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Food for thought:Movement, memory, and post-colonial food spaces
No full textThe connections between food and space are complex. Through the consideration of research work by staff and students from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design, this chapter questions what it means to build and cook intelligently today in the face of issues such as climate change, rapid urbanisation and migration, environmental damage and resource depletion, health, disappearing heritage, and rising inequality
Crossing the Line:A critical systematic review of escalation crossover offending in online child sexual exploitation
Get PDFIn this systematic review, we provide a summary of the current knowledge and understanding of escalation crossover offenders who transition from online to subsequent contact child sexual offenses. A systematic search of 14 databases was conducted to identify literature relevant to escalation crossover offenders. Thirty-two studies met the inclusion criteria. Findings reveal different profiles of escalation crossover from child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offending, online solicitation (OS) offending, and commercial offending. Risk factors and characteristics of CSEM escalation crossover offenders included age, prior criminal history, sexual inclination toward children, cognitive distortions, severity, extremity, and frequency of CSEM engagement, communicating or attempting to communicate with children, and networking with other CSEM offenders. Risk factors and characteristics of OS escalation crossover offenders included race, age, marital/relationship status, employment status, education level, sexual inclination toward children, cognitive distortions, psychiatric disorders, and prior criminal history. Risk factors and characteristics of commercial escalation crossover offenders included race, age, employment status, marital/relationship status, and denying a history of contact offending. Behavioral themes were also identified for OS and commercial escalation crossover offenders. Findings and future directions are discussed in relation to practical, policy, and research implications.</p
From the Strawberry to the Snowflake to Nuclear Democracy
No full textIndigenous research frameworks, such as heart-led practicesfrom the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe perspectives, demonstrate how theorycan be derived from the place and purpose of a real, non-human, entityor event. This article develops theory for democracy out of snow – bothin terms of how it manifests and what happens when it falls over wherepeople live. From this snow-led intervention into democratic theorycomes the argument that democratic moments, like elections, mini-publics, snow and protests, should be critically engaged for the ways inwhich they can generate sporadic events and for how they can relax orharden every-day social, political, economic, and legal structures whichcan lead to democratic possibilities. When snow falls to earth, especiallyin large volume, it temporarily presents itself to people who must inter-act with it and these people can, by consequence, become temporarilydemocratized by relation
Motivation to write in the digital age: examining early primary students’ attitudes towards paper and computer-based text composing
No full textDigital tools are now an integral part of most communities across the globe. In this context, preparing beginning writers to produce paper- and computer-generated texts with similar levels of proficiency is paramount. In the current study, we examined general attitudes toward writing and specific attitudes toward writing paper- and computer-based texts of 544 Grade 2 students (295 female). We investigated the unique contributions of children’s general and specific writing attitudes in predicting their writing performance (i.e., compositional quality and productivity) across modalities after controlling for students’ inscription skills (i.e., handwriting automaticity and keyboarding automaticity), gender, and nesting due to classroom and schools. Results from hierarchical-linear modelling showed that general attitude toward writing made a statistically unique contribution to predicting the quality of students’ paper- and computer-based texts. Specific attitudes towards writing paper-based texts made statistically unique contributions in explaining paper-based compositional quality and productivity. Contrastingly, specific attitudes towards writing computer-based texts did not make a unique and statistically significant contribution in predicting computer based compositional quality and productivity. Following a multi-methods design, we further examined children’s motivational beliefs, namely value and utility, attitudes and interest, and competence in writing paper- and computer-based texts (subsample of n = 54 students). Findings from deductive content analysis suggested that children found writing and learning how to write paper- and computer-based texts equally important but showed more negative attitudes towards writing paper-based texts. Results were also indicative that children believed they were more capable of writing paper-based texts
Informed, supported, confident:A realist evaluation of The Birth Map
No full textPROBLEM: Birth preparation needs a standardised, communication-focused, structured and collaborative approach that acknowledges women as decision makers.BACKGROUND: The Birth Map is a consumer-driven, woman-led, structured approach to birth preparation in the form of a book.AIM: To evaluate The Birth Map from the perspective of women across different models of care within Australian maternity services.METHODS: Realist Evaluation methodology, with 32 self-selected participants from various models of care who gave birth from September to December 2022 throughout Australia. Participants provided reflections of their experiences throughout pregnancy from March to December 2022, and 12 were interviewed postpartum in January and February 2023. Transcriptions of reflections and interviews were coded for context, mechanism and outcomes.FINDINGS: Women saw themselves as decision makers and used The Birth Map to help make sense of their options and to communicate their needs to their care team. Reports were positive across communication, experience and decision making. Communication barriers included short appointment times and dismissive care providers, which impacted the experience negatively and impeded decision making.DISCUSSION: Maternal Decision Making is a process of balancing information and individual circumstances. Women use a process of sensemaking to build support and confidence for decision making. Supported Maternal Decision Making is crucial to a Respectful Maternity Experience. Whilst The Birth Map was a mitigating factor to the identified barriers, care provider training is recommended.CONCLUSION: The structured, woman-led approach to birth preparation supports effective communication in maternity services through sensemaking, relationship building and supported maternal decision making.</p
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No full textThe creative trident mark III:correlating creative qualifications and occupations
No full textThis article presents an update to the Creative Trident model of creative employment that incorporates creative qualifications, revealing the extent to which they are employed in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs) and in the general labour market. CCI research has struggled in recent years with methodological questions about how to incorporate creative qualifications, while some critics have used ideological and lifestyle arguments to question the coherence of grouping “cultural production” and “creative services” activities as the CCIs. The Creative Trident III approach presented here, and modelled with Australian data, addresses the methodological shortcomings of demand-based models of coding creative qualifications in a manner that can respond to current concerns about the labour market value of creative and liberal arts education. A major finding shows the coherence of the CCIs model at the level of qualifications–the only level at which the commonality of shared skills can be meaningfully addressed.</p
Outcomes of pharmacist interventions as part of EAHOP – Enhancing allied health for older people in residential care
No full textThe EAHOP trial (Enhancing Allied Health for Older People in Residential Care) Outcomes of pharmacist interventions. Background The pharmacist has a critical role in the multidisciplinary team (MDT) when contributing to the care of older people living in residential aged care. The EAHOP study is a clinical trial that embedded a pharmacist within an MDT in a residential aged care home. This abstract reports on the pharmacy results of the study. Method This study used a mixed method to describe key pharmacy outcome measures of direct and indirect time per resident, number of recommendations accepted and to describe the thoughts, opinions and experience of key stakeholders. Results There were 124 recommendations made by the pharmacist for 34 residents, an average of 3.65 per resident, higher than the usual 2.7 recommendations per RMMR. At the GP case conferences 70 % were accepted, 9 % were declined and 21 % were not discussed. An average of 61 min direct time and 246 min of indirect time was spent per resident. Qualitative findings showed the pharmacy role improved care for residents by enhancing communication between health professionals, staff, residents and families. Conclusion The EAHOP model can supplement existing models of pharmacy intervention in residential care by providing organised multidisciplinary collaboration between the General Practitioner, nursing, pharmacist and allied health disciplines.</p
The Creative Learning Project: Defining the National Gallery of Australia's Creative Learning Approach
No full textThis guide describes the outcomes of a collaborative 15-month research project between the University of Canberra (UC) and the National Gallery of Australia. Titled The Creative Learning Project, it sought to co-create a tailored learning approach for the National Gallery underpinned by research. A research team from the Faculty of Education at UC was contracted to co-construct a pedagogical approach with the Gallery’s Learning Team drive the project to articulate, define and position the National Gallery’s pedagogical approach in a national and international context. The aim was to create a model that could be applied to the Gallery’s education programs onsite, offsite and online. To achieve these aims the UC Research Team used co-design as a method to identify shared goals, develop guiding principles and co-construct a pedagogical approach with the Gallery’s Learning Team