Australian Journal of Education articles from August 2006

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2006... One way to judge research into Australian educational policy and practice is to measure whether and how well it informs educational policy and practice. This is no mean feat when you account in the first place for the many intersecting policies...

Cloning their own: aspirant principals and the school-based selection game.
August 1, 2006... In this article, we report data from two projects concerned with the aspirant principals' perspectives about school principal recruitment in three Australian states. In particular, we consider what our informants perceive as factors that...

Birth order and educational achievement in adolescence and young adulthood.
August 1, 2006... This paper examines the relationship between birth order and later educational outcomes in a birth cohort of more than 1,000 New Zealand young adults studied to the age of twenty-five. Being later born was associated with gaining fewer...

Globalisation, responsibility and virtual schools.
August 1, 2006... The intersection of globalisation and information technology influences ethical positions and notions of responsibility within businesses and in distance education for school students. As the spatial and temporal distance between student and...

The impact of paid work on the academic performance of students: a case study from the University of Canberra.
August 1, 2006... This article uses data collected from a survey of students at the University of Canberra to test the effects of paid employment on the average grade obtained in second semester, 2002. The results show that students who do well at school also...

Lifelong learning in a market economy: Education, training and the citizen-consumer.
August 1, 2006... Australian public policy adopted the concept of lifelong learning in the 1980s and harnessed it to human capital theory to articulate a new policy emphasis on 'up-skilling' the Australian labour force. This paper addresses the question of how...

Reforming the labour market for Australian teachers.
August 1, 2006... Although there is a general consensus that teachers are important for student learning, there is little discussion of the process by which teachers are employed by schools: the teacher labour market. We argue, based on a mix of a priori and...

Why does Year Twelve retention differ between Australian states and territories?
August 1, 2006... Year Twelve retention rates have a number of well-known deficiencies that prevent proper comparisons of school completion between school systems. This paper compares secondary school completion rates across Australian states and territories...

The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge and Policy Making in Schools.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The untested accusation: Principals, research knowledge and policy making in schools Brace J. Biddle and Lawrence J. Saha Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Education, 2005 ISBN: 1567506224 Criticisms have long been circulating in some...