176 research outputs found
Students' experiences and expectations of technologies: an Australian study designed to inform planning and development decisions
No full textThe pace of technological change accompanied by an evolution in social, work-based and study behaviours and norms poses particular challenges for universities as they strive to develop high quality and sustainable technology-rich learning environments. Maintaining currency with the latest advances is resource intensive, hence the costs incurred in upgrading existing and introducing new technologies need to be carefully weighed up against the potential benefits to students. This calls for a multidimensional approach to planning, with the student voice being an important dimension. Three Australian universities have recently completed a project to gain a better understanding of students\u27 experiences and expectations of technologies in everyday life and for study purposes. The LMS and 25 other technologies ranging from established university offerings (email, learning management systems) to freely available social networking technologies (YouTube, Facebook) were surveyed. More than 10,000 students responded. This paper discusses the development of the survey and presents the broad trends that have emerged in relation to the current use of technologies and desired future use of these for learning purposes. The implications of the survey findings for developing institutional infrastructure to engage students and support their learning are highlighted
The Pleasure in Liberation — with adrienne maree brown
No full textadrienne maree brown is a writer. She is currently the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.adrienne is the author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia\u27s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia\u27s Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Resources: - adrienne\u27s website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne\u27s Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia\u27s Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde\u27s "The Uses of the Erotic" essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA
Assessment of pulmonary function in childhood neuromuscular weakness
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2004 Leanne Maree Gauld.Children with neuromuscular weakness may have severe or progressive weakness that results in pulmonary restriction. Weakness can also result in spinal deformity that worsens the pulmonary restriction. Corrective spinal surgery carries significant respiratory risk. Accurate respiratory assessment is important for pre-operative risk assessment. Aims: 1) to evaluate the current clinical practice of pulmonary function testing and their role in respiratory assessment in children with neuromuscular weakness undergoing corrective spinal surgery and 2) to develop a precise method of predicting pulmonary function tests in children with neuromuscular weakness
The politics of influence: the work of the Country Women's Association of Victoria incorporated in the public sphere
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1997 Dr. Karen Maree CrookThis research is focussed on the organisational, structural and leadership dimensions of the Country Women's Association of Victoria. The thesis seeks to examine the nature of the CWA's influence as one of Australia's most successful women's organisations, and to assess its prospects for the future. The CWA is Australia's largest women's organisations and it has extensive international links and a long history of effective lobbying on behalf of rural women and their families. The Association has been an active participant in the Australian political process, influencing public policy and the political agenda, and encouraging civic participation by women. It has provided leadership roles and effective political strategies for women, particularly isolated rural women
Group career construction counseling : a mixed-methods intervention study with high school students
No full textThis study investigated the value of group career construction counseling in a high school context. The author used purposive sampling to select participants who had sought career counseling. A mixed-methods intervention study design was also used. Participants (N = 57) completed the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-South Africa (CAAS-SA) before the 1st and after the 2nd intervention. The Career Interest Profile and the Maree Career Matrix were used to facilitate the intervention, and the CAAS-SA was used to test the research hypotheses. The findings revealed that the boys' and the girls' career adaptability had improved meaningfully on all of the CAAS-SA subscales. No gender-based differences were found. However, differences were detected between both the boys' and the girls' pre- and posttest Control and Confidence subscale scores. The findings demonstrate the value of career construction counseling in group settings. More longitudinal research with diverse participants is needed.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21610045hj2020Educational Psycholog
The Nature of Author Relevance in Literary Interpretation
No full textOne ongoing debate in literary interpretation focuses on the relevance (or not) of the author to interpreting a literary work‟s meaning. Traditionally the dominant opposing positions in this debate are intentionalism, where the author‟s intentions are relevant to and even determinate of meaning, and (strong) anti-intentionalism, where the author is in no way relevant to interpretation. In this thesis I demonstrate that these two positions do not form a straightforward opposition. I show that this arises from a dialectical mixing of metaphysical claims and methodological claims. For example, if an intentionalist argues that the meaning of a work is metaphysically determined by its author‟s intentions then the anti-intentionalist response may be that accessing the author‟s actual intentions are methodologically impossible for the interpreter. Resulting from this I frame the debate in terms of metaphysical questions of meaning and methodological questions of interpretation. In my discussion of the metaphysics of meaning I show that there is at least a minimal sense in which the author is relevant to the meaning of a work. I argue that there are features of the work that the author, due to his or her historical and geographical context, could not help but have included in it, and in this sense the author limits the meaning of a work. Following this, my discussion of the methodology of interpretation argues that a reasonable regulatory question for interpretive practice is: what could the author possibly mean? Finally I consider my conclusions in relation to the most recent positions in the debate, showing that they are best reflected in Alexander Nehamas‟ “postulated author”
Longitudinal career construction counselling for a black female student experiencing career indecision
No full textThis article reports on the longitudinal effect of career construction counselling on a black female student experiencing career indecision. Purposive sampling was used to select an adolescent experiencing career indecision. An integrative, QUALITATIVE-quantitative methodology was employed as the research lens, and a longitudinal, seven-year, explanatory, single-participant study design was adopted. The Career Construction Interview (CCI), the Career Interest Profile (CIP), and the Maree Career Matrix (MCM) were used to elicit the participant’s many micro-life stories and key life themes and to co-construct her future career-life story narrative. Adapted thematic data analysis incorporating the analytic style proposed by Savickas was carried out to analyse the data reflexively. In the short term, the participant's psychological self as a social actor was enhanced by confirming her career choice, and her psychological self as a motivated agent was promoted by bolstering her goal-setting capacity and sense of self. Longitudinally, her self- and career identity was clarified and her sense of hope rekindled (the self as an autobiographical author was strengthened). Future research should examine the short- and longer-term effects of the approach described here in diverse career counselling contexts. More information is needed on when drawing on the CCI as a standalone assessment intervention may suffice
Using integrative career construction counselling to promote autobiographicity and transform tension into intention and action
No full textDATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to South African POPI Act requirements.This article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical
reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity
status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase
denoting the bigger weighting given to the qualitative aspect) research design and used qualitative
and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and quantitative career
construction counselling techniques and methods and strategies to construct data. The Maree Career
Matrix (MCM) was used to gather the participant’s career interests (“scores”) quantitatively, and
the Career Interest Profile (CIP) was used to elicit her micro-narratives (“stories”) qualitatively. An
adapted version of thematic data analysis was used to analyse the data. The intervention promoted
the participant’s (self-)reflection and reflexivity, transformed her tension into intention, led to an
increase in her career options, and helped her revitalise her sense of meaning, purpose, and positivity.
While the findings are encouraging, future (longitudinal) research is needed to establish the long-term
influence of the intervention espoused here.https://www.mdpi.com/journal/educationam2023Educational Psycholog
Informed Consent: ethical theory, legal obligationsand the physiotherapy clinical encounter
No full textDeposied with permission of the author. © 2005 Clare Maree DelanyObtaining a patient’s informed consent to treatment is an expected component of clinical interactions. The notion that a person as an autonomous being has a right to decide whether or not to consent to medical treatment from an informed basis has its origins in both law and ethical theory. In this research I investigate the issue of informed consent from two overall perspectives. The first concerns its basis in ethical theories of autonomy and its interpretation by the law and by health professional guidelines. The second involves an empirical examination of its occurrence within the communicative interaction between a physiotherapist and their patient, and its interpretation by the physiotherapist. I use qualitative research methods involving analysis of individual audio-taped treatment encounters in private physiotherapy practice and interviews with the treating physiotherapist. A central tenet of this study is that the translation of both legal and ethical criteria into the context of the clinical encounter requires a process of negotiation and communicative interaction between the patient and health professional. This research seeks to understand this process, and the factors that influence it in the specific context of physiotherapists and the private practice clinical encounter. (For complete abstract open document
Book Review: Counselling for career construction. Connecting life themes to construct life portraits: Turning pain into hope
No full textAuthor: Maree, J.G.Title: Counselling for career construction. Connecting life themes to construct life portraits: Turning pain into hope. (2013)Rotterdam: Sens
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