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The impact of teacher qualification on vocational schoolteachers’ professional identity
No full textBackground: Vocational Education and Training (VET) is studied globally in schools, offering an alternative route to academic learning. Within a supportive school community context, students can gain industry relevant skills and vocational knowledge, supporting their transition into the adult workforce. Yet despite substantial numbers of students choosing VET subjects in schools, recruiting suitably qualified VET teachers for secondary schools is a global challenge.Purpose: This paper presents the lived experience of 14 in-service and two pre-service VET schoolteachers who had gained initial teacher education (ITE) qualifications, shedding light on the many facets of their identity transformation from vocational practitioner to ITE student to qualified vocational schoolteacher.Method: Participants, recruited both opportunistically and through snowball sampling, taught in 16 different secondary schools located in the Australian state of Victoria. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with them by the third author of this article. Interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis.Findings: Completing an ITE qualification had been an enlightening and empowering experience for these industry experts who had previously developed strong vocational identities. The participants believed that school students perceived them as relatable and authentic role models. Their shared lived experience was that students responded positively to their vocationally informed empathetic, respectful, patient and caring pedagogy.Conclusion: The participants in this study practiced what we have identified as Vocationally Informed Relational Pedagogy (VIRP) – an approach which is invaluable in shaping sustainable, high-quality VET programmes in schools. The value of a formal teaching qualification for industry experts who wish to become schoolteachers is integral to the transformation of their professional identity.</p
Arbitrary Detention of People with Disability – Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
No full textThe report is authored by PWDA (People with Disability Australia), Women with Disabilities Australia and five academics. We welcome the opportunity to provide this submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in advance of its 2025 Australia country visit. This submission provides information about the places in which people with disability are arbitrarily detained in Australia and the human rights violations that occur in those places. It has been jointly developed by the following organisations and individuals:• People with Disability Australia• Women with Disabilities Australia• Dr Piers Gooding (La Trobe University)• Dr Claire Loughnan (University of Melbourne)• Dr Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney)• Kate Swaffer (University of South Australia, PhD Candidate; Dementia Alliance International, Co-Founder)• Dr Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney)</p
Participatory Propaganda and Politics From the Bedroom (Studio): The Semiotics of Conservative Influencers on YouTube
No full textThis paper interrogates recent developments in the communication practices of conservative social media influencers in the US and the means through which several have come to rival traditional media on YouTube. It highlights two case studies of highly successful influencer channels, The Daily Wire’s The Comments Section and PragerU’s Unapologetic, representative of such developments. Through a social semiotic analysis of an early sample of these video productions (n = 40), I examine the multimodal communicative practices employed to engage a specifically young audience. I find that these practices centered on a curated replication of the aesthetics of participatory cultures and news mediation through an ideologically conservative lens. Such findings serve to advance critiques of participatory cultures as “demotic” rather than democratic and illustrate the amenability of associated platform affordances to appropriation by professionalized conservative media projects.</p
Codebook for "Breaking the Silence on Child Sexual Abuse: A Survey of Advocates". Quantitative Component
No full textThis codebook is for the quantitative component of the survey, "Breaking the silence on child sexual abuse: A survey of advocates". The survey was conducted as part of the research project, "Creating Safer Futures: Raising Awareness of Child Sexual Abuse Amongst Young Adults Through Digital Storytelling" (Katie Wright, Sari Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Danny Taggart, Shurlee Swain). </p
Genio e sregolatezza. Percorso narrativo di una famiglia disgregata in I divoratori (1911) di Annie Vivanti
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A good autistic life: an autistic-led conceptualization of autistic flourishing through autistic women’s-lived experiences
No full textIntroduction and objective: Interest in developing an understanding of “autistic flourishing” is steadily increasing in research and autistic communities. Flourishing is a multidimensional construct explained somewhat by positive emotion, but mostly by good psychological and social functioning. Autistic people process information and stimuli differently from neurotypical people, so it may be reasonable to assume that their definition of flourishing and the factors that influence it may differ from those of neurotypical people. Exploring flourishing from autistic women’s perspectives is essential, as they have been historically overlooked in autism research, despite differing from autistic men in presentation and facing higher mental health risks.Methods: This autistic-led, partly collective, autoethnographic study was conducted within the context of a broader project exploring the concept of autistic flourishing. Here, we employ a two-phased phenomenological approach, drawing on both autistic and neurotypical frames of analyses. In the first phase, autistic women draw on their lived experiences in a collective autoethnography, including both focus groups and collective writing, to shape the concept of flourishing and its indicators. These insights were further developed by neurotypical authors, who compare to neurotypical experiences and conceptualizations of flourishing.Results:Two themes and twelve subthemes were identified. The first theme, “Living with a neurodivergent bodymind,” presents how autistic women define and experience flourishing. The second theme, “Strategies for autistic flourishing,” highlights actions autistic women take to achieve or maintain flourishing.Discussion and conclusion: Through our autistic-led approach drawing on neurodiverse frames of analysis, our work presents a first initial investigation of autistic flourishing among women. Our findings suggest qualitative differences in autistic derived definitions of flourishing and its indicators compared to those of neurotypicals, emphasizing the importance of developing an autistic-driven understanding of flourishing.</p
Wetland binomial modelling - Final version updated 23 July 2024
No full textThis script accompanies the manuscript "New models for classifying heterogeneous cover types in wetlands of the Greater Melbourne region". It is the script used to build models of wetland cover types across the Greater Melbourne region.</p
To TT or not TT: Considerations for Children’s Cycling in Triathlon
No full textTriathlon and Time Trial (TT) bicycles are engineered for performance by optimizing aerodynamics for maximum speed and race efficiency. As going fast on a bicycle essentially involves the cyclist overcoming air resistance, the objective is to devise ways to lower the influence of drag. For adults participating in triathlon, cycling at high speed in what is known as an aerodynamic position can be physically demanding where every athlete is constantly looking for the smallest improvements to enhance their performance. In road cycling there has been recent conjecture that training on TT bicycles is dangerous, with some professional cyclists calling for the use of TT bicycles in training to be banned due to the safety considerations. Despite this, a recent trend in junior (children) triathlon events has seen the use of aerodynamic bars and TT bicycles appear in age groups starting from ages 12 and upwards for both sexes. The desire for children to win and compete with the latest bicycle that provides a mechanical advantage has created debate with some jurisdictions banning the use of TT bicycles in junior triathlon events. Scientists involved in long-term athletic development (LTAD), biomechanics and exercise physiology that concern children have discussed that a balanced and long-term approach is needed when introducing children to triathlon and the use of TT bicycles. The purpose of this communication is to enable coaches to recognise the risks and limitations involved when working with junior triathletes and the considerations of using TT bicycles.</p
Dataset for Migraine and Memory meta-analysis titled <b>Investigating the Impact of Migraine on Short-Term and Working Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis</b>
No full textDataset for meta analysis titled Investigating the Impact of Migraine on Short-Term and Working Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisPlain Language StatementIndividuals with migraine often report experiencing “brain fog,” which raises concerns about its impacts on daily memory function. By conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis, we tested whether migraine is linked to poorer short-term or working memory performance. Our results showed no meaningful memory impairments in people with migraine compared to healthy controls, suggesting that cognitive complaints during migraine may not reflect long-term changes in memory function.</p
Propaganda, the public spheres, and the new economic conditions of the digital age
No full textThe arrival of mobile internet services came with significant promise of a potentially democratic public sphere mediated through digital media technology. However, rather than achieving this promise, these technologies ushered in a new economic age: surveillance capitalism, which revolutionised propaganda and misinformation in ways which pose clear threats to civil order and democratic processes. This paper updates and integrates Jürgen Habermas's model of the public sphere and communicative rationality with the realities of surveillance capitalism's new economic logics and the ways in which they undermine the public sphere. (1) The selective distribution of content by sorting algorithms fosters cultures of insularity and antagonism which (2) fragment and disintegrate the sphere, contributing to the breakdown of public discourse into echo chambers and filter bubbles. Furthermore, (3) sorting algorithms facilitate the evasion of scrutiny as these individually selected messages bypass public attention and criticism. This lack of scrutiny encourages the use of (4) engagement-farming tactics like the use of inflammatory misinformation. This has often led to (5) patterns of migration; wherein users migrate away from the platform to find more corresponding information about the conspiracy or mythology in question – further breaking down public discourse. Lastly, answering the new revenue model's demand for content often results in (6) content from botnets, troll farms, and misinformation networks being platformed and circulated with little to no repercussions.</p