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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing stress causing factors and language related challenges among first year students in higher institutions in Pakistan

Acta Psychologica
This mixed-methods study delves into stress factors among first-year undergraduate students in universities across Punjab, Pakistan. Five hundred students underwent evaluation for stress levels and academic achievement, with 10 selected for further ...
Zartashia Kynat Javaid, Zhuo Chen, Muhammad Ramzan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Echoes of Haunted Memories and Nightmares: Understanding Trauma in Gurnah's Afterlives

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023
This research paper investigates the exploration of trauma within Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel "Afterlives" (2020), examining the profound impact of historical and personal traumas on the characters, particularly the protagonist Hamza.
Harzat Abbas, Asif Abbas, Asim Iqbal, Palwasha Zeb Khalil   +3 more
doaj  

Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers [PDF]

, 2007
Over the last few years, with the introduction of easy-to-use and integrated services such as Windows Live Spaces, blogging has moved into the mainstream in Malaysia, with women making up 64% of bloggers.
Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Jan Snyman papers [PDF]

, 2009
Biographical history and context: Professor Jan Snyman spent most of his life researching the lesser known and marginalised San languages of Botswana and South West Africa (now Namibia). Together with O. Kohler, E. Westphal and A.
Snyman, Jan
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Creativity in University Students: Gender Differences and the Assessment of Skills

Education Sciences
This study aimed to explore the relationship between the critical thinking and creativity skills of university students. The objectives were to explore the level of critical thinking skills, the degree of creativity in students’ written exam papers, the ...
Nelofir Shaber, Syed Kazim Shah, Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politicization of Government Social Media Communication: A Linguistic Framework and Case Study

Social Media + Society
Social media communication of government agencies should ideally be truthful and impartial to sustain public trust in government and support democratic goals. However, the politicization of agencies may harm the benefits that impartial and engaged communication brings.
Nic DePaula, Sten Hansson
openaire   +2 more sources