Australian Journal of Education articles from April 2005

Australian Journal of Education archives from April 2005

Special issue: international education in the Asia-Pacific region introduction by the guest editors.
April 1, 2005... This special issue of the AJE is focused on international education, globalisation and identities in schooling and higher education in the nations of the Asia-Pacific. Two of the papers concern international education in Australia and the...

Grappling with internationalisation of the curriculum at the secondary school level: issues and tensions for educators.
April 1, 2005... Increasing global flows of students, information and ideas, the realities of globalisation, and an increasingly interdependent world have meant that many educators at the secondary school level are currently grappling with the issue of how to...

Discourses of schooling in contemporary Malaysia: pedagogical practices and ethnic politics.
April 1, 2005... This paper examines the notion of schooling and draws on the experiences of Malaysian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia. Using a critical approach to understandings of schooling, the author unpacks the links between the...

Building a global schoolhouse: international education in Singapore.
April 1, 2005... This paper takes Singapore and the field of international education as focal points for exploring state-market relations under conditions of globalisation. It examines Singapore's ambitions to become an education hub and a provider of...

Internationalisation, indigenisation and educational research in China.
April 1, 2005... Intimations of globality are challenging old ways of doing things in the social sciences. The new phase of reflexive thinking has seen many turning their thoughts to indigenous thinking. Within today's world of knowledge, one pressing task is...

Internationalisation of higher education in South Korea: reality, rhetoric, and disparity in academic culture and identities.
April 1, 2005... The central theme of this paper is contradictions: the ways in which official agendas of internationalisation in higher education are disturbed by the principles of inclusion and exclusion in the local context of university academic culture....

(Re)construction: ways international students talk about their identity.
April 1, 2005... International students have often been spoken about in academic literature as a group with group problems and 'identities'. In this article, I use postmodern and poststructuralist ways of analysing to look at the ways international students...