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Australian Journal of Education articles from August 2008
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Australian Journal of Education archives from August 2008
Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... After three years in which it has thrived under the careful stewardship of John Ainley and Steve Holden, it is indeed a privilege for me to assume editorship of the Australian Journal of Education. I owe both John and Steve a debt of gratitude,...
Developing indicators for a new ERA: should we measure the policy impact of education research?(Excellence in Research for Australia)(Report)
August 1, 2008... The Australian government has announced its intention to measure the quality of research in Australian universities under the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. The process for measuring research quality through the ERA is...
'Unhelpfully complex and exceedingly opaque': Australia's school funding system.(Report)
August 1, 2008... Australia's system of school funding is notoriously complex and difficult to understand.
This article shines some light on this issue by describing clearly the processes of school funding that currently exist in Australia. It describes the...
Unfinished but not yet exhausted: a review of Australian Middle Schooling.(Report)
August 1, 2008... The state of Middle Schooling in many Western countries has been described as under threat, at a crossroads and like a wasteland. Within Australia, it has also been claimed that the past generation focus on Middle Schooling is unfinished and...
Changing places: resilience in children who move.(Report)
August 1, 2008... Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that more than 40 per cent of Australian children moved their place of residence at least once in the Census period from 1996 to 2001 (ABS, 2001a). The literature varies in its...
Educational achievement in Maori: the roles of cultural identity and social disadvantage.(Report)
August 1, 2008... The present study investigates the roles of Maori cultural identity and socioeconomic status in educational outcomes in a New Zealand birth cohort studied from birth to the age of 25. There were statistically significant (all p values < .01)...
A 'formidable challenge': Australia's quest for equity in indigenous education.(Report)
August 1, 2008... Indigenous education in Australia has been the subject of ongoing policy focus and repeated official inquiry as the nation grapples with trying to achieve equity for these students. Perspectives from recent developments in the USA and Canada...
Update.(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... The time between writing an article and finally seeing it appear in a journal is much longer than any of us would wish, and this journal is no exception. David Wood, Chief Executive Officer of the Curriculum Council of Western Australia, has...