http://hdl.handle.net/10453/276 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:43:26 GMT 2013-05-26T00:43:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18973 Serious Play, Serious Problems: issues with eBook applications Baird Catherine; Henninger Maureen This paper is an investigation into the accessibility of emerging interactive, multi-touch narratives, which are designed and developed to be used on Apple¿s iPad device. Universal access to technology culturally, physically, mentally and socially is vital to the ethical and moral sustainability of society. The importance of this is particularly vital to the development of a child¿s development of basic literacy, numeracy and reading skills, as technology becomes a predominant mode in their lives. Narratives designed and developed for the iPad device offer a multimodal, interactive environment of text, image, sound, animation and touch; yet they render the accessibility tools and functions, embedded within the iPad for users with disabilities, useless. Whilst some narratives counter this in a variety of ways in their design, there are still major areas where the concept of ¿universal access for all¿ is neglected, leaving a significant portion of users in the dark Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18973 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18974 Playing the triangle: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Capital and Social Capital as intersecting scholarly discourses about social inclusion and marginalisation in Australian public policy debates Jakubowicz Andrew A constant challenge for scholarly research relates to its impact on and integration into public policy. Where the policy issues are `wicked¿, as are those concerning intercultural relations and social cohesion, social science research often becomes implicated in real-world problem solving which occurs within everyday political manoeuvring. This paper takes three empirical problems, and three conceptual approaches, and explores what happens when they are pressed together. In particular the paper explores how together they can enhance the social value of the concept of `social inclusion¿. Cosmopolitanism has a myriad of possible definitions, but is perhaps best addressed in anthropological fashion, by trying to capture the space formed by its presumptive antagonists: nationalism, prejudice, localism, parochialism, and `rootedness¿ (as in `rootless cosmopolitan¿). Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18974 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18976 I-Witnessing; Reflections on Cosmopolitanism in Kigali Yerbury Hilary Starting from the classic view of cosmopolitanism, this paper uses personal experiences gained during a six-week stay in Rwanda with a family affected by the genocide to explore the disjuncts which emerge in trying to understand the concept. In this process of exploration, it considers conceptions of the guest, the stranger and what Geertz terms the `cosmopolite¿. Taking a reflexive position, it explores what it means to be a witness to events in someone else¿s life, with a focus on post-genocide reconciliation that took place in the family in January and February 2011. In this context, it introduces the notions of cosmopolitan curiosity (Appiah) and cosmopolitan tolerance (Beck) and finds each of them affected by structural imbalances which render them potentially inadequate in practice. The paper concludes that, from a reflexive point of view, an understanding of cosmopolitanism is a work in progress, and that it is much more difficult to sustain as a lived reality than it is as an abstraction. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18976 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18975 Identities, Aspirations and Belonging of Cosmopolitan Youth in Australia Collins Jock; Reid Carol; Fabiansson Charlotte This article presents the results of a survey of the attitudes, aspirations and belonging of mainly immigrant minority youth living in Western and south western Sydney conducted in 2007 to provide some evidence to contest the populist view of immigrant youth as being a threat to Australian society. Rather the survey points to the very positive aspirations of Sydney¿s immigrant youth, their strong sense of having a positive future role in Australian society, their sense of belonging and ownership of their neighbourhood. They live connected lives, with multicultural friendship networks rather than living their lives parallel to and separate from other youth. Only one in three surveyed identify as `Australian¿, with most offering some hybrid-Australian identity. This finding worried the Australian government, who did not give publication approval of the research until late 2010. The paper argues that a more cosmopolitan approach to multiculturalism would assist in valuing the globalised, fluid, hybrid identities of immigrant youth and assist in relieving the nationalist anxieties about Australian cultural, linguistic and cultural diversity. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18975 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z