Matthew Kearney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3861744 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Kearney |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Kearney |
| FIRMA | KEARNEY M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5565-6312 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Measuring the impact of a pastoral care intervention to increase referrals and improve the quality of chaplain documentation in patient records
The complexity of patient care demands that health care teams collaborate effectively. This means that when pastoral care staff engage with patients, they need to communicate their findings to other members of the multidisciplinary team to maximize patient benefits. In 2016, an Australian hospital found that pastoral care staff were able to visit only 30% of admitted patients, and that documentation of pastoral care visits was minimal. This paper…
Mediating learning with mobile devices through pedagogical innovation
This article presents a quantitative study demonstrating that digital pedagogy using mobile devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phones, tablets) impacts teachers' perceptions of pedagogical innovation. We further find that innovative mobile pedagogy adoption positively impacts teachers' perceptions of improved student learning in K-12 settings. Examining teachers' perceptions of pedagogical innovation in digital practice is important as researchers ha…
Scrutinising the Digital Pedagogies of Teachers With Contrasting Views of Students’ Remote Learning Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article discusses a survey of Australian teachers ( n = 297) that elicited their views of teaching and learning during the COVID-19 emergency remote schooling periods. The research identifies differences in teachers’ views of their students’ learning experiences and finds that the groups with the greatest contrast in such views reported using distinctly different digital pedagogies. Participants with extremely negative views of their student…
What men have to say about epigenetics, fertility, and masculinity
Exploring a Synchronous Hybrid Observation Approach for Supporting Student Teachers during School Placements
This article presents findings from an international study examining a synchronous hybrid approach for observing and supporting student teachers on their school placement. This novel approach emerged from previous studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and involves university tutors synchronously supervising student teachers from two locations: one tutor face-to-face in a school-based classroom and another virtually, from a remote setting…
Mobile learning in university science education
This study adopts a robust systematic literature review (SLR) to investigate the use of mobile devices to support learning (mobile learning) in university science education. It analyses 24 high quality studies over the past decade to generate insights into contemporary mobile learning developments in relation to settings, applications and pedagogical approaches, as well as trends in research methodologies and outcomes. The results show that the u…
Effective practices during emergency school lockdowns
This study investigates common features of a set of diverse schools’ responses to the initial school lockdown period during the pandemic in 2020, with a focus on practices supporting learning, inclusion and wellbeing. It comprises a collective case study of four Australian schools that were selected based on their reputation for impactful support of students and teachers during the emergency remote teaching period. Methods included interviews and…
Effect of a Spiritual Care Training Program to Build Knowledge, Competence, Confidence and Self-awareness Among Australian Health and Aged Care Staff
The aim of this study was to evaluate a new spiritual care training program with health and aged care staff. A four-module program was delivered to 44 participants at a large Catholic health and aged care provider in Australia. Pre, post and 6 week follow-up surveys were administered and included measures of spiritual care competency, confidence, perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care, spiritual well-being, and satisfaction. Paired sampl…
Measurement of Spiritual Wellbeing in an Australian Hospital Population Using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy
Spiritual wellbeing is known to be a predictor of increased patient coping in hospital settings. Therefore, access to a valid and reliable measure of spiritual wellbeing amongst general hospital patients is highly recommended. The aim of this study was to investigate the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Spiritual Wellbeing scale (FACIT-Sp-12) in a heterogeneous cohort of hospital pa…
Australian Patient Preferences for Discussing Spiritual Issues in the Hospital Setting
While there is high patient acceptance for clinical staff discussing issues regarding spirituality with hospital inpatients, it is not clear which staff member patients prefer for these discussions. This unique exploratory study investigated inpatient preferences regarding which staff member should raise the topic of spirituality. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with inpatients at six hospitals in Sydney, Australia ( n = 897), with a subse…
Genetic subjectivities of prospective fathers
This study investigates prospective fathers' reaction to epigenetics and its implications for heredity.Mounting scientific evidence that epigenetic changes transmit through fathers, not just mothers, makes it important to learn how men regard their inheritance conceptually and its relevance for their behavior.This study features in-depth interviews with 31 prospective fathers in Canada.About one-third of respondents had heard of epigenetics, but …
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of subjectivity is perhaps the most elaborate within the broad constructivist tradition, and Göran Therborn's is perhaps the most elaborate within the Marxist tradition. These traditions emphasize opposite components and tend to produce different explanations on micro‐cognitive levels. But this article demonstrates a striking complementarity and ventures elements of synthesis. The two theorists are contrasted on four broa…
What is the role of spiritual care specialists in teaching generalist spiritual care? The perspectives of pastoral care staff in a large Catholic health and aged care organisation
The value of spiritual care training for all staff working in health and aged care has been demonstrated. This study investigated how spiritual care specialists (SCSs) perceive their role in delivering spiritual care education to other staff. Fourteen SCSs participated in three online focus groups. Two key themes were identified: First, SCSs build upon existing capacity of staff by: (i) recognising existing strengths and capabilities; (ii) using …
Teachers’ Experiences of Emergency Remote Schooling During the Pandemic
This article discusses findings from a recent survey ( n = 297) of teachers’ views of both their own and their students’ experiences during the 2021 enforced emergency remote schooling period occurring in New South Wales Australia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis reported here explores teachers’ views regarding teaching and learning during this challenging period. It identifies three latent constructs, learning, assessment…
Chaplaincy Perspectives on the Role of Spirituality in Australian Health and Aged Care
The aim of this study was to explore Australian chaplains’ views of spirituality. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with 16 participants. Participants relied heavily on metaphors and analogies to describe spirituality. Four inter-related themes were identified through reflexive thematic analysis: (1) The core of spirituality: spirituality as a source of meaning or belief which leads to connectedness with something greater than ones…
Australian Patient Preferences for the Introduction of Spirituality into their Healthcare Journey
While patients value engagement concerning their spirituality as a part of holistic healthcare, there is little evidence regarding the preferred way to engage in discussions about spirituality. This study investigated inpatient preferences regarding how they would like spirituality to be raised in the hospital setting. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with inpatients at six hospitals in Sydney, Australia ( n = 897), with a subset invited to…
Abortion and Directive Genetic Counseling
This multi-method study uses statistical and comparative-historical investigations to find that abortion values shape genetic counseling practices across societies. Genetic counselors and genetically interested social scientists have long questioned, but never systematically demonstrated, whether this relationship exists. Genetic counseling data are drawn from cross-national surveys of genetic counselors ( n = 2,906) from the mid-1990s, the key h…
‘This ward has no ears’
National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Australia recommend incorporation of spiritual care in multidisciplinary patient care planning, however it is not known how consistently this is done. A qualitative interview study was designed to explore the practices of pastoral care practitioners in two city hospitals in Australia. Fourteen pastoral care practitioners participated (100% response rate). Interviews were taped and transcribed verbatim. Tr…
Responding to the “unknown assailant”
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought about physical, psychological and spiritual challenges within health and aged care services across Australia. The aim of this study was to consider the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of Australian chaplains. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 chaplains. A grounded theory analysis identified three overarching themes: (1) a changing healthcare environment; (2) the impact…
Digital pedagogies for future school education
This article develops four school education scenarios to help educators consider the role of digital technologies in future teaching and to provoke discussion of how education might be done differently. The context for these scenarios is a world shaped by the COVID19 pandemic. The development of education scenarios is a useful device for thinking about the future and is often used as a methodology to stimulate discussion about possible variations…
Improving mobile learning in secondary mathematics and science
Analysing user reviews of inquiry-based learning apps in science education
Inquiry‐based mobile learning in secondary school science education
Recent years have seen a growing call for inquiry‐based learning in science education, and mobile technologies are perceived as increasingly valuable tools to support this approach. However, there is a lack of understanding of mobile technology‐supported inquiry‐based learning (mIBL) in secondary science education. More evidence‐based, nuanced insights are needed into how using mobile technologies might facilitate students' engagement with variou…
Developer contributions and community benefits
Developer contributions have a rich history in all UK jurisdictions, other than in Northern Ireland (NI). This paper presents a moment in NI’s planning modernisation in which a scheme of developer contributions has been introduced, primarily by Belfast City Council. There has been little scholarship devoted to NI’s planning reform, however, there has been considerable attention directed to the increasingly neo-liberal governing landscape in which…
Exploring Knowledge and Attitudes About Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among School Nurses in an Urban School District
BACKGROUND: Nurses in an urban school district completed a brief survey about their knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. METHODS: Descriptive and bivariate analyses examined trends and differences. RESULTS: Among 208 nurses, only 3% correctly answered all 5 knowledge questions. Nurses with greater than 10 years of experience were more confident about where to refer a student for vaccination (p < .…
Using Cosponsorship to Estimate Ideal Points
Ideal point estimates based on roll‐call vote results have provided leverage for a variety of theory testing efforts. Recently, scholars have suggested using cosponsorship data as a proxy for roll‐call votes. Conceptually similar to roll‐call votes, cosponsorship data are appealing for a variety of reasons. However, the data‐generating process for cosponsorship is untheorized and little studied. We examine the properties of ideal point estimates …
Walking the walk? Community participation in HIA
Teachers Choosing Rich Tasks
This article reports on the pioneering use in education of Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) to assess teachers’ decisions regarding deployment of rich tasks. The incorporation of this quantitative method into what is usually considered the domain of qualitative researchers is an innovative feature of this study. The DCEs enabled rigorous, reliable, and efficient investigation of the relationships between attributes of the complex environment in…
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Principles Underpinning Innovative Mobile Learning
What men have to say about epigenetics, fertility, and masculinity
Constructivism as a referent in the design and development of a computer program using interactive digital video to enhance learning in physics
This paper describes the fruitful interaction between educational research on constructivism and the development and use of a multimedia computer program. The software uses interactive digital video clips to present sixteen real world demonstrations to Physics students. It is designed to be used by pairs of students to elicit their pre-instructional conceptions of Force and Motion and encourage discussion about these views. A predict-observe-expl…
Walking the walk? Community participation in HIA
Prospective science teachers as e-learning designers
The study investigated the efficacy of prospective teachers authoring and using their own online learning designs as a means of creating links between theory classes and their teaching practicum. Trainee primary and secondary teachers adopted an exemplary, well-researched learning design to inform their own specific task designs, and used them in the context of science lessons on their practicum. This process aided teachers' development of pedago…
Spotlight on authentic learning
The recent convergence of video and computer technologies presents new opportunities and challenges in education. Video production resources such as cameras and video editing software are now widely available in many schools and homes. The ease of use of these resources has encouraged teachers to use them across the curriculum with students of all ages. Furthermore, students often find this work exhilarating and perceive these tasks as deeply rel…
Using Cosponsorship to Estimate Ideal Points
Ideal point estimates based on roll‐call vote results have provided leverage for a variety of theory testing efforts. Recently, scholars have suggested using cosponsorship data as a proxy for roll‐call votes. Conceptually similar to roll‐call votes, cosponsorship data are appealing for a variety of reasons. However, the data‐generating process for cosponsorship is untheorized and little studied. We examine the properties of ideal point estimates …
Teachers Choosing Rich Tasks
This article reports on the pioneering use in education of Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) to assess teachers’ decisions regarding deployment of rich tasks. The incorporation of this quantitative method into what is usually considered the domain of qualitative researchers is an innovative feature of this study. The DCEs enabled rigorous, reliable, and efficient investigation of the relationships between attributes of the complex environment in…
Escalating Moral Obligation in the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011
This study uses insider ethnographic and interview data to examine one of the largest sustained collective actions in the history of the United States—the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011. It finds that this event took a highly unusual form due to a social relation that I term escalating moral obligation, a sense of solidaristic duty that grows increasingly fervent as others struggle on behalf of a shared cause. Each of three active groups within the m…
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Mobile learning in pre-service teacher education
Interest in how to use mobile devices to support teaching and learning has increased as technologies have become more sophisticated and ubiquitous. A recent focus in teacher education is the use of mobile devices to support teachers’ professional learning networks (PLNs). This study investigates how pre-service teachers (PSTs) use mobile technologies to support different aspects of their PLN activities. The study uses a qualitative methodology, w…
The iPAC Scale
This paper develops and examines a scale to capture teachers' views of the mobile pedagogies they are adopting. Mobile pedagogies refer to the practices and approaches teachers use that involve mobile technologies to support learning. A mobile technology is any portable, handheld technology that potentially supports learning and includes laptops, tablets and smartphones. This study develops a rigorous scale to capture mobile pedagogies adopted in…
Principles Underpinning Innovative Mobile Learning
Investigating pre-service teachers’ informally-developed online professional learning networks
This study investigates how final year pre-service teachers (PSTs) from several countries use social media to support their online professional learning network (PLN) activities. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, it uses a global survey and interview methods to generate fresh insights into PSTs’ informally-developed online PLN practices and their perceived benefits of these self-initiated activities. Findings uncover new understandings of contem…
The Social Order of Collective Action
Reviewer: Amanda Pullum, California State University In early 2011, the Wisconsin State Capitol became the site of one of the largest—if not the largest—protests in United States history. For about three weeks, crowds of up to 100,000 people occupied the building nonstop and gathered outside, all in opposition to Act 10, a far-reaching union-busting bill. Matthew Kearney, then a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was one of …
Analysing user reviews of inquiry-based learning apps in science education
Inquiry‐based mobile learning in secondary school science education
Recent years have seen a growing call for inquiry‐based learning in science education, and mobile technologies are perceived as increasingly valuable tools to support this approach. However, there is a lack of understanding of mobile technology‐supported inquiry‐based learning (mIBL) in secondary science education. More evidence‐based, nuanced insights are needed into how using mobile technologies might facilitate students' engagement with variou…
Developer contributions and community benefits
Developer contributions have a rich history in all UK jurisdictions, other than in Northern Ireland (NI). This paper presents a moment in NI’s planning modernisation in which a scheme of developer contributions has been introduced, primarily by Belfast City Council. There has been little scholarship devoted to NI’s planning reform, however, there has been considerable attention directed to the increasingly neo-liberal governing landscape in which…
Exploring Knowledge and Attitudes About Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among School Nurses in an Urban School District
BACKGROUND: Nurses in an urban school district completed a brief survey about their knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. METHODS: Descriptive and bivariate analyses examined trends and differences. RESULTS: Among 208 nurses, only 3% correctly answered all 5 knowledge questions. Nurses with greater than 10 years of experience were more confident about where to refer a student for vaccination (p < .…
‘This ward has no ears’
National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Australia recommend incorporation of spiritual care in multidisciplinary patient care planning, however it is not known how consistently this is done. A qualitative interview study was designed to explore the practices of pastoral care practitioners in two city hospitals in Australia. Fourteen pastoral care practitioners participated (100% response rate). Interviews were taped and transcribed verbatim. Tr…
Responding to the “unknown assailant”
The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought about physical, psychological and spiritual challenges within health and aged care services across Australia. The aim of this study was to consider the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of Australian chaplains. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 chaplains. A grounded theory analysis identified three overarching themes: (1) a changing healthcare environment; (2) the impact…
Digital pedagogies for future school education
This article develops four school education scenarios to help educators consider the role of digital technologies in future teaching and to provoke discussion of how education might be done differently. The context for these scenarios is a world shaped by the COVID19 pandemic. The development of education scenarios is a useful device for thinking about the future and is often used as a methodology to stimulate discussion about possible variations…
Improving mobile learning in secondary mathematics and science
What is the role of spiritual care specialists in teaching generalist spiritual care? The perspectives of pastoral care staff in a large Catholic health and aged care organisation
The value of spiritual care training for all staff working in health and aged care has been demonstrated. This study investigated how spiritual care specialists (SCSs) perceive their role in delivering spiritual care education to other staff. Fourteen SCSs participated in three online focus groups. Two key themes were identified: First, SCSs build upon existing capacity of staff by: (i) recognising existing strengths and capabilities; (ii) using …
Teachers’ Experiences of Emergency Remote Schooling During the Pandemic
This article discusses findings from a recent survey ( n = 297) of teachers’ views of both their own and their students’ experiences during the 2021 enforced emergency remote schooling period occurring in New South Wales Australia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis reported here explores teachers’ views regarding teaching and learning during this challenging period. It identifies three latent constructs, learning, assessment…
Chaplaincy Perspectives on the Role of Spirituality in Australian Health and Aged Care
The aim of this study was to explore Australian chaplains’ views of spirituality. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with 16 participants. Participants relied heavily on metaphors and analogies to describe spirituality. Four inter-related themes were identified through reflexive thematic analysis: (1) The core of spirituality: spirituality as a source of meaning or belief which leads to connectedness with something greater than ones…
Australian Patient Preferences for the Introduction of Spirituality into their Healthcare Journey
While patients value engagement concerning their spirituality as a part of holistic healthcare, there is little evidence regarding the preferred way to engage in discussions about spirituality. This study investigated inpatient preferences regarding how they would like spirituality to be raised in the hospital setting. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with inpatients at six hospitals in Sydney, Australia ( n = 897), with a subset invited to…
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