I thought a Euro coin would be a good main character for my story, the perfect medium to go everywhere and traverses social strata, gender and culture. The story and character are a pretext to visit different European ...
In the 1980s and 1990s Australia trade unions, via their Accord with the Australian
Labor Party (ALP), set out to reform vocational education and training and connect it to
the centralised industrial relations system.
Trade ...
McQueen, Meryl(University of Technology, Sydney. School of Management, 2002)
Concerns over the future of the nonprofit sector due to increasing resource pressures and an economic rationalist political climate in Australia have led to increasing public and private interest in partnerships between ...
Le Nevez, Adam(University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Education, 2006)
This thesis explores the ways in which linguistic diversity is represented, articulated and theorised in the context of the promotion of Breton, a minority or lesser-used language spoken in the region of Brittany in western ...
Recent trends within the NSW state school context point to possible concerns for succession planning and leadership capacity building in the future. The trends indicate a potential reduction in the number of aspirants for ...
Schuck, Sandra R.(University of Technology, Sydney. School of Teacher Education, 1996)
This research study has investigated the beliefs that prospective primary school teachers hold about the epistemology of mathematics, and the teaching and learning of mathematics. In particular, it considered the following ...
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This research explored the follow-through experience in three year, pre-registration Bachelor of Midwifery programs in Australia. The follow-through experience involves midwifery students following women on ...
This thesis reports on the development and testing of a framework for making sense of the collective professional learning of primary Science and Technology teachers in an elearning mediated context.
Web-based networks ...
Deller, Christine Anne(University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Science, 2005)
This project involves the study of optical properties of polymers doped with TRIMM (transparent refractive index matched micro-particles), and their uses in light guides. The refractive index difference between dopant and ...
The thesis suggests an approach to be taken in determining whether clergy who provide
pastoral counselling for depression1 to individuals in New South Wales owe a duty of
care. The ‘pastoral’ nature of pastoral counselling ...
Russell, Helen.(University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Education, 2005)
Older adults of the 21st century have not grown up with information and communication technology and may not have used computers in their working lives. However, they have experienced the many technological changes of the ...
This thesis investigates the water quality of the Upper Georges River with respect to
macroinvertebrate community structure and physical and water chemistry variables.
Four replicate macroinvertebrate samples were ...
Sodium hydroxide is used at elevated temperatures to separate aluminium hydroxide
from ferric oxide (red mud) in bauxite by the Bayer process. During the processing of
the bauxite, the organic material that it contains ...
This research investigates strategies to achieve a broader focus in urban transport development that better integrates environmental, social and economic considerations. In the past, the primary objective of urban transport ...
Endoscopic procedures have become the ‘gold standard’ of diagnosis and therapy in the
alimentary tract and are frequently delivered in high volume centres. Given that the
generic term endoscopy is broad, in this thesis, ...
Sharpe, Martina (Tina)(University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Education, 2003)
This study aims to articulate a theory of teaching that accounts for both the cognitive development of the learner and the social context in which learning occurs. It contributes to discussions about a socially constructed ...
This thesis juxtaposes a historical and ethnographic account of a highly
organised women's activity -- quiltmaking -- with an examination of feminist
discussions on art, craft, leisure, culture and folklore. In describing ...
The need for more dynamic views on international joint ventures' control research
has recently become a growing concern. Changes in the complexity of relationships
between organisations and their environments have led ...
Researchers in the fields of human computer interaction (HCI) and computer
supported cooperative work (CSCW) have increasingly sought to understand the role
that mobility takes in shaping people’s actions and interactions ...