Critical Theory and the Human Condition
- Authors: Noone, Lynne , Davidson, Christina
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Policy Futures in Education Vol. 2, no. 2 (2004), p. 428-434
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Discursive influences on clinical teaching in Australian undergraduate nursing programs
- Authors: McKenna, Lisa , Wellard, Sally
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Nurse Education Today Vol. 24, no. 3 (2004), p. 229-235
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- Description: Clinical teaching is a vital, yet multidimensional component of Australian undergraduate nursing courses. Unlike other parts of curricula, clinical teaching relies on the both higher education and health care sectors to meet prescribed goals and for effective student learning to occur. As such it is influenced by discourses from within both education and health. Whilst there is considerable literature related to undergraduate nursing clinical teaching; it mainly deals with practical aspects such as effectiveness of clinical teaching or discussions of models employed. Only a small pool of literature exists that discusses the construction of clinical teaching including the factors that have influenced the development of practices both in the past and present. Using the work of Foucault, this paper examines dominant and competing discourses influencing clinical teaching through their constructions within the literature. These are discourses of academia, nursing, and economics. The discussion situates these discourses and discusses how some of the resultant issues surrounding clinical education remain largely unresolved. Crown Copyright © 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000838
From slogan to pedagogy : Teacher education and reflection at the University of Ballarat
- Authors: Smith, Patricia , Zeegers, Margaret , Russell, Rupert
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Learning Vol. 10, no. (2004), p. 3357-3371
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- Description: 2003000806
Globalization and educational change : Bringing about the reshaping and renorming of practice
- Authors: Angus, Lawrence
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Education Policy Vol. 19, no. 1 (Jan 2004), p. 23-41
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- Description: The tendency in education writing on globalization has been to examine the congruence of educational policies in western societies and the international effects of global governance of education by powerful transnational institutions such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Union. The authors tend to identify massive changes in approaches to educational governance, including the establishment of a broadly common policy and management agenda that is characterized by 'new managerialism', devolution, and rigid accountability structures, entrepreneurialism, and school effectiveness, that have been imposed largely as a result of globalization. These measures are often seen as being directly related to the 'hollowing out' of the state, and the emergence of neo-liberalism as the informing ideology of both international capitalism and residual nation-states. There are few studies, however, of the dynamics of educational life and micro-political activities that enable or challenge or bring about the kinds of educational reshaping and renorming that are typically associated with globalization. This study attempts to analyse such micro-shaping, which, through reporting an ethnographic study in a site of educational practice, examines how school managers and teachers dealt with government policy intervention and, in the process, both willingly and unwillingly implemented significant educational change.
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- Description: 2003000752
ICT educational (dis)advantage : Cultural resources and the digital divide
- Authors: Angus, Lawrence , Sutherland-Smith, Wendy , Snyder, Ilana
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Ethnographies of Educational and Cultural Conflicts: Strategies and Resolutions Chapter 11 p. 45-66
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- Description: 2003000749
Learning to use CAS: Voices from a classroom
- Authors: Pierce, Robyn , Stacey, Kaye
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 28th conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Matematics Education, PME 28, Bergen, Norway : 14th July, 2004
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- Description: This paper reports on the experiences of students who were learning mathematics with CAS for a second consecutive school year. Evidence presented shows that nearly all students managed the challenging task of mastering the technical aspects of using CAS well. It also shows that the level of technical difficulty and the degree to which it presents an obstacle to mathematical learning is not predictable from conventional mathematical ability. There is a complex interaction between cognitive and affective factors. Planning appropriate teaching for developing the effective use of CAS will require awareness and understanding of these individual differences.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000920
Marketing education in Australia : The missing P!
- Authors: Lowe, Julian , Lowe, Ben
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the ANZMAC 2004 Marketing Accountabilities and Responsibilties, Wellington, New Zealand : 29th - 11th, 2004
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- Description: Some marketing educators quite rightly justify the worth of their courses on the basis of industry value. For instance, “the entertainment industry is a $500 billion industry and therefore understanding this industry is of considerable importance to marketers”. If industry value is the key driver of course importance then none could be more important than a course in pricing – a US$32 trillion industry (World Bank, 2004)! Yet in Australia, no such courses exist at tertiary level and pricing is often given only cursory treatment in the marketing curriculum. This article highlights the need for greater attention to pricing education and makes recommendations as to why pricing is not incorporated in the curriculum, why it should be present in the curriculum and how it could be incorporated into the curriculum.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000996
Minerals council of Australia review of tertiary minerals education : What does it do for minerals education?
- Authors: Tuck, Michael
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at The Minerals Industry - Future Directions for New Leaders', Ballarat, Victoria : 21st April, 2004
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- Description: Mining education in Ballarat has a long and proud history dating back to the 1870s. Today the School of Engineering continues this tradition at the University of Ballarat. The recent review of Tertiary Minerals Education by the Minerals Council of Australia has questioned the current situation regarding Minerals tertiary education in Australia and recommendations have been made regarding the future of minerals tertiary education. This paper initially examines the original recommendations made by the Minerals Council of Australia and assesses subsequent changes made to these recommendations. Secondly the paper outlines the future shape of mining education in the light of these recommendations given that they are implemented. Finally the future delivery of mining education is discussed, particularly with respect to the impact of modern technologies.
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- Description: 2003000705
Sustainability : Change and challenge for teachers, learners and the engineering curriculum
- Authors: Hall, Stephen
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Creating Flexible Learning Environments 2004 Conference, Toowoomba, Queensland : 27th - 28th September, 2004
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- Description: This paper endeavours to examine the challenges that introducing sustainability into the curriculum brings for academics, students and engineering programs. The paper addresses the various international, national and regional drivers for increasing curriculum sustainability content and environmentally responsive behaviour by Universities. Finally, the consideration of triple bottom line reporting within a common first year engineering subject at The University of Ballarat is discussed as a recent curriculum development to incorporate current sustainability thinking.
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- Description: 2003000715
The applicability of networks in Australian adult and vocational learning research
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Learns and Practitioners: The Heart of the Matter, Canberra : 17th March, 2004
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- Description: Networks have increasingly been recognised by educators as important in adult and vocational learning contexts, in that they have the capacity to help potential learners engage and become better connected with a wide range of learning organisations through their families, jobs and communities and also with opportunities for future learning and work. The importance of ‘being connected’, including through networks to and between learning organisations, has come into higher relief with a recent increase in theorising about aspects of social capital including learning networks, the growth of lifelong learning and an identification of the particular penalties associated with several forms of disengagement from learning for people of all ages. This paper begins with a scan of research literature on networks in adult and vocational learning. The paper identifies some new techniques involving networks, found by experience to assist in the process of adult and vocational learning research: particularly for identifying potential research interviewees within learning organisations and communities, strengthening relationships between learning organisations and identifying opportunities for future collaboration. It also provides some insights from new data on organisational networks derived from a number of recent research studies about learning networks in TAFE, adult and community education and public safety organisations in small and remote towns. The paper finally provides a number of tentative, general findings about the broader applicability of network theory to research and theories about learning in such contexts.
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- Description: 2003000774
They're the future and they're going to take over everywhere
- Authors: Angus, Lawrence , Sutherland-Smith, Wendy , Snyder, Ilana
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Doing Literacy Online Chapter 11 p. 225-244
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- Description: 2003000747
University education for all? Barriers to full inclusion of students with disabilities in Australian universities
- Authors: Ryan, Janette , Struhs, John
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Inclusive Education Vol. 8, no. 1 (2004), p. 73-90
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- Description: In Australia, anti-discrimination legislation and government policies have been introduced which aim to facilitate the inclusion of people with disabilities in employment and education. However in the area of nursing, attitudinal barriers persist that effectively hinder the full participation of people with disabilities in nurse education programs. These attitudinal barriers prevail despite such legislative and policy changes, and run counter to changing community views about disability. Normative assumptions about the ideal attributes of nurses appear to influence these attitudes, especially in the area of admission of students with disabilities to nurse education programs per se, and to their participation in the practicum component of nurse education programs. This paper reports on research conducted in Victoria, Australia, by nurse academics and equity practitioners at three Victorian universities, into the barriers facing such students. The research examined the views of undergraduate student nurses, their lecturers and their clinical educators, nurse clinicians, and university disability practitioners about the participation of people with disabilities in nurse education programs. The research also sought to document their responses to a framework, developed through the research that aims to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in undergraduate nursing programs. It did this against a pluralistic and technological milieu that in the researchers' view requires a more diverse mix within the nursing profession.
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- Description: 2003000761
What do Chinese and foreign universities value about their strategic alliances? Exploring a dimension of higher education alliances in a cross cultural context
- 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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- Description: 2003007137
Who's doing the hunting and gathering? An exploration of gender segmentation of adult learning in small remote communities
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research reading Chapter 17 p. 225-241
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- Description: Adults in Australia have tended to return relatively recently to learning in patterns that are significantly different by gender. These patterns of gender segmentation for adults are particularly noticeable in the findings of recent research by the author into adult, community and vocational learning in small and remote towns in Victoria. The issues associated with such patterns form the basis of this exploratory paper.
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- Description: 2003000772
About Face : Implications of research into men's learning preferences in rural towns
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Emerging Futures 2005: recent, responsive and relevant research Conference, Brisbane : 13th -15th April, 2005
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- Description: 2003001327
Challenges for social work and welfare education in 21st century: A contextual analysis
- Authors: Green, Rosemary
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Annual International HERDSA Conference 2005, Sydney : 3rd - 6th July, 2005
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- Description: The social work and welfare profession has experienced change and challenge from a number of sources in the late 20th Century. In Western countries, changing government ideology and policy about welfare provision has fundamentally altered the landscape in which social and welfare workers are employed. The role and purpose of the social welfare profession has been interrogated, with a resulting perceived 'crisis' for the profession. Government policies have also affected the provision of education for students, and this, too, has had an impact on the shape and structure of courses, and the work of academics. In addition, broader changes in society have created a challenging environment, for example, there is a general distrust of professionals together with the speaking out by marginalised groups about their place and treatment within society and by professional groups such as social welfare. Such a context affects the profession, and recruitment of students. Within this milieu, social work and welfare education must equip graduates to work effectively in a changing and sometimes hostile world. This paper broadly examines the context affecting provision of education for social work and education in the 21st century. These issues are similar across Western countries, and affect many other professional groups.
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- Description: 2003001260
Choice, training, community, transition
- Authors: Marks, Genee
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: 2003001339
From supervising practica to mentoring professional experience : Possibilities for education students
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teaching Education Vol. 16, no. 4 (2005), p. 349-357
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- Description: This paper explores the possibilities presented in examining taken for granted aspects of pre-service teacher practicum practices, especially in terms of naming and positioning within teacher education, as they present at a regional university in Ballarat, Australia. The University of Ballarat has introduced a new P-10 teacher education course which is about to enter its fourth year. The course has focused some of its attention on traditional aspects of paid supervisory and assessment roles of practising teachers in relation to student teachers. As a result, changes have been made, with reconfigured foci on the roles of both practising teachers and undergraduate students, as well as those of other staff who support the new programme. One such focus is on what Schön described as "indeterminate zones of practice," and the result has been a research programme exploring those zones as part of mentorship in relation to mandated supervision and assessment requirements for graduate registration. Examination of data provided by transcripts of focus groups conducted with the students, mentors, community coordinators, and university teachers involved in the programmes suggests possibilities that may serve to inform efforts to meet a major part of the challenge to better prepare pre-service teachers in finding innovative and relevant ways to improve practicum experience from the outset of undergraduate education. Those involved in the programme at the University of Ballarat have examined assumptions underlying participants' roles in relation to partnerships within communities of practice in relation to the roles of university and educators in the field, as well as critically examining concepts of mentoring that guide reflection on practice and scaffold student learning. Such considerations go beyond concerns of individual pre-service teacher classroom performances, focusing on the generalizability of pre-service teacher experience in relation to the profession as a whole. © 2005 School of Education, University of Queensland.
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- Description: 2003001329
Not exactly rocket science : Replicating good practice in meeting diverse client needs
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: 2003001325
Policies, practices and professional development : A study of curriculum implementation within an Australian high school
- Authors: O'Meara, James
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The overall aim of this portfolio is to discuss [...] understanding of the curriculum process surrounding the development of the Health and Physical Education Curriculum and Standards Framework II (HPE CSFII) and its implementation in a Victorian secondary school. The unit of analysis was a group of physical educators from Newviews Secondary College. Throughout 2002, interviews, surveys and document analysis were used to see how 'how and if' the HPE CSFII was being adopted and 'implemented' by the group.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy