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Evans, G. (Ed.) Learning And Teaching Cognitive Skills; And, Biggs. J. (Ed.) Teaching For Learning: The View From Cognitive Psychology., Denise Kirkpatrick
Evans, G. (Ed.) Learning And Teaching Cognitive Skills; And, Biggs. J. (Ed.) Teaching For Learning: The View From Cognitive Psychology., Denise Kirkpatrick
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Evans, G. (Ed.) Learning and teaching cognitive skills. ACER, Melbourne, 1991. Biggs, J. (Ed.) Teaching for leaming: the view from cognitive psychology. ACER, Melbourne, 1991.
Introduction, Bruce Haynes
Introduction, Bruce Haynes
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The Minister for Employment, Education and Training, the Hon. Kim Beazley (1993, p. 11) announced the provision of $20 million over the following three years to support the development of key competencies and the "development of a prototype training and development package for teachers/trainers." This announcement highlights the significance currently accorded to competency based standards for teaching and teacher education. The identification of teacher competencies and the specification of competency based standards for entry (and promotion?) in the profession has the potential to restructure the workplace in schools by specifying what is done and who controls it. Together with the …
Teacher Training In Transition, A Commentary On Postgraduate Science Teacher Training In England, Arthur Jennings
Teacher Training In Transition, A Commentary On Postgraduate Science Teacher Training In England, Arthur Jennings
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The radical reforms of recent years have affected all parts of the educational system in England. This paper discusses science teacher education and focuses on changes in teacher training programmes designed to equip teachers for the national curriculum and for work in the climate of greater accountability that now exists. Though the pressure for these changes is domestic it is suggested that the issues are of general significance.
Contextualizing The Competency-Based Schooling, Victor V. Soucek
Contextualizing The Competency-Based Schooling, Victor V. Soucek
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
To a classroom teacher the current debate about work-related competencies might appear far removed from his/her classroom and have no significance for teacher education. Yet the proposed policy changes are likely to affect the work and the professional status of teachers in a very direct way. As Whitty and Willmott (1991: 312) point out, one of the fundamental problems of competency-based teaching/training (CBT) approach consists in the difficulty to define just how narrow or broad the competencies might be. A too narrow definition based on observable work-related skills might indicate a radical departure from the traditional role teachers played in …
Teacher Education For Values Education : Is There A Way Forward Under Current Constraints?, Graham Haydon
Teacher Education For Values Education : Is There A Way Forward Under Current Constraints?, Graham Haydon
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
How can teacher education best prepare teachers to contribute to values education in schools? If this was ever a question that could be asked and answered in the abstract, or with reference to some postulated ideal situation, it is not so now. I am raising and suggesting an answer to the question in the context of recent developments in education in Britain; but since those recent developments are by no means unique to Britain, the discussion may well be of broader relevance too. The context, then, in which I am raising the question is one of increasing political control, at …
Reading "Academic Writing", Mary Scott
Reading "Academic Writing", Mary Scott
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Helping studetns learn how to learn is now a concern for most U.K. institutions of higher education. The study skill given most emphasis is "academic writing", no doubt because it is on the quality of their written assignments that students' success or failure larely turns.
Technology, Science And The English Tradition Of Liberal Education, Michael Barnett
Technology, Science And The English Tradition Of Liberal Education, Michael Barnett
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The challenges posed to the Australian Education System by economic and industrial change have been discussed in a recent paper by John Mathews and colleagues (1988). An interesting feature of this paper is that it is premised on the proposition that 'flexible skill formation and the development of technological literacy' are' the preconditions of any citizen to be active in the democratic system'. This assertion supplies a very new answer to a very old question, namely that of identifying the basic elements of the education of a free citizen. Questions about the nature of a 'liberal education' were formulated and …
Competency-Based Standards In Teaching : Two Problems - One Solution, William Lauden
Competency-Based Standards In Teaching : Two Problems - One Solution, William Lauden
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Movement towards competency standards in teaching promises to bring together two parallel programs of reform: school improvement and skills formation. The first of these, school improvement has a history as long as the history of schooling. In recent decades, proposals for school improvement have led to changes in curriculum content, materials and structure; assessment; architecture; and governance of schools.
Selected Professions Observed : Competency-Based Standards And Their Implications For The Teachmg Profession, Leo Bartlett
Selected Professions Observed : Competency-Based Standards And Their Implications For The Teachmg Profession, Leo Bartlett
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The emphasis on competency-based standards approaches to reform in teaching is the single most significant trend current in Australian education and in the professions generally today. Pressure for reform has come from industry, and government, and to a significantly lesser extent from the professions and parents. While there have been some reservations expressed about CBS among some sections of the Commonwealth bureaucracy in recent months, the idea of competency-based standards remains the overarching schema for micro-economic reform. The dominant press for reform can be attributed to federal (and state) interests and the policy-makers who for largely economic or rationalist reasons. …
Critical Thinking In Teacher Education: A Process-Oriented Research Agenda, Paul Hager, Michael Kaye
Critical Thinking In Teacher Education: A Process-Oriented Research Agenda, Paul Hager, Michael Kaye
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
In recent years, critical thinking has become a central focus of education, especially in North America. Within this focus, there has been a major debate regarding the generalisability of specificity of critical thinking. The main issue in this connection appears to have been whether critical thinking needs to be closely linked with traditional disciplines. If critical thinking is really as vital as its proponents maintain, then it will also be important in applied fields such as teacher education. It is our intention in this paper to explore the implications, for teacher education, of taking critical thinking seriously.
In Defence Of Australian Academic Unionism, Grahame Mcculloch
In Defence Of Australian Academic Unionism, Grahame Mcculloch
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This paper does not aspire to be an objective account of academic unionism. It is written from my perspective as a committed union activist, and comes at a time when there is a real prospect of a substantial erosion of the role and authority of Australia's academic unions. I refer, of course, to the well publicised plans to developed a model of academic industrial relations in which working conditions would be radically deregulated, and in which unions would be given only a limited role. Unionism is seen as responsible for the debasement of collegial life in our universities, and the …
Never Mind The Edu, What About The Cate? The Background To Current Developments In English Teacher Education, Tony Becher
Never Mind The Edu, What About The Cate? The Background To Current Developments In English Teacher Education, Tony Becher
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
If anyone were misguided enough to offer a prize for the sector of English education most subject to government intervention, the institutions concerned with initial teacher training would win it hands down. The intervention (a less polite word would be interference) has, over time, taken three main forms: alterations to the structure and organisation of provision; attempts to match student numbers to subsequent demand; and control over curricular content. This paper is an attempt to take a relatively longterm view of relevant developments, setting the present situation in its historical context. It will thus necessarily adopt a broad-brush rather than …