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  • Action Learning: Contemporary Professional Development 
    Brady Laurence; Aubusson Peter; Dinham Steve (James Nicholas Publishers, 2008)
  • Action learning for school improvement 
    Brady Laurence; Aubusson Peter; Dinham Steve (James Nicholas Publishers, 2006)
    Action learning is traditionally related to teacher professional learning. This article examines the broader relationship between action learning and school improvement. It derives from an evaluation of the Australian ...
  • Action learning in teacher learning community formation: informative or transformative. 
    Steele Frances; Aubusson Peter; Brady Laurence; Dinham Steve (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2005)
    Professional learning communities among teachers and schools have been envisioned as a mechanism for development, knowledge building and implementation. However the formation of an effective learning community is more ...
  • An Australian Science Curriculum: Competition, Advances and Retreats 
    Aubusson Peter (ACER, 2011)
    Science schooling enjoys high status. Scientific capability is perceived as critical in underpinning economic success in advanced societies. Science achievement, at all levels, has become a global competition in which ...
  • The challenge in teaching biotechnology 
    Steele Frances; Aubusson Peter (American Real Estate Society, 2005)
    Agriculture, industry and medicine are being altered by new biotechnologies. Biotechnology education is important because today's students and citizens will make decisions about the development and application of these ...
  • Challenging changes in a secondary teacher education programme 
    Aubusson Peter (CPA Australia, 2002)
    Teacher education has become the subject of increasing scrutiny and general reviews often recommend change. This article reports the author’s perceptions of and reflection on an evolving secondary teacher education ...
  • Changing the subject: retraining teachers to teach science. 
    Steele Frances; Watson Kevin; Aubusson Peter; Vozzo Les (Springer, 2003)
    This paper reports the experiences of teachers involved in a novel retraining scheme designed to meet a short-term crisis in numbers of teachers of physics. Teachers trained in other subject areas underwent an intensive ...
  • A Design-Based Self-Study of the Development of Student Reflection in Teacher Education 
    Aubusson Peter; Griffin Janette; Steele Frances (Routledge, 2010)
    Reflection is critical to successful pre-service teacher learning, but it is hard to teach and difficult for students to conceptualize. This article reports a self-study, with others, where a practitioner and colleagues ...
  • An Ecology Of Science Education 
    Aubusson Peter (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2002)
    This article reports on a 15 month study of attempted innovation in school science. The teachers in an Australian secondary school were attempting to introduce a constructivist approach to their teaching of science. The ...
  • Educational scenarios for digital futures 
    Schuck Sandra; Aubusson Peter (Routledge, 2010)
    This article frames and theorises the nature of adolescents' informal experiences in Web 2.0 environments to articulate their fit or misfit with current conceptions of school education and educational practices. Adolescents ...
  • Mentoring retrained teachers: extending the web 
    Watson Kevin; Aubusson Peter; Steele Frances; Vozzo Les (eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2007)
    Novice teachers need support if they are to survive the reality of school. A web of relationships involving members of the school community, mentors outside the school community and a university tutor has been shown to ...
  • Retrained teachers and school culture: complex interactions 
    Watson Kevin; Aubusson Peter; Steele Frances (Routledge, 2004)
    This article reports the experiences of three retrained teachers as they made the transition to science teaching. The stories of their survival in a new school context were constructed from data obtained in an evaluation ...
  • Teachers as researchers: action learning for professional development 
    Brady Laurence; Aubusson Peter; Dinham Steve (James Nicholas Publishers, 2008)
  • A trial of the Five Es: A referent model for constructivist teaching and learning 
    Watson Kevin; Boddy N; Aubusson Peter (Springer, 2004)
    The science and technology education literature indicates that teaching within a constructivist paradigm is an effective way to promote student learning. Despite this, most primary school teachers do not use constructivist ...
  • Using a curriculum package combined with professional learning to promote good practice in teaching secondary science 
    Aubusson Peter; Watson Kevin (Pacific Circle Consortium, 2004)
    Curriculum packages have been developed that attempt to build in a view of teaching and learning to promote ‘good practice’ in teaching. Improving the quality of teaching is influenced by the ability of curriculum ...
  • Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective 
    Kearney Matthew; Schuck Sandra; Burden Kevin; Aubusson Peter (Routledge, 2012)
    Mobile learning is a relatively new phenomenon and the theoretical basis is currently under development. The paper presents a pedagogical perspective of mobile learning which highlights three central features of mobile ...
  • Web 2.0 in the classroom? Dilemmas and opportunities inherent in adolescent web 2.0 engagement. 
    Schuck Sandra; Aubusson Peter; Kearney Matthew (Association for the advancement of computing in education (AACE), 2010)
    The paper discusses the implications of the current phenomenon of adolescent engagement in digital spaces. Young people are increasingly active Web 2.0 users, and their interactions through these technologies are altering ...