Empowering Art: Reconfiguring narratives of trauma and hope in the Australian national imaginary

Aboriginal art has been the source of much contention between art curators, gallery owners, art critics and Aboriginal artists themselves. Early aesthetic debates about whether so-called traditional works should be considered ethnographic or artistic have led, at times, to conflicts over the rights of Aboriginal people to have their works exhibited according to the criteria applied to other kinds of Western artworks. This article explores how the dilemmas of troubled ethno-histories are critically embodied and reconfigured in texture and colour. It considers the problems that silenced histories pose for those responsible for their display to the public. As Aboriginal images often conceal troubled intercultural encounters it asks how artworks can be used to provide a counter-polemic to national rhetoric as artists seek to reshape and improve intergenerational futures. This text is published as a counterpart to the contribution to Disturbing Pasts from the artist Heather Kamarra Shearer.

Exploring Capacity Building of Ontario Dental Hygiene Educators During National Curriculum Reform

In times of educational change, educators are given the task of implementing new initiatives that meet the needs of a changing environment; yet, they are often dismissed from developmental phases of the reform. This top-down structure deters educators’ personal capacity building as their knowledge, values, assumptions, and beliefs are not acknowledged or explicitly developed as part of the initiative. This study explored Ontario dental hygiene educators’ perspectives of how they may build personal capacity during an externally mandated national curriculum reform, the Entry-to-Practice Competencies and Standards for Canadian Dental Hygienists (National Competencies). Narratives were collected from 5 dental hygiene educators of diverse educational training and teaching organizations. Three themes emerged that included perceptions of structural influence, perceptions of learning access, and perceptions of identity. Each theme was linked to tasks that were required to build personal capacity for sustainable school change. The theoretical framework and the required tasks demonstrated the interconnectedness between educators, leaders, and the organization for building educators’ personal capacity.

The national curriculum : handbook for primary teachers in England : key stages 1 and 2.

Este manual es el documento oficial del Programa Nacional de Estudios (National Currículo) para las escuelas primarias, desde septiembre de 2000. En él se establece, de forma legal, el derecho a la educación para todos los alumnos; se determina el contenido de lo que se enseña, y garantiza el cumplimiento de unos objetivos: los niños de edades comprendidas entre cinco y once años, deben aprender unos conocimientos esenciales de lectura, escritura, comprensión y aritmética. Igualmente, dispone que la forma de ejecución de este programa de estudios sea evaluable, y procedan informes al respecto.

Understanding and teaching the ICT national curriculum.

Se plantea con la intención de subsanar la incertidumbre de la profesión docente en lo que se refiere a una eficaz enseñanza de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Así, con una combinación de amplios consejos prácticos y un debate crítico sobre aspectos teóricos clave, se ayuda al profesor a comprender el sentido de estas tecnologías en el programa nacional de estudios y sus principales objetivos para las etapas 1 y 2 de primaria (key stage 1 y 2). Todo ello, para desarrollar las aptitudes de los alumnos con las TIC.

STP National curriculum mathematics: 9A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: trabajando con números, probabilidad, porcentajes, ratio y proporción, productos algebraicos, desigualdades, factores algebraicos, organizando y resumiendo datos, fórmulas, sistema de ecuaciones, ecuaciones de segundo grado, gráficos, áreas y volúmenes, transformaciones, figuras similares, trigonometría: tangente de un ángulo, el seno y el coseno de un ángulo, geometría.

National Curriculum Mathematics 7A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: suma y resta de números enteros, multiplicación y división con números enteros, recolección y visualización de datos, números primos, el significado de las fracciones, suma y resta de fracciones y decimales, más sobre decimales, unidades métricas (unidades de longitud, unidades de dinero), introducción a la geometría, simetría, triángulos y cuadriláteros, probabilidad, líneas paralelas, coordenadas positivas y negativas, fórmulas, gráficos, resumiendo y comparando datos, ecuaciones, agrupando datos.

STP National Curriculum Mathematics 8A.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (KS3) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: trabajando con números, probabilidad, multiplicación y división de fracciones, fracciones y porcentajes, ratio, polígonos, áreas de triángulos, gráficos, circunferencia y área de un círculo, fórmulas, reflexiones, traducciones y rotaciones (rotación de un objeto sobre un punto), ecuaciones, gráficos de línea recta, gráficos curvados, datos continuos, teorema de Pitágoras, volúmenes, relaciones entre distancia, velocidad y tiempo.

Income differences in food consumption in the 1995 Australian national nutrition survey

Objective: To assess the relationships between an index of per capita income and the intake of a variety of individual foods as well as groups of food for men and women in different age groups. Design: Cross-sectional national survey of free-living men and women. Subjects: A sample of 5053 males and 5701 females aged 18 y and over who completed the Australian National Nutrition Survey 1995. Methods: Information about the frequency of consumption of 88 food items was obtained. On the basis of scores on the Food Frequency Questionnaire, regular and irregular consumers of single foods were identified. The relationships between regularity of consumption of individual foods and per capita income were analysed via contingency tables. Food variety scores were derived by assigning individual foods to conventional food group taxonomies, and then summing up the dichotomised intake scores for individual foods within each food group. Two-way ANOVA (income age group) were performed on the food variety scores for males and females, respectively. Results: Per capita income was extensively related to the reported consumption of individual foods and to total and food group variety indices. Generally, both men and women in low income households had less varied diets than those in higher-income households. However, several traditional foods were consumed less often by young high-income respondents, especially young women. Conclusions: Major income differentials in food variety occur in Australia but they are moderated by age and gender. Younger high-income women, in particular, appear to have rejected a number of traditional foods, possibly on the basis of health beliefs. The findings also suggest that data aggregation has marked effects on income and food consumption relationships.

The relationship between education and food consumption in the 1995 Australian national nutrition survey

Objective: To assess the relationship between education and the intake of a variety of individual foods, as well as groups of foods, for Australian men and women in different age groups.

Design: Cross-sectional national survey of free-living men and women. Subjects: A sample of 2501 men and 2739 women aged 18 years and over who completed the National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 1995.

Methods: Information about the frequency of consumption of 88 food items was obtained using a food-frequency questionnaire in a nation-wide nutrition survey. Irregular and regular consumers of foods were identified according to whether they consumed individual foods less than or more than once per month. The relationship between single foods and an index of education (no post-school qualifications, vocational, university) was analysed via contingency table chi-square statistics for men and women. Food group variety scores were derived by assigning individual foods to conventional food group taxonomies, and then summing the dichotomised intake scores for individual foods within each food group. Two-way analyses of variance (education by age groups) were performed on food variety scores for men and women, separately.

Results: While university-educated men and women consumed many individual foods more regularly than less-educated people, they were less likely to be regular consumers of several meat products. The relationship between education and food consumption was less apparent when individual food scores were aggregated into food group scores. University-educated men and women exhibited higher scores on total food group variety than the other educational groups.

Conclusions: Higher education is associated with the regular consumption of a wider variety of foods. Aggregation of individual food consumption indices into food variety scores may mask the apparent effects of educational background on food consumption.