Uncomfortable curricula? A survey of academic practices and attitudes to delivering Indigenous content in health professional degrees

Unacceptable inequity in health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians remains despite much work in the area. The imperative for graduating health professionals capable and ready to work with urban and rural Indigenous communities has led to a focus on curriculum development, but less focus has thus far been applied to academic staff capability to deliver the content. We surveyed academic staff at a large multi-campus Australian university on their practices and attitudes towards teaching Indigenous content in health professional programs. Indigenous and non-Indigenous academic staff were surveyed online about whether Indigenous content was included in the curricula they taught; whether they felt confident and capable of delivering curricula related to Indigenous issues; what challenges they found in including Indigenous content; and what, if any, supports and resources they felt were needed. Sixty-three per cent of respondents said that they included Indigenous content in their curricula, but 43% said that they did not access Indigenous resources; 60% reported feeling awkward, unsure or avoided teaching Indigenous content; most (74%) were comfortable teaching discipline-specific content to Indigenous students but only 26% felt comfortable teaching Indigenous content to Indigenous students. The findings reflect a level of discomfort experienced by some academic staff when teaching Indigenous content in health professional degrees. Reasons for this include being worried they would make mistakes, not knowing what to teach and finding it ‘too hard’. We suggest that three levels of action are required within universities to address this discomfort in academic staff: (i) provide a rationale (‘why’ teach Indigenous content); (ii) develop a plan (‘where’ and ‘what’ Indigenous content to teach) and (iii) develop capability in academic staff regarding ‘how’ to teach Indigenous content.     

Refracting schoolgirls: pedagogical intra-actions producing shame

This article contributes to the discussion of gender inequality in schools with the central theme tracing ways that pedagogical affect im/mobilises agency. I argue that what I call ‘the schoolgirl affect’, as distinctly gendered pedagogical practices in schools, constitute a schoolgirl body that refracts capacity for action in particular ways. Karen Barad's theorising of performativity allows me to move away from a definition of what schoolgirl success is and rather discuss ways successful schoolgirls are co-constructed. Using filmed testimonial accounts of former Australian schoolgirls, I attempt to understand how practices of shaming inhibit interest and in fact stultify these students in a myriad of ways. I consider if shame when recognised as materially discursive results in a complex affirmative repositioning that is productive of agency. I interrogate ways that the shame/interest pendulum may affectively constitute schoolgirls, influence ethical educational practices and impact the life trajectories of these particular schoolgirls.     

二分双插入排序算法及其性能研究

在分析了传统二分插入排序算法性能的基础上,给出了一种二分双插入排序算法,这种排序算法使时间性能得到了极大改善.     

“以学生为中心”理念在货币银行学教学中的实践

结合货币银行学课程的具体教学实践,围绕教学过程的两个重要环节——网上教学及面授教学,要将“以学生为中心”的理念贯穿在教学过程的始终,在教学中就应充分发挥学生学习的自主性,尽量引导学生进行基于问题及案例的探究学习,还应意识到教学过程是一个以心理活动为基础的情感过程和认知过程的统一,情感以及兴趣、愿望、热情等形式构成的学习动机将成为主要的认知因素制约着认知学习。     

中国传统节日习俗的文化溯源——以常州为例

民俗是民众日常的风俗习惯。节日习俗是民俗的重要组成部分,它蕴含了千百年的传统文化,反映了各地区的百姓生活习惯、道德取向,寄托着人民对美好生活的向往。现在有一些传统节日正逐渐消失,也出现了一些伪民俗、新民俗。传承中有变化可能正是民俗的生命力所在。透过江南名城常州的节日习俗丰富多彩的行为层面,可以追溯中国传统节日习俗的文化心理渊源,挖掘节日习俗的文化意义。     

墨子智慧与当代人心灵成长

对墨子思想进行现代转换,以发现并发挥其当代价值,不能只是从概念名词、思想结论上去探究,那样难免死板和单调,还必须注重从墨子独特而鲜活的个性、传奇的经历等方面来进行把握。墨子具有中国人罕见的性格特点和人格特征,他的身上充满了相反相成的因素,大雅大俗,大开大合,大爱大恨,大贵大贱,是矛盾的对立统一体,对当代人的心灵成长具有重要意义。     

Major survey design issues for the IEA Third International Mathematics and Science Study

He has been involved in international comparative studies of education since 1971. His current research is focused on integrating frameworks for the assessment of learning, ability and performance. He recently completed (with T. N. Postlethwaite) a volume reporting findings of the second science study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).