Heather Gibb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6182223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Gibb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibb |
| SIGNATURE | GIBB H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Distance Education and the Issue of Equity Online: Exploring the Perspectives of Rural Aboriginal Students
This paper explores Aboriginal perspectives of tertiary education "online" from rural and remote community locations in New South Wales. It does so within a frame of enquiry as to how neo-liberal educational policy reforms are impacting on equity issues in distance education "online". Accounts from Aboriginal university students in health point to a range of tensions between changes brought about by the reform in relation to student subjectivity …
Canadian Perspectives on Labour Mobility in Apec
Images of Old Age in the Hong Kong Print Media
The present study set out to identify how the experience of being old in Hong Kong is represented through images commonly recurring in the print media. A case is presented for how the media not only reflect social images and views on ageing, but actively participate in the social construction of views about being old. Two newspapers in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post (English medium) and the Sin Tao (Chinese medium), were surveyed and con…
Metaphor or Simile: Psychological Determinants of the Differential Use of Each Sentence Form
By using a sentence-completion task, figurative comparison statements were examined in relation to subjects' relative preference for the metaphoric versus the simile format (is vs. is like). Variables identified as likely predictors of one form over the other were concreteness of vehicle, specificity of the tenor, and concreteness of the predicate adjective preceding the vehicle. An explanation of the differential function of the two figurative f…
Images of Old Age in the Hong Kong Print Media
The present study set out to identify how the experience of being old in Hong Kong is represented through images commonly recurring in the print media. A case is presented for how the media not only reflect social images and views on ageing, but actively participate in the social construction of views about being old. Two newspapers in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post (English medium) and the Sin Tao (Chinese medium), were surveyed and con…
Distance Education and the Issue of Equity Online: Exploring the Perspectives of Rural Aboriginal Students
This paper explores Aboriginal perspectives of tertiary education "online" from rural and remote community locations in New South Wales. It does so within a frame of enquiry as to how neo-liberal educational policy reforms are impacting on equity issues in distance education "online". Accounts from Aboriginal university students in health point to a range of tensions between changes brought about by the reform in relation to student subjectivity …
Metaphor or Simile: Psychological Determinants of the Differential Use of Each Sentence Form
By using a sentence-completion task, figurative comparison statements were examined in relation to subjects' relative preference for the metaphoric versus the simile format (is vs. is like). Variables identified as likely predictors of one form over the other were concreteness of vehicle, specificity of the tenor, and concreteness of the predicate adjective preceding the vehicle. An explanation of the differential function of the two figurative f…
Images of Old Age in the Hong Kong Print Media
The present study set out to identify how the experience of being old in Hong Kong is represented through images commonly recurring in the print media. A case is presented for how the media not only reflect social images and views on ageing, but actively participate in the social construction of views about being old. Two newspapers in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post (English medium) and the Sin Tao (Chinese medium), were surveyed and con…
Canadian Perspectives on Labour Mobility in Apec
Distance Education and the Issue of Equity Online: Exploring the Perspectives of Rural Aboriginal Students
This paper explores Aboriginal perspectives of tertiary education "online" from rural and remote community locations in New South Wales. It does so within a frame of enquiry as to how neo-liberal educational policy reforms are impacting on equity issues in distance education "online". Accounts from Aboriginal university students in health point to a range of tensions between changes brought about by the reform in relation to student subjectivity …
Economics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 works) · China (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Corporate governance (1 works)