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Field Of Dreams : Australia's National Schools Project, William Louden, John Wallace
Field Of Dreams : Australia's National Schools Project, William Louden, John Wallace
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
"If you build it, they will come," says one of the characters in the film Field of Dreams. In the key scene of the film, the magical power of belief draws dreamers and long-dead baseball heros together in a baseball diamond cut from a mId-western farmer's corn field. Belief overcomes reality, and the film's characters and their baseball heroes play the perfect baseball games of imagination in the light of a long golden dusk. The National Schools Project is like that, we think in three ways. First, its creators have believed that it is possible for Australian schools to be …
The Regulation Of Teaching : Lessons From The National Schools Project, Max Angus
The Regulation Of Teaching : Lessons From The National Schools Project, Max Angus
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
It is conceivable that the present generation of Australian teachers has been engaged in more workplace reform over a longer period of time than any other occupational group. Teachers can recite a near-interminable list of changes to work practices initiated during the 70s and 80s which required revisions of content to be taught, changes in methods of instruction and the introduction of modified patterns of school organisation. Yet the more things change the more they appear the same. The salient features of schools of 20 years ago are salient today - classes of thirty of so students, dominated by teacher …
Leaders And Their Learning, E. J. Mcgilp, Maureen Michael
Leaders And Their Learning, E. J. Mcgilp, Maureen Michael
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Leaders and their learning : professional development priorities for principals / compiled by Beryl Evans. (1993) for Department of Employment, Education and Training. 47 p.