The phrase ‘a new world order’ has been used by politicians from the early years of the twentieth... more The phrase ‘a new world order’ has been used by politicians from the early years of the twentieth century to describe the new political dawning, the end of the old warring world, and a new beginning. Woodrow Wilson is credited with being the first US president to proclaim the optimism of a ‘new world order’ at the end of the First World War, ‘the war to end all wars’. Again at the end of the Cold War, other leaders (Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, President Mikhail Gorbachev, and President George H. W. Bush) spoke of a new world order, and outlined their various visions for a world shaped by tolerance, human rights, superpower cooperation, north-south alliance, and an end of military conflicts. By the time of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, ‘new world order’ rhetoric had been replaced by other concepts: ‘globalisation’, ‘end of history’, ‘clash of civilisations’, and ‘the war on terrorism’.
When, in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made her now-infamous pronouncement ‘There is no such thing as s... more When, in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made her now-infamous pronouncement ‘There is no such thing as society’, she was enunciating an idea which has been formative in the development of neoliberal politics — that individuals are solely responsible for their lives and that they have (or ought to have) the capacity to be and do what they most desire. In line with this principle, the political directions of many Western nations during the 1990s were characterised by assaults on social welfare systems, the privileging of corporations and an emphasis on market forces. Writing The End of History (1992) soon after the disintegration of the USSR, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed euphorically that ‘as we reach the 1990s, the world as a whole has not revealed new evils, but has gotten better in certain distinct ways’ (1992, p. 12), chief among them the collapse of communism and of totalitarian forms of government. Fukuyama promoted capitalism as ‘the world’s only viable economic system’ (p. 90), the indispensable condition of modernisation and of the ‘worldwide liberal revolution’ (p. 39) which he believed would result in the spread of democracy.1
The book's major contribution is to showcase contemporary forms/iterations of theory, such as pos... more The book's major contribution is to showcase contemporary forms/iterations of theory, such as posthumanism, cognitive poetics, and spatiality studies. This very fine collection of essays will be of use to a wide range of students as well as to established scholars.' Kenneth Kidd, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida 'A volume like this is long overdue: a single work that not only talks about literature and film alongside each other without making either seem the poor relation, but which also makes theory work in a practical, productive, and even (dare I say it) pleasurable manner. Students, and the rest of us, should benefit hugely.'
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
We face an uncertain future and calls for change tug at our consciousness. As the preceding chapt... more We face an uncertain future and calls for change tug at our consciousness. As the preceding chapters have argued, change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and on a global scale. Many of the texts we have discussed not only reflect current societal, environmental, and political changes, but extrapolate the impact of change to an unknown and unimaginable future. While change is an inevitable constituent of civilisation as we have known it, in the past few decades the world has been transforming at a bewildering pace: we have witnessed the demise of the bipolar arrangement of global politics of the Cold War era; the emergence of a global marketplace; mass migration, displacement, and relocation; the dissolution of nation states; new forms of family and community; an information explosion; rapid technological advancement; and increased global warming. These changes engender insecurities and fears, as well as offering new opportunities and ambiguities. In particular, the rapidity and intensity of new technologies and globalisation present enormous challenges in terms of posthumanism, ecological sustainability, and the utopian goal of a stable and just world order.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
One of the more extreme polarities of utopian and dystopian representation appears in the relatio... more One of the more extreme polarities of utopian and dystopian representation appears in the relationship between nature and culture in depictions and interpretations of ‘natural’ environments. This is not a concern which in itself emerges as a consequence of a post-Cold War ‘new world order’, but the range of discourses falling under the broad titles of ecopoiesis and ecocriticism emerged slowly and sporadically in the last quarter of the twentieth century from even broader discourses about ‘the (natural world) environment’ or simply ‘nature writing’. There were, however, some significant confluences. As an analytical discourse, ecocriticism became identified as a distinctive — albeit loosely defined — field in the first half of the 1990s. The collapse of the East-West binary also coincided with a growing acceptance across the world that global warming was a fact, not a theory. Hence, the coincidence of an identifiable critical discourse emerging at the same time as major changes in global political structures resulted in a palpable shift of emphasis, and for almost a decade until the advent of the ‘war on terror’ environmental issues, especially global warming, were widely perceived as the greatest threat to the continued survival of human beings. Environmental issues — habitat protection (and celebration of wilderness), ecosystem conservation, pollution prevention, resource depletion, and advocacy of harmonic balance between human subjects and natural environments (as opposed to an anthropocentric hierarchy of humans and nature) — became major social concerns.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
The changing global politics we pointed to in Chapter 1 call for a thorough examination of the rh... more The changing global politics we pointed to in Chapter 1 call for a thorough examination of the rhetoric of utopian imaginings and speculations in children's texts, and of the ways in which these texts participate in what Ruth Levitas has termed 'the education of desire' (1990, pp. 7-8), especially in so far as they mediate ways of regarding the world and offer shape to children's anxieties and aspirations. In this chapter, therefore, we will consider the variety of themes and narrative forms in which the concept of 'new world orders' and 'transformative utopianism' are brought into conjuncture. Representations of utopian societies are virtually non-existent in children's literature, where such representations swiftly disclose themselves as critical utopias (rejecting utopia as blueprint while preserving it as dream-see Moylan, 1986, p. 10). Gloria Whelan's Fruitla t t nds (2002) or William Nicholson's The Wind Sing n e g g r (2000) are notable examples of narratives in which communities ordered and orchestrated ostensibly for the good of all members are revealed, through the perceptions of young enquiring minds, to be repressive patriarchies organised to serve the self-interests of those in control. 11 C.
International Journal of Training Research, May 3, 2016
Economic success, and a commitment to the social benefits of inclusive training opportunities are... more Economic success, and a commitment to the social benefits of inclusive training opportunities are important goals for public vocational education and training (VET). Currently, in Australia, VET policy is a shared responsibility between the Commonwealth and the States and Territories. Priorities for investment are juggled between: a) improving efficiency and responsiveness; and b) providing societal prosperity. Amid recent VET educational reforms and policy directives the authors of this paper undertook a pilot study examining language, literacy and numeracy support and inclusive teaching and learning practices in a Diploma of Nursing course. The data highlighted implications arising from new market driven education reforms. This article reports on identified factors that influenced inclusive learning opportunities, noticeably associated with two recent policy developments: the release of the FSK Foundation Skills Training Package (IBSA 2014); and the Queensland's Higher Skills Program Policy 2014-15.
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 2005
In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into wh... more In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into which the future is born; it is the nursery in which the new social order is nourished and reared during its early and most plastic period. (Sidney Goldstein, Marriage and Family Living, 1946)1 When Goldstein conceived the metaphor of the American family as the cradle of the future he was writing at a specific historical moment, ‘one to which the stresses of war, the uncertainties of the ensuing peace, and the emerging relationship between ideologies of the family and American national identity together lent an unparalleled ambiguity and anxiety about family life’ (Levey 2001, p.125). Nearly 60 years on, the same conditions seem still to apply not only to the United States, but also to many other countries across the globe. The linking of family to the social well-being of a nation and its individual citizens is a familiar rhetoric employed by politicians, religious leaders, social comment...
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 2002
le subtitle of this paper acknowledges the British philosopher J. L. Austin's influential book on... more le subtitle of this paper acknowledges the British philosopher J. L. Austin's influential book on speech act theory, How to do things with words (1962). Austin's work on language study marked a significant shift in linguistic philosophies by concentrating attention on what language does rather than what it is, and away from language as aformal structure to language as a social process. Such understandings have resonated through critical theory and other theoretical writings of the past four decades.
A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at. -- Oscar Wilde (40) Whe... more A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at. -- Oscar Wilde (40) When we encounter camp, we live outdoors, as it were, removed from commonality and conformity. We are, strange as it may seem, good Scouts. -- Roderick McGillis (98-99) Maps introduce us to places that might be unfamiliar. They are information and invitation. They can guide the journey from what we know to what we don’t know. The cartographer’s gaze shapes the form the map takes, its spaces and places. Storms alter and erase topography. Explorers and adventurers leave reminders of their presence, a campsite perhaps, and for some, they may indeed find utopia. It all depends on the eye of the beholder. Behind every map there is a story. Here is one of them. Boy Scouts camp out on the fictional island New Penzance with their uniforms, badges, camping gear, and intrepid scoutmaster, Randy Ward. Randy is anything but randy; the same cannot be said for some of his charges, especially one, 12-year...
In The Threshold of the Visible World, Kaja Silverman advances a subtle, ethical, post-Lacanian a... more In The Threshold of the Visible World, Kaja Silverman advances a subtle, ethical, post-Lacanian account of what constitutes “the active gift of love” and how this might be expressed on the screen. She argues for an orientation of subject to love object which is not merely an alternative to romantic passion, but an account of how identification of the loving subject and love object “might function in a way that results in neither the triumph of self-sameness, nor craven submission to an exteriorised but essentialized ideal”. In a move particularly relevant to our focus in this paper, she goes on to suggest that a gift of love so constituted entails an escape from conformity with culturally dictated ideals and thence a capacity “to put ourselves in a positive identificatory relation to bodies which we have been taught to abhor and repudiate” (79). Two lesbian/gay teen films of the late 1990s – Lukas Moodysson’s Fucking Åmål (1998; also known as Show Me Love) and Simon Shore’s Get Real...
This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interpr... more This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interprofessional and community education. It presents a new conceptual model and practice framework suited to rapidly changing, information-intensive work and social environments. The proposed approach is theoretically informed and evidence based. It integrates concepts from three complementary fields: Informed learning as information literacy pedagogy that enables using information critically and creatively to learn (Information Science); interprofessional education as a professional learning model with a cross-disciplinary and community reach (Health Sciences/Medicine); and social living labs as informal learning context and problem-solving process (Community Development). After reviewing relevant literature, the paper introduces the concepts and research that underpin social living labs for informed learning. Then it presents a new conceptual model and a practice framework to guide their design and implementation. To illustrate the practical application of this approach, a hypothetical scenario envisages health practitioners, librarians and community members collaborating in a social living lab to address health and social challenges related to child obesity. The paper concludes by discussing anticipated benefits and limitations of the approach and possible wider application. As a contribution to theory, the paper uncovers a previously unrecognised synergy between the principles of informed learning, social living labs and interprofessional education. Supporting information literacy research and practice, the paper identifies a significant role for informed learning in community and professional education, and a novel strategy for health information literacy development. The paper is of interest to educators, researchers, and practitioners across information literacy, community development, healthcare, and other professional fields.
Fostering digital participation and communication through social living labs: a qualitative case ... more Fostering digital participation and communication through social living labs: a qualitative case study from regional Australia.
This paper highlights a disjuncture between training frameworks designed to meet work-based compe... more This paper highlights a disjuncture between training frameworks designed to meet work-based competencies, and educational flexibility desirable to prepare diverse learners for fluid workplaces and roles. We describe a pilot study that explored teaching and learning practices in a vocational education and training Diploma of Nursing program. The study used qualitative approaches framed by a social view of learning as a reflexive process. Frictions emerged in how teaching and learning was fostered and how knowledge and skills were contextualised through nursingaccredited training packages. A case is made to enhance critical thinking and reflexive approaches to prepare work-ready nurse graduates.
Children Youth Research Centre Faculty of Education, Feb 26, 2015
This paper summarises literature on unemployment, mental health and Work for the Dole programs. A... more This paper summarises literature on unemployment, mental health and Work for the Dole programs. Australian and international evidence suggests that unemployed young people are more likely to experience mental health problems than employed people (e.g. greater anxiety and depression, higher suicide rates). Drawing on research undertaken in Australia and overseas we identify a link between mental health and unemployment. However, there is a lack of firm evidence with respect to the impact of Work for the Dole programs on the mental health of unemployed young Australians. There is the possibility that with the Australian Government's proposed expansion of the program any benefits of Work for the Dole on mental health of young unemployed people could be diminished or lost. There is a clear need for more research in this area.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
In Julie Bertagna’s Exodus (2002), Noospace is superior to the old cyberspace. In Noospace young ... more In Julie Bertagna’s Exodus (2002), Noospace is superior to the old cyberspace. In Noospace young people literally jump into a new cyber world and race at frightening speed through the gleaming maze that traverses the New World, with its endless pattern of connections: ‘A living world of info and data within each pattern. All of it endlessly changing and mutating and repatterning. All dying and recreating every microsecond’ (Bertagna, 2002, p. 245). Welcome to global utopia: the ultimate adventure!
The phrase ‘a new world order’ has been used by politicians from the early years of the twentieth... more The phrase ‘a new world order’ has been used by politicians from the early years of the twentieth century to describe the new political dawning, the end of the old warring world, and a new beginning. Woodrow Wilson is credited with being the first US president to proclaim the optimism of a ‘new world order’ at the end of the First World War, ‘the war to end all wars’. Again at the end of the Cold War, other leaders (Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, President Mikhail Gorbachev, and President George H. W. Bush) spoke of a new world order, and outlined their various visions for a world shaped by tolerance, human rights, superpower cooperation, north-south alliance, and an end of military conflicts. By the time of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, ‘new world order’ rhetoric had been replaced by other concepts: ‘globalisation’, ‘end of history’, ‘clash of civilisations’, and ‘the war on terrorism’.
When, in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made her now-infamous pronouncement ‘There is no such thing as s... more When, in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made her now-infamous pronouncement ‘There is no such thing as society’, she was enunciating an idea which has been formative in the development of neoliberal politics — that individuals are solely responsible for their lives and that they have (or ought to have) the capacity to be and do what they most desire. In line with this principle, the political directions of many Western nations during the 1990s were characterised by assaults on social welfare systems, the privileging of corporations and an emphasis on market forces. Writing The End of History (1992) soon after the disintegration of the USSR, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed euphorically that ‘as we reach the 1990s, the world as a whole has not revealed new evils, but has gotten better in certain distinct ways’ (1992, p. 12), chief among them the collapse of communism and of totalitarian forms of government. Fukuyama promoted capitalism as ‘the world’s only viable economic system’ (p. 90), the indispensable condition of modernisation and of the ‘worldwide liberal revolution’ (p. 39) which he believed would result in the spread of democracy.1
The book's major contribution is to showcase contemporary forms/iterations of theory, such as pos... more The book's major contribution is to showcase contemporary forms/iterations of theory, such as posthumanism, cognitive poetics, and spatiality studies. This very fine collection of essays will be of use to a wide range of students as well as to established scholars.' Kenneth Kidd, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida 'A volume like this is long overdue: a single work that not only talks about literature and film alongside each other without making either seem the poor relation, but which also makes theory work in a practical, productive, and even (dare I say it) pleasurable manner. Students, and the rest of us, should benefit hugely.'
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
We face an uncertain future and calls for change tug at our consciousness. As the preceding chapt... more We face an uncertain future and calls for change tug at our consciousness. As the preceding chapters have argued, change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and on a global scale. Many of the texts we have discussed not only reflect current societal, environmental, and political changes, but extrapolate the impact of change to an unknown and unimaginable future. While change is an inevitable constituent of civilisation as we have known it, in the past few decades the world has been transforming at a bewildering pace: we have witnessed the demise of the bipolar arrangement of global politics of the Cold War era; the emergence of a global marketplace; mass migration, displacement, and relocation; the dissolution of nation states; new forms of family and community; an information explosion; rapid technological advancement; and increased global warming. These changes engender insecurities and fears, as well as offering new opportunities and ambiguities. In particular, the rapidity and intensity of new technologies and globalisation present enormous challenges in terms of posthumanism, ecological sustainability, and the utopian goal of a stable and just world order.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
One of the more extreme polarities of utopian and dystopian representation appears in the relatio... more One of the more extreme polarities of utopian and dystopian representation appears in the relationship between nature and culture in depictions and interpretations of ‘natural’ environments. This is not a concern which in itself emerges as a consequence of a post-Cold War ‘new world order’, but the range of discourses falling under the broad titles of ecopoiesis and ecocriticism emerged slowly and sporadically in the last quarter of the twentieth century from even broader discourses about ‘the (natural world) environment’ or simply ‘nature writing’. There were, however, some significant confluences. As an analytical discourse, ecocriticism became identified as a distinctive — albeit loosely defined — field in the first half of the 1990s. The collapse of the East-West binary also coincided with a growing acceptance across the world that global warming was a fact, not a theory. Hence, the coincidence of an identifiable critical discourse emerging at the same time as major changes in global political structures resulted in a palpable shift of emphasis, and for almost a decade until the advent of the ‘war on terror’ environmental issues, especially global warming, were widely perceived as the greatest threat to the continued survival of human beings. Environmental issues — habitat protection (and celebration of wilderness), ecosystem conservation, pollution prevention, resource depletion, and advocacy of harmonic balance between human subjects and natural environments (as opposed to an anthropocentric hierarchy of humans and nature) — became major social concerns.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
The changing global politics we pointed to in Chapter 1 call for a thorough examination of the rh... more The changing global politics we pointed to in Chapter 1 call for a thorough examination of the rhetoric of utopian imaginings and speculations in children's texts, and of the ways in which these texts participate in what Ruth Levitas has termed 'the education of desire' (1990, pp. 7-8), especially in so far as they mediate ways of regarding the world and offer shape to children's anxieties and aspirations. In this chapter, therefore, we will consider the variety of themes and narrative forms in which the concept of 'new world orders' and 'transformative utopianism' are brought into conjuncture. Representations of utopian societies are virtually non-existent in children's literature, where such representations swiftly disclose themselves as critical utopias (rejecting utopia as blueprint while preserving it as dream-see Moylan, 1986, p. 10). Gloria Whelan's Fruitla t t nds (2002) or William Nicholson's The Wind Sing n e g g r (2000) are notable examples of narratives in which communities ordered and orchestrated ostensibly for the good of all members are revealed, through the perceptions of young enquiring minds, to be repressive patriarchies organised to serve the self-interests of those in control. 11 C.
International Journal of Training Research, May 3, 2016
Economic success, and a commitment to the social benefits of inclusive training opportunities are... more Economic success, and a commitment to the social benefits of inclusive training opportunities are important goals for public vocational education and training (VET). Currently, in Australia, VET policy is a shared responsibility between the Commonwealth and the States and Territories. Priorities for investment are juggled between: a) improving efficiency and responsiveness; and b) providing societal prosperity. Amid recent VET educational reforms and policy directives the authors of this paper undertook a pilot study examining language, literacy and numeracy support and inclusive teaching and learning practices in a Diploma of Nursing course. The data highlighted implications arising from new market driven education reforms. This article reports on identified factors that influenced inclusive learning opportunities, noticeably associated with two recent policy developments: the release of the FSK Foundation Skills Training Package (IBSA 2014); and the Queensland's Higher Skills Program Policy 2014-15.
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 2005
In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into wh... more In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: The family is the cradle into which the future is born; it is the nursery in which the new social order is nourished and reared during its early and most plastic period. (Sidney Goldstein, Marriage and Family Living, 1946)1 When Goldstein conceived the metaphor of the American family as the cradle of the future he was writing at a specific historical moment, ‘one to which the stresses of war, the uncertainties of the ensuing peace, and the emerging relationship between ideologies of the family and American national identity together lent an unparalleled ambiguity and anxiety about family life’ (Levey 2001, p.125). Nearly 60 years on, the same conditions seem still to apply not only to the United States, but also to many other countries across the globe. The linking of family to the social well-being of a nation and its individual citizens is a familiar rhetoric employed by politicians, religious leaders, social comment...
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 2002
le subtitle of this paper acknowledges the British philosopher J. L. Austin's influential book on... more le subtitle of this paper acknowledges the British philosopher J. L. Austin's influential book on speech act theory, How to do things with words (1962). Austin's work on language study marked a significant shift in linguistic philosophies by concentrating attention on what language does rather than what it is, and away from language as aformal structure to language as a social process. Such understandings have resonated through critical theory and other theoretical writings of the past four decades.
A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at. -- Oscar Wilde (40) Whe... more A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at. -- Oscar Wilde (40) When we encounter camp, we live outdoors, as it were, removed from commonality and conformity. We are, strange as it may seem, good Scouts. -- Roderick McGillis (98-99) Maps introduce us to places that might be unfamiliar. They are information and invitation. They can guide the journey from what we know to what we don’t know. The cartographer’s gaze shapes the form the map takes, its spaces and places. Storms alter and erase topography. Explorers and adventurers leave reminders of their presence, a campsite perhaps, and for some, they may indeed find utopia. It all depends on the eye of the beholder. Behind every map there is a story. Here is one of them. Boy Scouts camp out on the fictional island New Penzance with their uniforms, badges, camping gear, and intrepid scoutmaster, Randy Ward. Randy is anything but randy; the same cannot be said for some of his charges, especially one, 12-year...
In The Threshold of the Visible World, Kaja Silverman advances a subtle, ethical, post-Lacanian a... more In The Threshold of the Visible World, Kaja Silverman advances a subtle, ethical, post-Lacanian account of what constitutes “the active gift of love” and how this might be expressed on the screen. She argues for an orientation of subject to love object which is not merely an alternative to romantic passion, but an account of how identification of the loving subject and love object “might function in a way that results in neither the triumph of self-sameness, nor craven submission to an exteriorised but essentialized ideal”. In a move particularly relevant to our focus in this paper, she goes on to suggest that a gift of love so constituted entails an escape from conformity with culturally dictated ideals and thence a capacity “to put ourselves in a positive identificatory relation to bodies which we have been taught to abhor and repudiate” (79). Two lesbian/gay teen films of the late 1990s – Lukas Moodysson’s Fucking Åmål (1998; also known as Show Me Love) and Simon Shore’s Get Real...
This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interpr... more This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interprofessional and community education. It presents a new conceptual model and practice framework suited to rapidly changing, information-intensive work and social environments. The proposed approach is theoretically informed and evidence based. It integrates concepts from three complementary fields: Informed learning as information literacy pedagogy that enables using information critically and creatively to learn (Information Science); interprofessional education as a professional learning model with a cross-disciplinary and community reach (Health Sciences/Medicine); and social living labs as informal learning context and problem-solving process (Community Development). After reviewing relevant literature, the paper introduces the concepts and research that underpin social living labs for informed learning. Then it presents a new conceptual model and a practice framework to guide their design and implementation. To illustrate the practical application of this approach, a hypothetical scenario envisages health practitioners, librarians and community members collaborating in a social living lab to address health and social challenges related to child obesity. The paper concludes by discussing anticipated benefits and limitations of the approach and possible wider application. As a contribution to theory, the paper uncovers a previously unrecognised synergy between the principles of informed learning, social living labs and interprofessional education. Supporting information literacy research and practice, the paper identifies a significant role for informed learning in community and professional education, and a novel strategy for health information literacy development. The paper is of interest to educators, researchers, and practitioners across information literacy, community development, healthcare, and other professional fields.
Fostering digital participation and communication through social living labs: a qualitative case ... more Fostering digital participation and communication through social living labs: a qualitative case study from regional Australia.
This paper highlights a disjuncture between training frameworks designed to meet work-based compe... more This paper highlights a disjuncture between training frameworks designed to meet work-based competencies, and educational flexibility desirable to prepare diverse learners for fluid workplaces and roles. We describe a pilot study that explored teaching and learning practices in a vocational education and training Diploma of Nursing program. The study used qualitative approaches framed by a social view of learning as a reflexive process. Frictions emerged in how teaching and learning was fostered and how knowledge and skills were contextualised through nursingaccredited training packages. A case is made to enhance critical thinking and reflexive approaches to prepare work-ready nurse graduates.
Children Youth Research Centre Faculty of Education, Feb 26, 2015
This paper summarises literature on unemployment, mental health and Work for the Dole programs. A... more This paper summarises literature on unemployment, mental health and Work for the Dole programs. Australian and international evidence suggests that unemployed young people are more likely to experience mental health problems than employed people (e.g. greater anxiety and depression, higher suicide rates). Drawing on research undertaken in Australia and overseas we identify a link between mental health and unemployment. However, there is a lack of firm evidence with respect to the impact of Work for the Dole programs on the mental health of unemployed young Australians. There is the possibility that with the Australian Government's proposed expansion of the program any benefits of Work for the Dole on mental health of young unemployed people could be diminished or lost. There is a clear need for more research in this area.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature, 2008
In Julie Bertagna’s Exodus (2002), Noospace is superior to the old cyberspace. In Noospace young ... more In Julie Bertagna’s Exodus (2002), Noospace is superior to the old cyberspace. In Noospace young people literally jump into a new cyber world and race at frightening speed through the gleaming maze that traverses the New World, with its endless pattern of connections: ‘A living world of info and data within each pattern. All of it endlessly changing and mutating and repatterning. All dying and recreating every microsecond’ (Bertagna, 2002, p. 245). Welcome to global utopia: the ultimate adventure!
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