The Doctoral Learning Journey and Outcomes for Business Leaders and Corporate Managers

International education is big business in Australia and the University of South Australia (UniSA) is a leading player, particularly in the Asia Pacific region (Ciccarelli, 2007). Forced by government to generate income beyond public subsidy Australian universities have had little choice but to enter the competitive private sector marketplace offshore to attract international students. In the case of UniSA special attention has been paid to marketing offshore ‘executive’ doctoral programs for those in leadership roles in business and corporate affairs. These business and corporate leaders drawn to these doctoral programs is the subject of this paper

Investigating Dissatisfied Dropout from Short Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression

Dropout is a significant concern for providers and researchers of adolescent psychotherapy due to the potential impact on resources and outcomes. Some of those who dropout, do so as they are dissatisfied with their treatment, however there is little research into the therapeutic processes that precede dissatisfied dropout. The aim of this single-case study was to further our understanding regarding the interactional processes that are implicated in a therapy where the client dropped out and remained dissatisfied with the treatment. The case was sampled from a wider sample of ‘dissatisfied dropouts’, previously identified as participants in the IMPACT study, who had dropped out from treatment and were dissatisfied with their treatment. Sessions were transcribed verbatim and analysed using discourse analysis. The findings identified specific actions the therapist took to attempt to construct the young person’s problem as psychological in nature, which the young person most often rejected. Over the course of therapy, the young person’s response shifted from an implicit to an explicit communication of rejection. These results demonstrate the way in which initial rejection of the therapist’s construction may be an indicator of upcoming ‘dissatisfied dropout’ and suggestions for further research include investigating whether ‘dissatisfied dropout’ can be reduced through adaptation of technique

Emergency Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Workplace Violence

Workplace violence (WPV) is a significant issue in today’s healthcare field, especially for nurses in the emergency department. WPV is defined by action of verbal abuse, threats, disruptive behavior, harassment, intimidation and/or physical abuse, or assault (Stene, Larson, Levy, & Dohlman, 2015). Emergency Department (ED) registered nurses (RNs) are in a prime position to experience WPV due to the nature and purpose of the emergency room. To address effectively the problem of WPV against RNs in the ED, it is crucial first to understand how nurses in this setting perceive WPV from patients and/or visitors. In a Level I Trauma Emergency Department in South Carolina, the “Emergency Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Workplace Violence” survey was sent via electronic mail to RNs in the ED. Results from the questionnaire indicated that nurses are exposed to WPV on a regular basis, but often do not have effective tools to prevent a violent incident. Reducing and eliminating WPV are goals worth pursuing to provide successful safety measures for nurses and quality care for patients

ARTIFICIAL KINGDOMS

Fairy or folk tales and fantasy appear to be innocuous means of entertainment in contemporary society. Often relegated as pap for children, this view belies the gruesome origins, cultural significance, and means of personal expression and identity that is afforded to the author and reader/audience through the construction of fantasies. Through the creation of environments and experiences that center on porcelain vessels and sculpture, I explore the expression of uncomfortable desires and situations in the guise of fantasy. In some instances folk and fairy tales act as a means of escapism; an expression of desire for the fleeting and the unattainable. This relates to my personal acting out against the inexorable pull of time and desires to preserve certain moments that inevitably become distorted and fade. The indicators of fairy tales, set in kingdoms long ago and far away and marked by the inclusion of magic or other fantastical elements also provide a safe platform to express needs or desires that are uncomfortable to address in the real world. Many tropes, especially that of the wicked stepmother, point to very real and serious questions of survival in the time periods of the stories; issues of inheritance, famine, and the inevitability of age. Topics considered taboo to point out with neighbors or family members could be illustrated with dragons and kings and witches. I draw both from literary tradition and my personal constructs of fantasy within my childhood to create situations that explore topics that might not necessarily be broached in polite society

‘This is my lesson’: Ethnomethodological lessons in classroom order and social organisation for adults with learning difficulties

Education as practiced is predicated upon order, structure and organisation. This educational order can be ‘found’ in the classroom within lessons, activities, and tasks, and is the collaborative achievement of those present within them (e.g. teachers, students and, in this case, learning support assistants). The pivotal issue is how the various sense-making practices found in the setting (e.g. talk, gesture, gaze, embodied action) enable those present to ‘find their place’ within the present educational lesson. These considerations are made perspicuous in the research reported here as the various students present have attributed learning difficulties and disabilities and are attending a Further Education (FE) College to take part in a course purposefully designed to teach them practical everyday living skills. The specific learning difficulties attributed ranged in type and degree and the relevance of these designations will be documented when necessary. For present purposes issues of order, structure, organisation and authority inundate the opening sequence of a timetabled cleaning lesson in which an individual student verbally dissents and makes an embodied challenge to the authority of the teacher, threatening the organisation of the whole lesson. As a result the teacher (in conjunction with others) successfully reintegrates the stubborn student by utilising a series of methods and resources explicated in the paper to include: cohorting practices, claiming ‘ownership’ of lessons (linked to ‘lesson appropriate actions’) and ‘if/then formulations’ as a warning technique

Cooperative grouping in the inclusive STEM classroom

The purpose of this study was to determine if using cooperative group role assignments impacted on-task behavior in an inclusive STEM classroom. This study investigated if students were positively engaged, remained on-task, and completed STEM challenges with their group. There were two 5th grade classes, each with sixteen participants, involved in the study. In the experimental class, students had role assignments in their cooperative group of four members. The other class, was a control group, and students did not have role assignments in their group of four members. Data was collected through observation procedures of on-task and off-task behaviors for five class periods. Group processing surveys were used to collect student feedback on their cooperative group experience. Data was analyzed to determine if using group role assignments had a positive effect on the cooperative learning experience

Data Compression for Space Missions

For many space missions , the ability of spacecraft sensors to acquire meaningful data may surpass to a considerable extent the ability of the telemetry system to transmit this data to earth. It is often possible , however, to receive at the Earth a large portion of the sensed data by preprocessing or compressing the data before transmission in order to remove redundancy or useless information. This paper discusses data compression as applied to space missions. Since the usefulness and form of data compression is dependent to some extent on the particular space mission under consideration, certain general classifications of space missions are considered in light of their amenability to data compression. Some basic compression techniques are applied to example sets of data, and the results show that a rather small increase in onboard data processing can result in a severalfold increase in the amount of data transmitted to Earth. The compression procedures used are limited to those easily implemented by the unsophisticated but highly reliable data processing equipment likely to be present on future spacecraft. Curves are developed showing the compression ratio of various techniques as a function of allowable approximation error and complexity of mechanization. Data compression relationships as functions of reliability are also presented, where reliability is related to the loss of data per bit error in transmission. This analysis shows that certain tradeoffs exist since , in general , higher compression ratios are obtained at the expense of less accurate data representation, more complex implementation, and higher loss of data per bit error in transmission