After decades of experience, the computer education community has settled upon a relatively standard way of teaching procedural programming. With the growing use of object-oriented languages, the question is whether new ...

This conference paper examines the perceptions of a group of employees aged 45 or more about their experiences of age discrimination in the work place. Retaining older workers is one way in which a productive work force ...

In this article I review what kinds oj emotions might be Jelt lJy women who are teaching managers. I counterpoise arguments that women's bodies are over-determined as motherly or lacking in masculinity, and therefore lack ...

The most significant change in the Australian landscape of secondary schooling in the past three decades has been in the number (and therefore the diversity) of students continuing at school beyond the compulsory age. In ...

Solutions to the enduring problem of teacher retention increasingly focus on the need for quality induction programs for beginning teachers. One response of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training is ...

Group-based tasks or assignments, if well designed, can yield benefits for student employability and other important attribute developments. However there is a fundamental problem when all members of the group receive the ...

Australian unions have adopted new organizing methods to rebuild and develop their organizations. This represents a change in direction from the commitment to partnership and tripartite planning that characterized the ...

This paper outlines research that assessed the effectiveness of a curriculum package combined with a professional development program in promoting constructivist science teaching. Six high school science teachers from three ...