1,555 research outputs found
Annette Harvey Diary, 1906-1910
No full textAnnette Harvey, of Arkansas, West Virginia, and Ohio, recounts events of her daily life in this 'Line a Day' diary. She was the daughter of William Hope Harvey, aka 'Coin' Harvey, a well-known businessman, politician, author and founder of the resort of Monte Ne and the Ozark Association. Annette's brief entries record visits, housework, dances, parties, a train trip to New York, weather, church services and socials over a 5 year period, 1906-1910. Addresses and miscellaneous thoughts, quotations, poems, are recorded at the end of the volume. A photograph of her home made in 1906 is tipped in at the front of the diary
The Spirit of the Flame: Spiritual leadership of four Indigenous Australian school leaders: Dreaming Australia
No full textThis study investigates whether four Indigenous State primary principals rely on spiritual leadership to inform their leadership role in schools. I investigate the four principals‟ leadership through an analysis of a series of interviews, documents and observations conducted at the four case-study sites. I was particularly interested in the under representation of Indigenous peoples in leadership and their voices being marginalised or misrepresented on a number of important debates due to Australia‟s colonial history and the potency of postcolonialism. There were two political debates prominent during this period. These were the Liberal government‟s intervention in the Northern Territory in response to the “National Emergency” of the abuse of Indigenous children in 2007 and the Prime Minister, Mr. Kevin Rudd‟s apology in February 2008 to the stolen generations on behalf of the Australian government. I engage Foucault‟s notions of discourse and truth (1971) and analytic of power/knowledge (1980), biopower (1984) and postcolonial theories (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2000) to provide the theoretical frame for conceptualising this study into spiritual leadership. I take a critical discourse approach (Fairclough, 2001) to the analysis of the principals‟ interview talk in order to ascertain whether the principals are operating at the deeper levels of society where representations and positions are formed and reformed often engaging symbol, metaphor and at times, myth. I was interested to explore the principals‟ perceptions of their leadership through a deconstruction of their use of symbol and metaphor. The research project questions whether spiritual leadership is enacted by the principals. The thesis acknowledges that, due to the underrepresentation of Indigenous principals, even emancipatory, visionary and spiritual leadership may not be sufficient to transform postcolonial power differentials in Australia which represent Indigenous peoples and cultures as inferior to white people and cultures. The analysis firstly investigates whether the leaders resist these negative representations of Indigenous peoples and their cultures then moves to the inner world of the leaders whereat more complex notions of the leaders‟ vision, purpose and leadership enactment are explored. The thesis acknowledges that it is at these levels where the presence of Spirit or a sense of spirituality may inform the principal‟s leadership role.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Education and Professional StudiesArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Self-Congruity and Wine Tourism Behaviour
No full textSelf-congruity theory proposes that part of consumer behaviour is determined by an
individual’s comparison of the image of themselves to the image of a product/brand, or to the
stereotype of a typical user of the brand (Sirgy, 1986). Self-congruity models have been used in a variety of product branding applications; however, limited research has been conducted within the service industries. Services are intangible making them difficult to evaluate until the moment of consumption. Hence, decision making is often based on cues such as the image of the service or users of the service (Kleijnen, de Ruyter, & Andreassen, 2005). As a result, selfcongruity theory is very applicable to services due to the unique characteristics of services and its experiential nature. In particular, there is a lack of evidence within the tourism literature on the effect of self-congruity on tourists’ intentions or motivations to visit a destination (Boksberger, Dolnicar, Laesser, & Randle, in press; Bosnjak, Sirgy, Hellriegal, & Maurer, in press; Litvin & Goh, 2002; Sirgy & Su, 2000). This thesis focuses on a niche market, wine tourism.
The number of wineries with cellar doors open to the public over the last 5 years has increased by 37.3 % to 1,647 wineries in 2010 within Australia (Winebiz, 2010a). The majority of these wineries are reliant on wine tourists for their wine sales. Actual wine visitors during this same period had minimal growth. In fact, there was no growth for domestic overnight wine visitors, whilst domestic day visitors had an average growth of 3%, and international visitors an average of 3% growth (Tourism Research Australia, 2010). Purchase and visitation behaviour relevant in tourism has often centred on finding answers to what, where and how tourists buy rather than why (Beerli, Meneses, & Gil, 2007). As a result, a lot of tourism research focuses on functional attributes with little attention to value expressive attributes of a destination, such as the image of a destination (Chon & Olsen, 1991) or destination visitor image. Within the tourism context, Sirgy and Su (2000) hypothesised that the greater the match between the destination visitor image and the tourists self-image, the more likely that the tourist would have a favourable attitude toward that destination, and the more likely that the tourist would visit the destination.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
(Ill-legal) Lust is a Battlefield: HIV Risk, Socio-Sexuality and Criminality
No full textNot so suddenly, HIV diagnoses have become markers of criminality. Since the discursive and clinical histography of HIV infection, desiring/desirable bodies are placed within labyrinths of socio-legal pathology. Dis-eased bodies are punished, not just because of their health status, but due to a conglomerate difference of HIV serodiscordance, interracial and same-sex desire. The HIV transmission offending body is a projection of cultural, medical and legal panics about miscegenation and queer sexuality.
The HIV transmission story is reflected and imagined through the textual crimes of offences against the person. But, this crimino-legal tale also flickers its own imagination onto a new cultural milieu, in such a fashion that HIV transmission crimes are culturally anticipated. Consensual desires are silenced in honour of the tragedy of the reckless or intentional HIV transmission offender. HIV infectivity is translated as an injury committed by one party against another. But, the crimino-legal narrative of HIV transmission offences speaks about the policing of desire, just as much as it does about the regulation of Other infectious bodies – as illness and illegality.
This thesis maps the socio-legal trajectory of HIV transmission criminality, beginning from a nucleus of HIV transmission charges in the Australian state of Victoria and replicated within other western jurisdictions. A capillary of prosecutions, all point to the Eurocentric, heteronormative interests of HIV transmission crimes. This thesis produces the only documentation of HIV transmission offences in Australia and outlines the case law in Australia, with references to similar prosecutions in western countries (ie the common law jurisdictions of England, Canada and New Zealand, as well as cases in the United States). Further to this, it provides an intertextual, poststructural critique of HIV transmission jurisprudence. It also demonstrates how the juridical imagination of these crimes is coordinated within scientific, medical, cultural and legal pathologies of disease and desire.
In retrospect of the crimino-legal fiction of HIV transmission, science and medicine created a path of pathology where certain bodies, spaces and behaviours were named and blamed. The epidemiological cast of characters, at fault for HIV transmission, predominately named Africa/Africans and homo/bisexuals/gay communities. These hyper-infectious characters (and the spaces they discursively inhabited) were sites/sources of HIV, transporting the virus outside themselves and placing Eurocentric heteronormativity at risk. Early in the socio-medical discovery of HIV, an urban legend emerged in Patient Zero (gay, Canadian, airline steward Gaeton Dugas). The Patient Zero legend was questioned and re-examined, demonstrating the flaws of hydraulic and linear graphing of risk. Yet, this flawed narrative underpins contemporary HIV transmission prosecutions.
Antiquated HIV theories survive in law, but also in culture to produce HIV risk culpable/exculpated bodies. In the moment of pleasure, consensual sex is rearranged to create Other bodies as responsible (for their own infection) and irresponsible of their (legally imposed) HIV risk duties. The HIV transmission myth is much larger than just the intersections of law and the sciences. Miscegenation, queer desire and HIV experience a familiar place in film and television. Appearances of Other racial and sexual desire have uncomfortable locations, the collectivity of HIV and Other desire renders the body culturally culpable.
Consent has distinct crimino-legal definitions, especially within the jurisprudence of HIV transmission. To understand criminal law’s definition of sexual consent requires a silencing of mutual desires/pleasure. Claims that sexual and racial transgression is policed through law are evidenced in the exculpation of Eurocentric, heteronormative desires in cases such as R v Clarence. But, this thesis also juxtaposes these crimes of sexual disease risk against prosecutions of sadomasochism (s/m). The preeminent case in this area is R v Brown, where esoteric same-sex desire created imagined HIV panics. This case is compared to heterosexual s/m cases where actual harm/violence is explained away.
The thesis concludes with an overview of recent HIV transmission prosecutions. The cast of (HIV criminal) characters is shifting, but the criminal law still punishes Other desire. The thesis also explores how the criminalisation of HIV transmission impacts on HIV/AIDS service providers, describing the mixed metaphors and fragmented discourses about HIV risk, sexuality and responsibility. New directions in HIV transmission crimes are slippages to socio-legal memories, when Other desires were illicit. But, the ill-legality of HIV glosses over the local, ordinary aspects of HIV infectivity and consensual desire.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Law SchoolGriffith Law SchoolFull Tex
Interview with Annette Lareau
No full textAnnette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press). Unequal Childhoods won the best book award from three sections of the American Sociological Association: Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Children and Youth, and Sociology of Culture (co-winner)
High Pressure Synthesis of Conducting Polymers
No full textAn experimental investigation of the high pressure synthesis of water soluble, self doping conducting polymers is presented. 2- And 3-aminobenzenesulfonic acid and the respective sodium sulfonates have been polymerised. Optimal polymerisation conditions have been determined with respect to yield, conductivity and molecular weight. Reaction parameters such as oxidant, pressure, catalysts, reaction time and temperature and the use of additives were investigated. The minimum pressure required for polymerisation was 7 kbar. An increase in pressure had a negligible effect on polymer characteristics. The polymers were generated in aqueous, non-acidic media, to ensure they were selfdoping when characterised. Conductivities of between 10-6 Scm-1 and 10-3 Scm-1 were measured. The sulfonate salts reacted faster than the sulfonic acids and for both a longer reaction time resulted in higher yields and conductivities. These polymers were completely water soluble, of high molecular weight and able to be cast as thin films. The arylamines 5- and 8-aminonaphthalene-2-sulfonic acid and their respective sodium sulfonates were polymerised at elevated pressure. The naphthalene sulfonate salts polymerised at atmospheric pressure, but displayed a higher molecular weight when reacted under pressure. Generally the naphthalene monomers reacted similarly to the benzene monomers, although there were some differences. Conductivity and yield decreased with increased reaction times and the use of 0.1M equivalents of ferrous sulfate had an negligible effect on the polymers. The polynaphthalenes were highly water soluble, self doping and had conductivities in the order 10-5 to 10-3 Scm-1. A measurement of the activation volume for the polymerisation of 2-methoxyaniline and sodium 8-aminonaphthalene-2-sulfonate was performed. These were determined to be -44 ± 3 cm3mol-1 and -62 ± 10 cm3mol-1 respectively. These large negative values are consistent with rate limiting monomer oxidation.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of ScienceFull Tex
Caterpillars and Catalysts: A longitudinal Case Study of Writing Development in an Early Years Classroom Privileging Dramatic Pedagogies
No full textThis thesis explores the impact on children’s development in a preparatory school classroom, when dramatic pedagogies were privileged in the teaching of writing. Using a qualitative case study approach, which included a selection of five illustrative cases, children’s progress from role-play to phonetic users of the alphabet was examined. Data included the artefacts produced by the children, reading records, a journal of the year, and the transcripts of videos made of teaching sessions. A self-study of the researcher as an emerging drama teacher was included in the multi-case study, alongside the literacy stories of Edward, Lucy, James and Martin, all of whom were four years old at the beginning of the school year. The pedagogy included guided drama and puppetry events in which new aspects of literacy understanding and skill were progressively inserted. These events were followed by dramatic play periods where the sets, props, costumes and literate tools were freely available for the children’s use. Children were explicitly taught alphabetic skills with a synthetic, phonetic approach, and were encouraged to employ these skills for authentic and meaningful purposes within the drama events and in subsequent dramatic play.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Education and Professional StudiesArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Wellbeing and Physical Activity in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder with and without Intellectual Disability
No full textBackground: During adolescence, risk and opportunity are both elevated. Adolescents with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ASD with co-occurring intellectual disability (ASD+ID)
must navigate this period of psychological and physical developmental changes with at least
one neurodevelopmental disorder. For children with these neurodevelopmental disorders,
adolescence is associated with an increased risk of the onset of mental health conditions and
excessive weight gain. For children without neurodevelopmental disorders, higher levels of
physical activity are associated with improved mental and physical health, and a
predominantly sedentary lifestyle is associated with poor health-related quality of life.
However, these relationships have been relatively unexplored for children with
neurodevelopmental disorders. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the
relationships between psychological wellbeing and physical factors (physical health and
physical activity) for adolescents with ASD and ASD+ID.
Methods: Participants were primary caregivers of 38 adolescents aged 12 – 19 years of
whom 23 had a diagnosis of ASD and 15 had a diagnosis of ASD+ID. Data were collected
through an online survey. Measures focused upon psychological wellbeing (mental health
and health-related quality of life) and physical factors (BMI, waist-to-height ratio, and
physical activity levels).
Results: Few relationships were found between the psychological wellbeing and physical
factors. For the total sample, higher levels of physical activity at school were related to
poorer mood. When split by diagnostic subgroup, higher physical activity at school was
related to higher uncertainty for the ASD+ID subgroup only.
Discussion: The results of this study add to limited literature around wellbeing and physical
activity research for adolescents with ASD and ASD+ID. Differences were found between
adolescents with ASD and ASD+ID, highlighting the need for diagnostic specific research.
The relationships between physical activity at school and mental health warrant further
investigation to see if there may be any wellbeing benefit in physical activity for adolescents
with ASD, and especially for those with ASD+ID who need mental health support
alternatives to cognitive psychotherapy.Thesis (Masters)Master of Education and Professional Studies Research (MEdProfStRes)School Educ & Professional StArts, Education and LawFull Tex
sj-pdf-2-tva-10.1177_15248380231171186 – Supplemental material for A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies Measuring Training Effects on Biases Evidenced by Professionals toward Intimate Partner Violence
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-tva-10.1177_15248380231171186 for A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies Measuring Training Effects on Biases Evidenced by Professionals toward Intimate Partner Violence by Michelle Sereno, Robyn Catagnus, Annette Griffith and Heidi Eilers in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</p
sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380231171186 – Supplemental material for A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies Measuring Training Effects on Biases Evidenced by Professionals toward Intimate Partner Violence
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380231171186 for A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies Measuring Training Effects on Biases Evidenced by Professionals toward Intimate Partner Violence by Michelle Sereno, Robyn Catagnus, Annette Griffith and Heidi Eilers in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</p
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