Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts

Number 25, December 2019
Special Issue: Growing Our Own: Indigenous Education on Country

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Guest Editors: Dr Sue Erica Smith & Ms Tess McPeake

• Editorial - Sue Erica Smith & Tess McPeake
• I look behind me… genesis of Growing Our Own - Alison Elliott & Brenda Keenan
• It’s just a matter of time: The perceptions of growing our own students of the Growing Our Own program - Nicoli Barnes, Ben van Gelderen & Kelly Rampmeyer
• The red dirt stays in your shoes: Reflective practice and both-ways learning - Sue Erica Smith
• ‘More than an academic thing’: Becoming a teacher in Ltyentye Apurte and beyond - Al Strangeways & Vivien Pettit
• Historical perspectives: Murrinh ku thepini pumpanpunmat (Nemarluk) - Claudette Bunduck, Janice Crerar, Geraldine Dorward & Ben van Gelderen
• Language at home and the school: Resistance and compromise - Birut Zemits, Melanie Mullins & Therese Parry
• Barriers to inclusion: Aboriginal pre-service teachers’ perspectives on inclusive education in their remote Northern Territory schools - Bea Staley, Leonard A. Freeman, Bertram Tipungwuti, Kial King, Melanie Mullins, Edwina Portaminni, Rachel Puantulura, Marcus Williams, Nikita Jason & Anthony Busch
• Both-Ways science education: Place and context - Joel Rioux & Gregory Smith
• Beyond perspectives: Integrating local Indigenous knowledge/s into humanities and social science education - Janice Crerar & Melanie Mullins

Number 24, October 2019

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• Editorial - Professor Ruth Wallace
• The changing balances of equity, control and market choice in the Indigenous vocational education and training sector - Don Zoellner & Anne Stephens
• Towards an understanding of Indigenous perspectives through the eyes of pre-service science education students - Gregory Smith & Michael Michie
• Too many ‘two-ways’? ‘Gäwa is a two-way school’: clarifying approaches to remote Northern Territory Indigenous education - Ben van Gelderen
• Warramiri Yolŋu cosmology: an introduction - Ben van Gelderen, Kathy (Gotha) Guthadjaka, Linda Ford, James Wäluŋ Bukulatjpi, Chloe Ford, Emily Ford, Bettina Danganbarr, Pawinee Yuhun & Ruth Wallace
• Discursive mélange and multiple dilemmas: navigating New South Wales ‘special’ education policymaking - Jessica Chong
• Midwife observations on the impact of hot weather on poor perinatal outcomes in central Australia: a qualitative study - Supriya Mathew, Deepika Mathur, Elizabeth McDonald, Anne B Chang & Rolf Gerritsen

Number 23, November 2018
Special Issue: Ethical relationships, ethical research in Aboriginal contexts: Perspectives from central Australia

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Guest Editors: Dr Al Strangeways, Dr Judith Lovell & Professor Barry Judd

• Introduction to Special Issue: Being here matters - Barry Judd
• Editorial - Al Strangeways
• “You helped us and now we’re going to all help you”: What we learned about how to do research together - Lisa Hall, Linda Anderson, Fiona Gibson, Mona Kantawara, Barbara Martin and Yamurna Oldfield
• Ngapartji ngapartji ninti and koorliny karnya quoppa katitjin (Respectful and ethical research in central Australia and the south west) - Jennie Buchanan, Len Collard and Dave Palmer
• Researching together: Reflections on ethical research in remote Aboriginal communities - Tessa Benveniste and Lorraine King
• The dancing trope of cross-cultural language education policy - Janine Oldfield and Vincent Forrester
• Different monsters: Traversing the uneasy dialectic of institutional and relational ethics - Al Strangeways and Lisa Papatraianou
• Research for social impact and the contra-ethic of national frameworks - Judith Lovell
• Altyerre NOW: Arrernte dreams for national reconstruction in the 21st century - Joel Liddle Perrurle and Barry Judd
• The making of Monstrous Breaches: An ethical global visual narrative - Judith Lovell and Kathleen Kemarre Wallace

Number 22, December 2017
Special Issue: Decolonising Research Practices

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Guest Editors: Dr Debbie Hohaia, Dr Lisa Hall & Dr Nia Emmanouil

• Editorial - Debbie Hohaia, Lisa Hall & Nia Emmanouil
• Kapati Time: Storytelling as a Data Collection Method in Indigenous Research - Robyn Ober
• Lessons From the Participants in Decolonising Research - Stuart Barlo
• Kulini: Framing Ethical Listening and Power-Sensitive Dialogue in Remote Aboriginal Education and Research - Sam Osborne
• Opening the Dialogue: Reflections of my PhD Journey 2010-16 - Debbie Hohaia
• Decolonising Research Methodologies in East Arnhem Land - Moana Pera Tane & Matire Harwood
• Anma, Marpla and Ngapartji Ngapartji: Insights Into how to do Research Together in ‘Good Faith’ - Lisa Hall
• Ontological Openness on the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail: a Methodology for Decolonising Research - Nia Emmanouil
• Reflections and Provocations - Debbie Hohaia, Lisa Hall & Nia Emmanouil

Number 21, November 2017
Special Issue: 2017 30th ACHPER International Conference

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Guest Editor: Dr John Williams

• Editorial - John Williams

Focus on Educative Purposes:

• The technological integration of a simulation pedagogical approach for physical education: The GoPro PE trial 1.0 - Brendon Hyndman & Lisa Papatraianou
• Symbolism of clothing: The relationship between teacher clothing and children’s perceptions in primary school physical education - Brent Bradford & Clive Hickson

Take a Strengths-Based Approach:

• Deficit discourses of Indigenous high school students in physical education and school sport and the benefit of a strengths based alternative - John Williams & Lawrence Bamblett
• Rumination, realignment and reflection: Who is really teaching health education in secondary schools? - Donna Barwood
• ‘Heat-Smart’ schools during physical education (PE) activities: Developing a policy to protect students from extreme heat - Brendon Hyndman
• A review of the literature on inclusive pedagogy in physical education 2005-2015 - Stephanie McNeil, Kerrie Lante & Shane Pill
• Using emoji as a tool to support child wellbeing from a strengths-based approach - Jennifer Fane

Value Movement: 

• What are physical education teachers being told about how to teach sport? An exploratory analysis of sport teaching in physical education - Rick Baldock & Shane Pill
• Embedding Indigenous content in Australian physical education - perceived obstacles by health and physical education teachers - John Williams

Include a Critical Enquiry Approach:

• Embedding a critical inquiry approach across the AC:HPE to support adolescent girls in participating in traditionally masculinised sport - Nadia Bevan & Jennifer Fane

Develop Health Literacy:

• Empowering young people to make Positive Choices: Evidence-based resources for the prevention of alcohol and other drug use in Australian schools - Lexine Stapinski, Siobhan Lawler, Nicola Newton, Bill Reda, Cath Chapman & Maree Teesson
• Mum’s Diet and children’s voice in health education - Denise Atkins

Sport and Recreational Pedagogies:

• Pedometer step guidelines for physical education settings - Terry Magias, Kate Ridley & Shane Pill

Number 20, October 2016
Special Issue: New Connections in Education Research

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Guest Editor: Sue Erica Smith

• Editorial - Sue Erica Smith
• Place, Workplace, and Mindful Movement - Sue Erica Smith, Emma Schuberg Barnes, Jon Mason & Julia Broome
• Using authentic language resources to incorporate Indigenous knowledges across the Australian Curriculum - Catherine Bow
• Online learning and teacher education: The experiences of Indigenous teacher education students - Alison Reedy & Heleana Wauchope Gulwa
• Developing teacher educators in the era of the ‘smart worker’ - Trevor Billany, Joshua Barnes, Bopelo Boitshwarelo, Alison Reedy & Sharon Watson
• Beginning teacher experiences in Lao PDR: From research to the development of a professional development program - Sivilay Phommachanh & Michele Willsher
• The people of the school: Problematising remote teacher educator identity, reflexivity and place - Al Strangeways
• Little Learning in Big Worlds - Jayson Cooper & Maureen Ryan
• Book Review: Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World - Sue Erica Smith

Number 19, April 2016
Special Issue: Synthesis & Integration writing from the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation

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Guest Editor: Dr Judith Lovell

• Editorial - Judith Lovell
• What are the enablers of economic participation in remote and very remote Australia, and how can we identify them? - Eva McRae-Williams, John Guenther, Damien Jacobsen and Judith Lovell
• A Place to Learn and Work: Yuendumu Learning Centre - Samantha Disbray and Ros Bauer
• Cultural Capacity and Development; the case for flexible, interdisciplinary research in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities - Sam Osborne
• Enrichment plantings as a means of enhanced bush food and bush medicine plant production in remote arid regions – a review and status report - L.S. Lee and Kim Courtenay
• Switching on the remote: a new perspective on accessibility in remote Australia - Apolline Kohen and Bruno Spandonide
• Conceptualising climate change adaption for native bush food production in arid Australia - Supriya Mathew, L.S. Lee and Digby Race
• Enduring value for remote communities from mining: Synthesising production, employment, populations, and reform opportunities - Boyd Blackwell and Stuart Robertson

Number 18, December 2015
Special Issue: Narrative Inquiry

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Guest Editors: Greg Shaw & Jon Mason

• Editorial: Narrative inquiry and critical professional reflection - Greg Shaw & Jon Mason
• Reflections on university teaching in China: A personal narrative inquiry - Shuling Li & Greg Shaw
• Critical personal reflections on professional development within a complex learning environment - Deborah Prescott
• Digital Amnesia and the Demise of a Learning Community - Jon Mason
• Finding the ‘tipping point’: A Framework for building an institutional learning community to improve learning and teaching - Deborah West
• Innovating with Pedagogy-Space-Technology (PST) Framework: The Online Moot Court - Jenny Ng
• Becoming Stories: Creating narrative spaces in initial teacher education - Al Strangeways
• Reflective narration: Impact of Observing Young children’s use of iPad on Lecturers’ Teaching Approaches in Higher education - Gretchen Geng & Leigh Disney
• Including children’s perceptions from meditation in a discussion about reflective practices in education - Sue Erica Smith

Number 17, October 2015
Special Issue: Indigenous Pathways and Transitions into Higher Education

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Guest Editors: Jack Frawley, James A. Smith, Steve Larkin & Michael Christie

• Beyond Bradley and Behrendt:  Building a stronger evidence-base about Indigenous pathways and transitions into higher education - Jack Frawley, James A. Smith & Steve Larkin
• Participation in higher education in Australia among under-represented groups:  What can we learn from the Higher Education Participation Program to better support Indigenous learners? - James A. Smith, Sue Trinidad & Steve Larkin
• Speaking With One Voice:  a Partnerships Approach in RMIT’s ‘I Belong’ Program - Aleryk Fricker
• Pathways to success: AIME’s educational mentoring model - Amy Priestly, Malcolm Lynch, Carly Wallace & Professor Valerie Harwood
• Enabling people to ‘see what they can be’ The Community Aspirations Program (CAP-ED) - Bronwyn Fredericks, Tasha Lamey, Marina Mikecz & Flavia Santamaria
• Clontarf to Curtin: Row AHEAD and Tertiary Affinity - Cameron Thorn & Charles Flodin
• Aspiration, achievement and access: The ACT-Indigenous Success pathway to university - Michele J. Fleming & Diana M. Grace
• Fostering Indigenous Students’ Participation in Business Education - Peter Vitartas, Kurt Ambrose, Hayley Millar & Thi Kim Anh Dang
• Bunga Burrabugu – To Make Tomorrow - Annette Cairnduff
• Creating meaningful partnerships to increase Indigenous student confidence and motivation towards university: The Stellar Program - Troy Irwin, Rachel Callahan & Beris Duroux
• “It’s a safe environment for us Indigenous students” – Creating a culturally safe learning space for Indigenous Pre-Tertiary students - Lisa Hall & Michaela Wilkes

Number 16, September 2015
Special Issue: Indigenous Sign Language

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Guest Editor: Professor Dany Adone

• Introduction - Dany Adone
• Some characteristics of Australian Aboriginal sign languages with hints for further questions for exploration - Adam Kendon
• The Sociolinguistics of Alternate Sign Languages of Arnhem Land - Dany Adone & Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama
• The Origins of Alternate Sign Languages in Australia: could they include hearing Impairment? - Andrew Butcher
• Making an online dictionary for Central Australian sign languages - Margaret Carew & Jennifer Green
• Desa Kolok and its Deaf people - I Gede Marsaja
• Toponyms in Ban Khor Sign Language - Angela M. Nonaka
• Indigenous Sign Language of Far North Queensland - Suzannah J. Jackson

Number 15, March 2015
Special Issue: Objects of Governance

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Guest Editors: Professor Helen Verran & Professor Michael Christie

• Editorial - Helen Verran & Michael Christie
• Weaving this and that way: Ghost net connections in an Aboriginal community in northern Australia - Emily Munro-Harrison
• A cyber safety poster/pamphlet comes to life as an object of governance - Trevor van Weeren
• Boris Problematizes Quality Assurance - Mel Hazard
• Governing Climate: Griffith Taylor’s Climographs and Contemporary Blind Spots - Chris O'Brien
• Emotional Athletes, Brainy Workers and other Hot New Developments: Multiple (re)problematizations of Heat Stress as an object of governance in northern Australia - Elspeth Oppermann, Michaela Spencer & Matt Brearley
• Making Money: Financial Literacy as an Object of Governance - Michael Christie
• The Blue House(s) - Matthew Campbell
• Governance and Land Management Fires Understanding Objects of Governance as Expressing an Ethics of Dissensus - Helen Verran
• Final Comments: Objects of Governance as Simultaneously Governed and Governing - Helen Verran & Michael Christie

Number 14, September 2014
Special Issue: Evaluation

Foreword: Ruth Wallace
Guest Editorial: Emma Williams

• On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities - Nick Tilley, Susan Rayment-McHugh, Stephen Smallbone, Martina Wardell, Dimity Smith, Troy Allard, Richard Wortley, Donald Findlater, Anna Stewart & Ross Homel
• Telling Context from Mechanism in Realist Evaluation: The role for theory - Hannah Jolly & Lesley Jolly
• The case for experimental design in realist evaluation - Andrew Hawkins
• Realist methodology in practice: translational findings from two realist syntheses - Shane Boris Pointing
• Seeing is believing? Experiences of using systematic social observation as an evaluation method - Rick Brown
• When the best laid plans go astray: a case study in pragmatic approaches to evaluation - Hayley Boxall
• Improving the evaluation of crime prevention and reduction programs through research-practitioner partnerships - Anthony Morgan
• Program evaluation in a cross-cultural context: Action research, program logic and youth justice in Thailand - Matthew J Willis & Adam M Tomison
• Looking back, moving forward: the place of evaluation at the Tangentyere Council Research Hub - Matthew Campbell, Denise Foster & Vanessa Davis
• Aboriginal contributions to the evaluation of housing (and to postcolonial theory) - Michael Christie & Matthew Campbell
• Evaluation Methods for Vulnerable Populations: The Case for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Kathryn Cairns, Patrick McLaren, Janet Clinton & Ruth Aston
• Informed consent in evaluation: informed of what, exactly? - Emma Williams
• Measuring the unmeasured in educational programs: filling in the blanks through evaluation - John Guenther

Number 13, May 2013

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Editorial: Stephen Hamilton

• Generative and 'Ground-Up' Research in Aboriginal Australia - Michael Christie
• Teachers Begin Developing Socio-Cultural Awareness in Early Field Experiences - Susan Catapano and Candace Thompson
• Doing Philosophy at the Boundaries: Researching the Design of Health Multimedia with Doctors and Indigenous Australians - Christian Clark
• Yolŋu Sign Language: An Undocumented Language of Arnhem Land - Elaine Maypilama and Dany Adone
• Following Actors: Enrolling the Vocabulary of Actor Network Theory to Talk about Internet Banking in a Remote Indigenous Town - Anthea Nicholls
• Regulating Responsibilities: Income Management, Community Engagement and Bureaucratic Learning at Mäpuru, North East Arnhem Land - Stef Puszka, John Greatorex and Greg Williams

Number 12, April 2013
Special Edition: Ethnographic Stories of Disconcertment 

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Editorial: The Ethnographer in the Text: Stories of Disconcertment in the Changing Worlds of North Australian Social Research - Michael Christie & Helen Verran

• Belonging, Being and Becoming: Learning within Early Childhood Education in a Remote Aboriginal Community - Helen Hazard
• Rising to the Challenge of Seiqol-DW... Or Not - Rachael Mcmahon
• Fire, Lamb Chops And Engagement: Practice and Theory Entanglements in Remote Aboriginal Education - Matthew Campbell
• The Promise of Milmarra - Kathryn Macmahon
• The Child under the Table: Optimism and Melancholy in School-Based Ethnography - Helen Harper
• Talking Home and Housing: The Ethnographer brought Back Down to Earth - Michael Christie
• The Dead as Participants: Challenged by the Yolŋu Aboriginal Child Learner at Gäṉgaṉ - Helen Verran
• Paper Work - Anthea Nicholls
• An Ethnographer Searching for the Hybrid Economy Finds She's Been Doing it all along: Pandanus, Participation and Perseverance - Emily Munro-Harrison
• The Generative Role of Narrative in Ethnographies of Disconcertment: Social Scientists Participating in the Public Problems of North Australia - Helen Verran & Michael Christie

October 2011

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Editorial: Leif Karlsson

• Academic Quality and Internships Students Account on the value of Theory in Practice - Lars Svensson, Kristina Johansson and Leif Karlsson
• Turning over Stones I hadn't even realized were there at the Beginning "A Study of Critical Analysis in Teacher Training" - Susanne Gustavsson & Gunvi Broberg & Susanna Nilson Jacobsson and Marrianne Lord
• One Step towards Integration Aspects on how Immigrants Academics Learn During Internship - Jörgen Dimenäs & Majid Jaffari
• Nurses Students' Clinical Competence Assessed by Students and their Clinical Supervisors an Issue of Communication - Ann-Helen Sandvik
• The Experience of being a Preceptor for a Nurse Students in Clinical Practice a Cross Sectional Qualitative stud - Yvonne Hilli

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