Australian Journal of Education articles from November 2004

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 2004

Editorial.(school funding policy)(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... Policy on schools funding in Australia has long contained two mutually contradictory strands and the contradiction has subverted good policy making. The first strand is the development of fair and objective technical instruments for the...

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: the case for a reformed SES funding scheme.(socio-economic status)
November 1, 2004... Since its introduction in 2001, the Australian (Commonwealth) Government's socio-economic status (SES)-based funding scheme for private schools has been criticised as inequitable. The author argues that the inequities of the scheme are the...

Positive interventions for children with chronic illness: parents' and teachers' concerns and recommendations.
November 1, 2004... Schools today are faced with increasing numbers of students with chronic illness. Medical advances, which improve health and prolong life, and increased incidence levels among some illnesses have led to this increase. Children with a chronic...

Australian students' knowledge and understanding of Asia: a national study.
November 1, 2004... This paper examines Australian students' knowledge of Asia, and reports on a national survey of Year 5 and 8 students. Knowledge was measured by using a combined set of subtests tailored to each state and territory curriculum and reported in...

Parent participation in disadvantaged schools: moving beyond attributions of blame.
November 1, 2004... Although facilitating community participation in disadvantaged schools can be difficult, this article argues that, given the structuring of schooling in contemporary western democracies, it is even more difficult than we might imagine. Drawing...

The reproduction of historical relations in the crosscultural classroom at university.
November 1, 2004... This paper is based on research conducted with indigenous students at a university in the Northern Territory. It examines crosscultural theories of education which explain the problems of teaching and learning in indigenous contexts in terms of...

Dialogical critical thinking: elements of definitions emerging in the analysis of transcripts from pupils aged 10 to 12 years.
November 1, 2004... We aim to clarify Matthew Lipman's definition of critical thinking. The research project was conducted during a complete school year among eight groups of pupils from three cultural contexts: Australia, Mexico and Quebec. We worked in an...

The new work of educational leaders: Changing leadership practice in an era of school reform.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Peter Gronn London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 2000. 316pp. ISBN 0 7619 4748 5 This latest book of Peter Gronn's is a refreshing read. It stands out in a field of literature on educational leadership frequently dominated by publications...

State of transition: Post-apartheid educational reform in South Africa.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Clive Harber Oxford: Symposium Books, 2001. Teachers, democratisation and educational reform in Russia and South Africa Michele Schweisfurth Oxford: Symposium Books, 2002. Globalisation, enterprise and knowledge: Education,...