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Parry, Louka – Childhood Education, 2018
In order to bring the benefits of new education approaches, strategies, and tools to classrooms around the world, we need champions of innovation to blaze the path and serve as role models of creativity and exploration. Teachers are uniquely positioned to serve in this critical role.
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Creativity, Role Models
Kohe, Geoffery Z. – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
The Beijing olympics prompted educationalists to develop new curriculum resources. These resources focus on the socio-cultural elements of the games, olympism and olympic values, the moral and ethical aspects of sport and select geographical, historical and social dimensions of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Typically produced as…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Rhetoric, Student Attitudes, Asian Culture
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Osborne, Barry – Australian Journal of Education, 1987
The strengths and weaknesses of both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to classroom research are examined. The qualitative approach, with some modification of objectives and reporting, is recommended as essential to cross-cultural classroom research. Interdisciplinary team research is also advocated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Henry, John A. – Curriculum Perspectives, 1984
Analyzes curriculum innovations in formal educational settings in Australia and defines the dynamic by which external and internal influences affect teacher role in classrooms. (MD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele – 2000
This paper draws on research undertaken during recent years, especially research involving students in classrooms in Australia. The paper focuses on some examples and issues of educational practice occurring in a context where "genre theory"--along with other theories and concepts concerning language and literacy--have been used as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Communities, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Bates, Richard – 1997
The emergence of globalization and its impact on knowledge, communications, economies, social structures, and institutions such as education is rapidly changing the context, content, and methods of teachers' work. Consequently, the continuing professional development of teachers, especially in Australia with its aging teacher force, is essential.…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Continuing Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
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Boyle, Gregory J. – Journal of School Psychology, 1987
Research suggests that under stressful conditions, relative contribution of such intrapersonal factors as personality traits, motivational dynamic factors, and transitory emotional states may become predominant in influencing achievement. When analyses are based on change scores rather than single-occasion measures, influence of emotional states…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries
Malcolm, Ian G. – 2001
This paper argues that if bidialectal education is to be seriously contemplated for Aboriginal Australians, it should be considered with more than the surface structures of dialectal difference. Bidialectal education programs must be underpinned by an understanding of the meanings carried by Aboriginal English and the processes of interpretation…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bidialectalism, Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences
Start, K. B. – 1989
This paper challenges the belief that the only way the Australian educational system can work is by grouping students by chronological age. Chronological age developed over time as the benchmark for school readiness, despite readiness problems created by individual differences among students of the same age. The organization of the classroom,…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Chronological Age, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Scarino, Angela – Babel, 2003
In addressing the theme of transition in learning languages, describes aspects of three projects. Data are drawn from the projects to highlight issues in context, culture, and communication and principles that support transition and continuity in learning languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Context Effect, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
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Singh, Michael – Geographical Education, 1990
Examines the possibility of developing a socially critical geography curriculum in Australian schools. Emphasizes teachers' responsibility to evaluate, select, and use appropriate instructional materials. Explains technical, interpretive, and critical approaches to geography instruction by contrasting three activities based on "Women of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Theory, Curriculum Evaluation, Documentaries
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Rich, Warren – Orana, 1996
Resources allocated by the New South Wales (NSW) Department of School Education (Australia) are inadequate for teacher librarians to carry out effective Cooperative Program Planning and Teaching (CPPT) and is doomed to failure. Describes the origins of CPPT, relief from face-to-face teaching, a comparison of conditions in Canadian and NSW schools,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Australian National Commission for UNESCO, Parkes. – 1987
This report on a 2-day workshop held in 1987 on the role of television in learning begins with a summary of points made or discussed by the participants, including: (1) whether educational programs for adults should be given greater attention; (2) the ways in which programming for children is influenced by market forces; (3) the costs of producing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Broadcast Television, Childrens Television, Distance Education
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Morony, Will; Olssen, Kevin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Argues that standards-referenced reporting frameworks, the Australian nationally developed Mathematics Profile in particular, require the use of teacher observation as an essential assessment practice if teachers are to report the full range of demonstrated student achievement. Supports student self-assessment. (14 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Assessment, Mathematics Instruction
Bailey, Anna – TIES, 1991
The importance of integrating the science curriculum from elementary through secondary classrooms is discussed. An example using the topic of the sea is used to explain the difference between true integration and correlation in both elementary and secondary levels. The importance of choosing learning activities that support objectives stated in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Integrated Activities