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Menzie-Ballantyne, Karena; Ham, Miriam – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In June 2020, an Australian Curriculum (AC) review was announced, particularly regarding content crowding in primary years, flexibility and deep understanding of core concepts. The language of the announcement highlighted again the 'competing-priorities' discourse that suggests a disjuncture between focusing on fundamental knowledge and skills of…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainable Development, National Curriculum, Environmental Education
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Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Sella, Francesco – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Immordino-Yang and Gotlieb provide an elegant and helpful framework that integrates neuroscientific and education research on social affective development in their article, "Embodied Brains, Social Minds, Cultural Meaning: Integrating Neuroscientific and Educational Research on Social-Affective Development." Based on previous research,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Neurosciences, Cognitive Development, Social Development
Bennison, Anne – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
The context in which mathematics is used is an important aspect of numeracy. Therefore, students' numeracy capabilities need to be developed in subjects across the curriculum. The case study of a secondary school history teacher is presented to demonstrate how a framework for identity as an embedder-of-numeracy can be used to identify ways that…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Curriculum Enrichment, Case Studies, Secondary School Teachers
Korbel, Patrick – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
The concept of "STEM" (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) has influenced many education and workforce strategies and policies with the intention of improving innovation, productivity and international competitiveness. Generally, the focus has been on how the school and university sectors can help equip the workforce with…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Goos, Merrilyn; Geiger, Vince; Dole, Shelley – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
The "National Numeracy Review" recognised that numeracy development requires an across the curriculum commitment. To explore the nature of this commitment we conducted a numeracy audit of the South Australian Middle Years curriculum, using a numeracy model that incorporates mathematical knowledge, dispositions, tools, contexts, and a…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Curriculum
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Lawrence, Jill; Loch, Birgit; Galligan, Linda – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
This paper documents the relationships between pedagogy and e-assessment in two nursing courses offered at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. The courses are designed to build the academic, numeracy and technological attributes student nurses need if they are to succeed at the university and in the nursing profession. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing, Nursing Students, Nursing Education