Magenta Secondary School is located on the northern shore of Sydney with predominantly Anglo-European neighbourhoods in comparison to other Sydney regions. A small, but significant number of Aborigional students are enrolled ...

The education of young people who have previously been excluded from formal education is a field often associated with a high risk of failure ¿ failure for the learners, teachers and the program. In researching the teaching ...

"Making Knowledge Common" looks at how ordinary people in ordinary workplaces use literacy to make the global knowledge economy happen. It challenges established views of what "counts" as knowledge at work, of how ICT ...

Educational psychology has a tradition of considering learning and motivation in terms of the individual and individual functioning. Short-term intervention studies have been common and quantitative measurement of the ...

Aspects of the problem of teaching introductory undergraduate mathematics are considered in the context of both an increased participation rate in higher education as well as increasingly sophisticated computational ...

Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention. Less is known of ex-teachers' circumstances: salary, workload, working conditions, ojob prestigeo. For this study, telephone interviews were used to ask 21 ...

The low level of use of graphic calculators by mathematics teachers is a major concern of curriculum developers and teacher educators. While several reasons have been advanced to explain this situation, recent developments ...

Memory-work is a social constructionist and feminist research method that was developed in Germany by Frigga Haug and others explicitly to bridge the gap between theory and experience. It provides a way of exploring the ...

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 ...