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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustralia: Significant Characteristics of the School System and the Mathematics Curriculum(Sense Publishers, 2006)In Australia, states and territories regulate their own education systems, however, national benchmarks representing minimum standards for Numeracy (in the areas of number sense, measurement and data sense, and spatial sense) help inform the individual state curricula. Australia has three school sectors: Government, Independent, and Catholic. As data collection in the Learner's Perspective Study (LPS) was restricted to Government schools, this overview focuses primarily on the types of schools from which the Learner's Perspective Study (LPS) data from Year 8 mathematics lessons was collected: Victorian government secondary schools.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableComparing and contrasting methodologies: A commentary(Routledge, 2009-04-15)The term ‘methodology’ is discussed before we consider the methodological contributions of each team of chapter authors (Cobb, Gresalfi & Hodge; Nathan, Eilam & Kim; and Saxe, Gearhart, Shaughnessy, Earnest, Cremer, Itabkhan, Platas & Young) and examine links between them. We generate questions arising from our analyses of the three chapters in this section and formulate views on classroom learning in mathematics that could be researched through complementary analyses. The subsequent discussion of data-collection instruments appropriate to further analyses is informed by our own research perspectives. This commentary concludes with a summary of what we have learnt through comparing the three methodologies and how simultaneously focusing on data from different theoretical perspectives might help to show the way forward in researching the richness of learning in classrooms.
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ItemRural school principals’ perceptions of social justice in neo-liberal times: towards a pluralistic notion of rural education(Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia, 2007)In this paper I apply the theory of social justice to evidence drawn from interviews with two rural school principals in Victoria. I examine the perceptions of social justice held by these principals to analyse the pressing issues that rural schools and their principals face in their quest to provide a socially-just education. The importance of seeking principals’ responses is based on their crucial position in leading their school culture and in responding to policies that define the educational landscape. In the last two decades, educational policies have been shaped by the dominant vision of restructuring the Australian economy to compete in a tougher international market, replacing the former dominant vision of social justice and equal opportunity with one based on managerialism, productivity and competition. Neo-liberal managerialist discourses and practices of perfomativity, testing and accountability now play a central function in determining principals’ role in schools. These discourses and practices have the potential to affect how principals conceptualise social justice and, in turn, how they apply it to practices in favour of a more socially-just schooling. In this paper, I argue that rural schools still face relevant issues of unjust distribution of resources, participation in policy making and cultural recognition and that rural education needs to engage with a pluralistic view of what social justice is: one that includes three dimensions – distributive, associational and recognitial justice.
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ItemDeveloping a thinking curriculum for Year 5: theory and practice(ACER Press, 2005)In this chapter Jason Pietzner discusses the theories behind his work with the thinking curriculum in his former Year 5 classroom. He examines Bloom’s Taxonomy and Anderson’s revision of this model and then shows how he has distilled them into the Three Storey Intellect model (Gathering/Processing/ Applying). He then demonstrates the usefulness of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory and acknowledges the influence of Lipman’s Philosophy for Children model. The product of his unit of work showing the effectiveness of the approach is included.
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ItemCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) AND LANGUAGE PLANNING (LP): CONSTRAINTS AND APPLICATIONS OF THE CRITICAL IN LANGUAGE PLANNING(NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC, 2009)
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ItemContrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: Europe and Australia(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007)
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ItemLanguage Planning as Applied Linguistics(Wiley, 2008-01-21)
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ItemEducational Linguistics and Education Systems(Wiley, 2008-03-10)
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ItemGlobalization, universities and medium of instruction(Elsevier, 2010-12-01)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRethinking Early Childhood Education and Care: Implications for Research and Evaluation.(Elsevier, 2010)Research in disadvantaged populations demonstrates that the effect of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programs can reach into adulthood and influence a wide range of achievement and social well-being outcomes. In English-speaking developed economies, these findings have sparked new perceptions of the role ECEC programs play in both the public and private sphere. Programs that achieve improved learning and social well-being for children are seen as an investment for both individuals and society. Yet, the empirical understanding of what programs best deliver positive outcomes across the diversity of social contexts is limited. A key research task is to identify the forms of ECEC that are most effective in delivering enduring and broad positive outcomes for all children. This article explores changing policy conceptualizations of ECEC, the outcome goals of ECEC, and directions for research in identifying quality in ECEC programs. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.