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Henderson, Michael – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of community of practice in sustaining teachers' participation in a blended (face-to-face and online) professional development course. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal multiple-case study methodology was used in researching groups of five teachers in Australia and four teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Belme, Jillian; Gray, Anne – 1980
A language evaluation instrument was devised to assess the accuracy of program implementation by teachers of four Australian preschool programs. The Teacher Language Instrument (TLI) categorizes each verbal episode of a teaching interchange for both mode and function. Five general mode categories of teacher language behavior--statements,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
O'Brien, Jennifer – 1994
A study examined from a feminist poststructuralist perspective the discourses available in a classroom using a critical pedagogy, based on a belief that teaches need to make it possible for their students to question the social world constructed in texts. The teacher of an Australian junior primary classroom (with students age five to eight) took…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis