Tables of contents

Special issue: Educational pedagogies, policies and politics

Introduction by the guest editors 

Margaret Vickers, Michael Singh

233 

Articles

Towards an ethics of engagement in education in global times 

Pam Christie

238 

Global teachers with globite causes

Carol Reid

251 

In the common good: The need for a new approach to funding Australia's schools 

Margaret Vickers

264 

Commodification, corporatisation and children's spaces 

Frances Press, Christine Woodrow

278 

A critical analysis of teacher evaluation policy trends 

Marianne A Larsen

292 

What is education for? Situating history, cultural understandings and studies of society and environment against neo-conservative critiques of curriculum reform 

Deborah Henderson

306 

Motivating boys and motivating girls: Does teachers gender really make a difference? 

Andrew Martin, Herb Marsh

320 

Special Issue

New approaches in the philosophy of learning

Guest editor: Paul Hager

Editorial

New approaches in the philosophy of learning 

Michael A Peters

627 

Articles

New approaches in the philosophy of learning 

Paul Hager

633 

Learning and the social nature of mental powers 

Andrew Davis

635 

Philosophical accounts of learning

Paul Hager

649 

Explaining learning: From analysis to paralysis to hippocampus 

John Clark

667 

The character of learning 

Michael Luntley

689 

Reflexive learning: Stages towards wisdom with Dreyfus 

Ian McPherson

705 

Embodied knowing in online environments 

Gloria Dall'Alba, Robyn Barnacle

719 

The embodiment of learning 

Jim Horn, Denise Wilburn

745 

Book reviews

Teaching Peter McLaren by Marc Pruyn, Luis Huerta-Charles

Reviewed by David Chalmers

761 

Red Seminars by Peter McLaren, Companeras y Companeros; Capitalists and Conquerors by Peter McLaren; Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism by Peter McLaren, Ramin Farahmandpur    

Reviewed by David Chalmers

764 

Pedagogies of Difference by Peter Pericles Trifonas 

Reviewed by George Head

770 

From 9/11 to Terror War by Douglas Kellner; 9/11 in American Culture by Norman K Denzin, Yvonna S Lincoln; Education, Globalisation and the State in the Age of Terrorism by Michael A Peters 

Reviewed by David Chalmers

773 

A theoretical note on concepts and the need for cyclic concept maps 

Frank Safayeni, Natalia Derbentseva, Alberto J Canas

741 

Growing the tree of teacher knowledge: Ten years of learning to teach elementary science 

Judith Mulholland, John Wallace

767 

Developing students' ability to ask more and better questions resulting from inquiry-type chemistry laboratories 

Avi Hofstein, Oshrit Navon, Mira Kipnis, Rachel Mamlok-Naaman

791 

Expanding our understandings of urban science education by expanding the roles of students as researchers  

Rowhea Elmesky, Kenneth Tobin

807 

Exploring the effects of cognitive conflict and direct teaching for students of different academic levels 

Anat Zohar, Simcha Aharon-Kravetsky

829 

Investigating the instructional supportiveness of leveled texts

James W Cunningham, Stephanie A Spadorcia, Karen A Erickson, David A Koppenhaver, Janet M Sturm, David E Yoder

Exploring the role of the morphemes in word reading

Joanne F Carlisle, C Addison Stone

ISO 9002 as literacy practice: Coping with quality-control documents in a high-tech company

Jo Anne Kleifgen

Instant messaging, literacies and social identities

Cynthia Lewis, Bettina Fabos

IRA outstanding dissertation award for 2005: ESL preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading

Molly Fuller Collins

Theory and research into practice: Choosing and using information trade books

E Wendy Saul, Donna Dieckman

International reports on literacy research: France, United Kingdom, Brazil

Essay book review

The Literacies of the 20th Century: Stories of Power and the Power of Stories in a Hypertextual World

Diane Lemonnier Schallert, Suzanne E Wade