Dinawan Dreaming: pre-service teachers seeing the world with fresh eyes

Australia's National Curriculum for schools seeks to engage students beyond the static frameworks of subject knowledge, through cross curricular experiences in 'Indigenous history and culture', (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2010, p. 1) with the intent that this 'three-dimensional' (p.10) approach will lead to a deep understanding of historical and contemporary Indigenous perspectives. Similarly, university educators preparing pre-service teachers for their role in this transformative pedagogy, and undergraduate student teachers of whom the majority are not of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage, are faced with a challenge. In embedding Indigenous perspectives they must shift beyond the boundaries of personal and professional habitus and the constraints of program planning, in order to reach a deeper understanding of the multiple histories, cultures and ways of knowing that are aspects of self, society, and the land for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples past and present. This paper is the second in a series reporting upon the impact of pre-service teachers' immersive experiences in natural environments, Indigenous perspectives, and the arts. It is co-authored by an Indigenous researcher, who is an artist and educator, and by an arts educator who is the coordinator of an undergraduate program for pre-service teachers and who is a migrant of Celtic heritage. The research findings indicate that immersive experiences in natural environments have the potential to be transformative, potentially opening up a Thirdspace wherein participants may transcend personal culture and history, to share new understandings. In this paper, 'Dinawan Dreaming', a painting by the Indigenous artist and researcher, is the lens through which the research team and undergraduate students came to reframe personal and professional understandings of self, time and the land as they engage in immersive experiences at three sites in South East Queensland. The sites are the Gummingurru site, an environmental education centre and a museum. Data in the form of anonymous student reflections, and transcripts of interviews with researchers and undergraduate participants, indicate that the experience has informed a reframing of the world-view of all participants. Describing a moment of transformative power, a participant observes: 'in our culture we'd sort of laugh...that's of our way of dealing with (the spiritual) it is almost like if you give it power, it will have life, if you give it power it will be true.' The study offers important insights into the potential for immersive experience outside the classroom to support new and connected ways of knowing and understanding self and the world

Use and Impact of Bail and Remand in Scotland with Children

This report shares findings from a small nationwide study of the use of bail and remand with children in Scotland, undertaken by CYCJ to develop our understanding of the use of remand, the decision-making process about how bail and remand is enacted, and how this is experienced by children, their families and professionals. This research is based upon the lived experience of children, families and practitioners from across Scotland

Estimating a Dutch value set for the paediatric preference-based CHU-9D using a discrete choice experiment with duration

Objective: This paper presents the development of the Dutch value set for the CHU-9D, a paediatric preference-based measure of quality of life that can be used to generate quality adjusted life years (QALYs). Methods: A large online survey was conducted using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) including a duration attribute with adult members of the Netherlands general population (n=1,276) who were representative in terms of age, gender, marital status, employment, education and region. Respondents were asked which of two health states they prefer, where each health state was described using the nine dimensions of the CHU-9D (worried, sad, pain, tired, annoyed, school work/homework, sleep, daily routine, able to join in activities) and duration. The data was modelled using conditional logit with robust standard errors to produce utility values for every health state described by the CHU-9D. Results: The majority of the dimension level coefficients were monotonic, leading to a decrease in utility as severity increases. However there was evidence of some logical inconsistencies particularly for the school work/homework dimension. The value set produced was based on the ordered model and ranges from -0.568 for the worst state to 1 for the best state. Conclusion: The valuation of the CHU-9D using online DCE with duration with adult members of the Dutch general population was feasible and produced a valid model for use in cost utility analysis. Normative questions are raised around the valuation of paediatric preference-based measures including the appropriate perspective for imagining hypothetical paediatric health states

Dinawan Dreaming: seeing the darkness or the stars

This chapter uses Indigenous research methodologies of walking together, yarning about our experiences and critically analysing the meanings of conversations and writings created by three women. We are a university educator and recent migrant to Australia; an artist and educator of Aboriginal Australian heritage, and a woman of the Kamillaroi people; and a pre-service teacher whose family migrated from Europe in the last century to farm the land in Queensland. The chapter builds upon traditional Indigenous Australian ways of knowing and understanding as the authors share their understandings of an immersive experience during a day visit to Gummingurru: a ceremonial site of cultural importance to the Jarowair Aboriginal people. An art work created by Donna Moodie becomes a key and a metaphor for understanding the different ways of seeing and understanding land, self and culture, as the authors walk together on and through a site of spiritual and cultural significance. Film of their yarning about the day and a critical revisiting of the transcribed interviews allows a three-way re-framing of the day so as to generate new understandings of identity and culture, the land and time. The interwoven voices of the three highlight differences but also embody the potential for re-connection and transformed understandings through walking, yarning and writing together

Children’s experiences of police custody and the implications for trauma-informed policing

Scotland presents itself as a progressive nation and this narrative is particularly prevalent in the youth justice arena, where there is a long history of welfare approaches to children who find themselves in conflict with the law. The principles of Kilbrandon, enshrined in the influential committee report published in 1964, precipitated a radical shake up of the youth justice system in Scotland and led to the establishment of the Children’s Hearings System, a legal tribunal that integrates both care and justice systems for children in need. These enduring principles still act as guiding beacons today, reminding policymakers and practitioners that children’s needs and rights must be front and centre when considering their ‘deeds’ (Vaswani et al., 2018)

Targeted education ApproaCH to improve Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes (TEACH-PD) : a feasibility study

Background: There is substantial variation in peritonitis rates across peritoneal dialysis (PD) units globally. This may, in part, be related to the wide variability in the content and delivery of training for PD nurse trainers and patients. Aim: The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of implementing the Targeted Education ApproaCH to improve Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes (TEACH-PD) curriculum in real clinical practice settings. Methods: This study used mixed methods including questionnaires and semi-structured interviews (pretraining and post-training) with nurse trainers and patients to test the acceptability and usability of the PD training modules implemented in two PD units over 6 months. Quantitative data from the questionnaires were analysed descriptively. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Ten PD trainers and 14 incident PD patients were included. Mean training duration to complete the modules were 10.9 h (range 6–17) and 24.9 h (range 15–35), for PD trainers and patients, respectively. None of the PD patients experienced PD-related complications at 30 days follow-up. Three (21%) patients were transferred to haemodialysis due to non-PD–related complications. Ten trainers and 14 PD patients participated in the interviews. Four themes were identified including use of adult learning principles (trainers), comprehension of online modules (trainers), time to complete the modules (trainers) and patient usability of the manuals (patient). Conclusion: This TEACH-PD study has demonstrated feasibility of implementation in a real clinical setting. The outcomes of this study have informed refinement of the TEACH-PD modules prior to rigorous evaluation of its efficacy and cost-effectiveness in a large-scale study

Gangster in guerilla face

Doble cara (double/two-faced) is a key trope in Salvadoran political folklore. It is a folk theory of mimesis, which attempts to 'master the absent presence of the other' through a discourse of conspiracy. The term has a history in the US-funded Salvadoran civil war. In this article, I consider how doble cara has come to be deployed around a new and pivotal social subject - Salvadoran immigrant gang youth deported from the USA - and how these deported youth emerge as a packed and displaced sign for the trauma of post-civil war violence, the failed promise of peace, and ongoing entanglements between the USA and El Salvador. The article is written in conversation with Begoña Aretxaga, who inspired many of the questions explored here. Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications