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Clemitshaw, Gary – Ethics and Education, 2008
In this article I consider whether there is a process of repression occurring in definitions of citizenship and frameworks of citizenship education, which involves a forgetting of history. By focusing on recently troubled countries I identify how the force of history comes to play, and from that I consider how, in relatively stable liberal…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Ethics, History
Ladwig, James G. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter attempts to survey contemporary debates and research on outcomes of schooling that have been grouped together under the convenient label "nonacademic". This is not an affirmative labeling. As the nomenclature indicates, it is not a label that groups together things that share like properties. Rather, this is a label of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Environmental Education, Democracy, Civics
Wheelahan, Leesa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper argues that competency-based training in vocational education and training in Australia is one mechanism through which the working class is denied access to powerful knowledge represented by the academic disciplines. The paper presents a modified Bernsteinian analysis to argue that vocational education and training students need access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Vocational Education, Epistemology
Kennedy, Kerry J.; Hahn, Carole L.; Lee, Wing-on – Comparative Education Review, 2008
Young citizens growing up in different societies experience multiple socialization processes that help to shape their values and attitudes toward the political life of their societies. In this cross-national study, researchers asked students directly about their views of what "good" citizens do, how they saw themselves participating in…
Descriptors: Socialization, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Knox, Marie; Bigby, Christine – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2007
This study explores meanings of family care held by seven families that include a middle-aged adult with intellectually disability. In-depth interviews were conducted with members of each family--the person with intellectual disability, parents, siblings, and sibling spouses. Participants described care as simply getting on with their lives, as…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Midlife Transitions, Family Life, Family (Sociological Unit)
Davies, Bronwyn; Bansel, Peter – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s. Yet we have been hard pressed to say what neoliberalism is, where it comes from and how it…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Moral Values, Social Values, Social Influences
Bordia, Sarbari; Wales, Lynn; Gallois, Cindy; Pittam, Jeffery – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2008
Affective variables can help understand differences in student performance. This paper presents student expectations as an affective variable that has so far received little research attention. Students have expectations from educational providers, the fulfilment of which can create a positive learning environment leading to better performance.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Social Values

Cross, Darryl G.; Khan, Janet A. – Counseling and Values, 1983
Compared the moral and religious values of 56 psychiatrists, 173 psychologists, and 282 social workers. In general social workers saw themselves as more religious, but the professionals were appreciably less religious than the Australian population. Psychiatrists tended to be more aware of individual obligations and social standards. (JAC)
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Psychiatrists
Bullivant, B. M. – Education News, 1972
Taking account of cultural reality through differential curriculum development is proposed as one way to counter the effects of the age of indifference" in Australian and other societies. (DM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Middle Class Standards
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Taylor, Neville B. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1986
Investigated the usefulness and the methods for combining vocational interests and work aspect preferences. Results indicated the Vocational Preference Inventory has greater discriminatory ability than the Work Aspect Preference Scale. Implications for counselors are given. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary Education

Stevenson, John – Australian Journal of Education, 1995
Two frameworks--cognitive dispositions (derived from critical theory) and cognitive structures (derived from cognitive science)--for analysis of values are outlined and used to critique taxonomies of values developed for general, adult, and vocational education. A combined approach is then proposed and exemplified for vocational education. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Psychology, Foreign Countries, General Education
de Souza, Marian – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
This article explores the problem of discussing a spiritual dimension in education within the secular context of western society, and Australian society in particular. It explores the idea that spirituality is relational and proposes an approach to learning that nurtures and gives expression to spirituality in terms of the connectedness students…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Altruism, Religious Factors, Cultural Pluralism

Pingree, Suzanne; Hawkins, Robert – Journal of Communication, 1981
Presents a study of the effects, on Australian children, of viewing American television programs. Concludes that the cultivation of beliefs about the world, at least in cases of violence and crime, does occur even when the messages are imported from another country. (PD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Foreign Countries

Hawkins, Robert P.; Pingree, Suzanne – Communication Research--An International Quarterly, 1980
Elaborates on the cultivation hypothesis: that heavy television viewers incorporate biases present in television content into their own constructions of reality. Suggests that the integration of discrete television events into social reality beliefs requires cognitive skills not available to or unused by younger children. (JMF)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Audiences, Children

Kellog, Polly; Davidson, John – Practically Primary, 1999
Describes specific classroom exercises (adapted from a U.S. teaching model, Inequality in the United States) designed to heighten Australian students' awareness of the problems associated with the inequality of wealth. (NH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness, Democracy