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Clare Thorpe; Tanya Honey; Erica Wilson – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Reading lists have been described as a stalwart of the academic environment. This article explores the role of reading lists as a pedagogical tool and describes how reading lists contribute to an immersive block teaching model at an Australian university. Little has been written about the application of reading lists in block teaching models. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Lists, Higher Education, Block Scheduling
Callingham, Rosemary; Watson, Jane; Oates, Greg – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
Mathematics curricula have traditionally focused on content knowledge, often in the form of a scope and sequence of increasingly difficult mathematics. The importance of using and applying mathematics is recognised in the current Australian Curriculum Mathematics (AC: M) as 'proficiencies' that are intended to be integrated with the content. There…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, National Curriculum, Statistics
Goldfinch, Thomas; Prpic, Juliana Kaya; Jolly, Lesley; Leigh, Elyssebeth; Kennedy, Jade – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
In Australia, representation of Aboriginal populations within the engineering profession is very low despite participation targets set by Government departments, professional bodies and Universities. Progressing the Aboriginal inclusion agenda within Australian Engineering Education requires a clearer understanding of engineering educators'…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Indigenous Populations
Watagodakumbura, Chandana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
With the emergence of a wealth of research-based information in the field of educational neuroscience, educators are now able to make more evidence-based decisions in the important area of curriculum design and construction. By viewing from the perspective of educational neuroscience, we can give a more meaningful and lasting purpose of leading to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Neurosciences
Kivunja, Charles – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Efficacy of a teaching strategy technically refers to the ability of that strategy to produce a desired or intended learning outcomes. To date, there is little information on the efficacy of social media technologies in academia and it is likely to be some time before their effectiveness is proven. It is therefore legitimate to ask the question,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Universities
Owens, Kay; Paraides, Patricia; Nutti, Ylva Jannok; Johansson, Gunilla; Bennet, Maria; Doolan, Pat; Peckham, Ray; Hill, John; Doolan, Frank; O'Sullivan, Dominic; Murray, Libbey; Logan, Patricia; McNair, Melissa; Sunnari, Vappu; Murray, Beatrice; Miller, Alissa; Nolan, John; Simpson, Alca; Ohrin, Christine; Doolan, Terry; Doolan, Michelle; Taylor, Paul – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2011
As a result of a number of government reports, there have been numerous systemic changes in Indigenous education in Australia revolving around the importance of partnerships with the community. A forum with our local Dubbo community established the importance of working together and developed a model which placed the child in an ecological…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Priest, Annie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on the quality and accessibility of underpinning knowledge in competency-based training. It uses the Vocational Graduate Certificate and the Vocational Graduate Diploma in Education Design in a Queensland TAFE [technical and further education] institute to examine how the "traditional"…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Competence, Training, Foreign Countries

Collis, K. F.; Jones, B. L.; Sprod, T.; Watson, J. M.; Fraser, S. P. – International Journal of Science Education, 1998
Explains that, in relation to the concept of vision, the cognitive structural model accounts for the normal developmental sequence. Indicates some possible sequences that might help to explain the alternative framework phenomenon. Contains 20 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)

Cosgrove, Mark; Schaverien, Lynette – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 1994
Presents examples that recognize young children's technological prowess and support the case for including two significant curriculum perspectives: an intellectual-processes perspective and a social-expression perspective. Contains 34 references. (Author/PVD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems

Parsons, Michael J. – Australian Art Education, 1994
Discusses three types of distance in art education that should be bridged: (1) between studio art and art criticism/history; (2) between thinking in images and thinking in words; and (3) between art and culture in cognition. Recommends a curriculum to integrate studio work with criticism and teach art along with culture. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History, Cognitive Processes
Vialle, Wilma, Ed.; Geake, John, Ed. – 2002
Twenty-one research articles originally published in the "Australasian Journal of Gifted Education" over the past decade are collected in this book and address aspects of gifted education including pedagogy and curriculum, policy and practice, social and emotional needs, school and family, neuropsychology and cognition, and special…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Methods, Educational Policy
Norton, Marian, Ed. – 1988
This document contains 43 papers on many aspects of adult literacy: "Literacy, Human Rights and Equality of Opportunity" (Einfeld); "Overcoming Illiteracy" (Marquet); "The Literacy Issue" (Crocker); "Literacy and Civil Liberties" (O'Gorman); "Designing a Tutor Training Program for Tutors of ESL"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education
Watson, Jane, Ed.; Beswick, Kim, Ed. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2007
This is a record of the proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). The theme of the conference is "Mathematics: Essential research, essential practice." The theme draws attention to the importance of developing and maintaining links between research and practice and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Concept Mapping, Student Teachers