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This study examines how access to academic curriculum differs between secondary schools in Australia, a country whose education system is marked by high levels of choice, privatisation and competition. Equitable access to academic curriculum is important for both individual students and their families as well as the larger society. Previous research has shown that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to study academic curriculum than their more advantaged peers. Less is known, however, about the extent to which this pattern is related to differential provision of curriculum between schools. We found that low socio-economic schools offer students less access to the core academic curriculum subjects that are important for university entry. We also found that the breadth and depth of courses offered is related to school sector (private or public) and socio-economic context. Previous research has shown that choice and competition are inequitable because they frequently increase school social segregation and ‘cream-skimming’. Our findings show another inequitable consequence, namely that choice and competition limit access to high-status academic curriculum in working-class communities. 相似文献
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‘Becoming and being writers’: the experiences of doctoral students in writing groups 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Damian Maher Leonie Seaton Cathi McMullen Terry Fitzgerald Emi Otsuji Alison Lee 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(3):263-275
The use of writing groups to support students undertaking post-graduate research within universities has begun to receive attention from academic supervisors and doctoral researchers. Very little has been written by doctoral students themselves on the benefits of working within such writing groups. In this article, the experiences of working within a doctoral writing group at an Australian University are presented, primarily from the perspective of students. The authors identify two main benefits they have experienced through participating in a writing group using a ‘multi-voiced’ approach. First, they discuss the kind of learning that they achieved through working in a writing group. They do this with reference to key principles of peer learning and of peer review. Second, they focus on the ways the group worked as a community of discursive social practice. An overarching message for them in participating in the group and now writing this article is the shift in their thinking and experience of writing from seeing writing as an essentially private and implicit process to writing becoming a matter of public and shared work. These two notions are bound by the concept of identity building, drawing from the literature on communities of practice. 相似文献
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Leonie E. Jennings 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(1-2):78-85
The case that contemporary social theories such as postmodernism can be used in the reflection stage of Action research is the central theme of this paper. Using the modern/ postmodern couplet, the paper attempts to challenge the Action researcher who is prepared to acknowledge the value of alternative views. 相似文献
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John Wallace Rachel Sheffield Leonie Rénnie Grady Venville 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2007,34(2):29-49
In Australia, and internationally, integration is a widely promoted middle school curriculum reform strategy. Integration
is claimed to engage students by providing opportunities to work on a few cross-disciplinary objectives, to apply knowledge
across the subject boundaries and to work on tasks with meaning and relevance. While these curriculum goals enjoy a certain
popularity among middle school reformers and curriculum integration adherents, in practice, the prevalence of integration
is patchy and provisional. In this article, we (re) examine two of our studies of middle school integration over the past
decade to explore the reasons for this apparent disparity between the rhetoric and the reality. In our re-search for integration,
we look back at our data to identify enabling and inhibiting conditions for curriculum reform and develop a list of key program
characteristics. Finally, we look forward, drawing on the notion of institutional resilience to speculate on the reasons why
some middle school programs seem to flourish while others wither. 相似文献
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This article received the “Implications of Research for Educational Practice” award at the 1995 meeting of the Association
for the Education of Teachers in Science. The award is made possible by Carolina Biological Supply. An adaptation of this
article, entitled “Don’t Compare, Complement: Making Best Use of Science Centres and Museums,” was published in the 1995 Set:
Research Information for Teachers, Number 1, Item 1, by the New Zealand and Australian Councils for Education Research. 相似文献
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This paper reports an investigation into gender, ethnicity and rurality on Fijian students’ perceptions of science. A questionnaire
was administered to a large sample of Form 5 classes. All students had completed a four year integrated "Basic Science" course
in the junior secondary school and were continuing their studies in the upper secondary school. The responses were analysed
to determine the significance of gender, ethnicity and rurality on the students’ perceptions of science, attitudes to science
in the world and to science in the school curriculum.
Specializations: gender issues and affective aspects of science and technology education.
Specializations: Constructivism in science education, development education and gender issues. 相似文献