Television watching, enjoyment of school and respect for parents: Analysis of the Indian data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the New Dehli release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, 22nd July, 1998

As a researcher on the impact of television violence on children, I'm interested in the relationship between television generally and children's behaviour. As parents we worry about the impact of TV on our children, particularly we worry that that our children watch too much TV and that this will affect their education. The Indian results seemed to go against conventional wisdom, for what we found was a country where children appeared to be more enthusiastic about TV than anywhere else, and yet their enthusiasm for school and family were unexcelled

Learning contracts and self-evaluation

This paper focuses on possible ways of improving student motivation and methods of assessment at tertiary level. It also addresses the need for integration of theory, practice and experience in the teaching/learning process in order to produce change in knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Learning contracts and self-evaluation are explored in the framework of adult learning and guidelines for their effective application are presented

The tale of the patient, the son and the nurse

I am a doctoral student in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at the Albany Campus of Massey University. My study looks at the individual and composite experience of those sharing a dying. I am interviewing the dying person (the Patient), the person most close to the patient at this time of his life (the Son) and the palliative care nurse providing and facilitating care for them

The Pacific mission press

The missions were the first to bring printing presses to the region and usually the first to establish a newspaper in the various islands. Despite their limited circulations, church newspapers are still important because of their role in preserving local languages and because of their historical function

Dilemma for Fiji media and the constitution

Fiji prides itself on being at the crossroads of the Pacific and yet the rest of the great ocean remains almost invisible to the Fijian press, to whom the world consists of floods in India, stock prices in Australia and O J in the US

Mission Journalism in German New Guinea Pioneering Mass Communication

The role of the mainstream churches in contemporary Papua New Guinea media is well known. What is often less well appreciated is that Kristen Pres, Wantok, and The Time of Papua New Guinea did not spring fresh from the developments of the post-war years, but are the lineal offspring of the hand-operated presses of the 19th-century missionaries

The nature of language learners' beliefs : a half-told story

Substantial amount of research regarding L2 learners’ beliefs has been conducted in recent years. However, not enough attention has been paid to investigating the nature of learners’ beliefs; hence our understanding of the construct is contradictory in the sense that early research studies report stability in beliefs, while more recent studies provide evidence of change in learners’ beliefs. This paper reports on a case study aiming at contributing to a deeper understanding of the nature of language learners’ beliefs. Data were gathered longitudinally over an 18-week period using a number of tools. The findings reveal the complexity of learners’ beliefs. The beliefs that the learners held were not always in harmony and some of them can be self-contradictory. Furthermore, while some beliefs may evolve and change over time and across situation, others may remain relatively stable, suggesting the complex and dual nature of learners’ beliefs. Drawing on these findings, the paper concludes that learner beliefs can best be perceived as an inter-related construct that has dual features and sometimes can be paradoxical