Addressing specific individual learning needs
- Authors: Kuzmich, Karolina
- Date: 1998
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: Master of Education
Developing a spiritual health and life-orientation measure for secondary school students
- Authors: Fisher, John
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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- Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.
The experiences which influence the decisions made by third year undergraduate nursing students to choose psychiatric nursing as a speciality area of practice
- Authors: Warner, Jackie
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The purpose of this study is to look at the reasons why few students are choosing to enter the field of psychiatric nursing. The aim is to identify issues of concern and make recommendations to rectify the situation regarding the shortage of psychiatric nurses.
- Description: Master of Nursing
The gap into reality : the process of redefinition of computer policy during its transition from State Education Department through a local school to its implementation in the classoom
- Authors: Duthie, John
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "The aim of this thesis was to investigate the process by which policy regarding the use of computers in the classroom was developed in a secondary school in a Victorian provincial city. It seeks to determine whether a policy determined at a State Education Department level may be redefined at a local school administrative level and the changes that may occur when that policy is implemented in the classroom"
- Description: Master of Education
The reading/spelling connection : case studies of readers and spellers
- Authors: O'Brien, Terence
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The thesis argues that reading and spelling are interdependent and complex processes, and that "good" readers. but "poor" spellers, read in ways which do not assist in their developing spelling repertoires: their reading behaviours contribute to overall text meanings wihout contributing to individual word knowledge. As well, their writing behaviours do not allow for this knowledge to be used, practised, or displayed."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Adolescents and the extended residential learning program : A case study
- Authors: McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The purpose of this study was to explore, through the use of a case study, the impact of an eight-week residential learning program upon self-concept, learning and understanding of community amongst adolescent participants. The study utilized multiple methods of data collection including interviews, focus groups, observation, the Learning Process Questionnaire and the Self-Description Questionnaire II in order to address the research question.
- Description: Master of Education (Research)
Becoming enquirers into professional practice
- Authors: Brown, Maryann , McGraw, Amanda
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 30th Australian Teacher Education Association Conference, Brisbane, July, 2002, Brisbane : 1st July, 2002
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000184
Changes of names, contents and attitudes to mathematical units
- Authors: Turville, Christopher , Pierce, Robyn , Barker, Ewan , Giri, Jason
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Crete, Greece : 1st June, 2003
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- Description: Will this material be on the exam? Why do I need to know this stuff? These are the sorts of questions that have been regularly asked by our mathematics students. Pre-service mathematics teachers often suggest that they do not need to learn anything that they do not have to teach. Generally, these students appear to have very little aesthetic appreciation for mathematics and its applications. Currently, we teach five traditional mathematical content units that are provided mainly for pre-service mathematics teachers. These units have been adapted and modified over the years from units that were designed primarily for science students. They contained a heavy focus on calculus with a limited breadth of mathematical experience. After consulting widely on the best mathematical practices throughout Australia and internationally, it was decided to reform all of the mathematics units to make them more attractive to a wider audience. The units that are currently being developed are: Profit, Loss and Gambling; Upon the Shoulders of Giants; Logic and Imagination; Modelling and Change; Algorithms, Bits and Bytes; Space, Shape, and Design; and Modelling Reality. The overall goal of this redevelopment is to improve student attitudes and motivation by exposing them to a wide range of topics in mathematics that are usable and relevant. All of these units will incorporate current technology, contain realistic problems, and include visiting speakers. Student assessment in these units will consist of portfolios, projects and examinations. The introduction of these new units will result in students having a greater choice of the units they wish to study. In order to overcome potential logistical problems of a small mathematics department, innovative changes to the structure of the units will also be examined. This paper will provide the details of the establishment and content of these units.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000085
Changing places : Making links
- Authors: Smith, Patricia , Callingham, Rosemary , Nicholson, Vicky
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AARE Brisbane 2002, Brisbane : 1st December, 2002
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- Description: Changing Places - Making Links are parallel programs that have a focus on improving outcomes for Indigenous students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 4 to 8), through an inclusive approach. In recent years there has been a move to improve the educational experiences of students in the middle years. In addition there are emerging conceptions of curriculum that have a different perspective on fields of knowledge and, as a consequence, demand changed approaches to assessment and teaching. This paper describes the framework for professional development in Changing Places - Making Links that was developed to take account of these issues. Overarching organisers are drawn from the new Essential Learnings curriculum in Tasmania. Two major themes run through the professional development: Indigenous cultural and community involvement, and new approaches to assessment. The Essential Learnings are addressed through a focus on literacy, numeracy, and personal development. The professional development both models and encourages inclusive practice.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000140
Cut, paste, publish : The production and consumption of zines
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World Chapter 12 p. 164-185
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- Description: Despite their direct relevance to studies of literacy practices, zines (pronounced 'zeens') have scarcely featured in the literature of educational research. Where zines have been taken seriously as a focus of inquiry it has mainly been within studies of popular/youth culture (cf. Chu 1997; Duncombe 1997; Williamson 1994). This chapter is intended to provide a modest redress of the silence with respect to zines within literacy studies generally and the New Literacy Studies in particular. We believe anyone interested in the nature, role and significance of literacy practices under contemporary conditions has much of value to learn from zines and, especially, from thinking about them from a sociocultural perspective. Indeed, we think their significance extends beyond a focus on literacy per se to pedagogy at large. For immediate purposes we begin from the premise that zines are an important but under-researched dimension of adolescent cultural practices and provide fertile ground for extending our understanding of new literacies and digital technologies.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000067
Cyber spaces/social spaces
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces : Struggling with Technology in the Global Classroom Chapter 7 p. Jan-17
- Full Text: false
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000053
Designing a research agenda to examine the implementation of the health and physical education curriculum & standards framework II
- Authors: O'Meara, James , Swan, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Association for Research in Education, Brisbane : 1st December, 2002
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000073
Do we have your attention? New literacies, digital technologies and the education of adolescents
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World Chapter 12 p. 19-39
- Full Text: false
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000072
Focus groups and ELICOS evaluation
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: English Australia Journal Vol. 20, no. 1 (2002), p. 17-23
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000125
From supervisor to mentor : Suggestive possibilities
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Smith, Patricia
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AARE 2002 Conference, Brisbane : 1st - 5th December, 2002
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- Description: An age characterised by the sort of 'manufactured uncertainty' identified by Giddens (1994) throws up for scrutiny any number of taken-for-granted assumptions regarding professional practice experience in the Education field. This paper explores the suggestive possibilities of discourses of pre-service teacher practica in terms of naming, positioning and examination of taken-for-granted aspects of teacher education as they present at a regional university in Victoria, Australia. The University of Ballarat has introduced a new P-10 teacher education course. In the second year of its progress, traditional aspects of paid supervisory and assessment roles of practising teachers in relation to student teachers have been the focus of attention and activity based on reconfigured foci on the roles of both practising teachers and undergraduate students. One such focus is on what Schön (1987) describes as 'indeterminate zones of practice', and the result has been a research program exploring those zones in terms of mentorship in relation to mandated supervision and assessment requirements for graduate registration. The project is action-research based, with teacher, student, academic and semi-academic/teacher roles considered in the light of suggestive possibilities of mentorship and reflective practices as transformative possibilities in relation to roles associated with these.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000135
Grid.for.learning@clampdown.edu
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces : Struggling with Technology in the Global Classroom Chapter 7 p. 105-135
- Full Text: false
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000274
Machines and mindsets
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces : Struggling with Technology in the Global Classroom Chapter 7 p. 59-84
- Full Text: false
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000272
Passions in the field : Initial student responses to a field placement initiative
- Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , Whitefield, Ross , Ryan, Janette
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Field Based Learning 2001 Conference, Canberra : 26th October, 2003
- Full Text: false
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000070
Reading comprehension and a computerised analytic model : theoretical possibility, technical feasibilty and intrinsic limitations
- Authors: Lin, Zheng
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "This study comprises a formulated approach to the prediction of EFL reading comprehension. Based on a study of the interactions between bottom-up and top-down processing, between different sources of prior knowledge, and between the reader and the writer via the text, a schematic developmental model is devised to account for L2 reading comprehension. According to the model, the EFL, conceptual and sociocultural knowledge that an EFL text involves, and that the EFL reader brings to the reading task, determines the outcome of the EFL reading event."
- Description: Doctor of Philosphy
Reading, writing and unruliness : Female education in the St Trinian's films
- Authors: Speed, Lesley
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 5, no. 2 (2002), p. 221-238
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- Description: This article examines how the St Trinian’s films (1954–1980) engage with shifts in the social organization of gender and class, while celebrating the defiance of social constraints on women. Focusing on the films’ depiction of unruly female behaviour, the article addresses the historical and social dimensions of the films in relation to carnival, adolescence and education. The films express public responses to the increasing public significance of female youth, and celebrate the predominantly female environment of the girls’ school.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003002837