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Palmer, Stuart; Hall, Wayne – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
Project-based learning (PBL) is a well-known methodology for engineering design education due to a number of benefits it is claimed to offer. This paper presents the initial offering of a first-year engineering PBL unit at Griffith University in Australia. An evaluation of student perceptions of the unit revealed that students generally enjoyed…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Investigations, Computer Assisted Instruction
Swabey, Karen; Penney, Dawn – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
This paper presents a critical analysis of the representation of physical education (PE) in the 1992 Senate inquiry into "Physical and Sport Education" in Australia. Analysis focuses specifically upon how and why a new professional discourse, fundamental motor skills (FMS), gained a privileged position in the inquiry, the inquiry report…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Turnbull, David; Parisi, Alfio; Downs, Nathan – Teaching Science, 2010
Australia has one of the highest rates of incidence and mortality due to skin cancer in the world. Exposure to the sun also has a beneficial side. The beneficial effects are relatively few, but they are essential to a person's well being. It is well known that exposure to small amounts of UV radiation are beneficial for the human body and…
Descriptors: Investigations, Well Being, Cancer, Radiation
Pierce, Robyn; Stacey, Kaye – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2011
In this paper we demonstrate that "lesson study" may be adapted from its primary use as a professional development strategy for use as a research strategy, especially to identify principles of good lesson design. We report on a project undertaken in two Australian secondary schools where lesson study research was used to investigate the…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Professional Development, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Gokalp, Muhammed Sait; Sharma, Manjula; Johnston, Ian; Sharma, Mia – Teaching Science, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate how WebQuests can be used in physics classes for teaching specific concepts. The study had three stages. The first stage was to develop a WebQuest on Newton's second law. The second stage involved developing a lesson plan to implement the WebQuest in class. In the final stage, the WebQuest was…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Investigations, Physics
O'Neill, Shirley; Geoghegan, Deborah – International Journal of English Studies, 2012
This paper reports on the results of a meta-analysis of first year pre-service teachers' investigations of two transcripts of teacher/student talk. The first is set in the home environment and the second in the classroom. Working with specific tools of analysis and knowledge of the role of talk in literate, cultural and social practices they…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Introductory Courses, Literacy Education, Interpersonal Communication
Perry, Bob; Gervasoni, Ann; Dockett, Sue – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
The "Let's Count" pilot early mathematics program was implemented in five early childhood educational contexts across Australia during 2011. The program used specifically formulated materials and workshops to enlist the assistance of early childhood educators to work with parents and other family members of children in their settings to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Pilot Projects, Program Evaluation
Davies, Amanda; Dalgarno, Barney – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
The effective teaching of fire investigation skills presents logistical challenges because of the difficulty of providing students with access to suitable fire damaged buildings so that they can undertake authentic investigation tasks. At Charles Sturt University (CSU), in the subject JST415, "Fire Investigation Cause and Origin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fire Protection, Fire Science Education, Investigations
Pepper, Coral – Teaching Science, 2013
Introducing Problem Based Learning (PBL) to a cohort of science education pre-service teachers enabled them to engage in a widely used learning and teaching strategy helpful to align university courses with the professional work they are expected to undertake on graduation. Almost fifty pre-service teachers participated in the study, focussed on…
Descriptors: Investigations, Problem Based Learning, Science Activities, Preservice Teacher Education
Gonzalez, Carlos – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Although numerous studies have been conducted on conceptions of teaching, research extending this investigation into conceptions of teaching using eLearning is rare. This study employed a phenomenographic approach to investigate what university teachers think eLearning is good for in their teaching. Four qualitatively different ways of conceiving…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Phenomenology, Electronic Learning
Wadley, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Higher education institutions are introducing standardised electronic course profiles (ECPs) to advance quality outcomes. Involving both "message" and "medium", they alter traditional practice and interpretations. Critical examination is required of the values, presuppositions and operation of the nascent system. Lacking much…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Investigations, Distance Education, Best Practices
Witten, Harm; Waugh, Russell; Gray, Jan – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This paper presents the results of an investigation into the attitudes of School Administrators to the relationship between formal school registration and school improvement. It concerns a mandatory inspection-type registration process for all Non-Government Schools in Western Australia. Part of the aim of this registration process was to help…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Educational Development, Investigations
Nichols, Sue – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children's literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Libraries
Sweeney, Trudy; Geer, Ruth – Australian Educational Computing, 2010
This study investigated the use of information communication technologies (ICT) in the Early Years (R-3) in two diverse school settings. Students were surveyed to investigate their use of ICT at home and school. The findings presented, focus on student's self-assessed capabilities and attitudes using ICT and explore differences between the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Investigations
Perillo, Suzanne Jane – School Leadership & Management, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how leadership can be conceptualised as a social fashioning process performed in everyday practice as a de-centred web of sociomaterial network building activity. Rather than positioning investigations of leadership according to units of analysis or a priori variables of interest, the leadership approach…
Descriptors: Investigations, Leadership Qualities, Leadership, Teaching Methods