Australian Journal of Education articles from November 2002

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2002... In the 1990s, Australian government and society were transfixed and divided by the question of Australia's relations with the nations of East and Southeast Asia. In the first half of the decade under Labor Prime Ministers Hawke and Keating,...

Malaysian higher education: captive or post-Western?
November 1, 2002... The article explores problems of modernisation and national identity in the developing world, with Malaysian higher education as the empirical site. Noting that developing nations and their university personnel are often held in the condition...

A tale of two cities: comparing higher education policies and reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore.
November 1, 2002... In Hong Kong and Singapore, the latest higher education policy changes and reforms have emphasised quality assurance, managerial efficiency, cost-effectiveness, market relevance and public accountability. The rise of a more utilitarian,...

School effectiveness of a streamed-school system: a multilevel modelling of the Hong Kong secondary schools.
November 1, 2002... This study has two distinct features that are different from current studies using multilevel analysis on school effectiveness. First, it uses a very large dataset, and second, the analysis is on a streamed-school system. The initial findings...

Refining a stage model for studying teacher concerns about educational innovations.
November 1, 2002... This paper discusses the stages of concern that teachers pass through as they engage in the process of innovation adoption and implementation. A 24-item questionnaire was constructed to assess teachers' concerns on five sequential stages: (1)...

Beliefs about language learning: Indonesian learners' perspectives, and some implications for classroom practices.
November 1, 2002... Language learners hold a set of beliefs concerning language learning and these beliefs may influence the ways they learn, even though the beliefs are not always explicitly stated. This paper, part of the researcher's on-going research project,...

Teaching the Chinese learner: Psychological and pedagogical perspectives.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by David A. Wackins and John B. Biggs Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, Comparative Education Research Centre and Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 2001. 306pp. HK$200/US$32. ISBN 962-8093- 72X The world...