Australian Journal of Education articles from August 2005

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... Issue 49.2 of the Australian Journal of Education opens with Paul Ginns on 'Imagining instructions'. When Tiger Woods lines up the putt that will win him the Masters, he has already rehearsed that move countless times in his mind. While the...

Imagining instructions: mental practice in highly cognitive domains.
August 1, 2005... This article reviews recent empirical investigations of imagination or mental practice in highly cognitive, realistic educational domains such as mathematics or learning computer applications. While mental practice has been a standard tool in...

State differences in achievement among secondary school students in Australia.
August 1, 2005... A number of recent national studies of student achievement in secondary school have reported differences between the Australian states and territories. State differences are often viewed as insubstantial or as simply reflecting sociodemographic...

Educational accountability and students with a disability in Australia.
August 1, 2005... One of the outcomes of regular education reform in Australia has been the development of a national testing program for school students. This article examines the degree to which students with a disability participate in this testing, and the...

Indigenous students and Vocational education and training in schools: ladder of opportunity or corrugated iron ceiling?(exploration of Vocational Education and Training participation rate for Aboriginal Australians)
August 1, 2005... Indigenous students complete secondary education at about half the rate of non-Indigenous students, yet are twice as likely to participate in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools subjects. This paper explores the reasons for this...

You don't bring me flowers any more: a fresh look at the vexed issue of teacher status.
August 1, 2005... Teachers in recent years have expressed a great deal of dissatisfaction with their status in society, consistently citing it as one of the most negative aspects of their role. Numerous studies have demonstrated that teachers believe their...

Good teachers know where to scratch when learners feel itchy: Korean learners' views of native-speaking teachers of English.
August 1, 2005... Cross-border education has been growing dramatically in both English-speaking countries and non-native English-speaking countries. While more and more students, particularly from Asian countries such as Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and...

'Silly, soft and otherwise suspect': doctoral education as risky business.
August 1, 2005... This article investigates how certain doctoral practices come to count as scandalous and with what effects on universities. To do so, it engages with a number of recent media allegations that relate to doctoral practice in Australia and...

Internationalising higher education: Critical explorations of pedagogy and policy.(book)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Internationalising higher education: Critical explorations of pedagogy and policy Peter Ninnes and Meeri Hellstren (Eds.) Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2004 ISBN: 962-8093-37-1 The...