This paper draws on data collected during an outdoor education camp in regional Australia, where the researchers observed teaching practice of a veteran educator. We first situate study summary literature and policy that informed our research. then present strategies, detailing narratives role-based learning yarning circle. These demonstrate educator’s intentional enactment range strategies spa...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...

Although several studies have linked Life History Strategy (LHS) variation with variation in the Five Factor Model personality dimensions, no published research has explored the relationship of LHS to the HEXACO personality dimensions. The theoretically expected relationship of the HEXACO Emotionality factor to LHS is unclear. The results of two studies (N = 641) demonstrated that LHS indicator...

The theoretical models of teachers’ knowledge bases, as developed by Shulman (1987) and Turner-Bisset (1997, 1999), do not overtly support Elbaz’s (1983), Lampert’s (1984) and Nias’ (1989) earlier suppositions that a teacher’s knowledge of self influences their pedagogic work. A review of the empirical literature produced by Connell (1985), Sikes, Measor and Woods (1985), Weber and Mitchell (19...

The ability to create pedagogically driven, activity oriented personalized eLearning is a key factor in the success of future eLearning. The ability to empower course developers with intuitive environments which provide pedagogic, subject matter, activity and personalization support during the process of creating a personalized course is fundamental to the adoption of adaptive educational hyper...

Previous correlational research shows that childhood adversity is associated with earlier age of reproduction in humans and other species. Such studies, however, cannot show that stressful conditions cause earlier reproduction. Using the cold-pressor task, we built on previous work to test the idea that acute stress influences human reproductive and marital ideals, and that individual stress re...