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Item A Christian Aesthetic for the Arts(2013-01-01) Reynaud, DanielItem A Christian Aesthetic for the Arts(2013-01-01) Reynaud, DanielThe arts and modern Christianity, especially in its Evangelical Protestant forms, have often had an uneasy relationship. This chapter addresses a Christian aesthetic for the arts, proposing a biblical philosophical approach that helps give the arts their proper place in the Christian sphere.
Item A Pocket Biography of Each Contributing Soldier(2018-01-01) Forbes, Marcia; Reynaud, DanielThis chapter gives a brief outline of each soldier whose diaries and letters were referenced in the book, excluding those whose letters were accessed via contemporary newspapers.
Item A Typology of Child Sponsorship Activity(2014-01-01) Watson, BradFraming the debate over child sponsorship in terms of legitimacy and changing perceptions of credible international humanitarian interventions, this chapter takes exception to the tendency of child sponsorship critics to assume that sponsorship funded activity is much the same everywhere and similar today when compared to sponsorship practice in the past. Mindful of ongoing critique of child sponsorship, this chapter seeks to position those international non-governmental organisations that utilise child sponsorship to fund interventions, in a landscape of contested ideas. It argues that informed critique of child sponsorship is best achieved through a typology of funded interventions. Four key types of sponsorship funded activity are identified as emerging over time, some of which are currently deemed to be less legitimate in terms of poverty reduction and are best seen as welfare measures aimed at individual children rather than community development or advocacy activities.
Item A Wider Angle: Australia's War Films of the New Millennium(2021-04-01) Reynaud, DanielAbstract
Australian war films have rarely been studied as a genre, though there is an implicit study of the Anzac war movie subgenre, which until the 21st Century has represented the bulk of Australian war film-making. This chapter first offers an overview of Australian war film genres from 1914-2000 and a summary of attempts at war film genre definitions, largely drawn from American studies. It then explores the ways in which post-2000 Australian war films fit, expand, modify and rupture existing war genre descriptions, creating a space which Australian war film productions can inhabit and can intermix both with other Australian genres and with international war film genres. Australian war cinema is part of a wider intertextual representation, and many of these characteristics and trends are shared with Australian television productions on war themes. The subgenre of Anzac movies continues, but with a shift from the relatively simplistic themes of the 1980s to more nuanced representations of Anzac encompassing more than just the First World War. An expanded palette of themes, settings, tropes, iconography and industrial conditions also emerges from other war films. Recent war films frequently cross genre boundaries, are more likely to participate in international collaborations and offer representations of war beyond the purely Australian.
Item 'Because Cowards Get Cancer Too’: Autopathography and First-Person Profiling in John Diamond’s Columns for The Times(2015-01-01) Rickett, CarolynThe UK journalist and broadcaster John Diamond chronicled his diagnosis and treatment of throat cancer over a period of almost four years in regular columns for The Times newspaper. His revelations did not employ the traditional tropes of ‘fighting’ and ‘battling’ cancer, and he actively resisted wearing any mantle of valorised courage. In fact, he requested that The Times change the original title of his entries which they had called ‘Diary of Courage’.
In his first-person confessions, Diamond’s embodied sense of an abject and mortal self indexes one of the central threats that illness poses because it potentially represents the antithesis of what society traditionally values: productivity and active participation. Instead of his body enacting the utilitarian story of efficiency and continuity, Diamond’s illness narratives typically portrayed disruption and disorientation. Ironically for a former broadcaster on BBC radio, the progression of cancer saw the removal of his tongue, heightening the performative role writing played in voicing his candid thoughts to an engaged public audience.
As sociologist Arthur Frank notes in his influential text The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics: ‘The illness story begins in wreckage, having lost its map and destination’ (1995: 164). Publishing regular newspaper columns did not ultimately offer Diamond the opportunity to defy physical death through the act of writing, but the profiling of his disease enabled an insight into the value of narrating the ‘wrecked’ self while dying.
Item Beginning the Process of Humanizing Online Learning: Two Teachers' Experiences(2016-11-01) Kilgour, Peter W.; Reynaud, Emanuela; Reynaud, DanielThis chapter considers two autoethnographic case studies as two teachers report on their journey towards making online learning more authentic, personal and humanized. One case study is a secondary school technology and applied science teacher and the other a tertiary history and literature lecturer. In both cases an initial reticence and even fear transitions into a journey of discovery with the online format. The importance of technical support, pedagogical support and administrative enthusiasm are seen as vital to a healthy transition to an online learning environment that maximizes the advantages of the technology. A link is drawn between humanizing the transition for teachers and humanizing the experience for students.
Item Bryan Ball as Historian(2015-01-01) Reynaud, DanielThis chapter evaluates Seventh-day Adventist theologian Bryan Ball’s contribution to studies of Puritanism in Elizabethan and Stuart England. Ball locates the origins of many distinctive Seventh-day Adventist beliefs in various thinkers during the period, on a continuum from the main stream to the marginal. His work is innovative among SDA scholars in plumbing the origins of SDA thought long before the movement actually began.
Item Child Sponsorship as Development Education in the Northern Classroom(2014-01-01) Watson, Brad; Tallon, RachelThis chapter explores the ethical dilemmas, and potential harm done when child sponsorship NGOs market sponsorship to children in school settings. Arguing that child sponsorship functions as a form of development education in the northern classroom, this chapter points to the potential for CS marketing strategies to infantalise and demean the poor, through a well-intentioned lens of paternalism. The chapter calls for greater commitment to global citizenship education in the crowded curriculum of secondary education and provides key questions (after Andreotti, 2012) for NGO marketing staff to consider in their public communication.
Item Child Sponsorship: A Path to its Future(2014-01-01) Watson, Brad; Clarke, MatthewThis chapter provides a concise summary of the positive historic features of child sponsorship and notes the emergence of various codes of conduct arising from historic scandals and prior negative publicity. However it calls for continued change and improvement in the sector by suggesting 13 principles including better education for sponsors, greater transparency around the model of sponsorship used, alignment with best practice, promotion of the dignity and agency of the chid and improved public dissemination of program evaluation.
Item Conceptualizing an Ecological Approach to Ethical Literary Journalism(2019-12-01) Morton, LindsayWell into the twenty-first century, it has become commonplace to observe the disruptive impact technological advances have made on the media landscape. Innovations in modes of gathering, processing, and distributing the news have produced crises ranging from the breakdown of traditional business models to fears about declining quality journalism. Along with these issues has come the erosion of public trust in media institutions in general and journalism in particular, necessitating a renewed discussion about communication ethics. A number of factors complicate a discussion of ethics in this field, including a lack of certainty over who is—or who identifies as—a literary journalist; the broad range of genres the field participates in and their particular demands; and choices regarding the extent to which voice, style, subjectivity, transparency, and testimony infuse or inform practitioners’ work. This chapter addresses the complex web of relationships among practitioners, subjects, texts, and readers that gives rise to issues ranging from the ethics of belief to the ethics of advocacy.
Item David Shields Way of Making: Creative Manoeuvre or HDR Nightmare?(2014-01-01) Rickett, Carolyn; Joseph, SueSome people thought I was the anti-christ because I did not genuflect at the twin altars of the novel and intellectual property — David Shields
This paper reflects on some of the issues that American author David Shield’s provocative keynote address at the 2012 Bedells NonfictioNow conference raised for creative arts practitioners within the Australian academy. Using his text Reality Hunger: A Manifesto as an exemplar, Shields enumerated three of the core literary tenets that form the basis of his innovative writing practice: that creativity and plagiarism are synonymous; that the providence of a sentence or phrase or statement does not matter; that appropriation of anything, without citation constitutes a new form of art. In his own words, he has become ‘the poster boy for the death of the novel and the death of copyright’. Essential to the process of creating relevant forms of writing for the 21st century, ‘collage’ and ‘pastiche’ are his literary mainstays, but he is self-effacing enough to admit to plagiarism.
Notwithstanding the irony of his position—that he uses the same texts he claims failed him in order to create his own original art form—this paper explores questions derivative of his reasoning: Would Shields get a project like Reality Hunger: A Manifesto through an HDR application process? How would his model of textual production sit within the academy? Can his way of making have any place in the academy? Is curating in the creative writing strand (fiction and non-fiction) equivalent to creating? Would the academy, like Reality Hunger’s publisher Random House, insist on attribution somewhere within the creative text? How would academics respond to examining a text generated from his mode of creative practice?
Interrogating his notion of ownership (or seeming lack thereof), this paper surveys a range of responses from creative practitioner academics to these questions in a bid to garner some collegial consensus. Mapped against procedural guidelines for both process of application and examination, our ultimate question really is: could Shields’ model of ‘making’ a text like Reality Hunger: A Manifesto fit current academic protocols for a creative thesis within Australian tertiary settings?
Item Deadly Funny: How John Diamond Used Humor to Tackle the Taboo Subjects of Cancer and Dying(2016-01-01) Rickett, CarolynThis chapter will examine how humor is employed defensively by writers who are processing/performing trauma and how they mediate the crisis to a reading public by using wit as a coping strategy. It will largely focus on John Diamond’s C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too (1998), which draws on his journalism columns, and look at the ways in which he uses humor during a health crisis and what consolation, if any, this offers him and his readers. It is, indeed, amazing that he can still be ‘funny’/witty when his tongue has been surgically removed and his prognosis is terminal. The chapter will show how Diamond uses humor in writing about traditionally taboo and uncomfortable topics that do not typically sell papers – such as life-threatening illness and pending death.
Item Diasporas: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives(2009-01-01) Fernandez-Goldborough, Jane L.The Conference Diasporas: Critical Issues at Mansfield College, Oxford from July 5th -8th 2008 provided a thinking-space for those of us invariably interested in, or who work with, issues and concepts of the diaspora/s. The conference signposted several themes which drew scholars and practitioners from a cross-section of disciplines across the globe. The wide range of topics offered a broad scope for engagement with issues pertaining to what has become one of the most contestable concepts of our times: diaspora/s.[From publisher's website]
Item Eureka!(2013-01-01) Rogers, Lachlan J.Item Film and National Mythology: the Anzac Legend in Australian Films(2009-01-01) Reynaud, DanielCreative Nation is the first Reader on Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies published in India that introduces Australian films (historical, contemporary, art house, short, digital and documentary) as well as cultural texts (pop and hip hop, popular theatre, film music, Aboriginal songs and music, mass art, queer and photographic culture) for an international scholarship in order to broaden Australian studies in nations that have recently begun to explore this field, especially in Asia.
Item Fun Times and Good Memories(2021-01-01) Reynaud, DanielThis chapter looks at the leisure activities available to the indigenous inmates of the Mona Mona Mission. It explores the recreation officially made available by government and mission authorities, the changes over time, and their reception by the inmates. It also examines Aboriginal agency in creating their own fun times, both within and outside of the regulated environment in which they were confined.
Item Gallipoli(2011-01-01) Reynaud, DanielThis chapter provides an overview of Australia’s most influential Anzac movie, exploring its making, themes and popular and critical reception
Item Heutagogy in Action: An Action Research Project in Art Education(2021-07-01) Collis, AndrewThis chapter describes the journey of a teacher (learning leader) and his students (learners) in applying some innovative approaches to enhance learning in a higher education setting. Based on the principles of heutagogy or self-determined learning, the learning leader used action research to implement and investigate some innovative learning experiences in a History of Art class in an Australian university. For both the learning leader and two groups of learners, this experiment in learner-centred learning was very successful because the delivery and receiving of required essential course material became less predictable, less prescribed. This created a sense of spontaneity and discovery of knowledge. Such engagement in the process makes for more meaningful learning and interaction between parties. The impact of implementing a heutagogical approach encouraged other lecturers to re-examine their teaching methods to re-structure some of their units of teaching.
Item Introduction to Key Issues in Child Sponsorship(2014-01-01) Clarke, Matthew; Watson, BradChapter 1 introduces child sponsorship as a phenomenon characterised by controversy within the aid industry, broad popularity with the general public and specific appeal for non-governmental organisations due to its prodigious ability to mobilize funds. Despite emergent critique in the 1970s and 1980s, the authors note that the prominence of child sponsorship as a fundraising tool has continued with the first decade of the twentieth century witnessing sustained growth such that between eight and twelve million children are sponsored globally with the subsequent flow of funds exceeding US$3.1 billion. By such accounts it is possible that over two decades the sponsorship of children has generated international transfers in excess of US$50 billion. Exploring both positive features and causes for concern, this chapter argues that a book on child sponsorship is long overdue. The majority of large child sponsorship organisations are positioned as ethical organizations, committed to poverty reduction and positive outcomes for children.
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