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University Of Wollongong Campus News December 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

No abstract provided.

The ‘Graduate Woman’ Phenomenon: Changing Constructions Of The Family In Singapore, Lenore T. Lyons-Lee

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The central role of the family in state discourses of social change has been well documented in the case of Singapore. Within this discourse, the state has sought to strengthen the family as a key social structure and, while relegating the family to the realm of the ‘private”, has sought simultaneously to construct its own vision of family life. Women occupy a central role in this discourse of ‘state fatherhood” - they are both the mothers of the nation and the imparters of core cultural and national values. In recent years, in an attempt to address a perceived rejection of …

University Of Wollongong Campus News August 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

No abstract provided.

Australian Press Coverage Of The 1995 Mururoa Nuclear Test, P. Putnis

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The1995 Mururoa nuclear test was at once a regional, global and, in its Australian press coverage, a distinctly Australian media event. Press coverage reflects this interpenetration of regional, global, and domestic concerns. This paper analyses coverage in The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald from three perspectives. Firstly, it places the coverage in the context of the total international news output of these newspapers in the week of the test. A comparison is made with British coverage of international news in the same week. Secondly, the nature of the coverage itself is analysed in terms of story type, main actors, …

Playground Lost: Television, Video And Chinese American Children's Imaginative Play, S. Berggreen

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Since the introduction of the mass media, their content has been a rich vein from which children mine ideas for play. Television/video transformation play, the most common form of media-related play facilitates the child's development of creativity, intellectual growth, acquisition of social skills, reduction of egocentricity and building of peer cultures. Through ethnography, this study examines the role of American television and video in Chinese American children's culture of play and peer interaction. For comparison purpose, White children were also included in the study. Both White and Chinese children had access to similar media, yet they used media information very …

University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Arts And Law 1 May 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

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University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Education 29 April 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

No abstract provided.

University Of Wollongong Annual Report 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Outlook University Of Wollongong Alumni Magazine Summer 1998, University Of Wollongong

Wollongong Outlook: The University Alumni Magazine

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Learning Through Making In The Early Years, John Siraj-Blatchford, Iram Siraj-Blatchford

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Fifty four five-year-old children in three London Primary Schools were tested using the British Ability Scales. Every 'product' of the children's construction work for the term was photographed. Three intervention groups were withdrawn from their classroom for one hour per week for focused instruction. 'Access only' groups were also withdrawn but were not provided with instruction. The children in the second control group received no additional experience of making beyond that normally provided in the classroom. A total of 450 products were constructed by the children during the intervention phase and each has been categorised from an analysis of the …

University Of Wollongong Summer Session 1998-1999, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Calendars and Handbooks

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Criteria For Determining Quality In Early Learning For 3-6 Year-Olds, Iram Siraj-Blatchford

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This book is about extending good practice in curriculum development and supporting and sustaining the positive practices that characterise many early childhood settings. The curriculum cannot be seen in isolation and it cannot exist without a strong and well-developed framework of support, the social and institutional context in which curriculum 'happens'. To develop and deliver a sound curriculum the staff must be well informed about child development and culture and about subject knowledge and appropriate ways of 'teaching' young children so that all the children in their setting can access the curriculum. Time needs to be spent developing shared perspectives …

In Your Dreams : Cultural Appropriation, Popular Culture And Colonialism, L. Behrendt

Law Text Culture

Industrialisation, globalisation, technological advancement, urbanisation, mass communication systems and other sources of modernity have created a society with contradictions. As much as these elements offer the individual interconnectedness with others, a plethora of opportunities, the ability to transcend gender, racial, cultural and geographical boundaries they also contribute to an impersonal society whose members complain of alienation and a spiritual hunger that capitalistic fetishism cannot seem to satiate. Little wonder then that interest in eastern religions, the occult, psychic networks and fundamentalist religions is on the rise. In this quest for reassurance and clarity, people have also sought to find the …

Ambiguities Of Mourning Law, Custom, Literature And Women Before South Africa's Truth And Reconciliation Commission, M. Sanders

Law Text Culture

Currently winding down its work of hearing testimony to human rights abuses of the apartheid era, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is an ambitious undertaking. A counterpart to the Reconstruction and Development Programme, a long-term scheme for the creation of housing, infrastructure and jobs, the Truth Commission is part of a vast effort at nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa. By asking South Africans to remember, the Truth Commission seeks to come to terms, not only with the crimes of the apartheid era, but with a 350-year history of white domination. In the words of Justice Richard Goldstone, former UN Chief …

Thinking Through New, Philip Marshall

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A friend of mine once tried to capture the feeling that one gets from a new thing. He decided that there was no word to describe the sensation of having an unblemished eraser when you were in primary school, but nevertheless it produced a kind of fascinating awe in the apparent perfection of the new. A similar feeling captures the new car owner in smelling the interior's recently minted plastic. Used car dealers would doubtless love to bottle that smell because it produces the momentary pleasure of new ownership. And I am sure there are certain people who are addicted …

Entering A Dream: Two Days Of A Native Title Trial In The North-East Kimberley, A. Reilly

Law Text Culture

This article describes the taking of two days of traditional evidence in the Federal Court trial of Ben Ward and Ors on behalf of the Miriuwung and Gajerrong peoples vs. the State of WA and Ors. The applicants filed for the determination of native title in the National Native Title Tribunal in April 1994. After mediation in the Tribunal failed, the application was referred to the Federal Court in January 1995. Initial directions were given by Judge Lee in March 1995, and the taking of traditional evidence occurred between July and October, 1997. The trial at first instance is expected …

Principles Or Skeletons? Mabo And The Discursive Constitution Of The Australian Nation, P. Pether

Law Text Culture

This essay is centred around what is arguably the most potentially constitutionally radical, and almost certainly the most politically contentious decision of the Australian High Court in its history. This is the 1992 Native Title Decision - Mabo v Queensland (No.2). My assessment of the potentially radical quality of the Mabo decision, constitutionally speaking, rests on what the judgment refuses to do and thus, paradoxically, makes imaginable, as much as on what it achieves. I will rehearse the decision briefly in order to suggest to readers the perspective from which this essay approaches it.

John Austin Or Jane Austen? : The Province Of Jurisprudence Determined In Pride And Prejudice, W. Macneil

Law Text Culture

It used to be a truth universally acknowledged that the novels of Jane Austen were narratives in want of context. The Napoleonic Wars, industrialisation and the French Revolution: in fact, all the great and heroic events of the period are conspicuous by their absence in the 'little bit (two Inches wide) of ivory' upon which dear Jane worked with 'so Fine a brush'. Post-colonial critics, however, have sensitised readers to the traces of context on the margins of Austen's oeuvre, and how, despite this marginality or perhaps, as the Derrideans would say, because of it - they perform an absolutely …

Adolescents And Hiv In Developing Countries: New Research Directions, Catherine L. Mac Phail

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Adolescents are of interest in HIV/STD studies as they are a group whose behaviour places them at increased risk of HIV infection (Hein, 1992). Adolescence is a period characterised by the development and formation of sexuality, a process which frequently involves a high turn-over of sexual partners (Krahe and Reiss, 1995; Lear, 1995). Teenage experimentation with drugs and alcohol frequently leads to the adoption of high risk behaviours or engagement in unplanned episodes of casual sex (Weatherburn and Project SIGMA, 1992). In addition, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the normative social influences of their peers (DiClemente, 1990). These influences among …

Nurses Anxiety Towards People With Borderline Personality Disorders, Louise Cortis-Jones

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

People diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorders are regarded as one of the most difficult patient groups to manage in the mental health field. Very few previous studies have assessed the affects of these patients on the health care workers. This study examined the anxiety levels of Registered Nurses towards people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorders. This anxiety level was compared to the nurses' level of education and the years of experience in the mental health field.

The Perceived Role Of The Clinical Nurse Educator In New South Wales, Michelle Dillon

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This study is concerned with defining the role of the Clinical Nurse Educator [CNE] in New South Wales [NSW] through the development of a set of competencies. The CNE is a nursing position that is unique to NSW. Anecdotal evidence and relevant literature points towards a lack of clear defmition and delineation of the CNE role from other nursing roles. The CNE role was defined by developing a set of competencies that clearly demonstrate the essential attributes, skills and knowledge that a CNE needed in order to fiilfill the role. The competencies were generated fi-om a panel of experts and …

The Geography Of Unemployment: The Shoalhaven Region, Carmel Teresa Smallwood

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Spatial disparity in unemployment levels both within and between regional labour markets has been widening in Australia since the early 1970s. The aim of the present research is to understand and explain the forces and processes underlying this widening disparity and to raise the importance of the geographical implications, that is, the spatial outcomes of this phenomenon. This aim is achieved by studying a regional labour market - the Shoalhaven region on the South Coast of New South Wales - both in a context of external forces and processes and by investigating and analysing internal factors and processes.

Images In The 'Looking Glass": Self, Ethnicity And Multiculturalism In Contemporary Australia, Leslie John Terry

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

During the past two decades the notion of ethnic identity has been discussed vigorously from a range of perspectives in much of the literature in the social sciences. This thesis continues this discussion by examining the ways in which the stories of ethnicity have been and are being told at both the theoretical and everyday levels. Making connections between the life narratives of people from a number of generations in six 'ethnic minority' families in Australia, theoretical insights on ethnicity, and the researcher's own engagement with issues of identity, the thesis highlights (following Butler 1991 on gender identity) the 'performative' …

An Analysis Of The Rakan Muda Youth Programme As A Crime Prevention Mechanism In Malaysia, Kamsiah Ali

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis analyses the roles of the Rakan Muda youth programme in Malaysia, and in particular at its role as a crime prevention mechanism. This analysis of the social construction of youth problems is done in the context of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in Malaysia, with a special focus on the eastern state of Sarawak. The thesis use three sets of data: information from the Ministry of Youth and Sport which administers the scheme, items from both peninsula and Sarawak newspapers, and interviews with thirty members of the Rakan Muda programme in Kuching, Sarawak. Young people are considered by the …

Throwing Some Weight Around: Women And Fatness In The Contemporary, Post-Colonial Societies Of Australia, Canada And New New Zealand, Antoinette Holm

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Body size is intrinsic to contemporary Western femininity. Disciplines of health and beauty not only shape the female body but define the limits of the form. Body size and eating is a topic that touches on the lives of most women in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In this thesis I explore the parameters of the fat body, problematise popular notions of fatness, and look at the way in which body size is fundamental to the social construction of femininity in the post colonial, contemporary societies of Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

This thesis is not about obesity or about …

Australian Spanish-Speaking Background Secondary School Students And The Construction And Reconstruction Of Their Cultural Identity: A "Wog" Experience, David Alejandro Plaza-Coral

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

There are significant numbers of Spanish-speaking background students in Australian secondary schools, but as a linguistic cohort their experiences have generally been underrepresented in educational research. This study was undertaken to explore the ways in which one group of secondary school Spanish-speaking background students from three different countries negotiated their cultural identity in classrooms, at school and at home.

In any nation where the majority of its inhabitants has a migrant history, there are socio-economic, political, cultural and educational issues that specifically affect immigrants and the children of immigrants. This study deals with concepts of cultural identity and their relationships …

An Investigation Into The Relationships Between Perfectionism With Locus Of Control And Coping Style, Familial Socialisation Effects And Perfectionism, And The Development Of Four Categories Of Perfectionism, Geoffry Daniel Pearce

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

A wide variety of psychological disorders are hypothesised as having their basis in perfectionism (Hill, Zrull, & Turlington, 1997). Yet, the amount of research and literature on perfectionism is meagre, and is predominantly biased towards the psychopathological (Rice, Ashby, & Slaney, 1998). To an extent, the lack of research and bias, is redressed by this body of work. The four objectives to this thesis

i) to validate Frost, Marten, Lahart, and Rosenblate's (1990) Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) on an broader sample than what it was developed;

ii) to present a more balanced view of perfectionism by developing the positive aspects …

Psychosocial Predictors Of Substance Use Among Young People In Two Cultures, Esmat Fazeli

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Substance use in Australia and Iran is a serious threat to the health of young people and the extent of the drug problem is generally underestimated. Financial costs associated with hospitalisation and medical treatment, and social problems such as violence, marital breakdown and delinquency or crime confirm the view that health risk behaviours conducted by young people pose a challenge to Australia's social, environmental and legal systems. Drug education and clinical intervention programs designed to prevent or decrease adolescent drug use need to be based on a clear understanding of the risk factors. Any health risk behaviour stems from positive …

Substance Dependence: A Search For Security?, Mary Carmel Carse

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The social learning and psychedynamic perspectives en substance dependence have argued that intrapsychic variables are crucial in its development They have also feimd that substance-dependent people have considerable difficulties in interpersonal relationships, particularly partner relationships. One account ef the connection between a person's internal reality and behaviour in interpersonal relationships is provided by attachment theory. Experiences with primary caregivers in childhood are argued to form the basis ef a person's security in the sense ef self and in relation te ethers. Damaging experiences with such attachment figures can result in insecure attachment which may place the person at risk ef …

Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Ethnicity, Gender And Australian Entrepreneurs, Jock Collins

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis investigates the way in which ethnicit>' and gender influence both the rate of enterprise formation and the dynamics of entrepreneurial life in Australia. It reviews the theory of ethnic enterpreneurship and international research on ethnic enterprises to provide a theoretical framework in which to study the Australian entrepreneurial experience. It also critically reviews theories of - and Australian history of - immigration and racialisation. The thesis then presents a history of ethnic entrepreneurs in Australia as an historical and contemporary backdrop to the analysis of three surveys of Australian entrepreneurs undertaken for the thesis. The Sydney Survey …