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The online student experience: An exploration of first-year university students’ expectations, experiences and outcomes of online education

Added 6 April 2020 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Melanie Henry Abstract Online higher education presents a critical opportunity to extend and diversify the student body. The Online Student Experience (OSE), and online student ...

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An Exploration of Parental Choice of School by Rural and Remote Parents

Added 3 October 2014 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Michael McCarthy ABSTRACT The parental choice of school process is a complex undertaking for parents. This complexity is evident when considered from the nuanced perspective ...

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Service Learning as a Way of Developing Pre-service Teachers’ Knowledge, Perceptions and Cultural Awareness of Aboriginal Education

Added 6 August 2014 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Glenda Cain ABSTRACT This research explored service-learning as a way of developing pre-service teachers’ pedagogical literacy skills and cultural perceptions with regard to ...

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Choices, challenges and changes: Exploring transition, persistence and engagement for first generation, female university students

Added 11 July 2014 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Sarah E. O’ Shea ABSTRACT Beginning university study can initiate feelings of fear and self-doubt as students acculturate to a new and somewhat alien environment. For ...

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Why university? A case of socio-cultural reproduction in disadvantaged secondary schools

Added 6 June 2014 by ncsehe

Hawke Research Institute Postgraduate Working Paper Series No 1, written by Dr Deborah Tranter ABSTRACT This paper draws on research undertaken as part of my doctoral thesis on the influence of ...

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Crossing Cultural Borders – A Journey Towards Understanding and Celebration in Aboriginal Australian and Non-Aboriginal Australian Contexts

Added 31 January 2014 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Marianne McLaughlin ABSTRACT Aboriginal students will often approach their teacher with the biggest and most beautiful smile. That smile, if it could be verbalised, asks the ...

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Indicators of persistence and their influence on the first year experience of university students from low socio-economic backgrounds

Added 27 September 2013 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Ann Jardine ABSTRACT This study focuses on the first year experience of Australian university students from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. Firstly, it examines ...

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The colours of diversity: women educators turning the gaze onto Australian universities

Added 16 September 2013 by ncsehe

Thesis written by Dr Caroline Gopalkrishnan ABSTRACT Today, the articulation of identities has significant and even dire consequences for many people living in different parts of the world. In ...

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