Tables of contents

Toys, tools and teachers: the role of ICT in early childhood education 

Mark Brown

2 

Young children and ICT: a review of research 

Nicola Yelland

4 

Early childhood centres plugging into ICT: the Manakau Smart Centres project 

Bernardine Vester

15 

ICT foundations in early childhood education 

Barbara Jordan

22 

Robotics in early childhood education: 'pets' of the future? 

Kayte Edwards

29 

Education in the mouse age: a kindergarten perspective on the rise of ICT 

Ange Lindsay

36 

ICT and young children: laying the foundations for the digital future 

Mark Brown, Fiona Murray

43 

Obituary: Harry Tomlinson – a life in leadership, 1939–2005 

Helen M Gunter

311 

Editorial 

Michael Fielding

317 

A democracy of all learners: ethical rationality and the affective roots of democratic leadership 

Philip A Woods

321 

Educational leaders as caring teachers 

Nel Noddings

339 

Leadership, personalisation and high performance schooling: naming the new totalitarianism 

Michael Fielding

347 

Models of successful principal leadership 

David Gurr, Lawrie Drysdale, Bill Mulford

371 

Executive leadership: another lever in the system 

Alma Harris, David Brown, Ian Abbott

397 

Editorial

Just behaviour

Feature articles

Going bush: youth work in rural settings

Harry Sercombe

Youth work in schools: should youth workers also be teachers?

Tim Corney

’Just being boys?’

Leanne Dalley-Trim

Bully/victim students and classroom climate

Shoko Yoneyama, Ken Rigby

Responsible drinking knowledge: A comparison of Australian apprentices and university students

Nicki Dowling, David Clark, Tim Corney

Ring, ring, why did I make that call? Mobile phone beliefs and behaviour among Australian university students

Shari Walsh, Katherine White

Also in this issue

Youth monitor: a national roundup or recent press reports on youth issues

Book reviews

Editorial 

Michael Cavanagh

2 

A solitaire game you can always win 

Gerry Myerson

6 

How do you know? (the problem of the mathematics dis-ease) 

Peter Gould

13 

Introducing variables: from pegs to patterns 

Stephen Arnold

17 

Increasing student learning outcomes in statistics 

Leanne Clark, Mark Avery

21 

The cube roots of unity 

Brother Richard Bennett

25 

Classroom corner 

Cyril Quinlan

27 

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The maths exchange

Constructing geometrical figures 

Sharyn Moses

30 

Percentages literacy activity 

Robert Yen

31 

The language and history of mathematics: crossword 21 

Vince Hage

32