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Toomey, Ron; Chapman, Judith; Gaff, Janet; McGilp, Jacqueline; Walsh, Maureen; Warren, Elizabeth; Williams, Irene – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
This paper reports the findings of a project--'Lifelong learning and teacher education'-- undertaken by the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Australian Catholic University, under the auspices of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training. The study was designed to investigate the operationalization of lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Collaboration
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Burnip, Lindsay – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Course delivery mediated by information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly seen as a desirable and cost effective means of providing study opportunities to large numbers of teachers. However, it is unclear to what extent teachers have access to the ICT infrastructure that is required for participation in such study. This paper…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Teacher Characteristics, Information Technology, Educational Technology
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Morgan, Philip; Bourke, Sid – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Over the past 20 years, a number of researchers have expressed concern over the lack of confidence and qualifications of primary school teachers to teach PE. Evidently, the influence of personal school PE experiences may play an important role in the development of teachers' confidence to appropriately teach PE. Most research that has…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Causal Models, Values Clarification
Barratt-Pugh, Llandis; Soutar, Geoffrey N. – 2002
The Frontline Management Initiative (FMI) provides a framework for competency-based development of frontline managers in Australian enterprises. The FMI's impact on businesses was examined in a national study that included the following activities: focus groups; a national survey of management development and targeted national survey of FMI users;…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adoption (Ideas), Case Studies, Competence
Crowther, Frank – 1991
This document reports on a project to identify and analyze the desire for professional collegiality and concerns about increasing alienation among members of the Queensland Institute for Educational Administration (QIEA). From a 3-phase workshop involving over 500 participants, 7 major issues were identified: (1) complexity of teaching and…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher 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
Logan, Lloyd; Sachs, Judyth – 1988
Drawing on evidence from literature on professional development of teachers in Australia, this document discusses the essential aspects of inservice education and provides a checklist, with illustrative applications, by which to design and evaluate inservice education proposals. The checklist is based on four sets of assumptions relating to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Check Lists, Educational Philosophy, Educational Planning
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Brownlee, Joanne; Berthelsen, Donna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2006
Over the last decade, research related to personal epistemological beliefs has offered insight into how to promote effective teaching and learning across educational settings. Personal epistemological beliefs reflect an individual's views about what knowledge is, how knowledge is gained, and the degree of certainty with which knowledge can be…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Epistemology, Early Childhood Education
Loughran, John; Derry, Nick – 1995
This study was designed to explore students perceptions of how a change in pedagogy influenced learning. The study was undertaken as part of a professional development residency in which a teacher educator worked with the staff of a high school science faculty in an on-site professional development program focusing on classroom teaching and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Baird, John R.; Hagglund, Sven-Olof – 1994
The Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL) is a well-established Australian example of teacher collaborative action research. The aim of the project, which began in a secondary school in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) and later spread to other countries, is to improve the quality of students' classroom learning through practice in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Discussion Groups, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
Smyth, W. John; Henry, Colin – 1983
Teachers can engage in practical reflection through collaboration that enriches their sense of what is feasible and possible, and they can transform their understanding of those realities. Critical reflection, however, requires various forms of assistance. The use of "clinical supervision" over 6 months in 1982 with 14 teachers in 4…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship
Clyde, Margaret – 1989
A preliminary study assessed the efficacy of pre-service and in-service early childhood education programs centered on a policy of combining philosophy, theory, and program practice. Questions were designed to: (1) provide data to be used to determine whether early childhood teachers used an understanding of curriculum philosophy and theory as a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy
Imison, K., Ed.; And Others – 1986
These proceedings of a national Australian conference deal with many aspects of educating gifted and talented students and contain an opening address by I. Mathieson concerning the philosophy of the Queensland (Australia) State Education Department and a statement by James Gallagher, President of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Smyth, W. John – 1981
A review of the research indicates that the interface between the findings from research on teaching and staff development of teachers is an important but neglected one. An improvement in teaching skills calls for an interactive or collaborative mode of professional development which is based on classroom interests and the needs of teachers, with…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Change, Educational Research
Australian Tripartite Mission. – 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report by the South Australian Committee of Enquiry on education in that state. The committee based its estimates on the situation to be reached in 1981. Because there will be a much smaller increase in school enrollment in the decade of the 70's than in the preceding…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Educational Media
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