María Florencia Amigó

Small Bodies, Large Contribution: Children's Work in the Tobacco Plantations of Lombok, Indonesia

Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind childrens economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore childrens paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their individual lives. I address the tension between childrens agency and the systems that constrain it.

Nurses' Intentions to Wear Gloves During Venipuncture Procedures: A Behavioral Psychology Perspective

Registered nurses working at a teaching hospital in Kuwait were surveyed to assess the psychosocial variables associated with their intention to comply with glove-wearing recommendations. Perceived consequences and normative beliefs, as well as sex and years of nursing experience, significantly influenced their behavioral intentions, suggesting that improvements in intention to comply are more likely to come from practical demonstrations that show nurses the potential outcomes of both using and not using gloves.

Exploring Critical Success Factors for Effective Collaborative Relationships

Building capacity for mutually beneficial and responsive partnering is prominent in scholarly and public discourses on university-community engagement, with particular emphasis on ‘how’ to manage and sustain key stakeholder relationships as a fundamental cornerstone of partnership development. Genuine community engagement promotes the development of relationships founded on a collective, flexible approach that acknowledges interdependence, rather than dependence (Butcher J, Egan LA, Ralph K, Australas J Commun Engage 2(3):106–112, 2008; Sinclair, Asia Pac Public Relat J 12(1):1–20, 2011). As with PACE at Macquarie University, this involves designing and developing processes in collaborative and inclusive ways that elicit buy-in and create feelings of ownership by stakeholders. In seeking to understand critical success factors for improving and sustaining relationships as core to partnering with PACE, this chapter presents findings of three research studies conducted into the implementation and outcomes of the PACE program. Results of these studies centred on core elements of the program: communication and collaboration; roles and responsibilities; expectations and contributions.

‘All of us together in a blurred space’: principles for co-creating curriculum with international partners

ABSTRACT This paper shares an innovative methodology to ‘co-create’ a curriculum with eleven international community development organisations from seven countries to prepare undergraduate students for international work-integrated learning activities. The co-creation process was complex, messy, and always evolving. Here we reflect on and document the process, identifying three key methodological principles that might guide the co-creation process for others. These principles embrace the unpredictable, emotional, and personal reality of bringing together diverse ideas and perspectives, as well as opening up possibilities for more creative ways of communicating and listening to what is seen, heard, and felt.

“Classroom of Many Cultures”: Educational Design Opportunities in Intercultural Co-creation

Many international programmes include work-integrated learning (WIL) and community-based service learning (CBSL) in order to teach students to collaborate and increase their intercultural sensitivity. The support curriculum for these experiences, however, may implicitly emphasize a divide between overseas “experience” and “reflection” facilitated by staff from home. This chapter describes the Classroom of Many Cultures project, a curriculum design project that used principles of co-creation for a series of learning modules to support international WIL and CBSL. These modules use pedagogical principles and activities that originated with host country staff, incorporating intercultural respect and collaboration into pedagogical design. The project involved significant refining of the co-creation method itself over time; the chapter explores the lessons that the research team learnt during the co-creation process.

Confronting School: Immigrant Families, Hope, Education

ABSTRACT While children remain at the center of families’ decisions to emigrate, the global contexts and technologies that allow diasporas to remain connected to their cultures have influenced families’ aspirations in relation to their children’s education. This article presents data from a qualitative study on how immigrant families negotiate the schooling of their children in Australia. Findings highlight there are incongruencies between immigrant parents’ understanding of education and what the Australian public school system offers. This clash is combined with parents’ determination to reinforce their culture at home, which is usually overridden by schools’ standardization of practices and values. The study suggests there is a need to better understand the range of experiences and expectations that immigrant families bring to schools for educational institutions to be more attuned with an increasingly diverse, mobile, and mediatically interconnected population.

Book Review: Hungerland, B., Liebel, M., Milne, B. and Wihstutz, A. (eds) (2007) Working to Be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley. (268 pp.) ISBN 9781843105237

284 rights treaties, Howell argues that these universalizing principles have ‘trickled down’ from industrialized nations to developing countries. Unlike most previous studies of adoption which tend to focus on children’s assimilation into first-world receiving countries and give minimal consideration to their countries of origin, the book gives an important and thought-provoking overview of the interaction between global and local adoption discourses within four sending countries (India, Ethiopia, China and Romania). Somewhat mediating her claim about the unchecked globalization of western rationality and morality, Howell finds that western normative values that enter into developing countries come into contact with local practices and understandings that render them influential but not culturally hegemonic. For example, although China ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, a study of three Chinese orphanages found that personnel place little emphasis on individuality or individual rights and needs as specified in the treaty. Howell’s study uses transnational adoption to engage with a myriad of issues at the local, national and global scales, in such diverse areas as kinship, family, identity, culture, globalization, and the production and dissemination of western knowledge. This wide-reaching perspective is a major strength of the book, yet it is also its biggest weakness as many areas are by necessity glossed over or given only superficial treatment. The three general themes of the book fit together well on a conceptual level. However, the actual discussion tends to jump between topics and scales in a rather disjointed fashion, focusing more on the globalization of western values than on kinning, and never fully linking them together. This is due in part to a confusing methodology; it is often uncertain whether the author is using first-hand research, secondary sources, or a combination of the two. At the end of the book it is clear that many important points have been made about children, families and nations in a globalized era, but tackling so many subjects contributes to the lack of an overarching argument that causes them to lose some of their significance. In sum The Kinning of Foreigners is an impressive volume that adds much needed perspective to the study of transnational adoption. It adds to the growing literature on adoption by providing new analytical insight into the global processes that structure our intimate lives. This book will undoubtedly be useful to a wide audience, including globalization scholars, policymakers, child practitioners, as well as internationally adopted individuals and their families.