Australian Journal of Education articles from April 1998

Australian Journal of Education archives from April 1998

Completing school in Australia: Trends in the 1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1998... AFTER a period of dramatic growth in school completion in Australia, rates of school retention have begun to decline. At its peak in 1992 the national rate of retention to Year 12 was approximately 77 per cent. By 1995 the rate had fallen to 72...

`Rekindling the spark': Teachers' experiences of `accelerative learning'.
April 1, 1998... Several teacher training packages called `Accelerative Learning' (AL) have recently attracted widespread support among teachers in Australian schools. AL purports to expound a `brain theory', covering various `learning styles'. This project...

Long-staying rural teachers: Who are they?
April 1, 1998... ISSUES of teacher recruitment and retention in rural and isolated areas have received considerable attention in Australia and North America. Research findings have influenced policy and many training incentive programs and packages are in...

Contractual or responsive accountability? Neo-centralist `self-management' or systemic subsidiarity! Tasmanian parents' and other stakeholders' policy preferences.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1998... WHEN state governments decentralised many administrative responsibilities to schools in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was assumed that they would develop better capacities to manage, develop and govern themselves. In general, such...

Autonomy and conformity: Adorno's analysis of the liberal theory of education.(Theodor Adorno)
April 1, 1998... THIS paper is essentially expository. For the first time in the English language, it describes in detail Theodor Adorno's analysis of the liberal theory of education. Adorno is the major figure associated with what is known as the Frankfurt...

Towards an unprincipled ethics of educational research.
April 1, 1998... McKendrick: There aren't any principles in your sense. There are only a lot of principled people trying to behave as if there were. Anderson: That's the same thing, surely. (Tom Stoppard, Professional foul) Ethical issues in...

Principle and process in the ethics of educational research: Response to Robin Small.(response to article by Robin Small in this issue, p. 103)
April 1, 1998... For readers of this journal, some background on the differences between cricket and baseball might be helpful. In cricket (as I understand it), the bowler throws the ball to a batsman. If the batsman fails to hit the ball, and it knock the...

Ethical proceduralism and educational research: Rejoinder to Nicholas Burbules.(response to article by Nicholas Burbules in this issue, p. 116)
April 1, 1998... In a discipline where constructive dialogue is praised but not always practised, the thoughtful comments of Nicholas Burbules on my paper are most welcome. In this brief rejoinder, I wish to support his attempt to move the discussion forward by...

International encyclopedia of teaching and teacher education.(Review)
April 1, 1998... International encyclopedia of teaching and teacher education (2nd ed.) Edited by L.W. Anderson Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1995. 684pp. $A230.45. ISBN 0 08 042304 3 Dr Lorin W. Anderson has edited the second edition of the International...