Trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care for Indigenous Australian children

This paper examines how childhood trauma experienced by Indigenous children can be overcome by appropriate interventions.IntroductionWhile many Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children grow up in safe homes and live in safe communities, there are some who do not. In the case of Indigenous children, some families and communities are unable to, or are still working to, heal the trauma of past events, including displacement from Country, institutionalisation and abuse. The Stolen Generations also represent a significant cause of trauma. In 2008, an estimated 8% of Indigenous people aged 15 and over reported being removed from their natural family and 38% had relatives who had been removed from their natural family. This trauma can pass to children (inter-generational trauma).Indigenous children may also experience a range of distressing life events including illness and accidents, hospitalisation or death of close family members, exposure to violence, family disintegration (with kin networks fragmented due to forced removals, relationship breakdown and possibly incarceration) and financial stress.Experiencing trauma in childhood can have severe and long-lasting effects; effects that can be overcome by appropriate interventions. This resource sheet examines these effects and explores how they can be tackled. It focuses on the design and delivery of trauma-informed and trauma-specific children’s services and care

China’s Sustainability Challenges: Confucianizaton of Chinese Law from Intra- Generational, Inter-Generational and Gender Equity Perspectives

The paper investigates how the leaders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have re-interpreted the three kinds of “equity” generally considered implicit in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), namely inter-generational, intra-generational, and inter-gender equity, to fit the country’s context. To what extent is China’s recent “return to Confucius” paving the way to the use of the law as an instrument of “social moralization”? What impact is this trend having on the achievement of sustainable development within Chinese society? The following sections will answer these questions, showing if, how, and with what consequences, Chinese traditional values have recently undergone a “creative renovation”, in order to support, on the one hand, PRC government’s commitment to reach SDGs and to back, on the other, its attempt to resew Chinese social fabric, worn out by the dramatic economic development experienced by the country in the last decades

Susceptibility to Interpersonal Military Influence And Its Relationship With Heavyweight Motorcycles In The U.S.: A Generational Study

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine existing and potential motorcycle owners’ susceptibility to military interpersonal influence as it relates to brand identification, brand loyalty and purchase intention for cruiser and touring motorcycles, otherwise known as heavyweight motorcycles. The study also explores the generational influences on these relationships with regards to Generation Y and Baby Boomers. It contributes to existing literature by applying the susceptibility to interpersonal influence scale originally developed by Bearden, et al. (1989) to military influence. The research extends brand relationship literature (Fournier, 1998; Lam, et al., 2012; Kuenzel & Haliday, 2010) to heavyweight motorcycles. The methodology employed PLS-SEM analysis of data obtained from 226 online respondents who participated in a survey utilizing adapted existing scales. The study finds that susceptibility to military interpersonal influence positively relates to brand identification with heavyweight motorcycles and that it is also positively related to brand loyalty and purchase intention as mediated by brand identification. Generation strengthens the relationship between military influence and purchase intention as mediated by brand identification and is stronger for Baby Boomers than Generation Y. Direct effects of military influence to purchase intention and brand loyalty were negative, indicating that mediation was partial and competitive. The competitive mediation points to a missing mediator in the conceptual model that should be a focus of future research. The findings confirm that the military serves as an information or normative influence for motorcycle consumers, but only when this influence interacts with the brand’s identity

The social attitude : behavior gap among swiss millennials : the fairtrade Max Havelaar case

Public interest in sustainability has been steadily increasing and consumers mainly hold favorable attitudes toward this idea; however, these are not univocally reflected in purchase behaviors. There exists an attitude-behavior gap. While existing research mainly investigated this gap within the field of environmental sustainability, this research explores the concept from a different angle: the social dimension of sustainability. Fairtrade Max Havelaar, an established Swiss non-profit organization, is taken as a reference example to visualize the concept of social sustainability respectively social consumerism. Further, the sustainability conscious cohort Generation Y is the target segment of this research. In essence, the present thesis studies the social attitude-behavior gap among Swiss Millennials based on the example of Fairtrade Max Havelaar. The leading objective of this empirical research is to investigate the relationship between social attitude and social purchase behavior and how it is impacted by various influencing factors. The results prove the existence of a statistically significant gap between the two variables with the four factors perceived personal importance, habits, trust and awareness being significant mediators. Based on these insights, organizations operating in the field of social sustainability should be aware of a potential attitude-behavior gap. The findings imply that this gap may be decreased through raising the perceived personal importance, trust, awareness and the willingness to switch products (habits). That is assuming communication has already been adapted to today’s sustainability-shaped world and to the target segment. Suggestions on how to effectively communicate sustainability-related topics and reach Gen Y are provided.O interesse na sustentabilidade tem aumentado de forma constante e os consumidores têm demonstrado uma maior preocupação em relação a este tema. No entanto, essas preocupações nem sempre são refletidas na compra, uma vez que existe uma lacuna entre a atitude e o comportamento dos consumidores. As pesquisas elaboradas anteriormente focaram-se principalmente nessa lacuna dentro da sustentabilidade ambiental. Contudo, esta dissertação pretende explorar o conceito de sustentabilidade sob a perspetiva da vertente social. O Fairtrade, uma organização suíça sem fins lucrativos, é uma referência dentro do conceito de consumismo social. A Geração Y, consciente da sustentabilidade, é o segmento alvo desta pesquisa. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é investigar a relação entre a atitude e o comportamento social, e como esta é impactada por vários fatores. Os resultados comprovam a existência de uma diferença estatisticamente significativa entre as duas variáveis. Os quatro fatores para estas diferenças são a importância pessoal, os hábitos, a confiança e a consciência. Baseado nestes pressupostos, as organizações que operam no campo da sustentabilidade social devem estar cientes de uma possível falha na relação atitude-comportamento. Essa lacuna pode ser diminuída através do aumento da importância pessoal percebida, da confiança, da consciência e da vontade de mudar de produto (hábitos). Isto pressupõe que a comunicação já tenha sido adaptada ao mundo atual, tendo em conta os critérios de sustentabilidade e o seu segmento alvo. Nesta tese são ainda fornecidas sugestões sobre como comunicar de forma eficiente tópicos relacionados com a sustentabilidade, que possam atingir a geração Y

Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy

Each year, foundations pour in billions of dollars to support education, and yet, the education inequity crisis in this country continues. Philanthropy can be more effective at being part of the solution and finally bring access to quality education for all students. This report serves as an eye-opener to foundation leaders about the ineffectiveness of current grantmaking practices. It also encourages conversations within and among education grantmakers, and provides six helpful discussion questions

Do tablets cure the pedagogy headache?

Tablet devices have made a huge impact in schools and in 2015 they were predicted to outsell personal computers (Gartner, 2014). 70 per cent of UK schools are estimated to be using tablets (BBC, online) and across Europe, “laptops, tablets and net-books are becoming pervasive” (EU schoolnet, 2014). As these devices become established in schools they both support and develop existing practice (Burden, Hopkins, Male, Martin and Trala, 2012; Baran, 2014), but are also starting to challenge some existing models of thinking and pedagogy (Fullan and Langworth, 2014; Kearney, Schuck, Burden and Aubusson, 2012) and also teachers’ attitudes towards learning and teaching (Ertmer, 1999; Burden and Hopkins, 2015). In offering opportunities for learning to become more authentic, personal and collaborative (Kearney et al., 2012) there are opportunities for teachers to start to redesign the ways in which learning is taking place (Puentedura, 2010; McCormick and Scrimshaw, 2001). Traxler defines mobile learning as “an educational process, in which handheld devices or palmtops are the only or dominant used technology tools” (2007: 2) and Kearney et al. (2012) argue that it has the potential to revolutionise the learning process in allowing individuals to determine their own independent paradigms and frameworks of learning. These devices are also sophisticated producers of digital artefacts and children and teachers are capable of being co-producers of learning materials

Cultural Values, Connection, and Participatory Cultural Divide: Chinese Generation Cohort Differences in Adoption and Use of WeChat

abstract: This study explores how WeChat, one of the most popular Chinese-based Social Network Sites (SNSs), has been adopted and used under different patterns between two Chinese generation cohorts, namely “The post-70” (i.e., people who were born in the 1970s) and “The post-90” (i.e., people who were born in the 1990s). Three major issues were examined in this Study: (1) what are the differences in WeChat connection between two generations; (2) how Chinese post-70 and the post-90 cohorts differ regarding their cultural value orientations and how those differences influence their WeChat connection; (3) if there is a participatory cultural divide between two generation cohorts. Two hundred and eight the post-70 cohort and 221 the post-90 cohort were recruited to complete a 91-item survey. Results indicated significant differences between the post-70 and the post-90 cohorts in WeChat adoption and use, collectivistic/individualistic (COL/IND) orientations, and participation in creating and spreading of popular online memes. Moreover, factors influencing human capital- enhancing activities on WeChat were examined. Also explored were the influence of cultural values on the motivations to connect to the Internet and frequencies of different types of WeChat activities. Major findings and limitations were discussed.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Communication 201

Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement

"This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces a new model – The EPIG Model (Engagement-Participation-Information*Generation) – to study how different generational cohorts’ exposure to political information is related to their political engagement and participation. The authors build on a multi-method framework to determine direct and indirect media effects across generations. The unique dataset allows for comparison of effects between legacy and social media use and helps to disentangle the influence on citizens’ political involvement in nonelection as well as during political campaign times. Bringing the newly of-age Generation Z into the picture, the book presents an in-depth understanding of how a changing media environment presents different challenges and opportunities for political involvement of this, as well as older generations. Bringing the conversation around political engagement and the media up to date for the new generation, this book will be of key importance to scholars and students in the areas of media studies, communication studies, technology, political science and political communication.