Australian Journal of Education articles from August 2007

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2007... Come election time, and given the argy-bargy of Australia's state-federal political system, education can easily find itself becoming a political flavour of the month. It's difficult to say exactly when federal election campaigns begin these...

Curriculum construction: a critical analysis of rich tasks in the recontextualisation field.(Report)
August 1, 2007... Within Education Queensland's recent 'new basics' curriculum initiative, Education Queensland developed 20 transdisciplinary learning and assessment tasks for Years 1 to 9, called 'rich tasks'. This paper critiques two of the rich tasks that...

Standards-based assessment: a tool and means to the development of human capital and capacity building in education.(Report)
August 1, 2007... This paper outlines a model for giving meaning to student achievement by referencing assessment to student learning or standards. This effectively shifts the focus in assessment from notions of rank ordering students (comparing their...

Institutional categories at work: a consideration of how labelling can slow down rates of learning in a rural primary school.(Report)
August 1, 2007... In this paper we show that poor student performance in a rural school is influenced by the classifications used for student learning and behaviour. We propose that the institution's organisation is conveyed via a classification schema that...

A qualitative exploration of the transition experience of students from a high school to a senior high school in rural Western Australia.(Report)
August 1, 2007... This qualitative study explored the experience of rural students who had undergone transitions between schools to continue their studies in Years 11 and 12. A thematic content analysis identified two main themes: social relationships and school...

The moral and ethical dimensions of language teaching.(Report)
August 1, 2007... Much has been written about teacher thinking and knowledge that underpin teacher behaviour in the classroom. Until the 1990s considerably fewer writers considered the moral and ethical dimension of teaching. This article reports on a study that...

Teaching excellence awards: an apple for the teacher?(Report)
August 1, 2007... In this article the status of teaching as a profession and the morale of teachers in Australian schools in the current era provide a framework for the examination of the intent and outcomes of teaching excellence awards. The research study...

Teaching for gender justice.(Report)
August 1, 2007... Since the mid 1990s 'boys' as an equity concern have come to dominate the gender and education agenda in many countries. This has been particularly the case in Australia where substantial funding has been invested in research to investigate...