Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Snog, Marry or Avoid? Class, taste and the making of selfhood in makeover televison
Published 2012-01-01‘Snog, Marry or Avoid?: Class, taste and the labour of selfhood in makeover television’, is an exploration of the way social stratification is visited on individual and collective corporeality, externalised through the ...Open AccessThesis -
“Say no to burqas”: geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which ...Open AccessThesis -
'A Tale of Two Haitis: Representations of an Island Republic in the American Press
Published 2012-01-01This thesis examines the representations of Haiti in the black and white American press throughout the United States Occupation, 1915-1934, and in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. It analyses how Haiti's revolutionary and ...Open AccessThesis -
Musical collaboration in the primary classroom: Empowering generalist teachers to foster children's meaningful music-making
Published 2012-01-01This two-phased action research project investigates the effects of generalist-specialist teacher collaboration in a Sydney primary school in response to concerns raised in the National Review of School Music Education ...Open AccessThesis -
"Thrown in the deep end": Informal learning in a primary music classroom
Published 2012-01-01In recent years an increasing number of music educators have drawn attention to the dichotomy between in- and out-of-school learning, and studies exploring the range of informal learning outside schools and institutions ...Open AccessThesis