A new study from Edith Cowan University suggests that being confident in your cooking not only improves the quality of your meals but also boosts mental health. The study, conducted in partnership with Jamie’s Ministry of Food initiative and The ...
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Australia’s top universities have partnered with six under-resourced high schools in NSW to help improve equity and access to higher education through literacy intervention. The Imagined Futures project, developed by the NSW Equity Consortium, delivers literacy-focused programs to students living ...
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Poverty and disadvantage put young Australians on the road to a less fulfilling life and schools could play a critical role in breaking the cycle, a new study led by Flinders University says. However, the study of more than 3500 ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 6
The following covers the treatment, using Multimovement Therapy (MMT), of former world champion boxer John Famechon who had an acquired brain injury from a serious motor vehicle accident in 1991. During the entire four-year period, where John experienced what would ...
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New research from the University of South Australia looks at the level of support universities give to students after they've made the initial transition to higher education by posing the question: 'What happens when early support tapers off in latter ...
More »Research in the 21st Century: legacy forms, ‘new’ media and ERA
As Australian universities prepare their submissions for the 2023 round of Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), the national research evaluation framework, it is a good moment to reflect and review this thing we call ‘research’. Indeed the ERA exercise, which ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 5
The following covers the treatment, using Multimovement Therapy (MMT), of former world champion boxer John Famechon who had an acquired brain injury from a serious motor vehicle accident in 1991. In terms of all of the complex multimovement sequence actions ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 4
The following covers the treatment, using Multimovement Therapy (MMT), of former world champion boxer John Famechon who had an acquired brain injury from a serious motor vehicle accident in 1991. A number of significant contributors to John’s recovery included the ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 3
The following covers the treatment, using Multimovement Therapy (MMT), of former world champion boxer John Famechon who had an acquired brain injury from a serious motor vehicle accident in 1991. “It’s time we tried to roll John.” “Aarghhh, whaaaat do ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 2
I was unequivocally, at so many levels, in the presence of greatness. The body and the brain had been broken, but this was making no difference to what I was witnessing and experiencing.
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