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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

Motivational drivers and barriers in learning English for Medical Purposes: Perceptions of Hungarian medical students and EMP teachers

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
As English for Medical Purposes (EMP) becomes increasingly important in non-English-medium higher education, understanding what drives or hinders students' motivation is essential.
Andrea Stötzer, Márton Bagyura, Éva Farkas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial Motivations as Determinants of Women Entrepreneurship Challenges [PDF]

, 2010
Motivation is the set of forces that initiate behaviour and determine its form, direction, intensity and duration. Women are motivated into business by different factors.
Amalu , Roy, Moses, Chinonye, Love
core  

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

Australian 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

The involvement of nurses and midwives in screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances [PDF]

, 2010
This report provides details of a review of the literature on the involvement of nurses and midwives in screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful use of alcohol and other psychoactive ...
Godwin, Jon, Kerr, Susan, Munro, Alison, Watson, Hazel, Wilson, Marsha   +4 more
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio, R. Walker, C. Bigby, I. Wiesel, F. Rillotta, C. Hutchinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic Literature Review: Mathematical Literacy Skills in Terms of Mathematics Learning Motivation

IJCER (International Journal of Chemistry Education Research)
Mathematical literacy and motivation to learn mathematics are two important aspects of education. Mathematical literacy enables students to understand and apply mathematical concepts in everyday life, as well as think logically and solve problems ...
Meti Hamdiyanti Meti, Ivta Rodiana , Laelasari Laelasari , Toto Subroto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Australia: A Five‐Phase Framework for Indigenous Data Governance

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the development of a five‐phase Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) Framework in Australia, focusing on partnerships between the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) sector and non‐Indigenous health entities.
Jacob Prehn, Michael A. Guerzoni, Maggie Walter, Gawaian Bodkin‐Andrews, Bobby Maher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ICT skills acquisition by older people: motivations for learning and barriers to progression [PDF]

, 2013
This paper reports findings from one strand of an extensive research project investigating digital engagement of older people and the risks to sustained usage of information and\ud communication technologies (ICTs). The factors that motivate older people to learn about ICTs, the barriers they face in the learning process and with on-going ICT\ud use ...
Ramondt, L, Sandhu, J, Damodaran, L
openaire   +1 more source