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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"220000 Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts-General"”.
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The immortal now : visualizing the place where spirituality and today’s families meet
… between a secular system we have out-grown, and a religious system we cannot fully embrace. “Clearly, a spirituality exists in Australia that is no longer associated with religion.” I believe the starting point for this spirituality is in the everyday. Evidence of spirituality exists in …
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Using proactive evaluation to develop a policy for public sector training programs in emotional intelligence in Thailand
… of a regional policy for the development and operation of effective Emotional Intelligence training programs. The research is set in the context of significant change being made to the training of public servants in Rayong Province, Thailand. The study is based on a needs assessment within …
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‘Can villagers learn to become bankers?’ An Evaluation of the Development of Baan Rienru Community Bank Pilot Prog
… bank in Baan Rienru village in Lampang, Thailand. The program was initiated through the cooperation of a commercial bank, social development agencies, and the community, all of whom agreed to participate in an ongoing action learning project to co-develop a community bank in the village. My …
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Stress Experiences of Parents with Premature Infants in a Special Care Nursery
… special care nursery (SCN). Sixty mothers and 59 fathers of premature infants and 60 mothers and fathers of term infants were recruited into the study. A range of repeated selfreports and biochemical markers of stress (cortisol and tribulin) were carried out on 5 measuring times through …
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Philosophy, people and process: a case-study of vocational education and training in a community development context
… Government allocated funds for the design and development of a number of Rural Access Community Training Centres throughout Australia. This program derives from the strategic plan, A Bridge to the Future: Australias National Strategy for V.E.T. and specifically, objective number three (3); …
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On Making Warriors Out of Worriers: the Management of Trait Anxiety in Competitive Sports
… of the relationships between the intensity and directional dimensions of trait anxiety, state anxiety and performance in sport, (2) a detailed exploration of mechanisms mediating observed relationships, using the theory of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) as a framework, and (3), …
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Through the women's eyes: Latin American Women's Experience of Immigration to Australia
… to the influence of traditional gender values and roles, restricted political support, and the lack of adequate social services to facilitate their integration. Australia is, essentially, a land of immigrants. International immigration represents one of its major sources of population and …
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The Everyday Lives of Men: An Ethnographic Investigation of Young Adult Male Identity
There has been increasing social debate in recent times surrounding men’s identities, men’s health and wellbeing, and men’s place within contemporary western society. The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to new knowledge of these issues through an ethnographic exploration of two small …
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
… is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents an alternative figuration of the …
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The influence of knowledge sharing on motivation to transfer training: a Malaysian public sector context
… return on investment from training must understand the variables associated with transfer of training so that they can promote those which enable transfer and intervene to limit those which inhibit transfer. In the international literature on training transfer, researchers and practitioners have …
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In from the cold : Tom Wills – a nineteenth century sporting hero
… cricket during his time at Rugby school in England during the 1850s. When he returned to Australia he became the captain of the Victorian cricket team. On 10 July 1858 he penned what has become one of the most famous documents in Australian sporting history: a letter calling for the formation of …
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As you cannot hear the sound of losing: researching the gambling environment through performance
… how these strategically designed, immersive and seductive sites seem to have an effect on the visitor. Typically the gaming environment offers an adult utopia and an other-worldly experience that is far removed from the everyday. I was attracted to researching the extreme, hyperreal gambling …
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History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria
… The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, …
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First Year University Students and Their Parents: Conjoint Experiences of University
… experience as seen through the eyes of students and their parents. Through the thick descriptions of conjoint interviews conducted in eight family homes on three different occasions during the students’ first-year, the thesis offers a narrative of family lives of some Australian university …
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Cracking the Stalinist crust - the impact of 1956 on the Communist Party of Australia
… of this thesis is that previous accounts of 1956 and its impact on the Communist Party of Australia, have afforded insufficient attention to the complexities of this period in the Party’s history. The common perception has been that the Party leadership clamped down on attempts by members to …
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Dancing Across Borders: Women Who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life
… with extracts from transcribed focus groups and interviews to illuminate the impact on the identity of formerly heterosexual women who become lesbians in mid-life. I have conducted my research as participant observer who has this core experience in common with the other subjects. I have also …
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Socialist Realism in Vietnamese Literature: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Literature and Politics
In this thesis, I argue that socialist realism is by nature more political than literary; in the domain of politics, it is more nationalistic than socialistic; and in the domain of literature, it is more neo-classical or romantic than realist. Over many decades, writers were advised to represent …
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Blue Collar, Red Dress: A Novel and Critical Commentary
This submission for a Master of Arts by research is comprised of a novel, 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' and a Critical Commentary. 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' is a work of fiction, based on my own experiences of growing up in Housing Commission flats in the 1960s. It is the story of Linda and Heidi, their …
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Ageing, Gender and Dancers' Bodies : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Drawing on research and frameworks from sociology, poststructuralist feminist theory, phenomenology, and social constructionism, this thesis offers- perhaps ambitiously- a much needed counter-discourse to the hegemonic cultural narratives of ageing as decline of body/self. It focuses on the …
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The Stress Is Unbearable, I Hope it Lasts: Case Studies in Reversal Theory
The relationship between stress and performance in sport is a central topic of investigation for sport psychology and has been quantitatively explored in depth over the last 3 decades. The ability to cope effectively with stress is suggested to be one of the most important determinants in athletic …
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