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Globalisation and the Return to Empire: an Indigenous Response = Te torino whakahaere, whakamuriStewart-Harawira, Makere January 2002 (has links)
Whole document restricted, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy. / This thesis may be regarded as both a history of the present and a signifier for the future. Developed during a time of dramatic global upheavals and transformations, it is concerned with the political economy of world order and the ontologies of being upon which world order is predicated. As the framework for the world order of nation states, international law was the means whereby indigenous peoples within colonised territories reconstructed from sovereign nations to dependent populations. Undperpinning this body of law and the political formations of world order were sets of social and political ontologies which continue to be contested. These ontologies are frequently at variance with those of indigenous peoples and shape the arena within which the struggle for self-determination and the validation of indigenous knowledge, values and subjectivities is played out. Contextualised within the international political and juridical framework, the thesis utilises critical theoretical traditions to examine the participation of indigenous peoples in the construction of world order and new global formations. Positioned from a Maori perspective, the thesis also tracks the historical role of education in the development of world order and considers the role and form of Maori educational resistance. In engaging with these issues across macro and micro levels, the thesis identifies the international arena, the national state and forms of regionalism as sites for the reshaping of the global politico/economic order and the emergence of Empire. Allied to this are the reconstruction of hierarchies of knowledge and subjectivities within new Manichean divides. Key questions raised in the thesis concern the positioning of indigenous ontologies and epistemologies within the emergent global order, and the nature of resistance or response. Calls for a new ontology of world order are increasingly being articulated in response to the multiple and increasing crises of globalisation. This thesis argues that, far from irrelevant, traditional indigenous social, political and cosmological ontologies are profoundly important to the development of transformative alternative frameworks for global order.
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In the Outer - Not on the Outer: Women and Australian Rules Footballdebbiehindley@westnet.com.au, Deborah Hindley January 2006 (has links)
This thesis identifies, examines and probes the nature of womens involvement in Australian Rules Football. Rather than have a single theoretical underpinning, an interdisciplinary approach, albeit with a feminist perspective, was applied because of the broad scope of the study. Australian Rules Football is an institution that can transcend class, race, and gender. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry. The game traces its origins back to 1858 and claims influences from rugby and an Aboriginal game called marn-grook. While it is played mainly by men, exclusively at league level, interest and involvement is not limited by gender.
Academics and administrators have frequently written off womens involvement with football. Even though scholarly interest in both sport and feminism has grown since the 1970s, little significant work has been undertaken to examine womens interaction with Australian Rules Football. Leading Australian feminist Anne Summers rejected the notion that women could find anything of value in football apart from following players as devoted wives, mothers, girlfriends or groupies. Through investigation of monographs and edited collections, I reveal that myriad scholars, feminists and historians have missed the point of sporting scholarship: many women enjoy involvement with football, they understand the game and its strategies and value being part of the football community in diverse and evolving capacities.
The original contribution to knowledge in this doctorate is to demonstrate that while women have had a central role in the development and maintenance of Australian Rules Football since the game was founded in colonial times, their contribution has gone unacknowledged by historians and administrators. My thesis places on record those omissions. Particularly, I highlight the lack of acknowledgement and respect for the work of a woman who authored a comprehensive and seminal social history written on the game. This is the archetypal example of how women, in many roles both professional and personal have been marginalized, despite playing pivotal roles with Australian Rules Football. The original contribution contained in these pages tracks Australian gender relations through the social institution of Australian Rules Football. To create both space and strategies for the revaluation of women in football history, a new model of female fandom is offered. The testimony of the women included is weighty in numbers and pithy in content. The scale of interviews represents diversity in age, class, ethnicity, regionality and role or function with football. Superficially it may appear that women can be placed in taxonomy. Womens involvement with Australian Rules Football is complex and their involvement enmeshes in the many facets and spheres of the game.
The completion of this thesis follows the long overdue appointment of the A.F.L.s first female commissioner, Samantha Mostyn, in June 2005. Without disrespecting Mostyn, this was a tokenistic cultural shift by adding a commissioner to the existing eight males with the goal of adding further business expertise, not a new insight or strategic cultural intervention. It also comes at a time when the Australian Football Leagues has a new challenge to address, with the growing interest and participation in Association Football in Australia after the qualification for the 2006 World Cup. At this moment of change and contestation, Womens Australian Rules competitions are impoverished through lack of structural and financial support while womens Association Football, both in Australia and internationally, is flourishing.
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Cross-cultural aspects of reading practices : a longitudinal study of Thai and Indian/Bangladeshi postgraduate students' metacognitive and framing abilities when reading at an Australian universityjoysi@iprimus.com.au, Joyce Bell January 2002 (has links)
This research aimed at understanding the reading practices of two groups of
international postgraduate students across three semesters. The research was
underpinned by a conceptual framework incorporating metacognitive concepts with
framing theory. The methodology involved individual interviews using academic text
and pair think-alouds followed by retrospective interviews using general-interest
texts. The interviews and pair think-alouds took place at an Australian university with
Thai and IndianBangladeshi postgraduate students and at university campuses in
Thailand and India.
The data selected from the interviews and pair think-alouds revealed significant
changes in reading practices between first and third semester at an Australian
university and the participants' awareness of these changes. The participants'
reflections also provided some explanation for the differences in their cognitive and
metacognitive strategy use.
The research study was important because, at the postgraduate level, students are
faced with complex text interpretation processes. International students, in addition,
have to make a significant cultural/study shift; not only do they have to become accustomed to the reading of academic texts using discipline-specific patterns but
often have to adjust to different conventions used by authors from cultural
backgrounds other than their own. Little is known, in particular, about Thai and
Indianmangladeshi postgraduate students' reading experiences in their own countries
or how their reading practices change during study at an Australian university.
The research findings suggest a dynamic, multi-dimensional, developmental
framework for conceptualising international postgraduate students' reading practices
in first semester at an Australian university, and the changes in reading practices and
the educational and socio-cultural influences on these changes by third semester; the
findings, in addition, can inform the debate on literacy levels in the cross-cultural
academic environment and can contribute to discussions on such pedagogical issues
as reforming of curricular structure, the internationalisation of curricula and the
development of more culturally sensitive supervisory frameworks.
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Vasomotor reactivity studies of small and large coronary arteries /Beltrame, John Francis. January 1998 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Medicine, 2000. / Errata and corrigenda inserted at end of thesis. Bibliography: leaves 290-337.
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Variation in cranial base flexion and craniofacial morphology in modern humans /Simpson, Ellie Kristina. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences and Dental School, 2005. / "July 2005" Bibliography: leaves 263-273. Also available in a print form.
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Variation in cranial base flexion and craniofacial morphology in modern humansSimpson, Ellie Kristina. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Medical School, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences and Dental School, 2005. / "July 2005" Includes bibliographical references. Also available in a print form.
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An Applied model for communicating theological concepts cross-culturallyReed, Rick. January 1985 (has links)
Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-77).
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An Applied model for communicating theological concepts cross-culturallyReed, Rick. January 1985 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-77).
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Gaining sense at age two in the outer Fiji Islands a crosscultural study of cognitive development /Katz, Mary Maxwell West. January 1981 (has links)
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Harvard University, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194).
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Borrowing modernity a comparison of educational change in Japan, China, and Thailand from the early seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century /Batchelor, Randal Shon. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Marilyn Lockhart. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-264).
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