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Year 12 Students' And Higher Mathematics: Emerging Issues, Mohan Chinnappan, Stephen Dinham, Anthony J. Herrington, Dale Scott
Year 12 Students' And Higher Mathematics: Emerging Issues, Mohan Chinnappan, Stephen Dinham, Anthony J. Herrington, Dale Scott
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In order for young Australians to contribute to economic prosperity and remain competitive in a global market place, participation in higher and further education is essential. In this context, participation in mathematics, and in particular, higher mathematics, is an important prerequisite for young Australians to enable them to develop the range of skills that underpin a scientifically literate workforce. This is a report on a study in progress focusing on the fact that participation in mathematics study at higher levels to Year 12, and in universities in Australia, is in decline. We provide data on the specific nature of this …
Responsibilities, Rights And Respect Online: A Web-Based Tutorial For University Students, Lynne Wright, Robert J. Wright, Yvonne B. Kerr, Karl B. Mutimer
Responsibilities, Rights And Respect Online: A Web-Based Tutorial For University Students, Lynne Wright, Robert J. Wright, Yvonne B. Kerr, Karl B. Mutimer
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The Director EED, the Dean of Students and the interactive multimedia team from the Educational Media Laboratory (emlab) within the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong have joined together in a project to create an online tutorial to educate university students in Australia about harassment and discrimination, within the context of a university environment. The program draws from a range of student experiences in a variety of settings to raise awareness of their responsibilities and rights and the types of behaviour, which can be discriminatory or considered as harassment. It is proposed to make the program compulsory for …
Trans-National Education: The Politics Of Mobility, Migration And The Wellbeing Of International Students, Peter M. Kell, Gillian J. Vogl
Trans-National Education: The Politics Of Mobility, Migration And The Wellbeing Of International Students, Peter M. Kell, Gillian J. Vogl
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This paper explores some of the background issues regarding international students and seeks to identify the ways in which the experience of transnational education by international students in higher education is positioned within academic debates, policy debates, literature and theory. This paper argues about the need for new ways of exploring the phenomena of international education and that many of the theoretical frameworks used are inadequate to account for the complexities that characterise transnational higher education and what international students experienced.