Since its earliest days, Monash University has been an institution in a hurry. Born on the suburban fringe of Melbourne in the late 1950s, it has continually reached outwards rather than gazed inwards. Over five decades Monash has embraced the challenges of the age of Sputnik, become a hotbed of student radicalism, and then taken an equally radical turn towards market capitalism to become Australia’s largest university, with branches in Italy, Malaysia, South Africa and China.
This self-critical, and outward looking work is the first scholarly history to encompass the full 50 years of Monash University’s story, exploiting the institution's rich archives, and capturing the memories of the many significant individuals who have made the University what it is today.
Authors Graeme Davison and Kate Murphy have produced an uncensored and uninhibited work that illuminates the relationships between the University and the wider society.
Dr Maryam Jamarani investigates changes in the identity of first generation Iranian Muslim women in Australia. Before migrating to Australia most of this group lived the first 20 years of their lives in Iran’s Western-oriented monarchy, before spending time under the Islamic, anti-Western government that followed the revolution of 1978.
A research fellow in Monash University’s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Dr Jamarani identifies the core values that these women continue to hold after migration, as well as areas of change. And, engaging with contemporary theories of acculturation, she proposes a new, sociolinguistically enhanced acculturation model, emphasising the significance of the fluid and flexible nature of identity. This model, she argues, is capable of shedding new light on the acculturation process of migrants in general.
This book will be of interest to scholars around the world researching and teaching in the areas of identity, language, culture, gender and migration.
In the first work to describe a renewal of philosophy and practice for outdoor education, authors Brian Wattchow and Mike Brown argue for an approach that is in keeping with the educational needs of today’s young people as they grapple with considerable social and ecological changes.
This philosophy emphasises responding to and empathising with the outdoors as particular places, rich in local meaning and significance. In creating a text that offers a conceptual framework around which to organise a substantive body of research in outdoor education, the authors draw extensively on international, national and local literature and provide compelling case studies drawn from Australian and New Zealand contexts.
Robyn Zink, of the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, said the book offered "a very different perspective on outdoor education" and that it held "the potential to sow many seeds about what outdoor education could become".
The essays in this volume focus on a central issue in literary translation: the relationship between the creative freedom enjoyed by the translator and the multiple constraints to which translation is necessarily subject. The links between translation work and the translator's own writing are also considered.
Editors Rita Wilson and Leah Gerber, both from the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, draw on theory and practice to make this a work that will appeal to specialists in translation studies as well as to a wider audience.
Case studies illustrate the parallel and overlapping discourses within the areas of literary studies, creative writing and translation studies. Together they propose a view of translation as a form of creative writing, with creative writing in turn being shaped by translation processes. Translations of contemporary French, Spanish and German texts offer insights into how the translator's work mirrors and complements that of the creative writer.
Globalisation and the market economy are transforming education in Asia Pacific countries, many of which have flourished thanks in part to increased regional capital flow and trade.
Although these countries are well documented in Western scholarship, reaction to the predominance of Western social theories is growing. Instead, there is increasing recognition of theories that take into account the wide range of contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East.
Philip Wing Keung Chan, a PhD candidate in Monash University's Faculty of Education, brings together contributors who are researching contemporary education in Asia Pacific countries. They offer Eastern-oriented perspectives on teacher education, parent participation, government withdrawal, textbook content, uses of modern technology, and the challenges related to migrating families and foreign tertiary students.
These commentaries highlight equity, identity and social justice issues, and connect social theories that consider East as well as West.
They shared a name, a strong physical resemblance and prominence in the world of film and theatre.
Frank Thring senior (1882–1936) began his career as a sideshow conjuror and became a wealthy man: an impresario, speculator and owner of Efftee Films, Australia's first 'talkies' studio.
Frank Thring junior (1926–1994) created his own persona: a powerful presence that could make stages and foyers seem small. He won fame playing tyrants in togas in Hollywood blockbusters, then returned home to Melbourne to play perhaps his finest role – Frank Thring, actor and personality extraordinaire, unapologetically and outrageously gay.
This dual biography is also a detective story; Peter Fitzpatrick, Honorary Professor of Performing Arts at Monash University, follows two remarkable and self-protective men who did all they could to cover their tracks. As well, it is the tale of a lost relationship and of the power a father might have even over a son who hardly knew him.
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