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Don’t Eat the Raw Vegetables: Insights into Research-based Theatre as Methodology
No full textDon’t Eat the Raw Vegetables is a monologue adapted from the research-based theatre script Homa Bay Memories (Lea, 2013). Drawing on journals, photographs, and memories I developed the monologue to explore a moment of intercultural learning while on a teaching practicum in Kenya in 2004. In this article I share the monologue and a critical commentary discussing three insights into research-based theatre as a methodology gained through the process: 1) the impact of physicalizing research, 2) the opportunity to return to an experience armed with new theoretical understandings, and 3) the potential of the methodology to bring to light and express the fluidity of narratives and experiences
CIVIL LIABILITY FOR NEGLIGENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF CYBERBULLYING POLICIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS
No full textCyberbullying is a form of covert bullying that affects the lives of young people and adults alike. Empirical evidence suggesting that the effects of cyberbullying may lead to protracted mental harm highlights the need for schools to take a proactive stance against this form of bullying. This article looks specifically at the effectiveness of the anti-bullying policies implemented by South Australian school authorities in order to comply with their legal duty of care in negligence. Part I introduces the topic of cyberbullying, while Part II explains a school’s legal liability for instances of cyberbullying and identifies the requisite need for anti-bullying polices. In addition, Part III highlights the need for a multifaceted approach to reduce the occurrence of cyberbullying that recognises the important roles played by parents and student bystanders. This section concludes by providing specific recommendations on how anti-bullying policies should be implemented. The article argues that while school authorities may bear legal liability for instances of cyberbullying, schools cannot effectively implement anti-bullying policies without forming a partnership with the whole school community
THE FUTURE OF THE NBL: REVIEWING THE PLAYER POINTS SYSTEM AND THE OVERALL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE LEAGUE
No full textThis article reviews and responds to the analysis completed by Jacob Holmes in the primary article ‘Professional Sport and Market Restrictions: Is the Player Points System in the Australian National Basketball League an Unfair Restraint of Trade?’. It adopts the position that until such time as the NBL is able to sustain its current format and competition, no change should be made. It also argues that it is unlikely that the courts will in fact hold that the NBL’s Player Points System does amount to a restraint of trade, given its reasonable nature and overall objectives of developing an equal and level playing field for the entire sport
Book review - Philosophy park: A beginner’s guide to great philosophers and their ideas
No full textThose with at least in passing interest in Philosophy for Children will be aware of the work of Philip Cam. Cam’s corpus of texts have provided educators with countless insights, activities and resources for developing philosophical investigations and thinking with young people. Philosophy park: A beginner’s guide to great philosophers and their ideas is a significant addition to this body of work. Tackling the complex ideas of leading philosophers in the Western tradition, Cam has achieved something that is often rather rare—the ability to convey complex ideas in an accessible and engaging way. The main tool employed is the use of stories, each of which draws out a central idea within the thought of the philosopher or school of philosophers at hand
Book review - Identity and personhood: Confusions and clarifications across disciplines
No full textSplitter commences this book by telling the reader that it was a pedagogical incident that led him to write it. Presenting a philosophical seminar series on the topic of ‘identity’ to bright undergraduate students in America from a range of disciplines heightened his realisation that we don’t all use the word in the same way to refer to the same thing. We wouldn’t normally think too much about it, assuming that identity, especially one’s own, is an obvious, assumed entity. However, it is not, really, the closer you examine the concept. Which is precisely what Splitter goes on to do
VAGUENESS, AUTONOMY, AND R V BROWN
No full textThis article comments on the article in this volume entitled ‘Is Society Still Shackled with the Chains of a 1993 England?: Consent, Sado-masochism and R v Brown’ by Jordan Moulds. It argues that the defence of consent should not be circumscribed to the extent that it was in Brown for three reasons: the first is based on maintaining the coherence of the law; the second arises from the importance of valuing the liberty of individuals in cases where a statute is vague; and the third is found in the value of autonomy. This comment argues in Part I that the criminal law and tort law should set the same threshold at which consent will no longer afford a defence. Part II draws on the theories of Raz, Fuller and Marmor argues that the liberty of individuals should not be so easily sacrificed where the statute allegedly governing the impugned behaviour is vague; and Part III concludes that the common law position on consent in New Zealand serves as an example of an acceptable balance between the autonomy of the victim and the role that the criminal law has to play in reducing threats to peace and order.
PROFESSIONAL SPORT AND MARKET RESTRICTIONS: IS THE PLAYER POINTS SYSTEM IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE AN UNFAIR RESTRAINT OF TRADE?
No full textThis article analyses the Australian National Basketball League’s ‘Player Points System’ to ascertain the real impact of the system on the sport, clubs and athletes. It argues that the system works against the best interests of the sport and is an unreasonable restraint on the trade of the athletes. Ultimately, this article calls for the Player Points System to be abandoned and replaced by a more effective system such as the Restricted Free Agency labour market restraint model that is used in the Australian Football League and American National Basketball Association. It concludes that this system could more adequately promote the best interests of the National Basketball League and the players without constituting an unreasonable restraint of trade
Book Review:Teaching with spirit – New perspectives on Steiner Education in Australia, Edited by Leigh Burrows and Tom Stehlik
No full textBook Review by
Helen Platell, JD
Principal
Mount Barker Waldorf Schoo
Two models for implementing Citizen Science projects in middle school
No full textAustralia, like other developed countries grapples with the education of its citizens, particularly the scientific aspects of global environmental problems that require well-informed literate citizens and an urgent need for more scientifically literate knowledge workers. This paper takes this crisis as a provocation for thinking about one approach developed internationally—the citizen science approach. Whilst there are a lot of reports from citizen science projects, especially in scientific journals, there is a paucity of research about how citizen science has been taken up in the public culture and in schools. This paper outlines two different models both using an action research model that has teachers as co researchers with tertiary educators. Firstly, teachers have engaged with a large public citizen science program in which students collect scientific data around iconic species, such as possums, magpies, blue tongue lizards and spiders. Secondly, middle school teachers select a citizen science topic that connects to their student life worlds, in an attempt to raise the educational aspirations for learners through tertiary participation, and excellence in school-based curriculum development. This paper describes the two models used to develop scientific citizenship in middle schools in Adelaide, South Australia.
Key words: Citizen science, socially critical pedagog
Student Knowledge: Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
No full textAt a time where high-stakes national and international testing have assumed such prominence, one might begin to wonder about the status of teacher judgement when assessing and reporting on children’s knowledge and skills against the descriptors specified in curriculum standards. Were standardised test results congruent with the judgements that teachers make when reporting on students’ achievement, concern about how one type of judgement might compare with another would perhaps be unwarranted. This article, however, which draws on research that has investigated whether standardised assessments in the state of Victoria, Australia are actually comparable with teacher’s judgements about their students’ work, illustrates that discrepancies do exist. These results have been interpreted within an analytical framework that derives from Aristotle’s (350BC/2000) distinction between three types of knowledge, namely epistemic, technical and phronetic knowledge