Australian Journal of Education articles from June 2002

Australian Journal of Education archives from June 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
June 1, 2002... Issue 46(1) opens with an article by Roy Nash on peer effects in schooling, which takes us into a key question of theory and method: the relationship between quantitative and qualitative research in sociological explanation. Drawing on...

Peer effects and peer group processes: joining the conversation on quantitative and qualitative methods.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The interest in `peer effects', which includes the effects on educational attainment of school ability or socioeconomic status composition, raises methodological issues that require careful discussion. It is argued with reference to a recent...

Finding a place for health in the schooling process: a challenge for education.
June 1, 2002... It is common in schools for health and education goals to be seen as agendas that are in competition. However schools do attempt to find time in crowded curriculums to cover health issues as part of their responsibility towards advancing the...

Motivation and academic resilience: developing a model for student enhancement.
June 1, 2002... This paper explores a model of motivation and introduces the concept of academic resilience. Although motivation is critical to academic success, academic gains that students make can be lost if they are not resilient to setback, study...

Queensland Year 2 Diagnostic Net and teachers' explanations of literacy failure.
June 1, 2002... This article reports research into the ways that early childhood teachers in three schools used narratives of blame as part of their theorisation of literacy failure in relation to Queensland's Year 2 Diagnostic Net. The teachers' narratives...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: special education policy and practice in Australia.
June 1, 2002... With growing numbers of Australian children receiving Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis, special educators will increasingly be expected to provide interventions. We outline Australian special education policy and...

Student participation and school culture: a secondary school case study.
June 1, 2002... Rationale and conceptual framework Research generally indicates that students are still poor participants in secondary schooling. Despite this, student participation in schooling is critical to meeting student needs because quality...