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Ehrich, Lisa C.; Millwater, Jan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
Many university faculties of education across Australia employ a model of internship for final semester pre-service teacher education students to help them make a smooth transition into the teaching profession. While a growing body of research has explored pre-service teachers' experiences of their practicum, including the internship, which is the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Mentors, Foreign Countries
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Morgan, Shirley; Golding, Barry – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2010
This paper explores the dynamics and outcomes from a collaborative, cross-cultural approach to teaching an Indigenous education elective unit in a Bachelor of Education (Primary) undergraduate degree at University of Ballarat in 2009. The three facilitators, one non-Aboriginal and two Aboriginal were a lecturer, an Aboriginal Centre Manager and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Indigenous Populations, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Blackmore, Jill – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
This paper provides a critical review of papers in this special issue on Bourdieu and practice. What is different about this collection is that, in analysing policy and practice through a Bourdieusian lens, the thinking tools of field, disposition (collective and individual), logics of practice and doxa have been mobilised with regard to the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Social Stratification, Articulation (Education), Educational Change
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Tran, Ly Thi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative case study that explores how international students in different disciplines struggle to interpret their disciplinary requirements. The study shows the emergence of five main forms of unpacking academic expectations that individual students in the study employed. It will be argued that these…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Standards, Foreign Countries, Asians
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Brennan, Marie – Australian Universities' Review, 1995
It is argued that professional doctorates such as the Doctor of Education degree have value as a means of reconstructing the relationship between theory and practice, by demanding a reconstruction of university research relationships with practitioners. In turn, this requires that universities change their conceptualization and teaching of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Education Majors, Educational Attitudes
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Zeegers, Margaret – Teaching Education, 2005
This paper explores the possibilities presented in examining taken for granted aspects of pre-service teacher practicum practices, especially in terms of naming and positioning within teacher education, as they present at a regional university in Ballarat, Australia. The University of Ballarat has introduced a new P-10 teacher education course…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Teachers, Undergraduate Study