Deakin University

About: Deakin University is a education organization based out in Burwood, Victoria, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12118 authors who have published 46470 publications receiving 1188841 citations. The organization is also known as: Deakin.

Understanding learning at work

Abstract: This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: expectations about learning at work into the twenty-first century; learning theories, practice and performance implications; the relationship between workplace learning and other forms of lifelong learning; the international developments in competency-based approaches to learning and assessment; the influence of language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of learning. This volume contains the following chapters: Understandings of workplace learning / David Boud and John Garrick; The changing contexts of work / Catherine Casey; Learning to work and working to learn / Ronald Barnett; New dimensions in the dynamics of learning and knowledge / Judy Matthews and Phillip Candy; Finding a good theory of workplace learning / Paul Hager; Past the guru and up the garden path: the new organic management learning / David Beckett; Gender workers and gendered workplaces: implications for learning / Belinda Probert; Culture and difference in workplace learning / Nicky Solomon; Technologising equity: the politics and practices of work-related learning / Elaine Butler; Guided learning at work / Stephen Billet; Is learning transferable / Mark Tennant; Competency-based learning: a dubious past - an assured future? / Andrew Gonczi; Envisioning new organisations for learning / Victoria J. Marsick and Karen E. Watkins; and The dominant discourses of learning at work / John Garrick.

On the trail of the gold standard for subjective well-being

Abstract: The absence of a ‘gold standard’ for subjective well-being has severely hampered the interpretation of data from empirical studies. This paper demonstrates a remarkable consistency among the results of 16 studies that have investigated ‘life satisfaction’ among large samples drawn from the general population. It is concluded that a population standard for ‘life satisfaction’ can be expressed as 75.0 ± 2.5 percent of the measurement scale maximum score.

Associations Between the Home Food Environment and Obesity‐promoting Eating Behaviors in Adolescence

Abstract: Objective: This study examines relationships between multiple aspects of the home food environment and obesity-promoting characteristics of 12- to 13-year-old adolescents' diets, specifically frequency of consumption of high-energy fluids, sweet snacks, savory snacks, and take-out foods. Research Methods: This was a cross-sectional study including 347 adolescents 12 to 13 years of age and their parents. Data were collected via self-completed surveys. The adolescents' diets were assessed using a Food Frequency Questionnaire derived from existing age-appropriate National Nutrition Survey data. An extensive range of domains within the home food environment were assessed. Bivariate linear regression analyses were run split by gender. Forced entry multiple linear regression analyses (adjusting for all variables significant in bivariate analyses as well as for maternal education) were also performed, stratified by the sex of the child. Results: The influence of mothers, either as models for eating behaviors or as the providers of food, was pervasive. Mothers' intake of high-energy fluids (p = 0.003), sweet snacks (p = 0.010), savory snacks (p = 0.008), and take-out food (p = 0.007) was positively associated with boys' intake of all these foods. In addition, mothers' intake of high-energy fluids was positively associated with daughters' consumption of these drinks (p = 0.025). Furthermore, availability of unhealthy foods at home was positively associated with girls' sweet snack (p = 0.001), girls' savory snack (p Discussion: This study of home food environment influences on adolescent diet highlights the pervasive influence of mothers in determining adolescents' obesity-promoting eating, providing direction for obesity prevention strategies and future research.