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Item Developing and Testing Models for Benchmarking and Moderation of Assessment for Private Higher Education Providers(2012-01-01) Morgan, David; Dachs, Terrence; Fernandez, Jane L.; Tuovinen, JuhaniItem Education for Peace: Naming and Shaming Violence in Sacred Texts(2009-01-01) Fernandez, Jane L.Terrorism has impacted on the ways in which we think about ourselves in relation to the Other. It has forced us to measure and evaluate many of our assumptions and exposed many of our underlying prejudices. As teachers, we have a responsibility to revision our pedagogical frameworks and investigate appropriate means of counteracting prejudice and violence in the light of the changing needs of our times. One of the significant challanges we are faced with today is the growing phenomena of sacralised violence. This paper is interested in our revisiting, exposing and counteracting the embeddded violence in sacred texts.
Item Here for Good: HEPP-QN(2019-05-17) Fernandez, Jane L.Here For Good is a podcast series from leading researchers at Avondale College of Higher Education. In this episode Vice-President (Quality and Strategy) Professor Jane Fernandez talks with Vice-President (Academic) Professor Steve Currow about mission and Avondale’s lead role in the Higher Education Private Provider Quality Network, and shares her collaborative vision as the founding convenor.
Item Overcoming the Abject through Proxy in Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping(2010-01-01) Fernandez, Jane L.Book summary from publisher's website:
"How Does it Feel?" is an anthology of writings about pain: pain as physical experience and as a construction in different contexts - and contexts of difference. The contributors contemplate suffering as it is mediated in pain narratives, in literature and in images, including video and film, and reflect on how pain is experienced and communicated as suffering, agony or pleasure. A multi-faceted view of pain emerges through analyses from historical, medical and philosophical standpoints.
Item Redefining “Home”: The Concept of dala in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Chira(2017-06-01) Reynaud, Daniel; Fernandez, Jane L.; Ongalo, JenniferThe debates about Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s identity either, exclusively identify her as Kenyan or British-born Kenyan without explicitly interrogating the process by which she became Kenyan. This research recognises that Macgoye is Kenyan through her marriage to a Luo. The Luo are a language group whose traditional land is on the shores of Lake Victoria. To the Luo, the word dala has varied meanings including, but not limited to: a homestead, the ancestral land, the clan, and the general direction of dala before the Luo is Kenyan. As a Luo wife, Macgoye has multiple belongings to these dala spaces, which use location, ethnicity and gender to create Luo cultural identity in experiences involving an individual’s past and the present. These definitions of the Luo dala are interrogated in various ways in Macgoye’s Chira (a novel) showing her engagement with the different appropriations of the Luo dala. This paper uses postcolonial and diaspora theories, and the Luo concepts of dala to show how her identity and belonging influences Macgoye’s representations. It argues that Macgoye’s Luo wife status informs and redefines postcolonial and diaspora concepts of home. The paper also shows how Macgoye’s being “at home” is shown through her use of both the mother tongue and the mother in-law tongue. Luo storytelling structures and transliterations are identified as indications of Macgoye’s concept of dala. The research aims to show how the cultural re-rooting of Macgoye challenges discussions of displacement, identity and belonging.