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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 culture of learning in the informal museum setting? 
    Aubusson Peter; Steele Frances; Watson Kevin; Griffin Janette (University of Canberra, 2002)
    An interactive science exhibition was used as the basis for a study of young children's behaviour and learning in an informal setting. Young primary school children were observed during school excursions to the exhibition, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Distributed leadership as a factor in and outcome of teacher action learning 
    Dinham Steve; Aubusson Peter; Brady Laurence (University of Calgary, 2008)
    This paper reports an evaluation of Quality Teaching Action Learning (QTAL) projects conducted at New South Wales (NSW), Australia public (state) primary and secondary schools and explores how distributed leadership ...
  • 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 ...
  • Enhancing teacher education practice through professional learning conversations 
    Schuck Sandra; Aubusson Peter; Buchanan John (Routledge, 2008)
    The paper discusses the value of peer observation followed by professional learning conversations for the professional development of teacher educators. The authors analyse their shared learning experiences and articulate ...
  • 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 ...
  • Mobile learning for teacher professional learning: benefits, obstacles and issues 
    Aubusson Peter; Schuck Sandra; Burden Kevin (Routledge, 2009)
    This paper reflects on the role of mobile learning in teachers professional learning. It argues that effective professional learning requires reflection and collaboration and that mobile learning is ideally suited to allow ...
  • Packaging constructivism in a curriculum resource 
    Aubusson Peter; Watson Kevin (Hong Kong Institute of Education, 2003)
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Retraining teachers to teach science: is it a good idea? 
    Watson Kevin; Vozzo Les; Aubusson Peter; Steele Frances (Australian Science Teachers Association, 2004)
  • 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 ...