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A View Through The Long Lens: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions Of Multi-Campus Course Delivery, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Louise Paatsch, Janet Moles, Bonnie Yim Dr, Terri Redpath Ms Dec 2016

A View Through The Long Lens: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions Of Multi-Campus Course Delivery, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Louise Paatsch, Janet Moles, Bonnie Yim Dr, Terri Redpath Ms

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

This paper explores the results of a survey that was conducted with 277 pre-service teachers studying at two regional university campuses in Victoria, Australia in 2014. Data showed that participants expressed high level of satisfaction with the quality of their undergraduate courses in education including the flexible teaching and learning experiences. However, many reported experiencing frustration with accessing cloud-based learning materials and support services, including communication with lecturers. Challenges in accessing learning materials were mainly attributed to slow internet speed which increased the time taken to download resources. Access to support services and lecturers was made difficult because many key …


Building Staff Capacity Through Reflecting On Collaborative Development Of Embedded Academic Literacies Curricula, Linda C. Thies Dec 2016

Building Staff Capacity Through Reflecting On Collaborative Development Of Embedded Academic Literacies Curricula, Linda C. Thies

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Most Australian universities articulate some policies around the integration of graduate learning outcomes in courses. This paper draws on a Federal Government funded project that adopted a developmental approach to students’ acquisition of course learning outcomes, through the embedding of academic literacies in course curricula. The project was part of a Higher Education Participation and Partnership Program (HEPPP), which focused on courses with a high proportion of students from a low socio-economic status (SES) background. However, the project took an inclusive approach to curriculum development by focusing on the needs of all students. In describing this project, the paper aims …


Simulations For The Discipline Specific And Professional Education Of Foreign Policy Graduates, Maryanne Kelton, Verity Kingsmill Dec 2016

Simulations For The Discipline Specific And Professional Education Of Foreign Policy Graduates, Maryanne Kelton, Verity Kingsmill

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Increasingly universities aim to provide students with opportunities to graduate with skills ready to perform in the workplace. However, workplace-based opportunities for students enrolled in foreign policy subjects are more limited due to the diplomatic and sensitive political nature of the professional work. Thus there exists a need for higher education institutions teaching foreign policy courses in generalist degrees to create innovative solutions to enable student experience of professional foreign policy practice. In this article we analyse our Australian foreign policy dual strategy teaching initiative where we deploy in-person simulations enabling students to develop both their discipline specific foreign policy …


Evaluation Of A “Flipped Classroom” Approach In Management Education, Ole Jakob Bergfjord, Tarjei Heggernes Dec 2016

Evaluation Of A “Flipped Classroom” Approach In Management Education, Ole Jakob Bergfjord, Tarjei Heggernes

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

In this paper, a “flipped classroom” approach is evaluated using three different datasets. We use student evaluations of the “flipped classroom” in particular, in addition to regular course evaluations and exam results for the past three years in order to allow for statistical comparisons. Overall, the results are quite positive. Among the interesting effects, students report that they prepare better for lectures, are more satisfied with the course overall, and achieve slightly better grades. In particular, fewer students receive very low grades. On the one hand, we argue that our results support more experiments with technology to improve education. On …


Communication Idol: Using Popular Culture To Catalyse Active Learning By Engaging Students In The Development Of Entertaining Teaching And Learning Resources, Tinashe Dune, John Bidewell, Rubab Firdaus, Morwenna Kirwan Dec 2016

Communication Idol: Using Popular Culture To Catalyse Active Learning By Engaging Students In The Development Of Entertaining Teaching And Learning Resources, Tinashe Dune, John Bidewell, Rubab Firdaus, Morwenna Kirwan

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Bringing popular culture to tertiary education can potentially increase student engagement with learning tasks and content, especially when the learning task has students producing the content. Using a single-group intervention plus post-test design, this study implemented and evaluated a purposely developed learning and teaching innovation capitalising on popular and consumer culture to promote active over passive learning in a large, interprofessional health science unit. Students were invited to develop educational video presentations in a friendly competition based on high-rating television musical and vocal talent quests, with cash prizes based on peer ratings, this being the intervention. From a cohort of …


Editorial 13.5, Alisa Percy, Dominique R. Parrish Dec 2016

Editorial 13.5, Alisa Percy, Dominique R. Parrish

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

No abstract provided.


Taking The Long Road: A Faculty Model For Incremental Change Towards Standards-Based Support For Sessional Teachers In Higher Education, Julia Savage, Vikki Pollard Dec 2016

Taking The Long Road: A Faculty Model For Incremental Change Towards Standards-Based Support For Sessional Teachers In Higher Education, Julia Savage, Vikki Pollard

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Despite decades of dependence on sessional teaching staff, universities in Australia and internationally still find it difficult to support the teaching work of this large, casual workforce. A significant consequence of casually-employed teaching staff is risk; sessional academics’ professional identity is compromised, quality assurance of students’ learning experiences is uncertain, and this in turn, jeopardises universities’ teaching and learning programs. These risks have existed in universities for decades, yet policies and practices that support the work of sessional staff remain inconsistent or absent. The implementation model for supporting sessional staff described in this paper, the Four Phase Model, (the 4P …


The Learning Thermometer: Closing The Loop Between Teaching, Learning, Wellbeing And Support In Universities, Helen M. Stallman, Sharron King Dec 2016

The Learning Thermometer: Closing The Loop Between Teaching, Learning, Wellbeing And Support In Universities, Helen M. Stallman, Sharron King

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

The increasing awareness and impact of mental health problems in university students in addition to a need for objective measures of teaching quality provide the impetus for a new approach to supporting students. There is a need for more effective tools that integrate the institutional silos of teaching, learning, support, and wellbeing to help students maximise their educational outcomes. This paper provides an overview of an innovative student-centred tool, The Learning Thermometer, as an efficient and effective way to integrate the institutional silos and embedding student support within the mainstream curriculum. The Learning Thermometer comprises four web-based surveys that …


Developing A Conceptual Framework For Student Learning During International Community Engagement, Matthew A. Pink, Youssef Taouk, Stephen Guinea, Katie Bunch, Karen Flowers, Karen Nightingale Dec 2016

Developing A Conceptual Framework For Student Learning During International Community Engagement, Matthew A. Pink, Youssef Taouk, Stephen Guinea, Katie Bunch, Karen Flowers, Karen Nightingale

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

University-community engagement often involves students engaging with people who experience multiple forms of disadvantage or marginalization. This is particularly true when universities work with communities in developing nations. Participation in these projects can be challenging for students. Assumptions about themselves, their professional practice, and broader society are tested while dealing with the challenges of life in a developing nation. In light of this, students’ learning and their personal well-being need to be supported before, during, and after participating in international community engagement . This paper reports on the development of a conceptual framework for the support and enhancement of student …


Teaching And Assessing Problem Solving: An Example Of An Incremental Approach To Using Irac In Legal Education, Kelley Burton Dec 2016

Teaching And Assessing Problem Solving: An Example Of An Incremental Approach To Using Irac In Legal Education, Kelley Burton

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Legal reasoning is a type of problem solving, and is situated within thinking skills, one of the six threshold learning outcomes established under the auspices of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council’s Bachelor of Laws Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement. The threshold learning outcomes define what law graduates are ‘expected to know, understand and be able to do as a result of learning’ (Kift et al., 2010, p. 9). The assessment of legal reasoning, and thus problem solving, should receive greater attention in legal education discourse (James, 2011, p. 15, James, 2012, p. 88). …


Wikistudents. Teaching Consumption Through Production Hands On With Wikipedia, Roberta Sassatelli, Elisa Arfini, Valeria Piro, Laura Zambelli Dr. Dec 2016

Wikistudents. Teaching Consumption Through Production Hands On With Wikipedia, Roberta Sassatelli, Elisa Arfini, Valeria Piro, Laura Zambelli Dr.

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

This paper describes and reflects on a teaching experience developed as a complimentary workshops to MA class on history, theory and politics of consumption. We used Wikipedia as a tool to consider the circuit of knowledge production in the Web 2.0 era, where consumers are no longer passive audiences but producers and consumers at the same time. We developed a collaborative team-work workshop aimed at the production of Wikipedia entries on topics related to the class content. In this note we describe the structure of such “Wikiworshops”, our teaching strategy on sources management, teamwork and group teaching, and elaborate on …


Notes Of Contributors, Notes On Editorial Advisors, Anna Rutherford Dec 2016

Notes Of Contributors, Notes On Editorial Advisors, Anna Rutherford

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Notes of Contributors, Notes on Editorial Advisors


'Waiting For The Rescue': A Discussion Of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm, Dorothy Jones Dec 2016

'Waiting For The Rescue': A Discussion Of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm, Dorothy Jones

Kunapipi

That's your hand sticking out of the rubble. I touch it, you're still living; to have this happen I would give anything, to keep you alive with me despite the wreckage.


Book Reviews And Conference Papers Dec 2016

Book Reviews And Conference Papers

Kunapipi

Book reviews and Conference papers


Interview, Anita Desai Dec 2016

Interview, Anita Desai

Kunapipi

Kirsten Hoist Petersen interviewed Anita Desai in India in July, 1984.


Boy And Aeroplane In A London Park, Cherry Clayton Dec 2016

Boy And Aeroplane In A London Park, Cherry Clayton

Kunapipi

We never had much luck with kites. Caught in balls of string or tugging briefly against the hand only to fall like dead birds and cling to earth their tendency to come to ground became a symbol of all we had sought in each other and never found.


Mamlambo, Bheki Maseko Dec 2016

Mamlambo, Bheki Maseko

Kunapipi

Mamlambo is a kind of snake that brings fortune to anyone who accommodates it. One's money or livestock multiplies incredibly. This snake is available from traditional doctors who provide instructions regarding its exploitation. Certain necessities are to be sacrificed in order to maintain it. Sometimes you may have to sacrifice your own children, or go without a car or clothes. It all depends on the instructions of the doctor concerned.


Interview, Njabulu Ndebele Dec 2016

Interview, Njabulu Ndebele

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Kirsten Hoist Petersen interviewed Njabulu Ndebele at the African Writers' Conference in London in November, 1984.


History, Society And Heroism In The Nigerian War Novel, Chidi Amuta Dec 2016

History, Society And Heroism In The Nigerian War Novel, Chidi Amuta

Kunapipi

A common denominator in the criticism of modern African literature would appear to be the recognition of the essentially historical orientation of the literature itself. This is in the sense that the vast majority of significant African writers are, in various ways and to varying degrees, preoccupied with a creative interrogation of the African experience, especially since the contact with the West. But critical discourse of African literature, if it is to acquire the identity of a rigorous discipline, must begin to address itself to the rather crucial relationship between the socio-historical determinants of the literature in question and the …


Armah's Women, Sara Chetin Dec 2016

Armah's Women, Sara Chetin

Kunapipi

Despite the increasing interest in African women writers' concepts of femaleness, few critics have examined how male writers have portrayed females or have questioned what the implications of these portrayals suggest. It seems apparent that a large number of African women writers have been motivated to present a female perspective somewhat as a response to the various male writers' distortions concerning femaleness. Whether these distortions reflect a conscious attempt to uphold the traditional view of African women's subordinate status in society or whether they merely indicate a lack of awareness of the female point of view is irrelevant. What is …


First Things First: Problems Of A Feminist Approach To African Literature, Kirsten Holst Petersen Dec 2016

First Things First: Problems Of A Feminist Approach To African Literature, Kirsten Holst Petersen

Kunapipi

In the autumn of 1981 I went to a conference in Mainz. The theme of the conference was 'The Role of Women in Africa'; it was a traditional academic conference and proceeded in an orderly fashion with papers on various aspects of the subject and not too much discussion until the last day of the conference when a group of young German feminists had been invited to participate. They dismissed the professor who up until then had chaired the session (he was a man), installed a very articulate student as chairwoman, and proceeded to turn the meeting into a series …


South Australian Poems, Richard Kelly Tipping Dec 2016

South Australian Poems, Richard Kelly Tipping

Kunapipi

Port Julia, Rapid Bay, Gliding near Gawler, Cape Jervis, Wild hops, the Flinders Ranges and Hackney


Two Step For Jim Lee, Geoff Page Dec 2016

Two Step For Jim Lee, Geoff Page

Kunapipi

First year out as teachers say first year in a wild west high where kids fired bobby pins not pellets first year out in wood and fibro a bachelors' house with divorcee who wore always af failed kimono and had an 'understanding' with her gentleman SP


For Better, Or For Worse, Mimi Reiner Dec 2016

For Better, Or For Worse, Mimi Reiner

Kunapipi

'I'll get rid of 'er yet,' Henry sneered boastfully. 'Mark my words! She will leave the house of 'er own accord.' Streaky stood beside him not knowing how to react to Henry's vengeful mood, and finally nodded his head, musing over his glass on the counter. 'Yes,' he murmured blearily, 'these women'll send us to our grave,' guessing that such a philosophy would please Henry's ear. And it did; his face became quite red with the excited recollection of his last dreadful encounter with Eva.


Firstborn, Katherine Gallagher Dec 2016

Firstborn, Katherine Gallagher

Kunapipi

For years I dreamt you my lost child, a face unpromised. I gathered you in, gambling, making maps over your head. You were the beginning of a wish and when I finally held you, like some mother-cat I looked you over my dozy lone-travefler set down at last.


First Love, Diana Sampey Dec 2016

First Love, Diana Sampey

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Emma put the lilies down on the gravestone. Pale-edged on the bulletcoloured slabs, they lay there, momentary fragile offerings. She stepped back with some satisfaction. Lilies for the dead. The creamy, magnolia-tipped curls of the lilies, with their hard bright stamens, were fitting. J u g lilies, of course. Years ago, when she was a child, her mother had discovered that jug lilies meant death, and she had thrown them all out of the house, tipping out the tall vases, so that the white and gold lilies shot arching into the long grass. Then she had rooted them out of …


The Paradise Tram, Bruce Clunies Ross Dec 2016

The Paradise Tram, Bruce Clunies Ross

Kunapipi

The Paradise tram left from the Boer War monument outside the gates of Government House in Adelaide on the long route through the northeastern suburbs to the foot of Black Hill, where the River Torrens breaks out of its gorge in the Mount Lofty Ranges into the Adelaide Plain. At the terminus the maroon drop-centre trams changed tracks and waited by a stand of gum trees, through which the sun slanted across the blue-stone walls of an early settlement and the newer brick and sandstone facades of double-fronted bungalows with scalloped verandah walls, decorative renderings of stucco or pebble-dash and …


Kunapipi 6 (3) 1984, Contents, Editorial, Anna Rutherford Dec 2016

Kunapipi 6 (3) 1984, Contents, Editorial, Anna Rutherford

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Contents and Editorial


Book Reviews, Notes On Contributors, Notes On Editorial Advisors, Anna Rutherford Dec 2016

Book Reviews, Notes On Contributors, Notes On Editorial Advisors, Anna Rutherford

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Book Reviews, Notes on Contributors, Notes on Editorial Advisors


Culturally Derived Motifs And Symbols As Structural Features In Es'kia Mphahlele's Chirundu, Joyce Johnson Dec 2016

Culturally Derived Motifs And Symbols As Structural Features In Es'kia Mphahlele's Chirundu, Joyce Johnson

Kunapipi

The story of Chirundu is set in an independent Central African territory. Various geographical and historical references in the novel identify this territory as Zambia. In Chirundu Mphahlele is primarily concerned with the nature of political power in ex-colonial Africa and the problem of adapting traditional cultures to modern social structures. The personal relationships of the main characters represent situations and relationships which exist between various groups in the society. Mphahlele examines the choices for the individual and the society as a whole, operating as they do between African and Western institutions. Social relationships, in this context, Mphahlele shows, become …