Tables of contents

Open and directed text mediation in literature instruction: effects on comprehension and attitudes?

Kathleen F Clark and Michael F Graves

Students’ beliefs about barriers to engagement with writing in secondary school English: a focus group study?

Sean Hawthorne

Oral feedback in the context of written language?

Eleanor Hawe, Helen Dixon and Enid Watson

Phonological literacy: preparing primary teachers for the challenge of a balanced approach to literacy education?

Corinne Buckland and Helen Fraser

A boy behaving badly: investigating teachers’ assumptions about gender, behaviour, mobility and literacy learning?

Robyn Henderson

Book reviews

Madeline Fussell, Jenny Kompara, Cherry Stewart

Editorial, president’s viewpoint

Ellen Finlay, Bob Aikenhead

2

Nuclear power is the problem, not the solution

Helen Caldicott

5

Alternative energy revolution: get rid of the private car!

Martin Mahy

7

Kicking ass and doing science: skepticism in the English classroom

Kylie Sturgess

10

Taking small group, teacher-directed learning into secondary schools

Snaja Van Huet

12 

The impact of human habitations on the Darebin Creek

Teresa Connelly, Susan Grant

14

Maroondah cluster solar charge car challenge

Nicole Rogers

17

Sun, science and students: ISEF in Mexico

David Trotter

22

Innovative programs using CATIA and Webex

Steve Sandford, Barb Duncan

22

Creating learning spaces for science and technology

Ben Cleveland

24

Best of both worlds: a comparison of VCE and IB psychology

David Peake

28

Accelerator science

ANSTO

30

A changing solar system

John Wilkinson

32

ICT in a green world

Ellen Finlay

35

Victorian girl outsmarts Australia’s brainiacs

L E Ohmann

37

Resources: sound and music – an integrated approach to teaching energy, systems and music concepts

Peter Pentland

38

Regulars

Various

42

Editorial: Researching teacher education in new times

Anne McMaugh, David Saltmarsh, Jennifer Sumsion, Kathie Ardzejewska, Colin Symes

329

A sound research base for beginning teacher education: robust hope, action policy analysis and top of the class

Michael Singh

333

Dominant discourses and teacher education: current curriculum or curriculum remembered?

Robbie Johnston

351

Addressing social difference with prospective teachers who want 'to make a difference'

Kay Whitehead

367

Intervening or ignoring: learning about teaching in new times

Mindy Blaise, Jennifer Elsden-Clifton

387

Singaporean early childhood teachers' beliefs about literacy development in a multilingual context

Christina Lim, Jane Torr

409

Jordanian pre-service teachers' perceptions of the portfolio as a reflective learning tool

Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, Samih Mahmoud Al-Karasneh, Ali Ahmad Al-Barakat, Rula Fahmi Bataineh

435

Ask the experts – January 2008

Editor’s corner: earth in the balance

Steve Metz

Idea bank: connecting students to seismic waves

Michael Hubenthal

Idea bank: convection in a fish tank

Chris Freeman

Idea bank: International Polar Year in the classroom

Allan Miller

Investigating the earth and its environment

Cheryl Everett and Robyn Spear

Marquee fossils

Renee Clary and James Wandersee

Multiple modes of inquiry in earth science

Michael Hubenthal, Larry Braile and John Taber

Redefining earthquakes and the earthquake machine

Michael Hubenthal, Larry Braile and John Taber

Safe science: raining down on safety!

Ken Roy

Students at the edge of space

Tillman Kennon, Ed Roberts and Teresa Fuller

The prepared practitioner: intro to research

Alan Colburn

Thinking like an ecologist

Jean Carlson