Australian Journal of Education articles from April 2004

Australian Journal of Education archives from April 2004

Editorial.
April 1, 2004... Volume 48, Number 1 opens with two large-scale original quantitative studies on matters that are of interest to many in Australian education: the effects of selective schooling; and the relationship between gender and participation/achievement...

Negative effects of school-average achievement on academic self-concept: a comparison of the big-fish-little-pond effect across Australian states and territories.
April 1, 2004... Attending academically selective schools is intended to have positive effects, but a growing body of theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that the effects are negative for academic self-concept. The big-fish-little-pond effect...

Victorian Certificate of Education: mathematics, science and gender.
April 1, 2004... Gender differences in participation and performance at 'high stakes' examinations have received much public attention, which has often focused on mathematics and science subjects. This paper describes the innovative forms of assessment...

'Unwelcome sisters?' An analysis of findings from a study of how Muslim women (and Muslim men) experience university.
April 1, 2004... Integrating students into an academic community has long been established as an important aspect of a student's life and learning on university campuses. Yet efforts at greater inclusiveness by both institutions and teaching staff are taking...

Reforming the education program for physical science teachers in Taiwan.
April 1, 2004... This article reports on reforms of the science education program for prospective physical science teachers in Taiwan and examines their impact on these teachers. The reforms include restructuring the courses in physical science methods, and...

Changing pre-service teachers' purposes of education through existential crises.
April 1, 2004... This article considers changing the purposes of education held by pre-service teachers. It argues that purposes of education are inextricably linked to life meanings and purposes. Employing an existential perspective, mainly through...

Mentoring new teachers: promise and problems in times of teacher shortage.
April 1, 2004... Currently enthusiasm for mentoring of new teachers has re-emerged among teacher employing authorities in Australia and the United States. The literature on mentoring provides strong support for the importance of mentoring in retaining good...

Doing Comparative Education Research: Issues and Problems.(essays)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Doing comparative education research: Issues and problems Edited by Keith Watson Oxford: Symposium Books, 2001. 394 pp. 28 [pounds sterling] (US $46). ISBN 1 873927 83 5. One of the more interesting phenomena concerning the 'shape' of...

Innovating in higher education: teaching, learning and institutional culture.(comparative relevance for Australian Higher Educational institutions)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Innovating in higher education: Teaching, learning and institutional culture Andrew Hannan and Harold Silver Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 2000. Hannan and Silver have written a very...