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Jones, Pauline; Chen, Honglin – Research Papers in Education, 2016
The inclusion of the Knowledge about Language strand in the recently introduced Australian Curriculum: English (AC:E) is both promising and challenging. For the first time, students across primary and secondary years of schooling are expected to develop "a coherent, dynamic, and evolving body of knowledge about the English language and how it…
Descriptors: Role, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, Grammar
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Harbon, Lesley; Browett, Julie – Babel, 2006
Intercultural education is a familiar concept to many involved with education, as it underpins the school curriculum in an increasing number of countries in the world. Distinctly separate to intercultural education is intercultural language learning (IcLL), a specific set of principles currently at the fore of what is occurring with languages…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Language Role, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
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Jansen, Louise; Stracke, Elke – Babel, 2005
In collaboration with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Department of Education and Training, the Australian National University has been offering a professional development program for language teachers (called LIFT, or Language Inservice for Teachers) for more than ten years. As the program is specially tailored to meet teachers' current…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Inservice Education, Workshops, German
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Roberts, Kim – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1978
Describes the in-service training project for Australian aboriginal paralegal field officers of the Aboriginal Legal Service, organized by the Law School and Extension Service of the University of Western Australia. The project team acted as facilitators for the field officers, a participative training program design being found to be important.…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Criminal Law, Ethnic Groups, Extension Education
Duignan, P. A.; Macpherson, R. J. S. – 1986
This paper reports on the objectives and specifications of an "educative leadership" project that aims to synthesize experience, research, and theory and to develop complementary inservice and postgraduate learning materials. Researchers and theorists are now addressing the lack of philosophical machinery in educational administration.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries
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Matthews, Robin J. – Journal of Staff Development, 1993
Data obtained from the Change Facilitators Stages of Concern Questionnaire were used in the Philippines to select content in a one-month staff development program for department heads. The training program was strongly influenced by participants' concerns. The article describes the change facilitator stages of concern. (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Department Heads, Educational Change, Educational Improvement