444 research outputs found
Australia and Asia : opportunities amidst challenges
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Recent Changes in Asia: Australian Responses. ANU Centre for Continuing Education conference held 24-25 November 1977, tape 2 of 4
No full textRecorded 24 November 1977. -- Side A. 1. Plenary session. Reports from workshops: Indonesia, South Asia, China, Japan, Asean, Indo-China, Pacific Forum, Papua New Guinea. Chairman: Professor Nicholas Haines. -- Side B. 1. "Australia and Asia: Emerging Economic Challenges" by Dr Clive Edwards. Chairman: Professor D. A. Low
Where on earth is the church? Theological reflection on the nature, mission, governance and ministry of the church
No full textInitial teacher education and the New Zealand curriculum.
No full textNew Zealand teacher educators are faced with the challenge of how to prepare their student teachers to become beginning teachers who are able to base their teaching upon the national curriculum. To meet this challenge, designers of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes need to consider the interface between ITE curriculum and the legislated curriculum for schools. This paper looks at some of the historical influences upon the curriculum in both initial teacher education and schools by examining wider contextual influences. We point out that in ITE there has been an ongoing search for the most appropriate knowledge base for teaching, a search that is made problematic due to differing views of knowledge, teaching and learning We argue that in spite of these differences, there is benefit in an ITE curriculum that has a close relationship with the school curriculum in terms of what is learned and the teaching and learning approaches. New Zealand has a revised national curriculum for schools (Ministry of Education, 2007) that schools are expected to implement from 2010. In preparing student teachers to become beginning teachers, ITE providers are in a phase of designing learning experiences that link ITE curriculum and school curriculum. This process is problematic, for there are various internal and external pressures that lead to a crowded ITE curriculum and challenge ITE autonomy and innovation in curriculum decision-making
t-tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum function in cardiac ventricular myocytes
No full textAlthough the existence of t-tubules in mammalian cardiac ventricular myocytes has been recognized for a long time, it now appears that their structure and function are more complex than previously believed. Recent work has provided evidence that many of the key proteins underlying excitation-contraction coupling are located predominantly at the t-tubules. L-type Ca2+ current (ICa) flowing across the t-tubule membrane provides a rapidly inactivating Ca2+ influx that triggers Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), thereby allowing rapid and synchronous Ca2+ release throughout the cell; I Ca at the t-tubules also appears to be more sensitive than that at the surface membrane to regulation by beta-adrenergic stimulation and intracellular Ca2+. In contrast, although its density is lower, ICa flowing across the surface membrane inactivates slowly, and thus may help load the SR with Ca2+. There is also increasing evidence that many of the mechanisms that remove Ca2+ from the cytoplasm are located predominantly at the t-tubules, which therefore play an important role in determining cellular, and hence SR, Ca2+ content. Thus, the t-tubules appear to play a central role in the increase and subsequent decrease of Ca2+ during the systolic Ca2+ transient. Remodelling of the t-tubules has been reported in cardiac pathologies, and may play a role in the altered cellular, and hence cardiac, function observed in such conditions. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007
Review: Doing educational research : a guide for first time researchers
No full textTitle: Doing Educational Research : a guide for first time researchers
Author/Editor: Clive Opie
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: Paperback 0761970029
Price: £18.99
Reviewed by: Torben Steeg, Independent D&T Consultan
Erratum: Proposal for a definition for response to treatment, inactive disease and damage for JIA associated uveitis based on the validation of a uveitis related JIA outcome measures from the Multinational Interdisciplinary Working Group for Uveitis in Childhood (MIWGUC) (Pediatr Rheumatol Online J (2019) 17 (66) DOI: 10.1186/s12969-019-0345-2)
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that the author Joan Calzada should not have been included to the team of authors. The authors' team, thus, should be as follows: Ivan Foeldvari1*, Jens Klotsche2,3, Gabriele Simonini4, Clive Edelsten5, Sheila T. Angeles-Han6, Regitze Bangsgaard7, Joke de Boer8, Gabriele Brumm9, Rosa Bou Torrent10,21, Tamas Constantin11, Cinzia DeLibero12, Jesus Diaz23,24,Valeria Maria Gerloni13, Margarida Guedes14, Arnd Heiligenhaus15, Kaisu Kotaniemi16, Sanna Leinonen16, Kirsten Minden2,17, Vasco Miranda18, Elisabetta Miserocchi19, Susan Nielsen7, Martina Niewerth2, Irene Pontikaki13,Carmen Garcia de Vicuna10, Carla Zilhao14, Steven Yeh20, Jordi Anton10,21,2
Talking T-shirts: a visual exploration of youth material culture
No full textReaders should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour.
The author completed a visual ethnography, first to explore the sport experiences of high school students taking part in New Zealand's major rowing competition, the Maadi Cup. Additionally, the project set out to explore the process and potential of using photographs as representations of such experiences. The core of this research project was based on spending 10 days and nights at the regatta site, living the everyday life of rowers and rowing. The compressed time frame required the convenience of digital photography and video. In addition to the obvious artefacts of rowing, there is a notable influence of material culture. Part of the rowers' everyday practice included this cultural production represented through the wearing and trading of T-shirts. Despite its highly competitive nature, this regatta is important to young people as an opportunity to socialise and explore individual identities. For many of these students, Maadi is both grueling and gregarious. True, it is important for them to participate as competitors, but these objects of material culture (e.g. T-shirts) help us understand how these young people communicate the wider meanings of being rowers
A Vision for Australia: Indicators from Singapore
No full textThis article suggests that Australia could benefit from observing more closely Singapore's current development strategy. The production of labour intensive manufactures primarily by foreign firms and for export formed the core of Singapore's successful economic advance in the 1960s and 1970s. While a factor endowment strength—comparatively cheap labour—lay behind this achievement, the Singapore government actively supplemented this strength by creating a business environment highly favourable to the needs of foreign investors. With full employment and rising wage levels since then, Singapore lost its comparative advantage in the production of low wage manufactures to other East Asian countries. Recently, its development has been based more on created than inherited advantages. The Singapore government argues that the resources crucial to sustained per capita income advance in middle and higher income countries are not natural resources but rather information, technology, investible funds, research and development (R&D) spending and professional people. Singapore aims to develop its business environment to attract such resources to Singapore. The government's vision for Singapore is a nation where the share of professional and highly skilled manpower in the workforce rises over time. This employment goal informs the government's approach to all policy matters: infrastructure development, education, urban development, microeconomic reform, taxation, fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy, support for manufacturing and service activities, and attitudes to foreign investors. By comparison with Australia, Singapore has a very level playing field. The government sees no conflict between intervening to attempt to create competitive advantage while vigorously pursuing microeconomic reforms to make the playing field in Singapore still more level. Copyrigh
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