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Instructor's Guide To Teaching Kids, Randy Borum Mar 2008

Instructor's Guide To Teaching Kids, Randy Borum

Randy Borum

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Instructor's Guide To Teaching Kids, Randy Borum Mar 2008

Instructor's Guide To Teaching Kids, Randy Borum

Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications

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Gross For Kids But Good For Parents: Differing Messages In Advertisements For The Same Products, Sandra C. Jones, Belinda S. Fabrianesi Jan 2008

Gross For Kids But Good For Parents: Differing Messages In Advertisements For The Same Products, Sandra C. Jones, Belinda S. Fabrianesi

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Objectives: There has been surprisingly little research into the effects of food advertising on parents' perception of commonly consumed children's food items, although the available research suggests that parents may find nutritional claims in these advertisements confusing. The purpose of the present study was to investigate parents' perceptions of branded snack foods targeted at children, and the extent to which these perceptions are influenced by advertising messages.Design: Using an intercept survey, participants were shown either adult-targeted or child-targeted advertisements for the same food products.Setting: Central business district of a major Australian city.Subjects: One hundred adults, mean age 40 years.Results: The …


'Aurukun, We're Happy, Strong People': Aurukun Kids Projecting Life Into Bad Headlines, Lisa Slater Jan 2008

'Aurukun, We're Happy, Strong People': Aurukun Kids Projecting Life Into Bad Headlines, Lisa Slater

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Public discourse about remote Aboriginal communities tells a story of crisis. The Northern Territory Intervention and other events that have taken place in Aboriginal communities are portrayed as if the Aboriginal child is a docile, cowering, vulnerable body, which needs to be protected by the state. This story has become a narrative of dysfunction, which not only shapes how broader Australia engages with Indigenous life worlds, but also informs the environment in which Aboriginal people, and notably children, live. This essay explores a multimedia program held at Aurukun School, West Cape York, in which students produced their own films, which …