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JCU: College of Arts, Society and Education

Locality: Townsville, Queensland

Address: James Cook University 4811 Townsville, QLD, Australia

Website: www.jcu.edu.au/case

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25.01.2022 Check out this incredible video created by JCU Social Work student Nadia Hilton showcasing #SESNA2020. The Social Enterprise Summit for Northern Australia, featuring Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan and many other talented speakers from Darwin, Arnhem Land, Milingimbi Island, Cape York and Cairns (to name a few), will take place online on Friday 6 November. What are the real opportunities for social enterprise in the north? How can land and sea owners lead in developing these opportunities? What is it actually like to build and grow a social enterprise in a remote community? And what happens when we partner across cultures and across sectors? Find out by registering online: https://www.sesna.com.au/ cc: Social Enterprise Network for the Tropics, Queensland Social Enterprise Council

25.01.2022 Today we celebrate our lecturers and academics, and all of the expert knowledge, experience and leadership they bring to JCU. We celebrate all the incredible prep, primary and high school teachers, who work tirelessly to foster creativity and critical thinking in our young citizens. We celebrate our partner schools for supporting and mentoring JCU students to become the best teachers they can be.... We celebrate our preservice teachers for their curiosity and dedication to pursuing a meaningful and important career. To all of the teachers, academics, and lecturers out there: THANK YOU. We couldn't do what we do without you, we see the resilience, patience, innovation, empathy and commitment you demonstrate every day, and we are in awe of the inspiration you continue to provide our young people, in spite of what has been an incredibly difficult year. You are amazing. #WorldTeachersDay2020

24.01.2022 This Friday is World Teachers Day; a day to celebrate the teachers in your life (at school, university or in the workplace) who have helped you grow. Through a very challenging year, we have seen just how resilient, creative, passionate and hard-working our teachers are. How will you say thank you? #WorldTeachersDay2020

20.01.2022 As we celebrate International Day of Rural Women, Dr Jennifer Gabriel chats about life for rural women in PNG. Investing in women’s leadership will assist PNG women to have more influence to advocate for improved services, such as health and education, and contribute to a transformational shift that takes their decision-making capacities from household to national level.

18.01.2022 Alice Herbert was able to apply learning from her Master of Education degree directly to the classrooms in the school where she worked as a teacher. "Being able to have that simultaneous learning while teaching was really fantastic, and something I have really valued as part of the program."

15.01.2022 The theme for World Teachers Day 2020 is: Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future. Dr Tanya Doyle and Associate Professor Helen Boon highlight the importance of education for society historically, presently, and into the future. The ways that teachers have been working this year with remote learning and learning from home, it’s just an extension of the adaptability that they already bring to their work. #WorldTeachersDay2020

12.01.2022 Our regional locations are special; they have inherent attributes that can’t be found in large, urban locales. Dr Nick Osbaldiston and Associate Professor Lisa Law talk natural environments, vibrancy and changing the narrative for regional communities. A place is vibrant when everyone believes in the story a place is telling about itself, Lisa says. It’s a simple thing, but if it’s a story everyone feels included in and benefits from, there is a dynamism to that kind of narrative.

11.01.2022 JCU creative writing PhD student Elizabeth Smyth is rewriting the narrative to bring sugar industry stories into the 21st century. Every novel that is set on an Australian sugarcane farm is historical. If you want to read fiction to get some insight into the sugar industry you’ll learn about cutting cane by hand and the use of indentured labor. But you won’t learn anything about growing sugarcane as it’s done now.

11.01.2022 JCU’s Dr Peter Jones belongs to an unexpected group on the frontlines of the fight against climate change: social workers. The profession has begun to recognise the ways in which a dramatically changing climate will directly impact on human wellbeing, and the ways in which these inequitably distributed impacts create issues of social justice and for the protection of human rights."

07.01.2022 JCU Social Work's Dr Ines Zuchowski and Associate Professor Susan Gair explore how the relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child safety concerns. "Many grandparents in that study spoke of the frustration of being overlooked in decision-making about their grandchildren, even when they had been providing primary care for the grandchildren."

06.01.2022 It's incredible to see the diversity of students who choose to study with JCU: James Cook University, Australia. Sarah Schiavon is an International JCU: Global Experience student from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia in Venice. Earlier this year, Sara spent 6 months at JCU Cairns writing her Masters on the limitations and importance of Aboriginal language education in Australian schools. For #NAIDOC2020, Sarah spoke to SBS Italian about her thesis. "The teaching and learning of languages is a crucial aspect of maintaining the richness of Aboriginal cultures. There are policies that regulate and enhance the teaching of Aboriginal languages, but a national policy is lacking."

04.01.2022 Introducing 'Feral Atlas': a digital experiment in multispecies storytelling. Associate Professor Jennifer Deger co-curated and co-edited the open access, interactive website released by Stanford University Press, which features artworks and articles from JCU students Victoria Baskin Coffey and Matthew Buttacavoli. "Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Stretching conventional notions of maps and mapping, it draws on the relational potential of the digital to offer new ways of analyzingand apprehendingthe Anthropocene."

04.01.2022 Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm chats about his experience with cross-disciplinary collaboration on The Deep History of Sea Country project. The Traditional Owners of the cultural heritage are determining what research happens and what happens with that research. The real value of that is that means that the research is relevant to those communities and to the community’s aspirations about what they want to do in the future. ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage