Aspirations, education and social justice: applying Sen and Bourdieu

Caroline Hart presents a radical new paradigm for thinking about the role of education in the development of human flourishing. The book applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to understanding the nature of aspirations in the policy context of strategies to widen participation in higher education. Sen's work is synthesised with key concepts from Pierre Bourdieu to develop a framework for understanding the processes through which young people are enabled and disabled in relation to developing and achieving their aspirations. Drawing on an empirical study involving 600 young people aged 17-19 in their final years of education, this text explores the hopes and dreams of these young people for the future. The young people's voices challenge dominant discourses of aspiration, well-being and advantage, and invite readers to rethink their own positions on these issues.</p

'Better justice?' or 'shambolic justice?': Governments' use of information technology for access to law and justice, and the impact on regional and rural legal practitioners

This paper reports the results of a study on whether government use of information technology potentially compromises access to law and justice by Queensland regional and rural (RR) legal practitioners. The paper describes current approaches to the use of information technology by state and federal governments, and provides an insight into the challenges and opportunities identified by individual RR legal practitioners, policy-makers and the judiciary on the use of such technology. The paper makes recommendations to promote increased access to law and justice for RR legal practitioners when using government information technology

Better justice? or shambolic justice?: governments' use of information technology for access to law and justice, and the impact on regional and rural legal practitioners

This paper reports the results of a study on whether government use of information technology potentially compromises access to law and justice by Queensland regional and rural (RR) legal practitioners. The paper describes current approaches to the use of information technology by state and federal governments, and provides an insight into the challenges and opportunities identified by individual RR legal practitioners, policy-makers and the judiciary on the use of such technology. The paper makes recommendations to promote increased access to law and justice for RR legal practitioners when using government information technology

Falling Short of Goals: The Role of Achievement Goals in College Student Cognitive Motivation

Much of what is known about students\u27 cognitive motivation through self-reactive influences has been derived from studies not conducted in academic settings. The present study sought to fillthe gap in the literatureby examining college students\u27 cognitive motivation within a natural classroom environment. Specifically, an integrated model of intended effort was developed to further understand the relationship between negative performance-goal discrepancy, self-reactive influences and intended effort toward next proximal goal. In addition, the role of achievement goals on self-reactive influences andintended effortwas explored using the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework. Resultsfrom a path model analysis involving fourhundred and fifty-one undergraduates suggest that, among other things, future affective self-evaluation is more predictive of intended effort than performance-goal discrepancy or self-efficacy toward original goal attainment. Proximal goal failed to explain any more variance in intended effort. The performance-goal discrepancyhad a direct effect on both future affective self-evaluation and self-efficacy, but did not exert a direct effect on proximal goals. The analyses also revealed the significant main effects of each of the four types of achievement goals on both self-efficacy and proximal goals. However, mastery-approach goals were the only goals to exert a significant main effect on intended effort and none of the achievement goals exerted a direct influence on future affective self-evaluation. An interaction between the discrepancy and performance-approach achievement goals and an interaction between the discrepancy and performance-avoidance achievement goals partially predicted future affective self-evaluation. An interaction between discrepancy and mastery-approach achievement goals partially explained self-efficacy toward the original goal

The prevalence and nature of sustainable regional, rural and remote legal practice

This thesis examines the question of ‘what is the prevalence and nature of sustainability practices in regional, rural and remote legal practice’, using identified criteria including location, longevity of practice, structure of the law practice, retention of legal staff, legal practice areas carried out, clientele, marketing and use of information technology

Spatio-temporal judgements of observed actions : Contrasts between first- and third-person perspective after motor priming.

When observing actions, motor simulation processes aid the prediction and understanding of future events. A central issue concerns whether such action simulation serves social functions of interpreting other people, where performance is predicted to be better when third-person perspective (3PP) actions are viewed; or whether it is most beneficial to guide self actions, whereby the first-person perspective (1PP) would be advantageous. We show that in a spatio-temporal judgement task there is an advantage for the prediction of 1PP. However, this is only detected after motor priming whereby participants perform the observed actions prior to making spatio-temporal judgements. The results, firstly, confirm that we draw on our motor experience for the accurate simulation and prediction of action. Secondly, the results suggest that such experience facilitates more accurate state estimation for actions perceived in the 1PP which map more closely onto visual input of self-generated action. More forward prediction error is retained for 3PP viewed actions, which may however have the benefit of compensating for the uncertainty involved in interacting with others