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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Huang, Da-Fu; Singh, Michael – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The investigation reported here provides a basis for considering the role of corrective and transformative critiques in producing knowledge through testing teaching for reframing teacher education in response to, and as an expression of, the globalisation of English. This knowledge-producing approach to critique begins with a literature review of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Singh, Michael – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
This paper focuses on the recommendations of "Top of the class," the February 2007 report of an inquiry into teacher education conducted by the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Vocational Training. To do this action policy analysis, it presents Raymond Williams' dictum of "making hope practical" through five…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Vocational Education, Policy Analysis, Educational Research
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Sawyer, Wayne; Singh, Michael; Woodrow, Christine; Downes, Toni; Johnston, Christine; Whitton, Diana – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
The research question for this paper is: How can we mobilise robust hope in the analysis of teacher education policy? Specifically, this paper asks how a robust hope framework might speak to the "Top of the Class," a report into teacher education by the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Vocational Training.
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Guidelines
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Han, Jinghe; Singh, Michael – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
This paper argues that the increasing diversity of multicultural Australia is now troubling teacher education due to the under-representation of world English speaking (WES) student teachers of minority immigrant backgrounds. This is now a concern of national significance to education policy-makers and researchers. This paper summarises key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teachers, Immigrants