Australian Journal of Education articles from April 2003

Australian Journal of Education archives from April 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2003... Volume 47, Number 1 of the AJE again provides a diversity of material. The first two articles open up different aspects of globalisation, communications and social inclusion, issues that are now dominating much of the world-wide literature in...

Educational access for Australia's rural young people: a case of social exclusion.
April 1, 2003... The social and economic effects of globalisation in rural communities is well documented. Ageing populations, loss of services and employment opportunities are typical of rural areas in many western industrialised countries. Focusing on...

Families, cultural resources and the digital divide: ICTs and educational (dis)advantage.
April 1, 2003... By concentrating on cases of family engagement with information communication technologies at a very local level, this paper tries to illustrate that issues related to 'access' and social disadvantage require extremely sophisticated and...

Quality assurance and the quality of university teaching.(suggested reforms for the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA))
April 1, 2003... The quality of university teaching is increasingly the subject of political rhetoric, but doubt remains about both actual performance outcomes and the role and relevance of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). Present quality...

An analysis of relations among locus of control, burnout and job satisfaction in Turkish high school teachers.
April 1, 2003... The aim of this study was to see how teachers' burnout is related to different aspects of locus of control, job satisfaction and demographic characteristics such as age and gender. The Job Satisfaction Scale was used to measure the subjects'...

Self-reported work and family stress of female primary teachers.
April 1, 2003... Stress arising in the domain of work and family can have a cumulative effect, and can spill over across the domains. The work-family interface has received little attention in teacher stress research, therefore the present study aimed to...

The Student Motivation Scale: further testing of an instrument that measures school students' motivation.
April 1, 2003... This study examines the refined Student Motivation Scale applied to a sample of 2561 Australian high school students. The Student Motivation Scale measures six motivation boosters and four motivation guzzlers. Analysis of the data reveals a...

Consuming children: Education-entertainment-advertising.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001. Education, entertainment and advertising are three words that don't often come together in a book's subtitle, particularly one aimed at teachers and policy makers....

Managing the academic unit.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Allan Bolton Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000. There are many books, journal articles and conferences on governance and management at the institution-wide level of universities. Yet there is not a great deal of material available to...