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Community-based sustainability : Conservation in the Ballarat region

- Kentish, Barry, Robottom, Ian

Authors: Kentish, Barry , Robottom, Ian
Date: 2006
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian Journal of Environmental Education Vol. 22, no. 2 (2006), p. 33-43
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Description: Abstract: The discourse of sustainability is promoted internationally, with the United Nations declaring 2005-2014 as a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. There is discussion concerning the nature, status and significance of Education for Sustainability and its relationship with the somewhat established discourse of environmental education. This debate requires continuing theorising and one approach is to reflect critically on specific examples of sustainability within specific communities. This article seeks to promote further discussion about sustainability, and to contribute to ongoing theorisation about Education for Sustainability, by considering a particular instance - that of environmental sustainability in the Ballarat region of Victoria. The case study suggests that implementation of this local environmental sustainability strategy was dominated by technocratic and individualistic ideologies.
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Educating for sustainability : An innovative interactive CD and internet resource

- Kentish, Barry, Darby, Linda

Authors: Kentish, Barry , Darby, Linda
Date: 2005
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Teaching Science Vol. 51, no. 3 (2005), p. 30-33
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Description: There is concern that interest in environmental issues is declingin, particularly among young people.
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Science students' perceptions of engaging pedagogy

- Darby, Linda

Authors: Darby, Linda
Date: 2005
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Research in Science Education Vol. 35, no. 4 (2005), p. 425-445
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Description: During their years of schooling, students develop perceptions about learning and teaching, including the ways in which teachers impact on their learning experiences. This paper presents student perceptions of teacher pedagogy as interpreted from a study focusing on students' experience of Year 7 science. A single science class of 11 to 12 year old students and their teacher were monitored for the whole school year, employing participant observation, and interviews with focus groups of students, their teacher and other key members of the school. Analysis focused on how students perceived the role of the teacher's pedagogy in constructing a learning environment that they considered conducive to engagement with science learning. Two areas of the teacher's pedagogy are explored from the student perspective of how these affect their learning: instructional pedagogy and relational pedagogy. Instructional pedagogy captures the way the instructional dialogue developed by the teacher drew the students into the learning process and enabled them to "understand" science. How the teacher developed a relationship with the students is captured as relational pedagogy, where students said that they learned better when teachers were passionate in their approach to teaching, provided a supportive learning environment and made them feel comfortable. The ways in which the findings support the direction for the middle years and science education are considered. © Springer 2005.
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What do Chinese and foreign universities value about their strategic alliances? Exploring a dimension of higher education alliances in a cross cultural context

- Willis, Mike

Authors: Willis, Mike
Date: 2004
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Teaching in International Business Vol. 15, no. 2 (2004), p. 5-26
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Description: There are now over 5,000 alliances between Chinese and foreign universities but there is little research on how managers from the two sides value the various aspects of their educational alliances. This research finds that both sides valued a range of alliance levels, types, activities, sizes and structures but there were significant differences. Chinese respondents tended to prefer larger and higher level alliances which they perceived as being more long term, viable and indicative of foreign commitment. Foreign alliance managers liked to start their alliance associations in China with smaller scale alliance models which could then be expanded into larger and more complex alliances. Chinese alliance managers preferred an alliance model which aimed to establish a benchmark educational standard in China; foreign staff preferred what has been termed pragmatic alliances which were cheaper to organize and manage. Chinese respondents liked alliances which ensured that at least a range of foreign academic and administrative staff were located in China: foreign respondents preferred to fly staff in and out for particular projects and activities. More generally, foreign respondents discussed the value of alliances in business and income generation terms while their Chinese colleagues conceptualized the key value of alliances in terms of their ability to assist China to develop a highly skilled workforce capable of taking its place in an internationalized market economy.
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'Not everyone has a perfect life' : Becoming somebody without school

- Robert, Hattam, Smyth, John

Authors: Robert, Hattam , Smyth, John
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Pedagogy, Culture & Society Vol. 11, no. 3 (2003), p. 379-398
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Description: This article draws on the Students Completing Schooling Project, conducted in Australia, which has developed an account of early school leaving though listening to how 209 young people made sense of their experiences of leaving school. In this study, we were keen to understand the way young people deliberate upon how schooling fits into their plans for living a life: for 'becoming somebody'. We propose understanding early school leaving as a tactical manoeuvre and part of the complex process of identity formation. Our interview material indicates that a powerful 'interactive trouble' contributes to the non-completion of school and involves underestimating the demands of private life, especially for those living in poverty.
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Literacy, technology and the economics of attention

- Lankshear, Colin, Bigum, Chris, Knobel, Michele, Rowan, Leonie

Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Bigum, Chris , Knobel, Michele , Rowan, Leonie
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature Vol. 3, no. (2003), p. 95-122
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Description: This article is based on aproject aimed at generating practicalsuggestions based on research findings abouthow new technologies might be used to enhanceL1 literacy attainment in disadvantagedsettings. The project involved designing,implementing and researching an innovativeapproach to curriculum and pedagogy using newdigital technologies in language and literacyeducation within classroom settings involvingsmall groups of ''disadvantaged'' learners. Thepaper reports activity and findings from one offour study sites. It focuses on four Grade 9boys seen by their teachers as troublemakersand at risk of failing in English. Theresearchers draw on current conceptual andtheoretical work associated with the emergenceof an Attention Economy theory to design acollaborative activity around constructing awebsite, and to identify and analyse positiveliteracy learning outcomes associated with thepedagogical approach taken. The authors showhow this new perspective on attention informs acritique of conventional approaches to schoolorganization and classroom learning, and how itcan be used to envisage alternative approachesto understanding and teaching students whodisplay literacy learning difficulties atschool.
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Poetic representations in sport and physical education : Insider perspectives

- Sparkes, Andrew, Nilges, Lynda, Swan, Peter, Dowling, Fiona

Authors: Sparkes, Andrew , Nilges, Lynda , Swan, Peter , Dowling, Fiona
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sport Education and Society Vol. 8, no. 2 (Oct 2003), p. 153-177
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Description: As part of the emergence of new writing practices in the social sciences, qualitative researchers have begun to harness the potential of poetic representations as a means of analysing social worlds and communicating their findings to others. To date, this genre has been little used within the domains of sport and physical education. Accordingly, in this article, we provide examples of poetic representations and seek to generate insights into the process of their construction by exploring the perspectives of their authors. A rationale for choosing this genre is outlined and the potential benefits and risks of making this choice for both the researcher and the audience are considered. It is concluded that poetic representations are a worthy addition to the analytical repertoire in qualitative research.
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The challenge of digital epistemologies

- Lankshear, Colin

Authors: Lankshear, Colin
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Education, Communication and Information Vol. 3, no. 2 (2003), p. 167-186
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Description: This article identifies a range of changes associated with intensified digitization of daily life that require us to rethink what it means for people to know things and what kinds of things it may be most important to know. In short, we need digital epistemologies. The argument focuses on four key dimensions of change that have epistemological significance. These are 'changes in the world to be known', 'changes in conceptions of knowledge and processes of coming to know things', 'changes in the nature of knowers,' and 'changes in the relative significance of different modes of knowing.' Concrete everyday examples are provided for each dimension of change. On the basis of these examples and the arguments constructed around them it is concluded that conventional epistemology faces serious challenges. These challenges in turn have far-reaching implications for contemporary educational practice and educational research.
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Discovering EFL learners' perception of prior knowledge and its roles in reading comprehension

- Lin, Zheng

Authors: Lin, Zheng
Date: 2002
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Research in Reading Vol. 25, no. 5 (2002), p. 172-190
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Description: This paper investigates EFL learners' perception of prior knowledge and its roles in reading comprehension. It is based on a survey conducted among 400 EFL students studying at secondary and tertiary levels in China. Through the analysis of the ranked multiple responses to the questions posed in the questionnaire, the paper shows that EFL students in mainland China believe that their command of English vocabulary plays a crucial role in their reading comprehension. However as their linguistic knowledge increases, they tend to attach less importance to their linguistic knowledge, especially the knowledge of English syntax and formal structures. At the same time, conceptual and sociocultural knowledge seems to gain greater importance. Furthermore, the perceived importance of linguistic knowledge seems to start diminishing around the end of secondary education, when EFL students have acquired a vocabulary of about 3000 words and the basic knowledge of English syntax and formal structures. The final replacement of linguistic knowledge by conceptual or sociocultural knowledge as the top factor that affects their reading comprehension seems to take place one year after the beginning of the tertiary EFL course. This may well be considered as an indication of the EFL threshold level for EFL students in China.
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