and easier access to detailed information as well as convenient access to healthcare information but also for prescriptions and medical advice. The Malaysian government embarked on building a healthcare information system for the 21st century through its Tele-health Project 2000. The said project aims to keep people healthy through a virtual healthcare information system. One important aspect of healthcare is pharmaceuticals. Although there are undoubted benefits of online pharmacies such as competitive prices, convenience and privacy, but there are potential risk involved as well, one of which is false and misleading information. Malaysia has developed some significant laws primarily to protect its consumers. These piecemeal laws have been able to meet the basic objectives of consumer protection as and when required. However, the concept of online pharmacy demands more comprehensive consumer protection. This article explores if a specific law governing the advertising of pharmaceutical products by online pharmacies is needed. In doing so, it examines the legal issues associated with online advertising of pharmaceutical products and the extent to which existing laws governing the advertising of the same is adequate.1128 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleAdvocates' Immunity: Finality reigns supremeThe recent decision of D'Orta-Ekenaike v Victorian Legal Aid and Another came as a surprise to some, who expected that Australia would follow suit and abolish advocates' immunity as the House of Lords did in Arthur J S Hall & Co v Simons, and more recently, as the New Zealand Court of Appeal did in Chamberlains v Lai. However, the majority of the High Court, with only Kirby J dissenting, determined that the immunity was to remain in Australia. In the media, there was much criticism of this decision, with members of the public and the profession questioning the joint majority's rationale for retaining the immunity. Whilst the decision in D'Orta-Ekenaike raises several important issues, including the scope of the immunity post-Giannarelli v Wraith, as well as the difficulties of proving causation in lawyer negligence claims, this brief case note will concentrate upon the main justification for the retention of the immunity, that is, the 'finality' principle.1455 337 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Affordable housing for the arts? Local housing markets, affordability and creative city strategiesThis article is triggered by a central policy problem: how to promote the 'creative city' for economic benefit, but without producing socially unjust outcomes. We propose one means to negotiate this problem - affordable housing for the arts - and draw briefly upon examples from Sydney and Seattle to illustrate our point. The role of creativity in the economy is becoming increasingly recognised. It is argued that places now compete with each other for a new kind of economic development, fuelled not by the availability of raw materials, cheap labour, or by state investment in infrastructure, but by the decisions of creative producers in industries such as film, design and advertising to live and work in particular localities. Such producers are part of what Richard Florida has called the 'creative class'. According to Florida, the creative class - flexible, hypermobile, and entrepreneurial - is now more than any other actively shaping the economy and demography of contemporary cities. The creative class moves to places that are tolerant, diverse, cosmopolitan and interesting, seeking art galleries and museums, cafe culture, festivals and events, and a social mix of immigrant communities, gay and lesbian culture, students and artists. Numerous places have since sought to build on Florida's ideas, developing policy initiatives aimed at growing the arts, promoting social diversity, and attracting creative producers and investments.1035 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Affordable Housing: What Role for Local Government?(Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc (ANZRSAI), 2010); Hil, RichardHousing affordability is a pressing social issue for many Australians with public housing stocks not coping with demand in recent years. Local government has a genuine capacity through partnerships with the other spheres of government as well as with private sector community housing and property developer interests, to play a key role in developing sound affordable housing strategies, partnerships and practical projects to deliver appropriate and affordable housing to those in need in local communities.1098 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication The Albert Joseph Memorial Orations: A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute to the Mind and Soul of New EnglandAlbert Joseph was born at Gympie on 9 November 1873, in modest circumstances, and at his death was the Tamworth manager of the Northern Associated Dailies - a powerful newspaper group encompassing the 'Northern Daily Leader' (Tamworth), 'Northern Star' (Lismore), 'Maitland Mercury' (West Maitland), 'Daily Examiner' (Grafton) and 'Tweed Daily' (Murwillumbah). He died on 15 November 1947. He had been appointed a member of the Advisory Council of the New England University College on 25 November 1938, on which body he served until his death. At its next meeting, in December 1947 that Council had accepted the motion, moved by T. Forster and seconded by Mr Roy Blake (of the Armidale Newspaper Company): "That the Advisory Council ... places on record its profound appreciation of the valuable work done by the late Albert Joseph, Esquire as a member of the Advisory Council. The late Mr Joseph was a man whose interest in Education in all its phases did much to further the welfare of children, adolescents and young men and women in the north of New South Wales and ... regards his death as a severe loss not only to the University [the Council] but to the cause of education generally."1085 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Alberta Child Welfare: Opportunities for Better Processes and OutcomesContemporary Western approaches to protecting children and families have come under increasing scrutiny by the broad community. politicians, professionals and service users as a result of perceived system failings. In an environment of unrelenting media attention, policy makers and practitioners have critically reflected on system issues and practice, and placed increased emphasis on delivering better outcomes for children and families. Alberta's Child and Family Services embracing of Outcomes Based Service Delivery (OBSD) reforms is an example of reshaping the ways in which families and children receive assistance to improve their safety and wellbeing. In this article, I outline and critically analyse the complex issues faced in child welfare, and identify some key reform opportunities and strategies that exist to refashion and improve the ways we can protect children and better help families and communities.2150 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Publication Analogical Approach to Facilitate Learning of Trigonometry ProblemsLearning to solve trigonometry problems poses a great challenge for Year 9 students who learned this topic the first time. ... This study investigated the analogical approach to enhance Year 9 students' learning of trigonometry problems.1141 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Animal cooperation: Context-specific helping benefitsIn cooperatively breeding animals, much of the variation in the quantity of help provided by group members remains unexplained. A new study on an Australian songbird suggests we need to look to the context-specific benefits of helping for new insights.1021 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Are We There Yet?: Establishment of Transport Links in New South WalesThis address covers the development of transport links in New South Wales in the 19th Century, with particular reference to Armidale. The influences on the development of a transport network and how it occurred during the fledgling years of the Colony and more localised areas, such as Armidale, set the scene for future development and growth in the 20th Century and may well influence what happens in the 21st Century. In planning and developing expansion of transport networks and systems, it is often very useful to be aware of and appreciate how existing networks and systems developed and how they impacted on local communities at the time. Often situations have changed little in some areas and therefore some valuable lessons can be learnt from decisions, events and development in bygone years. This serves as a useful means of learning from past actions.1002 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Publication The art(s) of nonviolent protestMy Ph.D has grown out of a long-term engagement with nonviolent and artistic activism in Australia and overseas, particularly in the environment, peace and social justice/land rights movements. I was fortunate to learn at an early stage the efficacy of nonviolence, when I was part of the Franklin River blockade in Tasmania in 1982. Here more than 1000 people were jailed (myself included) for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, yet there were almost no incidents of violence. We succeeded in saving the river by throwing our support nationally behind the ALP, who were elected, stopped the dam and stayed in power (despite our growing disenchantment with them) for more than a decade. Since then I have become increasingly interested in the study and practice of Nonviolence, which I think is often poorly understood, and incorrectly believed to be outmoded, or ineffectual against ruthless opponents. 1 believe that nonviolent praxis has been a key ingredient in the successes of the Australian protest movement, and that where it has been poorly implemented, or not at all, there have been conspicuous failures, as at the 1994 Carrai logging blockade in NSW. I see my writing as part of a drive to bring to light the effectiveness of Nonviolence, and give it some recognition for its role in successful campaigns. A similar and related area, which forms the second part of my thesis, is that of the arts which are used as part of protest actions. These too have been at the centre of many actions, yet little credence is given to their role.1109 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing Australian Attitudes to Japan in the Early Twentieth Century: A New Approach(Japan Foundation, 2006)McInnes, Brendan NeilAfter living in Japan for almost seventeen years, and being constantly intrigued by the attitudes of the Japanese to Australia, upon my return I was naturally interested to learnabout Australian attitudes to Japan. The paucity of news concerning Japan in the press suggested that it was not of major interest to the Australian public, and one tends to presume that, wartime apart, this had always been the case. An interest in Australian history fostered by prolonged absence was partly satisfied by undertaking volunteer work for the National Trust of Australia, at their property ‘Saumarez Homestead’, located in the rural city of Armidale, New South Wales, where I had taken up residence. ‘Saumarez’ is a large Victorian–Edwardian pastoral property, purchased by Francis John White in 1874.White and his wife Margaret raised their five daughters and two sons on the property, and became wealthy and socially important people in the township. While this may seem irrelevant to my experience in Japan, I was amazed to discover that Mary White, the eldest daughter of the ‘Saumarez’ family, had indeed travelled to Japan in 1903, andI soon learned that quite a number of other local people had done the same in the period between Federation and World War I.981 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing Students' Prior Concepts of Physical Change by the Use of a Purpose-Designed Survey Instrument(Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics, 2002); Coll, Richard KThe Science Concept Survey (SCS) instrument was developed from interviews with pre-service science teachers in Australia and Fiji and a pilot study undertaken in Fiji. Items consist of questions drawn from Interviews-About-Instances (IAI), Interviews-About-Events (IAE) and Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) activities related to Kinetic Theory. Administration of the instrument to a cohort of pre-service teachers in Fiji (n=143) reveals that the SCS is a useful tool for the elicitation of student scientific and alternative conceptions, and is able to distinguish between different cohorts of students.1098 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing with New Methodological ToolsThe Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) describes the content that students from Kindergarten to Year 12 will be taught. The national curriculum also includes descriptions of the achievement expected from students in each year of schooling. The Curriculum will impact the way national assessments are designed to measure students' achievement on national scales. The National Assessment Program (NAP) in Australia is a program of assessments that monitors progress towards the Melbourne declaration on Educational goals for young Australians.1371 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleAssessment in the English language classroom in Chile: exploring the washback effect of traditional testing and alternative assessment on seventh grade students(Universidad de Concepcion, Facultad de Educacion, 2019-07-06)Assessment has long been regarded as an integral part of the learning process. In the field of assessment, washback effect is understood as the impact of tests (or any assessment procedure) on the learner, the learning process, teachers, or such like. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to determine the washback effect of two different types of assessment procedures, namely, a traditional test and an alternative assessment procedure (a project) in an intact sample of 32 seventh-grade students, from a subsidised school in Chile. Through a mix-methods approach, quantitative data were gathered through a self-reported-washback survey, administered after a traditional test was given to the participants and after an English language project was carried out; qualitative data regarding the perceived effects caused by the test and the language project were gathered through a focus group interview. A series of t-tests was performed for quantitative data gathered through the washback surveys, while content analysis was used for the qualitative data emerging from the focus group interview. The results suggest that both procedures are positively valued, with the alternative assessment procedure being held in higher regard as far as motivation, anxiety and strategy use are concerned, as became evident in the focus group interview.
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Publication Australia as a destination country for traffickingThere was little discussion about Australia as a destination country at the Development Studies Network conference, People Trafficking, Human Security and Development, for the good reason that many of the speakers were from source countries and understandably spoke about the issues from that perspective. Nevertheless, the trafficking of people into Australia, mostly for the purposes of exploitation in the sex industry, has been the subject of considerable political controversy in recent times. This article outlines the challenges posed by transnational crimes of this nature; discusses the extent of the problem in Australia; explains the confusion between people trafficking and people smuggling; critically analyses the existing Australian Government policy response to the issue; and argues that this response is still out of step with international best practice.1083 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleAustralia's first pandemic influenza mass vaccination clinic exercise: Hunter New England Area Health Service, NSW, Australia(Emergency Management Australia, 2011); 1007 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australian Alternatives to Local Government Consolidation(Curtin University of Technology, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, 2009); In its 'The Journey: Sustainability into the Future', the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) proposed a program of self-initiated reform for local government, with its centrepiece comprising a Regional Model of local governance based on constellations of local councils in the existing Zone groupings. The Regional Model has been designed to preserve local autonomy and local identity by retaining existing council democratic structures, but at the same time facilitate cooperation and joint service provision through the Regional Model in those service areas where scale economies and other benefits from shared provision can be reaped. This paper places the Regional Model in the context of the Australian literature on alternative models of local governance and then critically evaluates its main characteristics.1394 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication The Australian Constitution and Expressive ReformStable constitutions create the possibility for increasing tension over time between the values they express and contemporary values. The Australian Constitution is no exception. It is a comparatively old constitution, having been agreed to in 1900, and it has proved to be one of the more difficult to change. This tension between past and present is the concern of this paper.1192 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleThe Australian Natural Disaster Resilience IndexSociety has always been susceptible to natural hazards. While the occurrence of these events generally cannot be prevented, the risks can often be minimised and the impacts on people and property reduced.
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Publication The Australian Remount Unit in Egypt 1915-19While the war on the western front was distinguished by its beleaguered immobility, the campaigns in Sinai, Palestine and Syria were full of movement and manoeuvre. The mounted arm of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in particular the Australian contingent, was the decisive factor in strategic planning from March 1916 until the armistice with Turkey in October 1918. General Murray regarded the Australian and New Zealand mounted troops as 'the keystone of the defence of Egypt' and the patient conquest of Sinai was founded upon the lonely long-range patrolling of the Anzac Mounted Division. When General Allenby released his assault on the Turkish positions in southern Palestine in October 1917, the Anzac Mounted Divison and the Australian Mounted Division were his most experienced mounted troops. As late as July 1918, when the west bank of the Jordan was practically clear of Turkish forces, he still depended upon them and resisted pressure from the War Office to dismount the latter division and send it to France.1678 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australian residential aged care: Skills mix and funding post 1997 reformsThe aged care structural reform that occurred in Australia in 1997 resulted in changes to the funding arrangements for the providers of residential aged care in nursing homes and hostels. The main result of these changes to funding arrangements was that any distinction between nursing homes and hostels, in terms of monies received from the Department of Health and Ageing (as it is now known) to care for similar types of residents, was effectively removed. This was aimed at facilitating 'ageing in place' within residential aged care. These changes, however, did not consider the financial disadvantage to nursing homes that operate under a more expensive wage structure in the provision of such care. In other words, to provide the care to the same type of resident remains more expensive within the structures of the nursing home award than the award structures of hostels. The changes did however set the scene for challenging the industry in the delivery of care to consumers. The increase in options for staffing mix, expertise and residential settings provided competition between hostels and nursing homes and choice to consumers for the first time. This paper examines the transition to a single funding tool as part of aged care reform in 1997 and its implications for the aged care industry in terms of skills mix, award structures and the potential impact on the consumer of the alternatives in the provision of residential care.1166 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication The Authentic Early Depiction of Donahs and Larrikins by Edward G. Dyson"The people here presented ... I claim ... are true types of a pronounced Australian class not previously exploited for the purposes of the maker of popular fiction." --Edward Dyson, 'A Foreward' to "Fact'ry 'Ands" (1912 edition, p. ix). "Edward Dyson was the creator of the larrikin type which Stone was to develop and Dennis to sentimentalize." --H.M. Green, 'A History of Australian Literature', Vol. I (1961), p. 573. Most readers of Australian short story collections will be familiar with the name of Edward George Dyson (1865-1931), and with his industrial tales, not least for the many quotations from "Fact'ry 'Ands" which appear in volumes II, III and IV of 'The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary' or in the two editions of G.A. Wilkes (ed.), 'A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms' (1978 and 1985). As a fairly recent study by Judith A. Woodward has shown very clearly, the larrikin had started to appear in Melbourne-set literature as early as the l870s in Julian Thomas's 'The Vagabond Papers' (1876-77), the latter text presenting "critical vignettes of urban life in mid-nineteenth century Melbourne". Yet it was soon the case that - under the influence of both overseas traditions and the nationalist mood of the 'Bulletin' and of its cult of the bush - there was depicted a literary unease about the city life of Victoria, as in 'The Mystery of the Hansom Cab' (1886) by Fergus Hume. This preference for the folk culture of the bush and the accompanying popularity of the colonial ballad are well represented by Edward Dyson's early work, 'Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines' (1896), the easy verses being on bush topics and relating to the mining life which he knew first hand from his father's life as a mining engineer on such fields as that of Ballarat.1113 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beef Cattle Producer Strategies to Accommodate More Concentrated and Organised Value Chains, and More Discriminating ConsumersThe market structure of red meat processing and retailing in Australia is becoming increasingly concentrated. This is causing ongoing concern about the possible abuse of market power against suppliers, especially beef cattle producers. Meat consumers are also changing and significant segments of shoppers are paying greater attention to intrinsic and extrinsic quality attributes. Demand for differentiated meat products which satisfy consumers' needs in this area is growing. Retailers and processors are increasingly demanding suppliers meet private standards. These private standards are usually more stringent or extensive than public food safety and quality standards. They are likely justified as consumer demand is changing and retailers are concerned about liability issues related to food safety and the integrity of product claims. While they can create new marketing opportunities for producers who are able to meet the production and/or process requirements and establish and maintain mutually-beneficial relationships with buyers, there are also potential negative implications for producers. For example when there is a substantial cost in meeting the stringent quality and logistical requirements, or when the standards criteria decrease farm productivity. Additionally, there are other concerns regarding the increasing use of private standards: private standards are not necessarily science-based and may mislead consumers, and the 'top down' manner in which private standards are imposed on the food supply chains may lead to equity and market access issues as a result of further consolidation and integration of agrifood markets. Nevertheless, there are many other opportunities for producers aside from just being involved in retailer or processor-driven supply chains. A plethora of opportunities remain for other motivated producers who wish to participate in these new marketing systems.1095 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleBelieve it or notTwo things have changed to challenge the ease of critical assessment of web-based data sources by students: the rise of both Social Media and of satirical websites.
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Publication Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM) 2015Each September, contemporary music enthusiasts, composers, scholars and performers from around Australia migrate toward the Victorian regional city of Bendigo for BIFEM, a remarkable music festival now in its third year. The festival has established itself as an annual event of unparalleled significance in Australia – not only as a forum for the presentation of exciting and little-heard music, but as a gathering of like-minded peers. A high proportion of the audience consists of musicians and composers, so informal conversations between concerts are almost as stimulating as the programmed forums and workshops that take place during the festival. In 2015, over the weekend 4–6 September, almost every work in the programme was an Australian premiere, which gives some further evidence of the importance of the festival to the nation's cultural ecology.
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Publication The benefits and challenges of scaling up dengue surveillance in Saudi Arabia from a GIS perspectiveThe most common mosquito-borne virus in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the dengue virus and is predominantly transmitted by 'Aedes aegypti' mosquitoes. This study was aimed to assess the status of dengue surveillance in Jeddah, develop recommendations to improve surveillance data quality, investigate prospective uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to monitor dengue incidence, vector prevalence and patterns, and introducing ways for improving the current dengue surveillance system in Jeddah. Continuance of the current system is recommended, but its effectiveness can be improved by increasing its accuracy and collection and use of data.1310 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beyond 'the West as method': Repositioning the Japanese Education Research Communities in/against the Global Structure of Academic KnowledgeDrawing on the recent critiques of the global knowledge economy of social science research, this article explores possible ways in which the Japanese education research communities can reposition themselves in the wider international education research community. The premises of this discussion are that there exists a global structure of academic knowledge and that Japanese education scholarship is deeply imbedded in this structure. Hence, repositioning is called upon so that alternative knowledge practice can be imagined to unsettle the structure. To develop this argument, the paper makes the following moves. First, it examines how the global structure of academic knowledge operates and how it has shaped the knowledge practices within Japanese education scholarship. It identifies the particular pattern of knowledge practices among Japanese education researchers, or what Kuan-Hsing Chen (2010) calls 'the West as method' -the use of 'Western experience' as the single point of reference against which the Japanese self and context are made intelligible. Based on this critique, the paper then explores how the Japanese education research communities can engage in the type of alternative knowledge practices and relations that unsettle the global structure of academic knowledge and what paradoxes they might have to negotiate in the process. In concluding, the paper once again turns to Chen's work, in particular his exposition of 'Asia as method' to articulate possible strategies towards alternative knowledge work which recognizes the ambivalent epistemic location of Japanese education scholarship.1442 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beyond mysticism? Review of Jackendoff, R. (2002) Foundations of Language, Brain, Meaning, Grammar, EvolutionAt the Fourth International conference on the Evolution of Language in 2002 at Harvard University (Hurford and Fitch, 2002), Marc Hauser and Michael Studdert-Kennedy joined Noam Chomsky in a roundtable discussion of the evolution of language. Given Chomsky’s famous disdain for evolutionary arguments, this was an event to be witnessed. Alas, it was not enlightening. Chomsky dismissed every suggestion about evolution and language as a ‘fairy story’, prompting one scholar in the field to observe that ‘any discipline that cannot give any account of its long history is itself a fairy story’. This view about the evolutionary origins of language is as important as Jackendoff’s emphasis (p.18) on its complexity: ‘One need not have an account of all of it, but one may not wilfully ignore it and still expect to be allowed in the game’.1143 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleA bigger defence force will affect more military families' children - their well-being must be protectedThe Australian Defence Force (ADF) is about to get a lot bigger. Defence Minister Peter Dutton has announced plans to expand the ADF by 18,000 members by 2040. This nearly 30% increase, the largest since the Vietnam War, will require not only a renewed focus on recruitment, but also on retaining current sailors, soldiers and aviators.
Families of these uniformed personnel will be crucial to the success of these efforts. The families of defence personnel, especially those with children, experience significant impacts as a result of their service. Our research has highlighted the experiences of young children and the pressures on defence families. The increase in ADF personnel will require a major rethink of policies and procedures to protect the well-being and education of children in defence families.
The ADF needs to become an employer of choice to retain these families as well as attract recruits with families. Our research findings offer some ideas that could inform the policy changes needed to achieve this boost to defence numbers.
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Publication Binaural hearing has advantages for cochlear implant users also(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005); 1192 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Bird Brain? It May Be A Compliment!Our view of the human brain will be different depending on whether we believe it represents a unique biological system for producing higher-order cognition or, instead, is one possible system for producing such cognition. During most of the history of brain science, point out neurobiologist Lesley J. Rogers and ethologist Gisela Kaplan, the working assumption was that only the human neocortex made possible certain cognitive achievements. Now that assumption is being called into question by new research on a host of higher-order cognitive capabilities. Where is the competition in brainy behavior coming from? It's coming from birds, the authors argue, citing new research on the surprising capabilities of some tiny brains.1189