Beyond the curriculum documents: One learning community's contribution to integrating primary school curriculum
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Beales, Brad
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Applied Educational Studies Vol. 7, no. 1 (2010), p. 72-79
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- Description: In this paper we focus on the production of a local Catholic primary school Annual Concert by Grade 3-4 students, which took as its theme, Wauthaurong Heritage in the Region. The school approached the local University's School of Education to suggest one of its Bachelor of Education students who might be willing to work with the school on this production. With this initiative, we were presented with the basis for a community-based project which would incorporate the local Aboriginal Collective, a private Catholic primary school, and a School of Education within the University of the city in the form of the annual school concert. Combining the knowledge, expertise and experience from each of these organisations to deal with a variety of issues involved in education and community perceptions, the project was set to explore the ways in which these were to be dealt with.
Redefining the role of English as a foreign language in the curriculum in the global context
- Authors: Zhang, Xiaohong , Zeegers, Margaret
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Changing English Vol. 17, no. 2 (2010), p. 177-187
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- Description: The English language has become a global language, a development which has influenced English language teaching and learning throughout the world. This influence has occurred more impressively in China than in other parts of the world as a result of the breathtaking pace at which China has integrated with global economies. Increasing industrial, economic and multicultural development has spurred language educators in China to question the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum in relation to the role of English, particularly in secondary schools. In this paper we present a brief review of the role of English as a global language in the Chinese context, a context which is now to be seen as a global one. The new curriculum has been progressively rolled out in Chinese schools since 2001. We highlight the redefinition of the role of English in the new EFL curriculum in Chinese secondary schools in particular and the significance of this as it presents new features of the new EFL curriculum as part of a developing research field, based on a comparison with the 1993 EFL curriculum. In this study, we focus on policy statements and curriculum documents as well as published previous research in order to understand the redefining of the role of English as a foreign language in the new EFL curriculum.
Discourses of deficit in Higher Degree Research Supervisory pedagogies for international students
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Pedagogies: An International Journal Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008), p. 69-84
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- Description: Global student mobility has placed pressure on western universities to recruit students from non-western, non-English-speaking backgrounds. In this article, we argue that language requirements such as the International English Language Testing System bands are underpinned by discourses that privilege western modes of thought. We go on to argue that English language proficiency underpins discourses of deficit that construct non-western students as less able to undertake research programmes. In exploring pedagogical possibilities, we draw on a published story of an international higher degree research student, called Mei, at an Australian university. We question the idea that a research higher degree is more about linguistic skills than it is about research skills, and we argue that rigour, scholarship, and new knowledge constitute the assessable factors in what international higher degree research students produce.
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- Description: 2003006373
Student response to the IT handicap
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Beales, Brad
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International journal of learning Vol. 12, no. 10 (2006), p. 39-43
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- Description: This paper investigates undergraduates' innovative reflection-as a scripted and performed comedy routine in their School Revue-on their introduction as pre-service teachers (PSTs) to the discourses of Information Technologies (ITs) in teaching in schools. It is a small case study that we present here, mondful of the lack of generalisability that this presents, but we feel that it does lend itself to a close examination of a wide array of issues, experiences and outcomes in this small group that wrote and implemented the sketch in the Revue. Given the primacy of the role of language in any educational undertaking, it is perhaps not surprising that the focus of this sketch is on language, particularly as it is received by students, in that group of novice IT for Education students.
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- Description: 2003001862
Towards a pedagogy of group work : Working the rhetoric of group work in an undergaduate curriculum and pedagogy unit at the University of Ballarat
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Davis, Robert , Russell, Rupert , Menon, E.
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Learning Vol. 12, no. 10 (2006), p. 205-211
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- Description: 2003001856