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Assessment rubrics: thinking inside the boxes

Learning and Teaching, 2016

Assessment rubrics are being promoted and introduced into tertiary teaching practices on the grou... more Assessment rubrics are being promoted and introduced into tertiary teaching practices on the grounds that they are an efficient and reliable tool to evaluate student performance effectively and promote student learning. However, there has been little discussion on the value of using assessment rubrics in higher education. Rather, they are being gradually and (seemingly) uncritically mainstreamed into tertiary teaching expectations and practices, often through professional development workshops. This article investigates the pedagogic value and validity of criteria-based assessment rubrics and the instrumental rationality and goals informing them. Drawing on a small body of criticism, the article explores an emerging discourse that contends that assessment rubrics are not capable of measuring and evaluating complex thinking skills. Rather, they limit the independent responses of students and the professional judgement of markers, encourage compliance jeopardising student commitment a...

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Governing at a distance: mainstreaming of Australian HIV/AIDS treatments and services 1989-1996 reconsidered

Health and History, 2009

This article examines the controversy around the proposal in the late 1980s and early 1990s to ma... more This article examines the controversy around the proposal in the late 1980s and early 1990s to mainstream HIV/AIDS treatment, services, and care in Australia. With the predicted increase in HIV infections, and with improved prophylaxis and antiretroviral therapy (such as AZT) extending the lives of people with HIV/AIDS, mainstreaming was proposed as a strategy that could meet the anticipated increased demand in HIV/AIDS services. Our analysis suggests that mainstreaming was strategically positioned as a necessary intermediary step between specialist and community control, one in which general practitioners and local health workers would serve as conduits through which specialist knowledge and information could be deployed. The strategy also reflected a general shift in thinking and acting on public health that emerged in the late 1980s, a shift that sought, inter alia, to reorientate health services towards fostering the self-managing capacities of HIV/AIDS affected communities.

Methadone maintenance treatment: disciplining the 'addict

Health and History, 2011

This article examines key aims, objectives, technologies, strategies, and procedures utilised in ... more This article examines key aims, objectives, technologies, strategies, and procedures utilised in Australian methadone maintenance programs over the past thirty years. An examination of the major policy documents reveal that, in addition to medico-health concerns, methadone programs have been strategically deployed to manage specific sociopolitical problems including illicit drug use, crime, and the spread of infectious diseases. The techniques, technologies, and procedures utilised in methadone programs and the 'disciplinary monotony 'of the methadone regime itself aim to produce a more compliant, conforming, and self-regulating subject. It is argued that the promotion of methadone maintenance as a 'treatment' modality obscures these disciplinary objectives and the political goals that have fostered them.

Opening a Can of Worms: Consenting Partners in Aged Care

Rahn, A., Lykins, A., Bennett, C., & Jones, T. (2015, December). Opening a Can of Worms: Consenting Adults in Aged Care. Paper presented at 14th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1578.8882.

Challenges facing regional live music venues: A case study of venues in Armidale, NSW

Popular Music, 2020

This article draws from a wider research project undertaken in 2018 in Armidale, a small regional... more This article draws from a wider research project undertaken in 2018 in Armidale, a small regional city in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, to explore the challenges commercial venues face in presenting and maintaining a regular live music programme. An analysis of the main themes suggests that the issues regional venues encounter are often qualitatively and/or quantitatively different from those facing their urban counterparts. This research found that regulatory issues, such as licensing, planning and noise, were not considered major impediments to regularly hosting live music. Rather, finding and accessing affordable quality bands in the numbers and styles needed to keep audiences coming to gigs, and getting audiences to regularly attend and spend money in the numbers needed to sustain the gigs, were identified as ongoing difficulties. Although venues in larger metropolitan cities are often confronted with similar problems, these are not the sort of issues that stand out in the re...

Review of Fischlin, D and Heble, A (eds) (2004) 'The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue', Middletown (Connecticut): Wesleyan University Press

Couples' Privacy in Residential Aged Care

Currently, a third of Australian aged care residents are partnered, with many experiencing instit... more Currently, a third of Australian aged care residents are partnered, with many experiencing institutional interference in their relationships. Staff duty of care usually takes precedence over privacy. Some institutions separate couples;; residents&#39; doors may be kept open;; staff enter without knocking, ignore &#39;do not disturb&#39; signs, or gossip about residents;; all of which make privacy a challenge. This paper reports on findings from an online survey into the needs of partnered Baby Boomers (born 1946-65) and the levels of privacy that they anticipate they will require to maintain their primary relationships in residential aged care facilities. At a time marked by a policy shift towards consumer-directed residential aged care, it is pertinent to understand the needs of this subset of future consumers. Our research found that the majority of respondents expected to remain sexual indefinitely, considered physical intimacy with their partners essential to their wellbeing, and required a high degree of privacy to maintain their relationships. Respondents were asked to rate seven domains of privacy. Those considered most important were visual privacy, private space, and bodily privacy. This paper outlines various ways for service providers to prepare for the next generation of consumers, initiatives that would enable residents and their families to make informed decisions when choosing a facility, potentially improving the experiences of both residents and staff.

Barriers to and facilitators of the inclusion of learners with special education needs: An appraisal of the education systems of the islands of the Eastern Caribbean

Adaptations that allow students to access the national curriculum and demonstrate learning. Throu... more Adaptations that allow students to access the national curriculum and demonstrate learning. Through accommodations students are able to work at the same instructional level as their peers, but how they learn and demonstrate what they have learned may be different. Accommodations may include adaptations/changes in instructional strategies, environment, equipment, presentation and response procedures (Maanum 2009). Adaptations: The adjustments and changes made to the environment, curriculum, instruction, or assessment practices in order for children with disabilities to be successful learners. Accommodations and modifications are types of adaptations (Warner et al. 2008, 22). Assessment: Process of gathering information to monitor progress and make educational decisions (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 409). Collaboration: A style of interaction professionals use in order to accomplish a goal they share, often stressed in inclusive schools (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 411). Courtesy stigma: The stigma experienced by individuals who are related through the "social structure to a stigmatised individual". A person experiencing 'courtesy stigma' shared some of the discrimination of the stigmatised person to whom they are related and were stigmatised based solely on that affiliation (Goffman 1969; Gray 1993, 30). Cultural capital: Possessing a "familiarity with the dominant culture in a society, and especially the ability to understand and use 'educated' language" (Sullivan 2002, 145). Differentiated instruction: A form of instruction that meets students' diverse needs by providing materials and tasks of varied levels of difficulty, with varying degrees of support, through multiple instructional groups and time variations (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 411). Disability: A condition characterised by a physical, cognitive, psychological, or social difficulty so severe that it negatively affects student learning (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 412). ix Equality in education: The sameness in treatment by asserting the fundamental or natural rights of all persons (Espinoza 2007) Equity in education: Providing comparable experiences to, and generating the highest possible level of educational outcomes for all learners. Equity in education is associated with fairness or justice in the provision of education or other benefits and takes individual circumstances into consideration (Dyson 2001; Espinoza 2007). Inclusion: A term used to describe and promote policies, strategies, and practices that aim to enable all learners to participate fully in education and is closely connected with social justice, equality, and rights for all (Wallace 2009, 134). Inclusive practices: A term describing a range of strategies promoting how students with disabilities could be integrated or fully included as participants into mainstream education classrooms (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 413). Learners with special education needs (LSEN): The term LSEN refers to learners who have a learning difficulty or disability which requires special education provision. Students with learning difficulties include a range of challenges such as: "sensory impairment (weaknesses in vision or hearing); severe behavioural, psychological or emotional issues; English as a second language or dialect (ESL or ESD); high absenteeism; ineffective instruction; or, inadequate curricula". Conversely, "students with learning disabilities have difficulties in specific areas of academic achievement as a result of impairment in one or more of the cognitive processes related to learning," (ACT Government Education and Training 2014, 1). Mainstreaming: A term used to describe the placement of students with disabilities into general education settings, where they can experience traditional academic expectations with minimal assistance (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 414). Modifications: Teacher-directed changes/adaptations to what students are expected to learn and the knowledge they are expected to demonstrate. Modifications may include changes to the instruction, amount, content, and type of work performance expected of students (Maanum 2009). Social capital: The circumstances in which individuals can use membership in groups and networks to secure benefits (Sobel 2002, 139). x Social justice: A term which refers to the 'good' of the whole community i.e. both the 'good' of each and the 'good' of all, in an acknowledgement that one is dependent on the other (Wallace 2009, 277). Special education: Specially designed instruction provided by the school district or other local education agency that meets the unique needs of students identified as disabled (Friend and Bursuck 2012, 417). Special education needs (SEN): SEN is generally applied where medical and/or cognitive disorders exist that create barriers to learning, and that require support for the learner on a long or ongoing basis (Wallace 2009, 279). xi List of Abbreviations CARICOM Caribbean Community CEO Chief Education Officer CGT Constructivist/Constructionist Grounded Theory CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations) CRIN Child Rights Information Network CRPD Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations)

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Behind Closed Doors: Exploring Ways to Support Partnered Baby Boomers' Coupledom in Residential Aged Care Settings

ii List of Publications iii Certification of Dissertation iv Acknowledgements v Table of

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Opening a Can of Worms: Consenting Partners in Aged Care

With Consumer Directed Care (CDC) on the horizon and a wave of baby boomers who are ageing, aged ... more With Consumer Directed Care (CDC) on the horizon and a wave of baby boomers who are ageing, aged care providers need to be aware of and respect the desires and requirements of future ‘consumers’. In contrast with current provider arrangements, funding is linked to the individual rather than the institution in a CDC model, with the likelihood that there will be greater demand for those facilities that meet emerging consumer expectations and offer couple-friendly environments. One group that has largely been ignored at all levels in residential care, from government policy to service provision, is couples, or partnered individuals. Situated within a broader study exploring the needs of partnered baby boomers, this paper investigates whether existing residential aged care facilities provide the conditions needed to facilitate the sexual and intimacy needs of partnered aged care residents. Such exploration is particularly pertinent at a time when the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Ageing and Aged Care Strategy is being implemented. In this presentation we report on early findings of a phenomenological study using semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015 with 29 key informants with expertise and experience in aged care law, policy, practice, health, education, research and related service areas. Early findings suggest that difficult though necessary conversations are being avoided by older people, by those representing them, and by service providers. Recommendations for aged care providers include the need for comprehensive education and training in the areas of sexuality and intimacy with the aim to facilitate communication around residents’ sexual needs and the formulation of individually tailored care plans. We believe that such initiatives would have the potential to create more positive outcomes for partnered older persons and aged care staff.

Governing at a distance: mainstreaming of Australian HIV/AIDS treatments and services 1989-1996 reconsidered

Conflicting agendas: the politics of sex in aged care

Despite legal protections, couples in Australian residential aged care facilities experience inst... more Despite legal protections, couples in Australian residential aged care facilities experience institutional interference in their intimate and sexual relationships. Panoptic surveillance remains widespread in aged care. Little attention is given to privacy. Some residents’ doors are kept open at all times. Couples may be separated or provided with single beds only, unable to push them together. Staff frequently enter without knocking, commonly ignore ‘do not disturb signs’ and often gossip about residents. This culture has its origins in colonial institutions. Attempts at legislative reform to redress this situation have been met with mixed responses, with the most vociferous opposition coming from religious conservatives. A recurrent source of conflict is the tension between the ‘rights’ of religious and political institutions versus those of individuals. This article identifies systemic issues faced by partnered aged care residents, their historical origins, and the legislation tha...

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Drug Law Enforcement: A Study in the Interplay of Power and Resistance

This article investigates the links between drug law enforcement initiatives designed to reduce t... more This article investigates the links between drug law enforcement initiatives designed to reduce the availability of illicit drugs, and the illicit drug problem in Australia. Of particular interest are supply-reduction initiatives designed to locate and eradicate the production of illicit drugs in ‘source’ countries; the interdiction of drugs at the border; and attempts to disrupt the distribution of drugs at the community or street level. The examples provided illustrate that rather than reducing or deterring the trade in illicit drugs, many supply-reduction initiatives, when ‘successful’, create conditions that are favourable to the operation and expansion of the trade. This suggests that drug law enforcement is not the ‘solution’ to the drug problem, but part of the problem. The initiatives and effects outlined will be situated and discussed within the concepts of success and failure, power and resistance, and constitutive dialects.

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Opening a can of worms: Consenting adults in aged care

Spiritual inclusiveness at end-of-life for Punjabi Indians: experience with Regional Residential Aged Care Facilities

Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging

Happily partnered older adults’ relationship‐enhancing behaviours

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Baby boomers’ attitudes to maintaining sexual and intimate relationships in long‐term care

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Drug Law Enforcement: A Study in the Interplay of Power and Resistance

Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Drugs, moral panics and the dispositive

Journal of Sociology

The concept of &#39;moral panics&#39; continues to be used as a framework for analysing t... more The concept of &#39;moral panics&#39; continues to be used as a framework for analysing the causes, structures and functions of social and political crises. Nonetheless, as an analytical tool, such a framework is limited in its capacity to explain the ongoing and interconnected relationships between drugs and society. Drawing first on an interdiscursive and intertextual framework, the field of analysis is broadened to consider how recent drug panics in Australia depend upon, signify and condense wider social and historical anxieties around drugs and other social problems. However, such an approach also has its limitations given that the play of intertextuality is conditioned by relations of power at the level of what Foucault calls a &#39;dispositive&#39;, a historically contingent configuration that strategically orientates our responses to the problem. Three dispositional drug-related prototypes are considered and how they work together to shape, reinforce and condition the drug problem and our responses to it. This research was initially concerned with better understanding the socio-political dynamics around what was stated to be a new emerging threat to the Australian community , and then finding an appropriate conceptual/theoretical framework from which to analyse it. The threat concerned the increasing use of methamphetamine, especially crystal methamphetamine, more commonly known as &#39;crystal meth&#39; or &#39;ice&#39;, as represented in the mainstream media, and the conceptual framework under consideration was &#39;moral panic&#39;. However, in surveying the media texts and commentary on the subject, it soon became apparent that there were a number of drug-related controversies , &#39;scandals&#39;, debates and such occurring in Australia over the past few years, many

School-based drug education: the shaping of subjectivities

History of Education Review, 2014

Assessment rubrics: thinking inside the boxes

Learning and Teaching, 2016

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Governing at a distance: mainstreaming of Australian HIV/AIDS treatments and services 1989-1996 reconsidered

Health and History, 2009