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Beyond Academic Outcomes
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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
How Competency-Based Training Locks the Working Class out of Powerful Knowledge: A Modified Bernsteinian Analysis
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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
Australian Students' Democratic Values and Attitudes towards Participation: Indicators from the IEA Civic Education Study
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Mellor, Suzanne; Kennedy, Kerry J. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
In September 1999, over 3000 Australian students in 115 schools representing all schooling sectors participated in the Australian component of the IEA Civic Education study. In this paper, the focus in particular is on Australian students' democratic values and on their attitudes towards participation and social action. The results suggest that…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Social Action
Cultural Democracy and Cultural Capital--Some Reflections on the Australian Case: A Response to Michael Clyne.
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Smith, Dennis – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1997
A response to an article on multiculturalism and the status of community languages in Australia focuses on three aspects of the article: (1) proposed links between global capitalism, nation-state development, migration, and language policy; (2) the meaning ascribed to "cultural democracy;" and (3) implications of language policy issues…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries