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Item A Method for Investigating Photographic Visualisation Practices(2013-01-01) Bellette, AaronThis paper will explore the possibilities afforded by the utilization of a head mounted GoPro video camera and subsequent screen capture software in the analysis and subsequent understanding of reflective processes in the creation of photographic imagery.
The method is contextualized within an understanding of the work experience; affect and memory play in a photographer's intentionality. It is also framed by Ansel Adam's ideas on pre-visualization and Jerry Uelsmann's work in post-visualization or 're-visualizing'.
It seeks to understand the extent recall of the environment and experiences impact on the pre-reflective stage and the later editing process with pedagogical implications for teaching photography.
Item A Search for New Meaning: Virtual Landscapes, Identity and the Cross-Cultural Nature of Intangible Heritage(2015-09-01) Skrzypaszek, JohnThis paper explores the role virtual landscapes play in the formation of the cross-cultural quality of the intangible heritage. Research suggests that the highly poignant global blending of cultures generates a field of new forms of expressions and gives birth to new contrasting cultural identities. The variety of cultural backgrounds immersed in the framework of globalized varieties reflects the “multiple dimensions that compose it” (Salzman & Matathia, 2006,134). Besides, the avalanche of technological advancements and the age of digitized communication transitions cultural expressions away from the accepted forms of the new unexplored landscapes. It also argues that the virtual spaces provide a safe-haven environment conducive to the development of personal and cultural identity and formation of communities that create a sense of belonging. Further, it asserts that the vibrant processes of virtual acculturation blend with the reality of human experience to produce novel virtual forms of cultural expressions. In this context, it argues that the inherent dualism and dichotomy between the virtual and real life intensifies a sense of prospective creativity, oriented towards the future-oriented shape of cultural identity and its ongoing meaning for life.
Item Australian Chaplains at Gallipoli: Role, Impact and Influence(2017-01-01) Miler, Larisa; Reynaud, DanielThis study of the role, impact and influence of Australian chaplains during the Gallipoli campaign identifies the formal and informal roles played by chaplains, and how their work was perceived and received by the men they served. It challenges a popular view, sometimes articulated in publications, that the Australian soldier was indifferent to spiritual things and to the work of the chaplains. Instead it shows how chaplains played a vital role in providing a host of support services which could greatly impact soldier morale and emotional well-being. The myth that Australian soldiers were not particularly religious is nuanced by a demonstration that many soldiers took their faith seriously, and the ministrations of the chaplains benefited the troops. It also demonstrates that the calibre of the individual chaplain was key to ensuring the success or otherwise of their role in maintaining the spiritual mission and morale of the troops, and shows in what specific ways chaplains could most impact the soldiers under their care.
Item Australian Cinema and the War Effort 1914-1918(1998-01-01) Reynaud, DanielWith every element of Australian society co-opted for the war effort, it is no surprise that cinema was also used to enhance the government’s war aims. This study looks at the Australian film industry, specifically at its production of war dramas and documentaries, and its distributions and screening, exploring the interaction of official needs and pressures and the responses of the domestic film industry.
Item Beliefs about Personal Salvation held by Primary and Secondary Teachers in North American Seventh-day Adventist Schools(2019-09-04) Jackson, WendyThis presentation reports the responses of teachers from the North American Division to questions regarding their understanding of salvation. The responses reveal a diverse understanding of salvation in keeping with the variety influences which have shaped this doctrine in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Item Constructing the Anzac Image: A Study of Australia's First Three Gallipoli Movies(2005-01-01) Reynaud, DanielAustralia’s first three Gallipoli movies were released in 1915-1916, the first two while the Anzacs were still fighting on the peninsula. This paper traces their origin and making, their reception and recent efforts to locate and identify surviving images. The meaning of the films and their representations is placed in the context of other photographic representations at the time.
Item Conversations about God: Does Skills Training Make a Difference?(2012-01-01) Daff, LynThis paper will address relational communication skills. It seeks to explore the importance of relationship skills for Christians and the role skills training can play in skill development which may change our interactions with others. A survey is undertaken of participants from Christian leadership training program that included interpersonal skills development. Participants evaluate their skills prior to and after training as well as commenting on how and why their interaction with others changed. Consideration is also given to the application of skills. [from Introduction of article].
Item Cross-Cultural Sharing of Spirituality(2011-01-01) Skrzypaszek, JohnThis paper explores the nature of the Australian Aborigine and Christian spirituality. It demonstrates that the indigenous spirituality shows a strong tie between the spiritual realm and life's journey. The cultural symbolism, which reflects cosmology, shows that the mystical nature of the spiritual journey is deeply immersed in the totality of the Aboriginal life and consciousness. The study recognizes that the Aboriginal and Christian worldviews are distinctly different. However, it argues that the Aboriginal Christian spirituality may be enhanced by the qualities embedded in its indigenous roots. The study demonstrates that, at the point where propositional creed-based structure of the Christian faith creates a spiritual vacuum, the indigenous spirituality provides a natural bridge for spiritual healing and emotional stability. Further, the experiential and participative involvement in rites restores a sense of identity, security and purpose. Finally, it suggests that the development of spirituality in the indigenous Christan context includes aspects of cultural continuity, as well as the challenge of transformational adjustment to new experiences.
Item Cultural Heritage: Transformational and Inspiriational Framework for Future Education(2014-01-01) Skrzypaszek, JohnThis paper explores the connection between cultural heritage and its pedagogical value for future generations. Research unfolds a plethora of discussions being designed to demonstrate the close connection between cultural heritage and its significance in contemporary life. The attempts to connect the past with the present underline the need for contextualized meanings. Concurrently, it unfolds the challenges associated with the adaptation of cultural heritage to the progressive spread of globalization and advancement in technology. The demands for contextualized adaptability in the framework of universality create what this study refers to as a pathway of cultural progress with a misplaced focus. Further, it argues that the misplaced cultural focus engenders a state of cognitive dissonance that does not provide an ongoing pathway of creative and future oriented framework for education. In response, it provides an alternative solution named the pathway of cohesive cultural continuity. It shows that the role of cultural heritage needs to align with the broader view of a holistic approach to cultural heritage and its role in education. Finally, the paper concludes by showing, how the emphasis on the transformational spirit of human ingenuity generates a unifying link with the symbolism of the past and provides a vision-oriented inspiration for the future.
Item Doctrine and Deed: Adventism's Encounter with its Society in Nineteenth-century Australia(1986-01-01) Patrick, ArthurSince Jesus Christ first confronted Jewish society, "a many-sided debate about the relations of Christianity and civilization" has been an "enduring problem." H. Richard Niebuhr delineates "typical Christian answers to the problem of Christ and culture" and thus contributes "to the mutual understanding of variant and often conflicting Christian groups." Informed by Niebuhr's categories, this paper examines a small slice of the age long experience of Christianity in its "double wrestle... with the Lord and with the cultural society with which it lives in symbiosos." In particular, it seeks to understand the encounter between Seventh-day Adventists and Australian society from 1885-1900, the formative years during which the movement was introduced to this country.
Item Haunted: Claws and Teeth(2016-01-01) Lounsbury, LynnetteThis piece is the written and edited version of a previously performed oral piece that was part of the creative component of Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, 2015, Swinburne University, where they were exploring the idea of the relationship between text, place, and voice in the realm of supernatural writing.
The submission criteria asked for creative texts that responded to the idea of haunted people, places and supernatural experiences with an eye to live performance of text. The written versions were then reviewed for publication in the journal Bukker Tillibul: The Online Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research.
This piece explored the concept of haunting as a textual provocateur. It further explored the idea of the animal in the haunted space as an alternate spirit to that of the tradition human ghost and the roles animals play in linking humans to the past through place.
Item Higher Education Student's Use of Technologies for Assessment Within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)(2015-12-01) Anderson, Alan; Northcote, Maria T.; Bolton, David; Mildenhall, Paula; Lounsbury, LynnetteHigher education students' use of technologies has been documented over the years but their specific use of technologies for assessment-related tasks has yet to be fully investigated. Researchers at two higher education institutions recently conducted a study which sought to discover the technologies most commonly used by students within their Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). A specific aim of the study was to determine which of these technologies the students used when they complete and submit assessment tasks such as assignments and examinations. Results from questionnaires, focus groups and mapping exercises are reported and the implications of the findings for developing institutional infrastructure to engage students and support their learning are highlighted.
Item If 'Poetry is more a Threshold than a Path' Then What Might Students Redress to Help With Crossing Over?(2014-12-01) Williams, Anthony; Northcote, Maria T.; Rickett, Carolyn; Musgrave, David; Beveridge, JudithIf Seamus Heaney’s observation that ‘poetry is more a threshold than a path’ aligns with the lived experience of those who teach or study the art of writing poetry, then there is an ongoing pedagogical discussion to be had about the way students acquire skills and achieve competency in writing poetry in a tertiary learning context.
Item Intangible and Tangible Heritage in a Cross-cultural Setting: Integrity Versus Profit(2016-07-01) Skrzypaszek, JohnThe paper explores the impact of cross-cultural integration on the intangible and tangible heritage and its sustainability. It argues that the processes of acculturation generate a distancing between the original creators of the heritage and the narratives attached to the cultural entities in a new setting. The named detachment demises the originality and uniqueness of the local heritage expressed in language, rites, dressing, greetings, music, folklore, religion, cultural monuments, and sites. More so detrimental to the original ‘spirit of the place,’ are the new cultural modes imposed by time and change. In the context of the named challenges, this study aims to reinforce the significant role the original local culture plays in the progressively changing world. The defined cultural spaces of the local heritage, engrossed in the shared experiences and collective memories, enshrine the community cultural character and identity. These, in turn, provide an environment conducive to stability, safety, and an inspirational springboard for expressions evidenced both in tangible and intangible heritage. More so, it suggests that a clearly delineated cultural identity of the intangible heritage provides a motivational framework not only for creative expressions in the present but also a motivational for creative expressions in the future.
Item Intangible Heritage and its Role in the Formation of Social and Personal Identity(2012-06-01) Skrzypaszek, JohnThe rapid changes in cultural demographics, technology, education and the impact of globalization and multiculturalism demand a re-assessment of the processes that tend to isolate contemporary life from its heritage, named in the paper as cultural distancing. In view of the named dilemma, this paper explores the importance of the intangible heritage and its contribution to the formation of contextualized social and personal identity. The heart of the argument suggests that the nurture of the intangible heritage connects with the hub of identity formation. In support of this position, this paper adopts and modifies Stobbelaar and Pedroli’s existential and spatial identity quadrant by expanding the meanings to horizontal and vertical dimensions of life’s experience. The proposed model demonstrates that in the context of spatial dimension, the affective component of social identity, coined with the elements of reflexivity ingrained in the cultural memory, contributes to the reconstruction of relevant social and personal identity. Further, in this context, intangible heritage provides visionary inspiration and motivational drive. With this impetus, it drives the formation of the contemporary identity to discover a higher and future oriented purpose. Finally, the paper shows that in such a framework, identity thrives with a passion and contextualized vision, as long as, individuals take the time and effort to nurture, revive and recreate the memory of the living heritage.
Item Integrating Science and Scripture: The Case of Robert Boyle(1999-01-01) de Berg, Kevin C.In this paper I will address Boyle's understanding of Scripture and Nature and seek to outline those features of his philosophy, which enable him to integrate religious and scientific activity in a way that was faithful to both Religion and Science. I will depend predominantly or primary source material for this and on a recently published work by Jan Wojcik entitled, "Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason" (1997). This paper is also significant from the point of view of post-modernism's criticism of Science, which, while making some legitimate criticism of the way Science has fragmented out thinking through scientism, often forgets about the kinds of legitimate problems that Science has been able to solve for humankind. By looking forwards into the modern era from the past one can balance the post-modern view of Science, which looks backwards into the modern era from the present. I will conclude the paper with a discussion on how Boyle's philosophy might help us in the current origins debate and in issues related to chemistry curricular in colleges and universities.
Item Justice and Equality: Is God Interested?(2017-07-01) Roennfeldt, Ray C.This paper will firstly examine the Genesis account of the creation of human kind to find the divine ideal for human relationships. Secondly, this author discusses the divine attitude towards justice and equality in Scripture more generally. Thirdly, like any biblical teaching or doctrine, there are difficult passages that cannot be easily 'squeezed' into a systematic approach. The author will examine a sampling of texts, rather than all these passages in detail. Finally, the author will plot a possible path ahead as the global, multicultural church grapples with the issue of justice and equality through the hermeneutical system portrayed as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral and through the Jersualem Council of Acts 15 as a case study in church politics.
Item ‘Live and Invent’: The Bibliotherapeutic Function of Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies in Brenda Walker’s Breast Cancer Narrative(2014-11-01) Rickett, CarolynI don’t need a written statement assuring my survival. My imagination can work to dampen down fear … . It can still dream. ― Brenda Walker, Reading by Moonlight, 221.
In her memoir entitled Reading By Moonlight Brenda Walker traverses her experience of breast cancer reconstituting Arthur Frank’s notion of “narrative wreck” with the trope of literature as a form of solace. Out of the expanse of literature on offer that would serve as a comforting companion for her initial surgery and hospital stay, Walker selects Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies. Some critics find this privileging a puzzling one: a partially paralysed man facing his death in an enclosed room armed with little more than an old stick and a bed-ridden view of the moon from his window. However, Walker articulates why this particular choice from Beckett’s oeuvre functions as a form of bibliotherapy:
Malone Dies was the right book for the hospital bed because it is drenched in regret. Malone has almost no possessions, no parents to farewell, no children, no real home. No personal distractions. Just sorrow at the loss of the final pure things: thought and memory and story. This is what you lose when you lose your life, and the loss is incalculable. Malone writes of the ‘soul denied in vain, vigilant, anxious, turning in its cage as in a lantern, in the night without haven or craft or matter or understanding.’ Poor soul, as my grandmother would say, helpless, trapped, unsupported. Malone’s lament is a moment of sympathy, and perhaps belief. (Reading by Moonlight 44)
This paper explores the way in which Beckett’s text offers her a literature of enlarged consciousness throughout her illness. While Malone confronts the immutable reality of human extinction, and the gestured attempts of staving off death by feeble human activity and distraction, his stories form part of a literary tradition that invokes for Walker the possibility of imaginative translocation.
Item Musicians as Researchers - Insight or Insanity?(2016-07-01) Reid, Anna; Nelson, Kathleen; Petocz, P; Groves, D; Costa, M; Tatar, J; Swift, O; Shamee, A; Sawkins, J; Reid, C; Walker, S; Lucas, F; Abouhamad, A; Larsen, J; Kay, M; Hillinger, S; Griffiths, B; Cohen, M; Bernhard, A; Battaglin, S; King, Aleta; Gard, A; Lillicrap, B; Kim-Boyle, J; Hoeppner-Ryan, Anke; Roumanoff, N; Ly, Rebecca; Wilson, Sonia; Fowler, Richard; Jones, DuncanIn the current university context, many highly-proficient music performers enrol in higher education degrees by research. While at first glance those enrolled may seem to be moving from an area of expertise to an area of inexperience, in many cases the individual may in fact have already developed a range of research skills in the course of becoming highly proficient in their chosen field. Many expert musicians seek to further develop their craft through embarking on research degrees and/or seek inspiration through what they aim to discover. Research is a highly valued skill among many musicians pursuing fine music making. In this paper, we will investigate the motivations of musicians for enrolling in a higher degree by research, including the reasons why they choose research as a way of expanding their skills as performers, and the expected outcomes of their research studies.
Item My Body/My Calamity. My Body/My Dignity: The Role of Autobiographical Writing as a Therapeutic and Ethical Strategy for Dealing with a Cancer Diagnosis.(2011-01-01) Rickett, CarolynThis paper interrogates how autobiographical texts narrating the trauma of a cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatment might be read as sites of therapeutic and ethical intervention. When writing about the physical and psychic injury caused by a potentially life-threatening disease, an author often performs imaginative acts of reclaiming and retelling her or his own story, and in so doing challenges and resists culturally reductive and unethical readings of the ill body as medicalised, marginalised or stigmatised.
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