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Education Resources In Remote Australian Indigenous Community Dog Health Programs: A Comparison Of Community And Extra-Community-Produced Resources, Sophie Constable, Roselyn Dixon, Robert Dixon

Rose Dixon

Commercial dog health programs in Australian Indigenous communities are a relatively recent occurrence. Health promotion for these programs is an even more recent development, and lacks data on effective practices. This paper analyses 38 resources created by veterinary-community partnerships in Indigenous communities, to 71 resources available through local veterinary service providers. On average, community-produced resources used significantly more of the resource area as image, more imagery as communicative rather than decorative images, larger fonts and smaller segments of text and used images of people with a range of skin tones. As well as informal registers of Standard Australian English, community-produced …

Developing A Model For A Self-Study Professional Learning Community, Garry Hoban, Peter Mclean, Wendy Nielsen, Amanda Berry, Christine Brown, Gordon Brown, Barbara Butterfield, Patricia Forrester, Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, Jillian Trezise, Louise Rossetto, Irina Verenikina

I. Verenikina

Although the term self-study may suggest an individual teacher educator studying his or her own practice, most self-studies involve pairs or small groups of teacher educators working together in what is often called collaborative self-study. An extension of an informal collaboration is to formalize self-study as professional learning for teacher educators. This means that a group of teacher educators and other academics can study their practices over an extended period of time and share experiences as a community. This chapter identifies and explains the nature of a professional learning framework that underpins a group of academics becoming a self-study community. …

Intersection Of Trajectories: A Newcomer In A Community Of Practice., Irina Verenikina, Anthony Herrington, Matthew Campbell

I. Verenikina

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Learning Technologies And Professional Development: Enhancing A Community Of Physical And Health Educators., Lori Lockyer, John Patterson

Professor Lori Lockyer

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Developing A Model For A Self-Study Professional Learning Community, Garry Hoban, Peter Mclean, Wendy Nielsen, Amanda Berry, Christine Brown, Gordon Brown, Barbara Butterfield, Patricia Forrester, Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, Jillian Trezise, Louise Rossetto, Irina Verenikina

Jessica Mantei

Although the term self-study may suggest an individual teacher educator studying his or her own practice, most self-studies involve pairs or small groups of teacher educators working together in what is often called collaborative self-study. An extension of an informal collaboration is to formalize self-study as professional learning for teacher educators. This means that a group of teacher educators and other academics can study their practices over an extended period of time and share experiences as a community. This chapter identifies and explains the nature of a professional learning framework that underpins a group of academics becoming a self-study community. …

Bringing The University Into The Rural Community, The Value And Dangers Of Taking Design Education Out Of The Classroom, B. Canniffe, D. Adams, B. Wiley

Brian M. Wiley

Art and design education prepares students for careers that increasingly don't exist, and further compounds this issue by purveying the myth that these supposed opportunities exist in major cities where jobs are scarce and cost-of-living is overwhelming. While there are many potential reasons for this, the end result is that students, already saddled with an increased debt-load, are progressively destined to fail.

During the summer of 2012, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in partnership with the Bush Foundation engaged with two rural communities in the Western and Northern areas of Minnesota, USA, to develop meaningful partnerships that …

Blogs As A Social Networking Tool To Build Community, Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, Anthony Herrington

Jessica Mantei

This chapter examines blogging as a social networking tool to engage final year preservice teachers in reflective processes. Using a developed Web site, the students post their own blogs and comment upon those of others. The authors argue that opportunity to engage with this networking experience provides avenue for the students to consider their emerging professional identity as teachers. The blogging mechanism brought together the physical university context and virtual online environment as students identified, examined and reflected upon the intricacies of what it means to be a teacher. The authors hope that examining the findings that emerged from this …

Thesis Presentation, Kalvin Whittles Dr.

Kalvin Whittles Dr.

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