Australian Journal of Education articles from November 2003

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2003... Volume 47, Number 3 opens with a description and analysis by Grant McBurnie and Christopher Ziguras of the Australian government's role in promoting trade liberalization in education, through the negotiations in relation to the World Trade...

Remaking the world in our own image: Australia's efforts to liberalize trade in education services.
November 1, 2003... Australia has developed a reputation as an aggressive and competitive provider of international education and an ardent proponent of free trade in education services. This paper describes Australia's role in promoting trade liberalization...

Working--class families and the new secondary education.
November 1, 2003... The troubled relation of working--class families to education systems is one of the deep structural problems of modern education, which is taking a new shape under neo-liberalism. The issue is explored in the context of an Australian reform...

Renegotiating schooling for social justice in an age of marketisation.
November 1, 2003... This article draws on a recently completed ethnographic study to present an argument for a renewed commitment to social justice in, and through, public schooling. Such a commitment needs to incorporate whole-school responses to the classed...

A high school teacher's experience of local school management: a case of the 'system behaving badly towards teachers'.
November 1, 2003... The move to local school management (LSM) in its various formations is one of the most significant educational policy moves to occur in recent times in western countries. Although something is known about the effects on governance, budgeting...

International TESOL training and EFL contexts: the cultural disillusionment factor.
November 1, 2003... This article reports on a study examining the implementation of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh in general and at the University of Dhaka in particular. When CLT was first introduced across Europe, the English as a foreign...

Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Len Unsworth Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001. 306pp. ISBN 0-335-20604-2 Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice is written as a textbook for literacy educators....

Gender and the restructured university: Changing management and culture in higher education.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Anne Brooks and Alison Mackinnon Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 2001. 190pp. In the last three decades, the higher education sector in Australia has undergone a series of...

Academics and the real world.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Gillian Rosemary Evans Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 2002. Evans states, 'When l review a book, I try to be fair. I ask myself whether the book makes its case; I bring to bear what I know,...

The nature of research: Inquiry in academic contexts.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Angela Brew Routledge/Falmer, London, 2001. Angela Brew argues that academic research is in crisis and that fundamental changes are needed if research in universities is to fulfil its proper role in helping solve the world's problems. Brew...

Global perspectives on quality in higher education.(Globalization and education: The quest for quality education in Hong Kong)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Global perspectives on quality in higher education Edited by David Dunkerley and Wai Sum Wong Aldershot, Surrey: Ashgate, 2001. 160pp. Globalization and education: The quest for quality education in Hong Kong Edited by Joshua Ka-ho Mok and...

Finnish higher education in transition: Perspectives on massification and globalization.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Jussi Valimaa Jyvaskyla, Finland: University of Jyvaskyla, Institute for Educational Research, 2001. People in the Australian higher education community probably seldom think of Finland. However the Finnish and Australian higher...