Education : Research

Presents the results of language attitude/motivation survey, involving over 13,000 teenage language learners in Hungary on three occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. This work features results that are not confined to the European environment, but have wider implications concerning attitude change, motivational dynamics and language globalisation. more...

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This readable and lively guide is an invaluable handbook for postgraduates and lecturers new to publishing, with direct advice based on up to date research that goes beyond that given in current textbooks. more...

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Jean McNiff's new edition of this well established text includes a general update on the methodological discussions involved in action research and provides case study material and information on supporting action research. more...

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The need to imagine, examine, study, take a proactive stance in regard to and make a steadfast commitment to the future of nursing has never been more imperative. As Bezold et al. (1999: 4) persuasively argue, the nursing profession (and others) have never had a greater need to understand the future, to envision a preferred future, and to develop strategies to create the preferred future than it does today. Vision and commitment are needed more than ever. The reasons for this are twofold. First, the nursing profession world-wide is facing a crisis in recruitment and retention. This crisis, widely recognised as involving ‘the worst nursing shortage in the last 50 years’ (Hodges et al. 2002), is having a significant and negative impact on health care and the capacities of the health care systems around the world (including the Australian health care system) to respond appropriately, safely, and effectively to the health needs of the individuals, groups and communities they serve. There is a critical need for stakeholders to collectively and creatively ‘think and work’ their way out of this crisis. A second key reason is that the health, welfare and well-being of both current and future generations depends on the access, equity, quality and viability of professional nursing services. The accessibility and sustainability of quality nursing services, in turn, depend on nursing futures work and the capacity of this work to ‘confront the will to act’ in regard to the realisation of a preferred healthier future for all (Bezold et al. 1999: 4). In sum, the future of nursing is imperative because: Nursing’s future is inextricably, and rightly so, bound to society’s future and the future of health care (Bezold et al. 1999:8). Australian health care crisis Few would disagree that Australian health care is in a crisis. Despite policies that advocate access and equity to Australia’s health care services, thousands of Australians do not have timely access to a more...

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Forty years after Clark Kerr coined the term 'multiversity', the American research university has continued to evolve into a complex force for social and economic good. This volume explores the contemporary state of the research university system, offering a multifaceted view of the university at the beginning of a the century. more...

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