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Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data 澳大利亚学生的学术技能在下降吗？对 25 年来的国家和国际标准化评估数据进行分析

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.341

Sally A. Larsen

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Unburdening care: Exploring modes of care through post-productivist thought and Australian parliamentary inquiry representations 解除护理负担：通过后生产主义思想和澳大利亚议会调查表述探索护理模式

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.335

Chabel Khan

{"title":"Unburdening care: Exploring modes of care through post-productivist thought and Australian parliamentary inquiry representations","authors":"Chabel Khan","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.335","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajs4.335","url":null,"abstract":"Research on care increasingly emphasises the “care-less” or “uncaring” nature of state-coordinated interventions imposed on marginalised communities. However, these perspectives tend to eliminate discussions about modes of care or the ways in which care is differentially experienced and performed. This paper argues for scholars to think multimodally about care, proposing a typology of four different modes of care: care-as-gift, -burden, -control and -cure. The paper makes a case for locating these modes of care within a post-capitalist political horizon to respond to the demand to “unburden care.” That is, the political demand to provide the economic and social conditions that best enable caregiving and reduce gendered pressures on caregivers. The paper develops these arguments through the post-productivist thought of Kathi Weeks (2011, The problem with work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press) and a critical discursive examination of care representations made by submitters to two parliamentary inquiries into the Australian “pre-employment” programme ParentsNext—a labour market activation programme that targets single-parent caregivers “at risk of welfare dependency.” The paper contributes a critical and multimodal approach to better conceptualise competing framings of care's value and the ways in which the state can (un)burden caregiving.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"60 1","pages":"216-232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajs4.335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141007517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Guest editors' introduction to special issue on corporal punishment of children in Australia 澳大利亚儿童体罚问题特刊特邀编辑导言

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.337

Carys Chainey, Sarah Whittle

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Australian women's motherhood aspirations: I've always wanted to be a mum. But at the same time, I wanted the career and everything too 澳大利亚女性的母性愿望：我一直想成为一名母亲。但与此同时，我也想要这份事业和一切

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.336

Megan Bugden, Hayley McKenzie, Lisa Hanna, Melissa Graham

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Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review 语言多样性与紧急健康警报：系统性批判审查

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.328

Raelene Wilding, Natalie Araujo, Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí, Tonya Stebbins, Linda Whitby, Emma Koster

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High stress, high demand and high pressure: Experiences of social work and human services agencies during Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdowns 高压力、高需求和高压：墨尔本 COVID-19 封锁期间社会工作和人类服务机构的经历

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-21 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.325

Betty Haralambous, Ronnie Egan, Patrick O'Keeffe, Sobika Baskarathas, Emily Heales, Caroline Jerono, Scott Thompson

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Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context 家庭健康和时间使用背景下的就业健康选择

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.334

Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Yixuan Zhao, Lyndall Strazdins

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Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems 在新南威尔士努力实现团聚：驾驭复杂系统的专业视角

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.333

Susan Collings, Meredith McLaine, Sarah Ciftci, Betty Luu

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On (not) being literate enough: The literacy experiences and literacy programme needs of people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness 关于（不够）识字：无家可归者或面临无家可归风险者的扫盲经历和扫盲计划需求

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.324

Benjamin Hanckel, Alan Morris, Keiko Yasukawa

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Researching effective practices to reduce youth homelessness and disadvantage from a young person's perspective: A systematic review 从青少年的角度研究减少青少年无家可归和处境不利现象的有效做法：系统回顾

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.332

Delia Rambaldini-Gooding, Lynne Keevers, Narelle Clay, Lisa MacLeod

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