Australian Journal of Education articles from August 1998

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 1998

Education for sale: A semiotic analysis of school prospectuses and other forms of educational marketing.
August 1, 1998... IMPRESSION management strategies have become an important dimension of the educational endeavour. Their recent upsurge can be traced to the context of marketing and consumer choice that is now part of the prevailing orthodoxy of the modern...

Lecturing performance appraisal criteria: Staff and student differences.
August 1, 1998... The assessment of academic staff teaching performance is an area of considerable concern and debate. The questions revolve around what should be assessed and by whom. In this study, the ratings of academic staff and tertiary students in a new...

Schooling and vocational preparation: Is a revolution really taking place?
August 1, 1998... ONGOING technological and economic revolutions have resulted in concerted efforts to increase the vocational content of the curriculum. Viewed from historical and sociological perspectives, what is occurring is an overdue realignment of...

School size and diversity in the senior secondary curriculum: A generalisable relationship?
August 1, 1998... UNDERPINNING the debate on the desirable size of secondary schools is the assumption that larger schools are able to offer a more diverse curriculum and thereby provide greater equality of educational opportunity and outcomes. A detailed study...

Constitutional and legislative framework for inclusive education in Australia.
August 1, 1998... IN this article we argue that, despite the complex arrangement of laws and policies for education in Australia, there is no legal mandate to ensure that inclusive education occurs. Although the legislative framework for inclusion appears...

Pedagogy, symbolic control and Identity:. Theory, research, critique.(Review)
August 1, 1998... Pedagogy, symbolic control and Identity:. Theory, research, critique Basil Bernstein London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. xiv, 216pp. pb. $14.95, hb. $40.00. ISBN 0 7484 0372 8 Basil Bernstein is perhaps the most influential figure in the...

International encyclopedia of national systems of education (2nd ed.).(Review)
August 1, 1998... International encyclopedia of national systems of education (2nd ed.) Edited by T. Neville Postlethwaite Oxford: Pergamon, 1995. 1105pp. $255.00. ISBN 0 08 042302 7 This encyclopedia contains overviews of 152 systems of education,...

James Kay-Shuttleworth, journey of an outsider.(Review)
August 1, 1998... James Kay-Shuttleworth, journey of an outsider R.J.W. Selleck Illford, Essex: Woburn Press, 1994. Immediately the reader understands why this study of an eminent Victorian, eminent for being an outsider rather than a paragon, received...

Restructuring and quality: Issues for tomorrow's schools.(Review)
August 1, 1998... Restructuring and quality: Issues for tomorrow's schools Edited by Tony Townsend London: Routledge, 1997. 231pp. ISBN 0-415-13339-4 One of the greater educational myths of our time is the notion of a causal link between efforts to...

Changing literacies.(Review)
August 1, 1998... Changing literacies (Changing Education Series, edited by Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson) Colin Lankshear, with James Paul Gee, Michele Knobel and Chris Searle Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 0 335 19636 5 (pb.), 0 335 196373...

The International Academic Profession.(Review)
August 1, 1998... The International Academic Profession Edited by Philip G. Altbach Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1996. xxii, 762pp. This book reports the results of an international survey of the professoriate of...