This paper reports on research into how schools, parents and local communities work together to support students' learning during the transition from primary to secondary schools in what is referred to as the middle years ...

This work presents a secure interaction framework for establishing ad-hoc billing paths between untrusted players in a global telecommunications network. User authentication is supported through the introduction of ...

The notion of critical friendship is central to self-study. A critical friend acts as a sounding board, asks challenging questions, supports reframing of events, and joins in the professional learning experience. In this ...

Academic development has had an approximately forty-year history within Australian higher education, paralleling the major expansions and changes in the sector, both nationally and internationally. Its principal concerns ...

Since the early 1990s in Australia, adult literacy and numeracy courses in vocational education and training (VET) have been focused on human capital outcomes, that is, on developing the literacy and numeracy skills believed ...

Debates about changing notions of schooling can no longer be satisfied by simplistic and hackneyed explanations of traditional and progressive education. This article traces an evolution in broad approaches to ...

The improvement of literacy standards is an important goal for educators. This paper focuses on how activities and strategies from the Creative Arts can enhance the learning of literacy, particularly for young learners ...

This paper discusses student and teacher perceptions of a new development in the use of the predict observe- explain (POE) strategy. This development involves the incorporation of POE tasks into a multimedia computer ...