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Andrews, Robert – Exceptional Child, 1978
The article describes the activities of the Schonell Educational Research Center (Queensland, Australia), designed as a clinical, teaching, and research unit in the field of special education. (SBH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handicapped Children, Program Descriptions, Research and Development Centers
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Direct linkMcSwan, David – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1994
Discusses the history, structure, activities, and goals of the Rural Education Research and Development Centre (RERDC), an academic unit of James Cook University (North Queensland, Australia). Since the 1980s, RERDC has conducted educational research, provided training for rural teachers and other rural professionals, and held conferences…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textMcSwan, David Ian – 1992
This report describes the activities of the Rural Education Research and Development Centre at James Cook University (Queensland, Australia). The center is responsible for implementing research into rural education, training teachers to work in rural areas, and implementing projects related to rural education. The center is an academic unit…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Vincent, Jill – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2004
In 2001, with funding of $7 million, the Australian Government implemented the "Numeracy Research and Development Initiative"--one of several initiatives introduced by the Australian Government to support literacy and numeracy improvement. Other initiatives included the "National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Research and Development, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
TAFE National Centre for Research and Development, Payneham (Australia). – 1989
The conference recorded in this document covered a wide variety of themes and consisted of keynote addresses, research presentations, and workshops. The following keynote addresses are include: "Some Recent TAFE National Centre Research and Development in Australian Vocational Education" (Hall); "Vocational Teacher Education:…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Disabilities, Distance Education, Engineering Education
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1986
This document comprises volume I of the national reports on the elementary/primary school curriculum in Asia and the Pacific sponsored by the National Institute for Educational Research (NIER) in Tokyo, Japan. Each nation's report is organized under the following topics: (1) general information on the geography and population, educational system,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
TAFE National Centre for Research and Development, Payneham (Australia). – 1989
The conference recorded in this document covered a wide variety of themes and consisted of keynote addresses, research presentations, and workshops. The following workshop presentations are included: "Vocational Education in a Developing Country" (Theron); "From the Technical to the Critical: A New Agenda for Vocational Education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Educators, Critical Thinking, Developing Nations
Hall, William C., Ed. – 1987
This digest summarizes the contents of the more than 50 separate items that were published by the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) National Centre for Research and Development in 1986-87. These items include major research reports, video programs, newsletters, clearinghouse reports and textbooks. The first section provides an overview of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Clearinghouses
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria. – 2001
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies
