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Pearse, Rebecca; Keane, Helen – Gender and Education, 2023
This article investigates the relationship between disciplinarity and feminist knowledge-making in Australia's humanities and social sciences. To identify the conditions of possibility for successful feminist knowledge projects, we interpret career trajectories of senior feminist and gender researchers within five disciplines: economics, history,…
Descriptors: Feminism, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries, Humanities
Rowan Nas – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Creativity is a task-specific construct that exhibits diverse characteristics depending on the context it operates in. Currently, there is little consensus on how creativity can be defined and taught within STEM education. In this study, mathematics teachers' beliefs about STEM creativity and their pedagogical approaches to teaching creativity…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Walsh, Joe; Walsh, Tom; Heazlewood, Ian Timothy; Climtein, Mike – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
More than 30 of the 43 universities in Australia offer an exercise science and/or sport science degree programs. In the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector, more than 160 Registered Training Organisations offer Australian Government approved fitness training courses. The paper is a self-reflective exercise based upon mentoring placement…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Physical Fitness, College Students
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Harrington, Ingrid – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Whole-School Professional Development (PD) days held regularly in schools are designed to promote and up-skill school staff on relevant areas of educational policy and practice. An aim of PD days is to empower participants with new knowledges and skills, and to confirm that current practices and interpretations of education policy and procedure…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Skill Development, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Arzi, Hanna J.; White, Richard T. – Science Education, 2008
This longitudinal study explored change in teachers' knowledge of subjects they teach from preservice training through 17 years of professional experience. It followed secondary school science teachers in Australia, through sequences of individual interviews in which change in content knowledge (mainly energy-related) was probed primarily via…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Ainley, John; Fraillon, Julian; Freeman, Chris – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2007
This report is based on the assessment of ICT (information and communication technology) literacy conducted in October 2005. It describes the development of a computer-based tool for assessing ICT literacy among school students and the application of that tool with a nationally representative sample of approximately 7,400 students from Years 6 and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Computer Software, Information Technology, Information Sources