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Part I: examining the broken history of manual therapy across professions. A survey-based analysis Open
The historical development of manual therapy is an area of ongoing debate impacting clinical practice, education, and practice regulations. Primary professions utilizing manual therapy include chiropractic, manual medicine, osteopathy, and…
Part II: Beyond Broken Histories: Reframing Professional Identity and the Historical Genesis of Manual Therapy. Interviews across professions Open
The findings of this study provide new perspectives to consider on the value, criticality, and impact of manual therapy, and its history's for the four professions in practice, education, and regulations.
Developing an Analytical Framework to Discern Historical Developments in Physiotherapy Open
An appreciation of the history of physiotherapy permits an understanding of the development of the profession and appreciates its societal role. However, the study of history within physiotherapy is confounded by methods favoring a deducti…
DNA Testing and Identities in Family History Research Open
In the preceding decades, rapid technological advancements and increasing democratisation of historical records have been coupled with scientific data from DNA testing, which has revolutionised the family history industry. Going beyond the…
Epistemic Fluency and the Pedagogical Challenge of Fake News, Historical Denial, and Rival Histories Open
Epistemic wobbling is an identified problem among history teachers who today steward their students through critical engagement with fake news, historical denial, and rival histories. This chapter explores epistemic wobbling from the persp…
The History teacher as public historian Open
Educators have long been aware of the role that schools, and specific school subjects, play in nation-building, including the ways in which national consciousness is perceived to be shaped within the classroom. This makes the historical na…
The Kick-Smart Program: A Randomised Feasibility Trial Evaluating the Feasibility and Efficacy of a Primary-School Based Martial Arts Program Integrating Mathematics, Physical Fitness and Well-Being Open
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the ‘Kick-Smart’ martial arts programme using a randomised controlled-trial conducted in one Australian primary school. Kick-Smart involved children 9-11yrs (n= 46…
Care and Protection Secure Residences: A report on the international evidence to guide best practice and service delivery Open
This report was commissioned by the Ministry as part of ongoing work to improve the quality of services for children and young people in Child, Youth and Family’s care and protection secure residences. The report reviews the international …
Measuring the value of professional indexing Open
This study provides both a quantitative estimate and qualitative analysis of the additional ‘retrieval power’ that professionally assigned subject indexing affords users of a typical database in the field of education. A full version of In…
Public Historians in the Classroom Open
This article explores school history as a site of public history.It will start with some observations of the important points raised by Zerwas and Carretero in this volume, about school history and its relationship to public history, and t…
Historical Consciousness, Fake News, and the Other Open
In April 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte put forth a plan for a Jewish state in Palestine.During the siege of Acre, he sought to enlist Jewish support in return for which he promised to build the Temple.The project failed after the defeat of Napol…
The Kali Controversy: Public History in Unusual Places Open
Beyond the Myth boldly unravels with compelling and provocative hypothesis on the Hispanic origins of the Filipino Martial Arts known as eskrima, arnis and estokada.The authors present prima facie evidence on the fraud of the supposedly pr…
Reindexing a Research Repository from the Ground up: Adding and Evaluating Quality Metadata Open
This article details the outcomes of the 'National Learning and Teaching Resource Audit and Classification' project, commissioned by the Australian Government's Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). The project used a range of methodolog…
Introducing an automated subject classifier Open
The library community understands the value of controlled vocabularies in enhancing resource discovery. There is however ongoing tension between that value and the cost of maintaining and applying specialist vocabularies. This paper presen…