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Seah, Lay Hoon; Clarke, David; Hart, Christina – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study examines how a class of Grade 7 students employed linguistic resources to explain density differences. Drawing from the same data-set as a previous study by, we take a language perspective to investigate the challenges students face in learning the concept of density. Our study thus complements previous research on learning about…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Scientific Concepts, Language Usage
Tambyah, Mallihai M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Recent curriculum reform in history in Australia promotes "historical understanding" through discipline-based teaching practice. However, many middle school teachers are new to the scope of historical knowledge and skills required. This paper reports on a case study of five Queensland teachers in one secondary school who undertook a…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Evans-Whipp, Tracy; Mundy, Lisa; Canterford, Louise; Patton, George – Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2017
There is a growing consensus amongst policy makers, education professionals, researchers, and the public that a modern education system should develop a 'whole child' providing a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional skills to face the challenges of an increasingly uncertain and volatile world. Social and emotional development are…
Descriptors: Well Being, Social Development, Emotional Development, Middle School Students
Teaching Science, 2015
EngQuest, an initiative of Engineers Australia, provides an exciting, non-competitive way for students to participate in free, fun and educational engineering activities involving mathematics, science and technology. This article provides a sample of one of the middle school activities in the program. The history of water wheels, and their use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Science Activities, STEM Education
Rudolph, Sophie; Wright, Susan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article examines the role that drawing can play in enabling children and young people to theorize concepts of time. In two, independent Australian research projects, children aged between 5 and 8 years were asked to respond to the question, "What might the future be like?", while 12-14 year olds were asked, "What does history…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Time, Children, Early Adolescents
Mills, Kathy A.; Davis-Warra, John; Sewell, Marlene; Anderson, Mikayla – Language and Education, 2016
This research describes some of the salient features of Indigenous ways of working with multimodal literacies in digital contexts of use that emerged within an Indigenous school community with the oversight of Aboriginal Elders. This is significant because the use of multimodal literacy practices among a growing number of Indigenous school…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Participatory Research
Exley, Beryl – English in Australia, 2015
I come to this article as an experienced primary and middle years teacher and midcareer university-based academic with a vested interest in researching the message systems of the disciplinary field of subject English. My sociocultural perspective challenges those who view English teaching predominantly as a cognitive act of learning to read or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Bussey, Kay; Fitzpatrick, Sally; Raman, Amrutha – Journal of School Violence, 2015
This study examines the association between moral disengagement and cyberbullying using a measure of moral disengagement tailored to cyberbullying. It also examines adolescents' self-beliefs in their competence to engage in cyberbullying (cyberbullying self-efficacy beliefs) and how these beliefs may moderate the relation between moral…
Descriptors: Role, Moral Values, Bullying, Internet
Seah, Lay Hoon; Clarke, David John; Hart, Christina Eugene – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This case study of a science lesson, on the topic thermal expansion, examines the language demands on students from an integrated science and language perspective. The data were generated during a sequence of 9 lessons on the topic of "States of Matter" in a Grade 7 classroom (12-13 years old students). We identify the language demands…
Descriptors: Science Education, Case Studies, Scientific Literacy, Middle Schools
Shanks, Brenda; Dowden, Tony – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
The middle years of schooling (Years 5-9) has emerged as a significant field of educational research in the last two decades but investigation of specialised approaches to middle level teacher education has received little attention. The rationale for specialised programs or units is that middle level teachers require specific preparation to be…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Doctoral Programs
Lowrie, Tom; Jorgensen, Robyn; Logan, Tracy – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
A survey ("n" = 410) revealed statistically significant gender differences between middle school students' preference for playing particular types of games. Subsequent instrumental case studies theorised the "within-game" and "out-of-game" experiences of two middle school students as they played a digital hand-held…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Gender Differences, Preferences
F, J.; Pullen, Darren; Swabey, Karen – Australian Educational Computing, 2014
During adolescence (e.g. ages 13-15) communication and connectedness with peers is an essential part of adolescents' self-formation; mobiles phones are a conduit that maintains both communication and connectedness among adolescents whereby social interactions and connectedness are not limited by place, context or time. To study mobile phone usage…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Social Environment, Adolescents, Peer Relationship
Sullivan, Peter; Clarke, Doug; Cheeseman, Jill; Mornane, Angela; Roche, Anne; Sawatzki, Carly; Walker, Nadia – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
As part of a project exploring various aspects of teachers' choice and use of challenging mathematics tasks, we sought some responses from students on their preferences for the difficulty of tasks on which they might work and also on the ways of working. Despite the common finding that teachers are reluctant to pose challenges to their students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Mathematics Activities, Difficulty Level
King, Donna; Ritchie, Stephen; Sandhu, Maryam; Henderson, Senka – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Science activities that evoke positive emotional responses make a difference to students' emotional experience of science. In this study, we explored 8th Grade students' discrete emotions expressed during science activities in a unit on Energy. Multiple data sources including classroom videos, interviews and emotion diaries completed at the end of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Activities, Emotional Response, Grade 8
Igoe, Damien; Parisi, Alfio; Carter, Brad – Teaching Science, 2013
Smartphones are used widely by the general public and students. They are one of the most popular and easily accessible technologies. These devices were originally designed as a means of communication. However, they have evolved into a mobile computing platform with built in sensors and the ability to access a vast number of applications. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Telecommunications, Educational Technology