Crossing Borders: African refugees, teachers and schools
Tania Ferfolja, Margaret H. Vickers, Florence McCarthy, Loshini Naidoo, Eric Brace, 2011
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One of the measures of a just society is the way in which it deals with its most vulnerable people. There are few more vulnerable than refugees, and among the most vulnerable of refugees are young people from Africa. Schools and teachers are at the front line of resettlement of refugee families.
Crossing Borders sets out to inform and clarify issues in relation to the education of African students, and explore some of the ways through which education systems, schools and teachers have developed effective strategies and approaches to meet the needs of their African students.
Curriculum over 30 Years: What have we achieved?
Colin Marsh, 2010
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Since 1980 educators passionate about curriculum matters in Australia have written about these topics and have had their papers published in Curriculum Perspectives, the first national academic journal in curriculum.
An examination of the 30 papers included in this volume reveal that some of the issues dealing with core/national curriculum and equity keep re-appearing as various solutions are proposed and then subsequently not implemented due to various political/administrative reasons.
The editor, ably assisted by many well respected editorial board members over the years, have striven to produce an academic journal for ACSA which maintains a high level of scholarship and curriculum analysis. Curriculum Perspectives is now recognised nationally and internationally as one of the top journals in curriculum.
Connecting Lives and Learning - renewing pedagogy in the middle years
Edited by Brenton Prosser, Bill Lucas and Alan Reid, 2010
Item no: B26
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Connecting Lives and Learning is a project dedicated to connecting learning to student lives, connecting teachers with the latest middle years research, and better connecting primary and secondary schools to keep students at school longer. Based in
Adelaide's lower socio-economic northern urban fringe, the project helps teachers use students' everyday experience and expertise to develop new ways of teaching and learning that involve students in intellectually challenging tasks.
This book tells the stories of real teachers, in real classrooms, making real attempts for change, and not always succeeding. It is a book about teachers making a difference in difficult times and tough places. But most importantly, this book reaffirms that being an educator is inherently about adopting socially just practices, building community capacity and contributing to a more socially sustainable world.
Evaluating for engagement: Enhancing learning in the middle years
Jenny Nayler, 2009
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Evaluating for engagement: Enhancing learning in the middle years is a key resource for teachers and schools in their investigations of what works in the middle years of schooling. The challenges associated with engaging students during this phase of their schooling are widely documented. As a result, practical and powerful ideas about how to go about evaluating the success or otherwise of programs are needed. Along with case studies describing innovative practice and a review of key issues related to student engagement, this text provides practical resources in relation to:
- a user-friendly evaluation framework that values the perspectives of students and their teachers in finding out what works and what doesn't work in their contexts
- specific strategies that can be used to evaluate school-based initiatives
- building a collaborative inquiry culture among teachers
- successful teaching and learning strategies transferable to a
range of contexts.
Gender and IT: Ongoing challenges for Computing and Information Technology education in Australian secondary schools
Edited by Julianne Lynch, 2007
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Gender and IT: Ongoing challenges for Computing and Information Technology education in Australian secondary schools brings together a diverse group of scholars to address critical questions about the decline in enrolments in computing and information technology (CIT) subjects at the school level, and the long-standing problem of the under representation of girls in CIT education. Drawing on data from three Australian states, the authors analyse current curriculum structures, pedagogical practices, school contexts and student and teacher beliefs, in order to interrogate how CIT as a curriculum area is socially constructed, and how this construction is gendered.
Going beyond questions of gender, the book contributes to our understanding more generally of a nascent discipline which holds a complex position in relation to other curriculum areas, cross-curricular initiatives, and a world outside of schools which is increasingly permeated with technology. This is an important book for teachers, curriculum designers and administrators with investments in CIT education.
Philosophy with young children - a classroom handbook
Philip Cam, Liz Fynes-Clinton, Kathlyn Harrison, Lynne Hinton, Rosie Scholl, Simon Vaseo, 2007
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Imagining, wondering, reflecting, questioning, talking and speculating - philosophy with children is exciting, surprising and challenging.
Philosophy with Young Children - a classroom handbook is a handbook for teachers of early primary. The handbook is designed to assist teachers in the teaching of philosophy, and in developing skills of inquiry and reasoning in their students, utilising story books.
The handbook focuses on twelve stories and includes activities relating to each story. For each story the handbook details the area of philosophy emphasised, philosophical themes to be covered, and activities based on eliciting good questions, exploring concepts and developing reasoning skills.
To assist teachers with planning and curriculum design, two indexes are also included in the handbook - one according to themes and one according to skills. This practical handbook will assist teachers to explore philosophy in the classroom with their students - enabling students to consider issues, to ask questions, to discuss ideas and to gain further insights into their lives, and the lives of others.
Curriculum Developments in Australia: Promising initiatives, impasses and dead-ends.
Edited by Catherine Harris & Colin Marsh, 2005
Item no: B18
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The editors of Curriculum Developments in Australia: Promising initiatives, impasses and dead-ends, Catherine Harris (Deakin University) and Colin Marsh (Curtin University), have produced a valuable collection of chapters about education policy and curriculum decision-making in Australia. The in-depth case studies derived from individual states provide powerful, evocative accounts of curriculum players at work. In addition, conceptualised models of curriculum change are derived from these case study accounts.
The book is a 'must read' for those educators, administrators and parents who want to gain new insights into the rhetoric, actions, cooperative ventures and conflicts between curriculum players at national, state and regional levels.
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