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

open access: yesAustralian 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening and interpersonal skills tutorial

open access: yes, 2009
This tutorial provides and overview of listening and interpersonal skills. It is designed to enable students to determine their strengths, as well as areas requiring development, through a series of interactive activities.
Skills@Library, University of Leeds   +1 more
core  

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Developing active listening skills

open access: yes, 2010
A learning activity about active listening. It will cover what active listening is, strategies to develop active listening skills and also discuss barriers to active listening and what effects these can have on the communication process.
Collette Lees
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

12 Examination of Listening Comprehension Strategies used by Iranian Upper-intermediate and Intermediate EFL Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social and Educational Innovation, 2014
The main purpose of this study was to find out the listening strategies used byupper-intermediate and intermediate Iranian FFL learners and to compare the listening strategies of both groups of participants in this study. A total number of 30 Persian EFL
Reza Nemati MOGHADAM   +1 more
doaj  

Indonesian EFL students’ anxiety factors and solutions for listening comprehension: Multiple case study

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
Students’ anxiousness affects the EFL listening process. Listening anxiety is also an aspect that may impact a foreign language student’s success or failure in listening comprehension.
Annisa Astrid   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the relationships between EFL learners' construct-relevant and -irrelevant strategies in listening test performance

open access: yesActa Psychologica
The strategic processes that contribute to construct-relevant variations in test results (such as metacognitive and cognitive strategies) and construct-irrelevant variances (such as test-wiseness strategies) have been identified in both practice and ...
Nick Zhiwei Bi, Yue Wang
doaj   +1 more source

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