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Item Evolutionary Distributed Control of a Biologically Inspired Modular Robot(IntechOpen, 2008) Lal SP; Yamada K; Iba, HItem The word as remnant: Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame(University of Otago, Department of English, 2005) Lawn JMItem Creativity inc.: Globalizing the cultural imaginary in New Zealand(Rodopi, 2006) Lawn JMItem Playing with freud: radical narcissism and intertextuality in frame's intensive care and daughter buffalo(Rodopi B.V. Amsterdam-New York, 2009) Lawn JMIn this essay, my aim is to place Frame and Freud in an interpretative relationship by pursung just one point of intersection between them: the modulations of the Narcissus myth in Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo, focusing on scenes that concentrate the dilemmas of transference, "desperate capture," and misapprehended love descsribed so acutely in Frame's autobiography.Item Item Language learning strategies in independent language learning: an overview.(Multilingual Matters, 2008) White CJThe notions of independence, autonomy, and control in learning experiences have come to play an increasingly important role in language education. A number of principles underpin independent language learning – optimising or extending learner choice, focusing on the needs of individual learners, not the interests of a teacher or an institution, and the diffusion of decision-making to learners. Independent language learning (ILL) reflects a move towards more learner-centred approaches viewing learners as individuals with needs and rights, who can develop and exercise responsibility for their learning. An important outgrowth of this perspective has been the range of means developed to raise learners’ awareness and knowledge of themselves, their learning needs and preferences, their beliefs and motivation and the strategies they use to develop target language (TL) competence. In this chapter I begin with an overview of the concept of independent language learning, and of the particular contribution of language learning strategies to this domain. I argue that a fundamental challenge of independent language learning is for learners to develop the ability to engage with, interact with, and derive benefit from learning environments which are not directly mediated by a teacher. Drawing on learner conceptualisations of distance language learning I argue that learners develop this ability largely by constructing a personally meaningful interface with the learning context, and that strategies play a key role in this regard. In the latter half of the chapter I focus on a series of landmark studies, identifying how they illuminate important aspects of independent language learning, extend our understanding of strategies and strategy development, and provide insights into how students use strategies within independent learning contexts. The following three sections provide historical and theoretical background, while the two main sections in the remainder of the chapter provide a state of the art overview of language learning strategies in ILL.Item Towards a learner-based theory of distance language learning: the concept of the learner-context interface(Routledge, 2005-01-01) White CNo abstract availableItem Identity and self in e-language teaching(Multilingual Matters, 2009) White CJ; Ding ANo abstract availableItem No end in sight: Information skills for academics and researchers(Central Queensland University Press, 2004) White, Bruce; Gendall, Rae; Naidoo, Kogi; Danaher, Patrick Alan; Macpherson, Colin; Nouwens, Fons; Orr, DebbieThis paper follows the genesis, development and delivery of knowledge management seminars aimed at academics and researchers in the university environment who, although they are lifelong learners in their own subject areas, are not necessarily maintaining the currency of their own information-seeking skills.Item The Brawn-Drain? Issues for the professional sports worker(Dunmore Press, 2004) Sayers, Janet; Edwards, MargotProfessionalism is now the reality in many sports. For the professional sportsperson (most professional sports are male), there are several challenges and issues that make them a 'special' type of worker. We explore three of the challenges of the sports professional: the short-term nature of the career and its implications which includes living with injury and the fear of life after a sports career; second, the 'brawn drain'; and third, the celebrity status of athletes.
