Overview

This edited collection reflects the relevance and quality of current work by the scholars and graduate students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education at Central Queensland University.

Its inclusive theme of 'Creative Communities' combines a commitment to performance, education and community partnerships in the arts and cultural industries, with a wider understanding of emerging technologies, institutions and audiences.

Under this rubric, three major domains of transdisciplinary research are addressed: global transformations, knowledge management and creative performance.

Here, once more, is the evidence of the research culture of a vigorous academic community of practice at work on significant contemporary and historical issues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction
Bruce Allen Knight, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs & Jeannette Delamoir

Global Formations seeks to understand and explore the broad contexts, historical, contemporary and regional, in which globalisation influences both national and local cultures.

Chapter 2 'Out of sight, out of mind': a comparative study of race and labour in the Mackay district, 1930s -1940s.
Wayne Ah-Wong & Denis Cryle

Chapter 3 Gender and domesticity in Woogaroo Asylum, Queensland 1865-1869.
Julie Bradshaw & Wendy Madsen

Chapter 4 Comparing Olympic coverage of Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008: a preliminary cross-cultural analysis of two national dailies.
Mingjing Chen & Denis Cryle

Chapter 5 Problems and politics of a non-realist, fictional revisioning of the 1942 Darwin bombing.
Peter Kay & Wally Woods

Chapter 6 Press coverage of the Australian environment: a literature review.
Jane Macdonald & Denis Cryle

Chapter 7 Complexities of writing a Chinese based historical novel in English.
Peter Scottney-Turbill & Wally Woods

Knowledge management consists of a range of practices and processes used to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge intended to lead to the achievement of specific outcomes including improved performance and higher levels of innovation.

Chapter 8 Bringing pedagogy back to the forefront of online teaching: Old principles, new medium.
Julie Fleming & Bernie Walker-Gibbs

Chapter 9 Pairs, peers and pep talks: Mentoring in contemporary times.
Teresa Moore & Pamela Gargett

Chapter 10 Teachers' engagement in change of practice.
John Meldrum

Chapter 11 Developmentally Appropriate Programming in a Primary School: A Case Study.
Paul Richardson & John Dekkers

Chapter 12 Adapting Legal Principles to Clinical Nurse Practice
Pam Savage & Bruce Allen Knight

Chapter 13 Conceptualising communities of practice through embedded professional learning in pre-service teacher education.
Rickie Fisher, Bobby Harreveld & Jenny McDougall

Chapter 14 Making energy a priority in schools: An evaluation of the Queensland Solar Schools Initiative.
Stacey Tabert & Ken Purnell

Creative performance emphasises the communication of identity and processes of self development through a range of creative practices including music, creative writing, digital media and dance – which encompass interwoven elements of culture, commerce and creativity.

Chapter 15 Looking, just looking: James Bond and the objectification and commodification of the human form
Tanya Nitins & Jeannette Delamoir

Chapter 16 Parental bereavement: From grief theory to a creative nonfiction perspective on grieving the death of a young adult child from cancer.
Sandra Arnold, Wally Woods & Lynda Hawryluk

Chapter 17 Jazz education performance training: Contemporary jazz educators and performers perceptions of performance training in the 21st century.
Derrin Kerr, Glen Hodges & Bruce Allen Knight

Chapter 18 ABC People: The Making of Early Documentary Filmmakers.
Christina Hunt & Errol Vieth