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Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Cambourne and Turbill trace the growth, change and finally marginalisation of progressive approaches to literacy education by examining whole language philosophy in Australia from the 1960s to the present. Using a critical lens, Cambourne and Turbill describe how whole language has been positioned throughout the last nearly 50 years in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Cambourne and Turbill offer a personal history of whole language in Australia and draw connections of the educational changes occurring in their country to other western democracies. Their insights are valuable in order to examine other grass roots programs and to better understand how …
Building The Capacity To Govern The Australian Metropolis: Challenges And Opportunities, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Building The Capacity To Govern The Australian Metropolis: Challenges And Opportunities, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This paper traces key policy challenges facing Australia's metropolitan cities as a result of multiscaled shifts in their governance contexts. These shifts, related both to the neoliberal erosion of a national commitment to universal social provision and the adoption of a 'competitive city' governance paradigm at the urban scale, have produced a set of governance challenges, particularly concerning urban social inclusion and cohesion. Moreover, a range of institutional obstacles continues to hinder the generation of urban governance capacity to address these challenges. The paper works through the nature of these obstacles and takes a pragmatic approach to identifying opportunities to …
Talking About Food And Nutrition: Australian Women's Magazines, Danielle Mcvie, Heather Yeatman, Sandra C. Jones
Talking About Food And Nutrition: Australian Women's Magazines, Danielle Mcvie, Heather Yeatman, Sandra C. Jones
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Abstract presented at the Cultivating Appetites for Knowledge International Food Conference, May 30 - Jun 3 2007, Victoria, Canada
The Australian Aboriginal View Of Giftedness, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Kathleen Gibson
The Australian Aboriginal View Of Giftedness, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Kathleen Gibson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
To write a chapter on the conceptions of giftedness held by the indigenous people of Australia presents particular challenges to the authors. In framing this chapter, we are mindful that the structure of the book has looked at language as a defining aspect of culture but there is no single Aboriginal language (or culture) and the majority of Aboriginal people speak as their first language either Aboriginal English, a dialect of English, or one of three Kriols, the Aboriginal term for the creole languages (Sandefur, 1986) that have evolved following English settlement of Australia. Even if we were to look …