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Teacher Attitudes Toward The Mainstreaming Of Exceptional Students: Effects Of The Educational Climate, M. A. Winzer, K. A. Fulmer Jan 1987

Teacher Attitudes Toward The Mainstreaming Of Exceptional Students: Effects Of The Educational Climate, M. A. Winzer, K. A. Fulmer

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In the United States, PL 94-142 is now ten years old, and for a decade school districts have had the legal responsibility to provide for all exceptional children in the 'least restrictive environment.' However, the movement toward integrating exceptional children into regular classrooms is not restricted to the United States. Many countries have been exposed to a vigorous advocacy on.behalf of the handicapped for their right to enjoy an existence as close as possible to normal (Mitchell, 1981).

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Perceptions Of The Uses Of Corporal Punishment And Possible Consequesnces If Its Abolition, Alan D. Bowd Jan 1987

Perceptions Of The Uses Of Corporal Punishment And Possible Consequesnces If Its Abolition, Alan D. Bowd

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Corporal punishment has been used as a disciplinary procedure in Australian schools for many years despite considerable disagreement among educators concerning its effectiveness (Freeman, 1966: Manning, 1979; Maurer, 1974; Pallas, 1973). The controversy regarding the morality, educational efficacy and psychological consequences of corporal punishment has become an emotive public debate in recent years. In Western Australia, for example, as early as 1972 the Government Secondary Schools Discipline Committee recommended the phasing out of corporal punishment in both secondary and primary schools. However no action was taken and in 1984 the Committee of Inquiry into Education in Western Australia made a …

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A Process Approach To The Teaching Of Philosophy And Theory Of Education, Peter Hobson, Tom Moore Jan 1987

A Process Approach To The Teaching Of Philosophy And Theory Of Education, Peter Hobson, Tom Moore

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The problems which are associated with the teaching of educational philosophy and theory are well known to those in the field. Issues relating to appropriateness, relevance, content, and course structure raise particular problems for those who teach in this area in the context of pre-service teacher education programmes. This article is an attempt to describe, in personal terms, an approach which evolved over a fifteen year period of teaching educational theory as a compulsory unit in an initial teacher education programme at the University of New England. In our experience it has solved many of the problems initially encountered when …

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Knowledge, Thought And Language Across The Curriculum, David Corson Jan 1987

Knowledge, Thought And Language Across The Curriculum, David Corson

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We know that children's differences in language ability, more than any other observable factor, affect their potential for success in schooling. It is only in the last two or three decades that educationists in general have felt it necessary to state a fact that earlier educationists regarded as too commonplace to warrant stating: that language is the central achievement necessary for success in schooling. It is clear that achievement in schools is highly dependent on the child's ability to 'display' knowledge. This display almost always takes the form of spoken or written language. Child language will often be the first …

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Teaching The Philosophy Of Education, Margaret D. Mackie Jan 1987

Teaching The Philosophy Of Education, Margaret D. Mackie

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In 'Problems in Teaching Philosophy of Education', Australian Journal of Teacher Education, Vol 11, No 1, 1986, M A B Degenhardt pinpoints the 'difficulty' in teaching this subject when he outlines an imaginary lecture on 'Discipline and Punishment'. At the end of this lecture, he says, the students 'will have learned that there is a general agreement on what punishment is, that there are three main theories of punishment ... , that all have strong points '" and that much more will need to be done towards the development of a satisfactory theory of punishment in education' (p.31). He concludes …

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What We Don't Know About C.A.I., Patricia Probert, Ross Telfer Jan 1986

What We Don't Know About C.A.I., Patricia Probert, Ross Telfer

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Studies of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAl) to date, appear to have concentrated on comparisons of CAl with other modes of instruction; differences in time required for completion of lessons; student personality; student attitudes to CAl; and the number of students who can successfully work together on the one CAl task. It is fair to claim that the most important information is yet to come, for there are many other variables of CAl that need to be researched, as the following questions suggest.

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Critical Educational Policy Analysis: A Discussion Of Perspectives, John Grimley Jan 1986

Critical Educational Policy Analysis: A Discussion Of Perspectives, John Grimley

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Education policy is the medium through which society and educational institutions interact. Currently major policy thrusts of devolution and participation are being promoted within the educational community. It becomes essential that these poliCces be analysed and evaluated by educators. This paper supports the role of radical humanist perspective in the development of a critical model of educational policy analysis, and stresses the necessity for teacher educators to expose student teachers to critical and radical perspectives.

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Introduction To Thematic Issue: Education Policy And Teacher Education, Bruce Haynes Jan 1986

Introduction To Thematic Issue: Education Policy And Teacher Education, Bruce Haynes

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This thematic issue of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education contains five papers which relate to the theme 'Education Policy and Teacher Education'. The papers relate to two distinct aspects of the theme; education policy studies as part of teacher education courses and the influence of Australian government teacher education policy.

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Mathematics And Science In Primary Teacher Education: The Design Of A Project To Encourage Review At The Institutional Level, John M. Owen, Ronald J. Welsh, Neville J. Johnson Jan 1986

Mathematics And Science In Primary Teacher Education: The Design Of A Project To Encourage Review At The Institutional Level, John M. Owen, Ronald J. Welsh, Neville J. Johnson

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Over the past two decades evaluation has been one of the growth industries in education. A major impetus for this development, particularly in the united States of America, has been the mandating of evaluations for major policy initiatives at federal and state levels (House, 1981). One result of such legislation has been that academics and private organisations have been engaged, often on long term assignments, to pass judgements on the worth of interventions designed to improve the quality of education made available in educational systems. Features of this approach to evaluation have been that they are large scale well funded, …

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Problems In Teaching Philosophy Of Education, M. A. B. Degenhardt Jan 1986

Problems In Teaching Philosophy Of Education, M. A. B. Degenhardt

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Those of us who teach philosophy of education can hardly be happy with the present state of our subject. On many counts now the energetic optimism of a decade or two ago just seems misplaced. Of course there have been considerable achievements, but much is wrong and badly wrong. The abundance, diversity and quality of literature that marks a healthy discipline is not yet in evidence, educational leaders and top decision makers take little heed of philosophical counsel, eminent educational philosophers are questioning the place of theoretical disciplines in teacher education, declining members of philosophy of education societies seem to …

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Preservice Classroom Experiences : The Cooperating Teacher's Role, Chester H. Laine, Sadar A. Tanveer Jan 1986

Preservice Classroom Experiences : The Cooperating Teacher's Role, Chester H. Laine, Sadar A. Tanveer

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There was a time when we used to have student teaching as the only classroom experience for an individual who wanted to be a teacher. Such experiences were generally arranged during the last quarter or semester of the person's college: education In these situations, it was a matter of completing it whether one liked it or not. Following this pattern of teacher training we turned out many teachers for whom teaching may not have been a number one priority. Currently, practical school experiences are provided starting in the freshman year. State of Ohio 1980 guidelines require that preservice teachers complete …

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Watson, Ian, (1985), Double Depression, Allen And Unwin, Sydney, Michael Harvey Jan 1986

Watson, Ian, (1985), Double Depression, Allen And Unwin, Sydney, Michael Harvey

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Sub-titled "Schooling, Unemployment and Family Life in the Eighties", this is an empirical study of how adolescents attempt to manage their personal career as they confront structured youth unemployment in Australia.

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Jaques, David, Learning In Groups, Croom Helm, E. B. C. Thornton Jan 1986

Jaques, David, Learning In Groups, Croom Helm, E. B. C. Thornton

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In the characteristic "open" situation of much British higher (tertiary) education the limitations of lectures are well appreciated and alternative modes of teaching Widely used. This book, by a Senior Lecturer in Communication Skills at the Hatfield Polytechnic is about one major alternative.

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Exhibition Of The Mathematical 'Reversal Error' By Final-Year Secondary-Teacher Trainees, Martin Cooper Jan 1986

Exhibition Of The Mathematical 'Reversal Error' By Final-Year Secondary-Teacher Trainees, Martin Cooper

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

A mathematical error which involves the reversal of natural referents for symbols is displayed to a substantial degree by high school teachers and university staff among others. It has been shown, moreover, that the phenomenon is difficult to correct by teaching methods. In the present study, a sample of final-year pre-service Education students destined for secondary-school teaching was asked to write a short verbal statement giving the same information as a simple algebraic equation and to construct an equation corresponding to a simple statement printed in plain language. A substantial proportion of students displayed reversal in both equation-interpretation and equation-formation …

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Foundation Studies And Multicultural Education: Implications For Tertiary Institutions, Rosa Madigan, John Madigan Jan 1986

Foundation Studies And Multicultural Education: Implications For Tertiary Institutions, Rosa Madigan, John Madigan

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

A review of the literature shows that most educators agree with two principles underlying most points of view with regard to multicultural education. These are: The right of children to identify with a particular culture within the broader context of Australian society, The need to educate all children not only towards a degree of tolerance and understanding of other cultures, but also to appreciate that it can be profitable to accommodate some of the points of view of other cultures.

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Amalgamation From The Perspective Of College Council: The Case Of The Western Australian College Of Advanced Education, Paige Porter Jan 1986

Amalgamation From The Perspective Of College Council: The Case Of The Western Australian College Of Advanced Education, Paige Porter

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

When considering institutional amalgamations in tertiary education one is reminded of a typical subtitle in introductory anthropology texts: "Man The Problem Solver" (apologies to feminists). What the section usually goes on to discuss is how humans (supposedly unlike "lower" forms of life) use their intelligence to solve, in the first instance, the "problems" of nature, and at later stages the problems that result from human solutions to the problems of nature. Politically imposed tertiary amalgamation policy resembles nothing if not the creation of solutions guaranteed to create problems, the solution of which will create further problems and so on. There …

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Theory Into Practice In A Sociology Of Education Course, David Battersby, Peter D. K. Ramsay Jan 1986

Theory Into Practice In A Sociology Of Education Course, David Battersby, Peter D. K. Ramsay

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

A prime criticism of teacher education is that it fails to prepare students for what lies ahead - namely, their life as a teacher. Indeed, Fuller and Brown (1975) go so far as to comment that teacher training may be orthogonal to the teacher. The major reason for this, it seems, is that college programmes and university courses do not appear to be relevant to student needs. This situation, according to many, is partly the fault of lecturers who may be out of touch with the reality of school life, and what it means to be a teacher in the …

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What Happened To The National Review Of Teacher Education?, Lawrence Ingvarson Jan 1986

What Happened To The National Review Of Teacher Education?, Lawrence Ingvarson

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Inquiries and reviews of teacher education have occurred with remarkable regularity in Australia over recent years. What is also remarkable about these often major and expensive enterprises is how regularly their recommendations have been deflected or ignored.

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Case Study Experience Of A Collaborative And Responsible Form Of Professional Development For Teachers, John Smyth, Colin Henry Jan 1985

Case Study Experience Of A Collaborative And Responsible Form Of Professional Development For Teachers, John Smyth, Colin Henry

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The argument in this paper is that teachers' interpretations and theories about what works in classrooms, can and should constitute the basis of change. Teachers have the capacity to engage in practical reflection through collaboration that enriches their sense of what is feasible and possible as well as transforming their understanding of those realities. Critical reflection, however, requires various forms of assistance, and in this case it occurred through the provision of a paradigm, the Cogan (1973)/Goldhammer (1969) notion of clinical supervision.

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The Rhetoric And Reality Of Teacher Education: Towards A Praxis Model, John Smith Jan 1985

The Rhetoric And Reality Of Teacher Education: Towards A Praxis Model, John Smith

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The preparation of teachers has unfortunately been characterised by a distinction between the theory and practice of educating. Historical antecedents such as the justifiable move away from teacher training approaches have resulted in a de-emphasis of practice. The preparation of teachers has become an academic study at the expense of teaching experience. Current models of teacher preparation are, as a result, discipline oriented rather than practice-referenced. It is argued in this paper that there are some difficulties in operationalising such models; in fact, it is argued that the rhetoric sustaining such models is not at all a portrayal of the …

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Lecturer Attitudes Towards Teacher Trainees In A New South Wales College - 1955 And 1985, W. O. Newman, M. D. Mackie Jan 1985

Lecturer Attitudes Towards Teacher Trainees In A New South Wales College - 1955 And 1985, W. O. Newman, M. D. Mackie

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All who have worked in teacher education institutions for any length of time will know that significant changes have occurred in the way in which lecturers relate to their students and the sorts of behaviour which they expect from them. One hears lecturers speak of "the good old days", especially when irritated by some particularly liberal student behaviour or some seemingly cavalier student attitude, but it would be unusual to find someone who genuinely believes that the "old days" were better than the "new" . It occurred to us that it would be an interesting exercise to look at some …

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Management, Organisations And Effectiveness: A Literature Review Of This Area With An Emphasis On Schools And Educational Institutions, Michael W. Small Jan 1985

Management, Organisations And Effectiveness: A Literature Review Of This Area With An Emphasis On Schools And Educational Institutions, Michael W. Small

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Identifying and measuring the concept of effectiveness in an organisational setting has been a major concern for many years. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the more recent research literature on the topic of organisational effectiveness, and to present some of the current ways that have been tried in an endeavour to measure this idea. Many researchers have tried to define what "organisational effectiveness" means, but while they have stated that they know "effectiveness" when they see it, they cannot really provide an adequate definition of the term. One of the difficulties, according to Cameron and …

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An Exploratory, Cross-Cultural Study Of Sociopsychological Variables (Opi) Comparing Selective American, Canadian, Hawaiian And Philippine College Students In Education Faculties, David Whittaker Jan 1985

An Exploratory, Cross-Cultural Study Of Sociopsychological Variables (Opi) Comparing Selective American, Canadian, Hawaiian And Philippine College Students In Education Faculties, David Whittaker

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To the psychologist interested in cross-cultural studies and higher education in general, and college students more specifically, attitudes and belief systems can be seen as being fundamental in order to appreciate and understand any person, subculture or society. "Attitudes" denote the way in which people "feel" about aspects of the world in which they live, and "beliefs" the way they "think" about them. These terms are. of course, hypothetical constructs - as is "personality" under which they are subsumed. How such variables are defined, the theoretical traditions on which they are based, and the conceptualisations of personality which is adopted …

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Organising And Integrating The First School Day / Joy Taylor, 1983, Unwin, London, Joy Jones Jan 1985

Organising And Integrating The First School Day / Joy Taylor, 1983, Unwin, London, Joy Jones

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This new edition presents an easy to read, logical, step by step description of how an integrated programme can be introduced to children, not only in the Infant School, but also in the Lower Primary. It has been written, not from experience alone, but many of the ideas are supported by reference to recently puhlished research.

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Research And Reconstruction In Teacher Education - Editorial Introduction, Tony Fielding Jan 1985

Research And Reconstruction In Teacher Education - Editorial Introduction, Tony Fielding

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In 1983 this Journal published a paper outlining a model of teacher development (Fielding, 1983). The model employed concepts drawn from personal Construct Psychology (Kelly, 1955). Kellyian concepts were chosen because it was thought they affirmed the model's basic assumption that human experience may be and frequently is both non-deterministic in character and non-functionalist in its outcomes for individuals.

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Teacher Knowledge Part 1: Unstopping The Dam, J. W. Mcqualter Jan 1985

Teacher Knowledge Part 1: Unstopping The Dam, J. W. Mcqualter

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Research on teachers and their teaching aims at understanding what it means to teach. Such research is conducted in a variety of ways. Major users of its findings are teacher educators. It is hoped that the research findings will provide a knowledge base for teacher education programmes often characterised as being more whimsical than rational. There are two basic views of the process of becoming a teacher: "master the model" or "model the master" (Stones, 1972). Both views stress institutional conformity, draw upon institutionalised knowledge and aim at developing technical skill rather than professional competency. The intention of this paper …

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Teacher Knowledge Part 2: Personal Construct Theory As The Basis Of A Methodology To Study Teaching, J. W. Mcqualter Jan 1985

Teacher Knowledge Part 2: Personal Construct Theory As The Basis Of A Methodology To Study Teaching, J. W. Mcqualter

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In the previous paper, Teacher Knowledge Part 1; Unstopping the Dam, the suggestion was made that a methodology based on Personal Construct Theory (PCT) could be used to explore and develop a new model of teacher professional development prepared by Fielding (1983). Two questions were asked. What is this methodology? How can it be used to explore and develop Fielding's model? The second question was dealt with in the earlier paper. The first is the subject of this paper. The intention here is threefold; firstly, to describe the theory of personal constructs, originated by Kelly (1955) and elaborated by Fransella …

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The Ideology Of Pedogogy: The Right And The Left Of It!, Colin Symes Jan 1985

The Ideology Of Pedogogy: The Right And The Left Of It!, Colin Symes

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

"No doubt real education could only flourish only after the Revolution, when its importance would be generally recognised and when educators would be honoured and respected by the community, but something could be honourably achieved even now. He must try to do his job as effectively as the existing educational conditions and his own limitations allowed. Though he would not without inviting the sack introduce revolutionary politics directly into his teaching, he could aim at propagating humane ideas and getting his pupils to think".

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Professionalism And Professional Status: Contrasting Aspects Of The Teacher Role, Ken Shaw Jan 1985

Professionalism And Professional Status: Contrasting Aspects Of The Teacher Role, Ken Shaw

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

When teachers talk about themselves as professionals two related, but at bottom different, ideas are involved, The first is that of a skilled performance, a practical competence within a sector of activity, underpinned by theory, but essentially the outcome of study, formation, and a lengthy period of immersion in a "technik" : classroom teaching and all that goes with it, including all relevant aspects of belonging as a full practicing member to a school or college, The second idea is that of professional status, This is an aspiration or a claim, to some extent realised, to enjoy certain privileges, social …

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The Move Towards The Accreditation Of Teacher Education Courses In England And Wales, David R. Mcnamara Jan 1985

The Move Towards The Accreditation Of Teacher Education Courses In England And Wales, David R. Mcnamara

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In recent years there has been a significant change in the nature of Government (as mediated by the Department of Education and Science - DES) involvement in initial teacher training 1-c9- in England and Wales. Traditionally government has rightly concerned itself with the "manpower problem" of ensuring that the numbers of teachers in training relates to the demands for new teachers by employing authorities and with the "institutional problem" of determining the types of institutions which exist to provide teacher training, how they are organised within the higher education system, and how they are financed. The content of teacher training …

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