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0000-0003-4843-0563
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Murdoch University
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/19408447221079410
Abstract: Sharing the lived experience of academic casualisation is challenging, based on a power imbalance with many oppositional points, including cost savings versus fair wages, precarity versus security. As researcher articipant, Jennifer initially struggled with sharing experiences emotionally and academically without stripping humanity and affect from her writing. Drawing on the tradition of critical autoethnography, this article uses letter writing as a means of investigating personal-professional experience through critical self-reflection. These letters are written to a fictional colleague (Q) for the purpose of ‘wondering aloud’ about her experience of casualised labour and the difficulties of constructing a personal-professional identity within the context of the Australian neoliberal university.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 24-06-2004
DOI: 10.1108/08198691200400002
Abstract: The state of citizenship education in Australia continues to attract media attention as evidenced by two recent newspaper headlines, Students take apathetic view of democracy and Teach young about democracy. These headlines were reporting on the latest findings of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on school students understanding of democracy. As a part of a 28‐nation civics survey, the ACER found half of Australian students had no grasp of democracy (ranking them behind countries like Poland, Cyprus and the Slovak Republic) lacked clarity about the Constitution, elections, voting systems or the role of groups like trade unions were unwilling to engage in politics and believed politics was relatively unimportant
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 11-1996
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.WOMBI.2014.05.004
Abstract: The cultural phenomenon of "teenage pregnancy and motherhood" has been socially constructed and (mis)represented in social and health care discourses for several decades. Despite a growing body of qualitative research that presents an alternative and positive view of young motherhood, there remains a significant gap between pregnant and young women's experience of young motherhood and current global health and social policy that directs service delivery and practice. This paper aims to heighten awareness of how a negative social construction of young motherhood influences global health and social policy that directs current community health models of practice and care for young mothers in the community. There is clear evidence on the vital role social support plays in young women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood, particularly in forming a positive motherhood identity. This discussion paper calls us to start open and honest dialogue on how we may begin to re-vision the 'deficit view' of young motherhood in order to address this contradiction between research evidence, policy discourse and current practice and service provision. Qualitative research that privileges young women's voices by considering the multidimensional experiences of young motherhood is an important step towards moving away from universally prescribed interventions to a non-standard approach that fosters relational and responsive relationships with young mothers that includes addressing the immediate needs of young mothers at the particular time.
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 11-2000
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2008
DOI: 10.1177/000494410805200304
Abstract: Through the use of narrative portraits this paper discusses social class and identity, as working-class university students perceive them. With government policy encouraging wider participation rates from under-represented groups of people within the university sector, working-class students have found themselves to be the objects of much research. Working-class students are, for the most part, studied as though they are docile bodies, unable to participate in the construction of who they are, and working-class accounts of university experiences are quite often compared to the middle-class norms. This paper explores how working-class students see themselves within the university culture. Working-class students' voices and stories form the focus of this paper, in which the language of ‘disadvantage’ is dealt with and the ideologies of class identity explored.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2016
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 06-04-2014
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.12106
Abstract: Pregnant and young mothers' stories often go untold within community social and health service policy, planning and practice. Consequently, there is a significant gap between young women's experiences of motherhood and current service provision. This study was undertaken in response to a paucity of observational and contextually rich research that explores young women's experiences of pregnancy and motherhood, including the role a community service played in scaffolding their motherhood journeys. Fundamental to this study's purpose was the premise that to improve planning and delivery of more appropriate services for this group, we need to listen, consult and consider what life is like for young mothers. The purpose of this paper is to describe the role a community service played in scaffolding young women's experiences as they transitioned to motherhood. Using a narrative approach, this study draws on data collected from contextual observations of 31 informants and 11 in-depth interviews over 7 months of fieldwork in 2010 at a community service in the Peel region of Western Australia. The integral role a community service played in the young women's transition to motherhood was analysed thematically and captured in three metaphorical themes, finding a circle of friends, weaving a tapestry and turning the page. The young women's storied experiences of motherhood present a strong argument for radical re-visioning of community and social health policy, practice and service delivery for young mothers. The findings revealed that judgement-free services that foster social and supportive relationships were integral in developing positive motherhood identities. The power of narrative and social learning when working with young mothers suggests that social models of health that foster a relational, narrative approach to practice are fundamental to young mothers finding their own voices and solutions and becoming active agents in re-authoring future narratives of hope, autonomy and agency.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-02-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-12-2022
Abstract: This article considers Participatory Arts and sociocultural understandings of justice and praxis through the ex le of Big hART, an Australian multi-award winning provider where both artists and participants – often disenfranchised and marginalised young people – co-create the work (Matarasso, 2018). Enacting social justice principles, Big hART works alongside young people to improve their life outcomes through arts practice strengthening young people’s critical capabilities by inducting them as both makers and responders to their own lives and the world around them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research across three sites in rural and regional Australia we highlight how multidimensional and multi-modal arts-based projects contribute to young people’s lives through theorising the attributes and dimensions of twenty productive conditions and practices identified as essential for social change. These possibilities are important as when these conditions are purposefully enacted, the power of the arts for sense-making and identity development is revealed in non-formal learning spaces. Theoretically unpacking these conditions and practices and linking them with research outcomes helps build understanding of the generative power of Participatory Arts through the ways Big hART builds bridges between young people and their communities and the developmental trajectories they may take through being ‘at-promise’ rather than ‘at-risk’.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2006
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1080/713650694
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2018
Abstract: Our research is driven by a strong belief that the stories of young people gathered through ethnographic interviews can generate awareness not only of the complexities, uncertainties and possibilities of young people’s lives but also the ways in which their identities and life chances are shaped by broader structural, institutional and historical forces beyond their control. In this article, we introduce Jacinta, a young person who describes the events and conditions which serve to hinder and/or support her journey in school and beyond. We have used Jacinta’s story from a larger research project, to speak back to the impact the broader neoliberalising agenda is having on young lives with a view to reimagining democratic alternatives in education.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-01-2022
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-02-2015
Abstract: Pregnant and young mothers’ stories often go untold or are poorly represented within dominant health and social care discourses. Consequently, narratives of young mothers are largely absent from social and health care literature, especially in relation to how young women make sense, understand, and experience young motherhood. Drawing on 7 months of participant observation fieldwork at a community service, and 11 in-depth interviews, we discuss six metaphorical themes which capture the experiences of young mothers using a narrative approach. These include: Picking up the Pieces Walking a Narrow and Familiar Path Jumping over Puddles Riding the Rapids to Motherhood Living with Dirty Looks and Asking for Directions. Contrary to the wider community’s deficit view and stereotypes of young mothers, what emerged from the narratives was quite a different story. Becoming a young mother meant taking a stand against stigma from the wider community recognising motherhood as a significant and transformational turning point in their lives, one that opened doors to alternative storylines of hope, autonomy and agency, especially given a supportive context. These findings enhance our understandings by widening the lens to erse realities that exist in young mothers’ lives and present a strong case for using a narrative approach to research and practice when working with young mothers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-05-2017
Location: Australia
Start Date: 2005
End Date: 2007
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2012
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2013
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2012
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2025
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 2010
Funder: Australian Research Council
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