Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Australian Studies"”.
-
Difficult knowledge and uncomfortable pedagogies : student perceptions and experiences of teaching and learning in critical indigenous Australian studies
… in two mandatory stand-alone Critical Indigenous Australian Studies subjects at an Australian university. The study proffers rare empirical insight into the student experience of teaching and learning about colonialism, racism, whiteness and privilege. It contributes to building a better …
-
Factors influencing disordered eating in young women with and without Type 1 diabetes
… been mostly neglected. There are relatively few studies that have looked at eating disturbances and associated risk factors in Australian community samples. Overseas research has indicated that there is a higher incidence of eating disturbances in females with type 1 diabetes compared to females …
-
Professional development and training needs of school principals in Tonga
… similar In many ways to the findings of certain. Australian studies, namely, Chapman's (1986) study of Victorian primary school principals, Harvey's (1987) study of the newly appointed principals In Western Australia. Hyde’s (1988) study of the principals In remote area schools In Western …
-
Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo : an historical study
The focus of this thesis is Katharine Susannah Prichard's novel, Coonardoo ( 1929), and its capacity to provide a framework for the reconstruction of the historical situation in the North-West region of Western Australia during the period mid-1860s to late 1920s. The thesis has a dual purpose: to …
-
Plants, people and place : cultural botany and the Southwest Australian flora
The Southwest corner of Western Australia has a distinctive culture of flora. In particular, the region is an internationally lauded destination for wildflower tourism. Aesthetic values inform the Southwest’s contemporary culture of flora and its products: photographs of flowers, botanical …
-
Asian migrant writers in Australia and the negotiation of the third space
… a comparative study of three selected texts by Australian novelistsYasmine Gooneratne, A Change of Skies,(1991) Adib Khan, SeasonalAdjustments (1994) and Brian Castro, Birds of Passage ((1983). All three writersexplore the experiences and perceptions of their protagonists in relating to …
-
Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
… attractiveness, socio-economic status, and age. Studies conducted in North America indicate that the race of the victim and defendant inappropriately influences jurors' decision-making. However, to date, no such published research has been conducted in Australia. Due to Australia's diverse …
-
Representations of obesity in national newspapers: A comparative study between China and Australia
Nearly two-thirds of Australians and up to half of all Chinese are overweight. Global obesity figures have tripled since 1975 (WHO, 2018b), which demonstrates that obesity is a major global health problem. It is critical to examine how print media represent obesity because they influence public …
-
Maritime resource exploitation in southwest Australia prior to 1901
… cultural origins, the finite nature of southwest Australian maritime and estuarine resources has long been recognised, and the resultant priority of people was to maximise effort at the most opportune times in order to augment socioeconomic advantage.
-
Signing off on the state
… of this thesis to map a context by which Australian national identity is manufactured. This context is the hegemonic processes that seek to maintain a cultural and political dominance using systems of representation and symbolic power to do so. I have framed this subject against the United …