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ItemProfessional Development for Teachers: Speaking and Listening(Longman (on behalf of the Department of Education, Employment and Training, Victoria), 1999)
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ItemTeaching Speakers and Listeners in the Classroom: Stage 3 Early Years Literacy Program(Longman (on behalf of the Department of Education, Employment and Training, Victoria), 1999)
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ItemTeaching Speakers and Listeners: a framework for classroom talk(English Teachers Association of WA, 1999)
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ItemThe 'facts of the case': gender equity for boys as a public policy issue(SAGE, 1999)Despite the trend toward gender studies in the social sciences, studies of masculinity have been largely absent from educational research. This volume presents a collection of the current critical scholarship on the creation of masculinities in schools, relations among competing definitions of masculinity and femininity, and linkages between masculinity and school practices. With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Nancy Lesko studies masculinities in North American, Australian, and British schools. This book covers all levels of schooling, from preschool to graduate school, and school settings from computer labs to football fields. This fascinating addition to Sage’s Research in Men and Masculinities Series provides a thoughtful examinationof how masculinities are constructed among teachers, students, and administrators, locating these analyses within broader social, economic, and ideological contexts. Masculinities at School is a must read for scholars of education, sociology, men’s studies and gender studies.
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ItemTransitions and the year 7 experience: a report from the 12 to 18 Project( 1999)This article discusses students' comments about the experience of shifting from primary to secondary schooling, and of their first year of secondary school. The material was gathered from research carried out in three Victorian primary schools and four Victorian secondary schools in 1993 and 1994 as part of an ongoing qualitative, longitudinal study which is following students through each year of their secondary schooling. This article discusses the meanings students give to their experience of transition against earlier research and policy documents which use different methodologies and which talk of different cultures of primary and secondary schools. It argues that student reactions are more complex than are indicated by methodologies which take comments at face value and that their concerns challenge some common assumptions about the problem of disruption in the break between primary and secondary. The article also notes widespread changes in students' lunchtime activities compared with primary school and discusses ways students assess the new curriculum and teaching styles of the secondary school.
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ItemExploring positive cross-gender peer relations – year 10 students’ perspectives on cross-gender friendships( 1999-12)Much of the current academic and policy literature on gender and inclusive education calls for schools and teachers to move towards understanding gender as a multi-dimensional process of negotiated social relations that is informed by a range of discursive practices—but how students themselves are able to conceptualise gender relations in these ways is under researched. This paper reports on an aspect of an exploratory study that had as its focus students’ perceptions of cross cultural and cross gender friendships. This project, funded by a small Australian Research Council grant from La Trobe University, began with surveys of year 10 students at two schools that have previously participated in gender reform projects. Those students who indicated they had cross category friendships were then interviewed to elicit narratives that depict their perspectives on these friendships. Teacher interviews were also conducted to enable a fuller reading both of the practices of schools and the ways these practices are read by students as compared with teachers. This paper will consider some students’ narrative accounts of one aspect of this study, the cross-gender friendships.
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ItemFeminism's fandango with the state revisited: reflections on Australia, feminism, education and change( 1999)This article reflects on the achievements, involvements and complexities of feminism's involvement in education change in Australia over the past quarter century. In doing so, it continues a discussion about feminist theory and its relationship to politics and contexts. The article argues that this has been a period in which feminism has made a considerable impact on education, but that these achievements and even the growing wealth of experiences and sophistication of those working for such change have led to a more murky situation. The argument attempts to account for the particular form of Australian feminist work (theorizing as well as other practices) and to identify some of its consequences today.
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ItemIndonesian Islamic banking in historical and legal context(The Federation Press, 1999)Since its emergence in the 1960s, Islamic banking has emerged as a new trend in the field of international finance. Despite its popularity throughout the Muslim world, many are still unsure as to what exactly Islamic banking involves. This article from the book Law and Society in Indonesia explores critical questions such as who the Muslim thinkers and movements are that have influenced the development of Islamic banking as we know it today, with its strong emphasis on interest-free banking; when Islamic banks first started to appear in the modern era; and how it was that the Islamic concept of riba (usury) came to be understood as interest, thus providing the raison d’être for much of today’s Islamic banking industry. It also explores the theory of profit and loss sharing as the basis of Islamic banking, and the aspects of this theory which are put into practice in the day-to-day reality of Islamic commercial banking. Using the case study of Bank Muamalat Indonesia (BMI), Indonesia's first major Islamic bank, this article also examines the rise of Islamic banking in Indonesia. In particular, it discusses BMI’s rise and establishment as a competitive player in Indonesia's commercial sector. The case of BMI is explored in the light of earlier discussions of the broader historical and legal context of Islamic thinking and the rise of modern theories of ‘Islamic banking’.
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ItemRethinking citizenship rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic state: Rashid al-Ghannushi's contribution to the evolving debate( 1999)Of interest to Islamists of the twentieth century has been the question of minority rights in an Islamic state and of how non-Muslim minorities should be treated: in particular, should they enjoy equal citizenship rights and responsibilities with Muslims? Traditional Islamic law did not accord equal rights to non-Muslim protected minorities (ahl al-dhimma), placing Muslims above them in several key areas. Notwithstanding the law, however, early Muslim rulers exercised some pragmatic discretion according to the imperatives of their day. With the Islamic revival of the twentieth century, the traditional view has been adopted by several Muslim thinkers and leaders, though the traditional view is at odds with the concept of the nation-state. The nation-state is built on a secular premise, with no single religious group favoured over another. Within this context, a number of Muslim thinkers have attempted to reinterpret the traditionally held view of ‘citizenship rights’. This article will focus on the contribution of one such thinker, the Tunisian Islamist Rashid al-Ghannushi, who espouses somewhat ‘liberal’ views on the issue and argues for rethinking on a number of related aspects. Commencing with some background to the problem, the article explores the issue of citizenship rights as espoused by Ghannushi and notes the key importance of the concept of justice as their basis, in his view. Specific rights examined are: freedom of belief, including for Muslims who wish to change their religion; the holding of public office by non-Muslims; equal treatment for Muslims and non-Muslims in terms of fiscal duties and benefits. Throughout his arguments, Ghannushi emphasizes justice as central to the issue, and as the basis of interpreting and developing related rules and laws. Although Ghannushi’s views are not entirely new, he goes well beyond what has been acceptable in Islamic law, and his contribution should be considered important in the efforts at rethinking Islamic law in this area.
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ItemScripting extra-marital affairs: marital mores, gender politics and infidelity in Taiwan(Sage, 1999)Historically, Chinese culture considered sexuality mores as a natural urge rather than as a social encounter. Sexual activity was not normally associated with sin or moral guilt as long as sex was with the right party in the right place (Hsu, 1983; van Gulik, 1974). Historically, the “right” party for Chinese men within the household could include the group denoted by the phrase “three wives and four concubines”(san qi si qie) (Lang, 1968). In addition, prostitution provided a further sexual outlet for men (Baker, 1979; Lang, 1968). In this society based on familism, a large extended household with san qi si qieand “five generations” under the same roof was seen as a cultural ideal across all social classes—even if, in reality, only wealthy men could afford to achieve this ideal (Baker, 1979). Although concubines and polygamy have been replaced by modern monogamous marriage arrangements since early in this century, this cultural legacy, some have argued, has kept Chinese women’s tolerance of their husbands’ extramarital activity relatively high (Lin Fangmei, 1996; JianChun’an, 1996). Extramarital affairs should therefore be relatively invisible. Nevertheless, in recent decades, a new term, waiyu (extramarital affairs), has emerged and become part of the common lexicon. The popular press in Taiwan has described the occurrence of waiyu as akinto a new “epidemic” and has depicted wives as apprehensive of itsimplications (Lianhe bao, 26 Nov. 1993). This article analyzes newspaper reports of extramarital affairs to discern how issues of marital mores, gender politics, and sexuality are revealed by waiyu. Fourareas of concern have fueled the media interest in waiyu.