Literacy in the early years: reflections on international research and practice
- Authors: McLachlan, Claire , Arrow, Alison
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
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- Description: This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice. Each chapter details how the research was conducted and any issues that researchers encountered in collecting data with very young children, as well as what the research findings mean for educational practice. It includes photographs of effective literacy practice, detailed explanations of research methods so the studies can be replicated or expanded upon, and key features for promoting effective literacy practice in early childhood settings. This book is an essential read for everyone who is interested in exploring the complexities and challenges of researching literacy acquisition in the youngest children.
Spirituality in education in a global, pluralised world
- Authors: de Souza, Marian
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Routledge Research in Education Vol. 160
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- Description: A particular problem associated with international research in the field of spirituality and education is the reluctance of scholars to agree on what spirituality means, with numerous descriptions increasing ambiguity and reducing the impact of research in the discipline. Spirituality in education in a global, pluralised world argues that it is important to understand spirituality as a unifying concept that has the potential to be meaningful in its application to the lives of children and young people in areas of learning and wellbeing.
Bread and roses : Voices of Australian Academics from the working class
- Authors: Michell, Dee , Wilson, Jacqueline , Archer, Verity
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Bread and Roses is an Australian first, a collection of stories from academics who identify as coming from working-class backgrounds. At once inspiring and challenging, the collection demonstrates how individual narratives are both personal and structural, in that they illustrate the ways in which social forces shape individual lives. Central themes in the book are generational changes in university education provision in Australia, the complexities of coming from a working class background and being female, or coming from a working class background and being female and a recent migrant, and the particular challenges facing students and staff from rural and regional areas. An essential read for anyone interested in widening participation programs in higher education, including administrators, academics, past and present students, Bread and Roses is both a map for those who want to undertake a similar journey and a community for those who want to join. © 2015 Sense Publishers. All Rights Reserved.
Children's images of identity : Drawing the self and the other
- Authors: Brown, Jill , Johnson, Nicola
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Transgressions : Cultural studies and education No. 109
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- Description: The understandings which children have of Indigenous identity provide means by which to explore the ways in which Indigenous identity is both projected and constructed in society. These understandings play a powerful part in the ways in which Indigenous peoples are positioned in the mainstream society with which they are connected. The research presented in this edited collection uses children’s drawings to illuminate and explore the images children, both mainstream and Indigenous, have of Indigenous peoples. The data generated by this process allows exploration of the ways in which Indigenous identity is understood globally, through a series of locally focussed studies connected by theme and approach. The data serves to illuminate both the space made available by mainstream groups, and aspects of modernity accommodated within the Indigenous sense of self. Our aim within this project has been to analyse and discuss the ways in which children construct identity, both their own and that of others. Children were asked to share their thoughts through drawings which were then used as the basis for conversation with the researchers. In this way the interaction between mainstream modernity and traditional Indigenous identity is made available for discussion and the connection between children’s lived experiences of identity and the wider global discussion is both immediately enacted and located within broader international understandings of Indigenous cultures and their place in the world.
Critical pedagogy for social justice
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Critical pedagogy today
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- Description: An incisive analysis of how Critical Pedagogy can be a force for positive change in schools around the world, helping the most disadvantaged students.
Leadership and management of quality in higher education
- Authors: Nair, Sid , Webster, Len , Mertova, Patricie
- Date: 2010
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- Description: Part 1 Overview: Growth of the quality movement in higher education. Part 2 Leadership of quality in higher education: Initiative-based quality development and the role of distributed leadership; A leadership model for higher education quality; A framework for engaging leadership in higher education quality systems. Part 3 Approaches of managers to quality in higher education: Quality management in higher education: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Finland; Towards a culture of quality in South African higher education. Part 4 Auditing quality in higher education: Auditorsâ perspectives on quality in higher education. Part 5 Academic development and quality in higher education: Academic development as change leadership in higher education; Quality in the transitional process of establishing political science as a new discipline in Czech higher education (post 1989)
Choice, training, community, transition
- Authors: Marks, Genee
- Date: 2005
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003001339
Not exactly rocket science : Replicating good practice in meeting diverse client needs
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003001325
New literacies : Changing knowledge and classsroom learning
- Authors: Lankshear, Colin , Knobel, Michele
- Date: 2003
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003000476