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Twigg, Danielle; Pendergast, Donna; Flückiger, Bev; Garvis, Susanne; Johnson, Greer; Robertson, Jan – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2013
Professional development in the form of coaching has the potential to support practitioners who are being inducted into new policy and curriculum initiatives. This paper examines the efficacy of a coaching program in its support of educators to align their practice with the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework for all Children…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Coaching (Performance), Preschool Teachers, Program Evaluation
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O'Neill, Marnie – Higher Education Studies, 2012
This case study of a Doctor of Education program in a transnational setting is contextualized in Australian national policies for international higher education and influences of regionalization and globalization. The doctorate was designed to meet aspirations of professional practitioners in Australia and South East Asia where the School had…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Doctoral Programs, Professional Education, Partnerships in Education
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Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Anderson, Karen; North, Sue – Australian Library Journal, 2013
Libraries across Australia are becoming increasingly involved in the development and implementation of family literacy programs, placing librarians at the centre of this initiative. "Better Beginnings" is a family literacy program developed by the State Library of Western Australian and delivered throughout the state. The program…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Programs, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians
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Broadbent, Robyn; Papadopoulos, Theo – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2009
In 2008, the Helen Macpherson Smith (HMS) Trust commissioned Victoria University to conduct an evaluation of the Mentoring and Capacity Building Initiative's Regional Coordination Projects (RCPs). The RCPs are founded on a model of community education and collaboration that aims to enhance cross-sectoral and whole-of-community approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Youth, Mentors
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Howard, Kimberly S.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Future of Children, 2009
Kimberly Howard and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examine home visiting, an increasingly popular method for delivering services for families, as a strategy for preventing child abuse and neglect. They focus on early interventions because infants are at greater risk for child abuse and neglect than are older children. In their article, Howard and Brooks-Gunn…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Styles, Home Visits, Child Rearing
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Denning, Rebecca; Homel, Ross – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
In 1999, the Queensland government trialled the Youth Justice Service which fundamentally changed the way supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration services were provided to young offenders on community based orders. The Youth Justice Service aims to monitor order compliance, address risk factors associated with the offending behaviour and…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Intervention, Risk, Adolescents
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Cummins, Robert A.; And Others – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1994
The appropriate delivery of service to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria (Australia) can be facilitated by General Service Plans (GSPs). This paper provides suggested content for such plans, a protocol for their evaluation, and an assessment of GSPs in Victoria constructed between 1987 and 1990. A large number of GSPs were found to…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Programs, Mental Retardation
Berniz, Katerin – International Education Journal, 2007
This article is a critical reflection on a study of the views of Spanish teachers in South Australian schools about their professional development (PD) needs and experiences. Officials responsible for designing Spanish specific PD were interviewed. Sixteen teachers were randomly selected from private, public, country and metropolitan middle…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Foreign Countries
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Corney, Tim; Broadbent, Robyn – Youth Studies Australia, 2007
The development of a national youth work training package in Australia began over 15 years ago. The current package sits under the umbrella of the general Community Services Industry Training Package. The first stage of a review of this package has been completed and the subsequent report not only confirms the recent trend towards the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Youth Programs
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Dean, Carlie; Myors, Karen; Evans, Elizabeth – Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 2003
Provides a description and evaluation of a community-wide implementation of a parenting program. Results indicate that it is possible to take a population health approach to parenting, successfully involve multiple services and professionals in the delivery of the program, and maintain the effectiveness of the parenting intervention in a…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Parenting Skills
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Ratnaike, Deepika; Parham, Jennie – Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 2002
Research seeks to determine key elements in sustainability of projects to reorient an aspect of their service to an early intervention approach in mental health. Findings confirm literature on capacity building which suggests several crucial predictors of success in changing the ways agencies run. These include the development of interagency…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Delivery Systems, Early Intervention
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Choy, Sarojni – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
In 2004 the Australian Flexible Learning Framework developed a suite of quantitative and qualitative indicators on the uptake, use and impact of e-learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. These indicators were used to design items for a survey to gather quantitative data for benchmarking. A series of four surveys gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Electronic Learning, Benchmarking
Crilley, Gary; Hogg, Josie – 1990
International sources suggest that Australian human service agencies must implement meaningful processes to meet increasing demands for accountability in service delivery. The development of adequate services for the disabled in Australia is influenced by the principles of normalization--the use of culturally valued means in order to enable,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Evaluation Criteria
Cocks, Errol – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1979
The paper describes the transition of service provision for 240 intellectually handicapped Australian children and their families from a relatively traditional service delivery system to one emphasizing home and family involvement and placement of services closer to home. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Exceptional Child Research, Family Involvement, Foreign Countries
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Burke, Clarrie; Lundin, Roy; Daunt, Carol – Distance Education, 1997
Describes a video conferencing project involving distance education Masters students in Australia and Hong Kong. Highlights purpose, dialogical approach, and nature of interaction, and presents the project evaluation findings. Concludes that the project demonstrated the feasibility, viability, and effectiveness of teleconferencing as a mode of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
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