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The Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts aims to publish articles which advance our knowledge and understanding of social contexts in Australia and internationally with an emphasis on the socio-cultural dimensions of learning in these different contexts and configurations. We strive towards the publication of high-quality articles through the engagement of expert referees in a double-blind peer review process.
LATEST ISSUE
Number 22, December 2017
Special Issue: Decolonising Research Practices
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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