Tables of contents

Research Reports

Misconceptions of astronomical distances

Brian W. Miller & William F. Brewer

1549 – 1560

The influence of 16-year-old students' gender, mental abilities and motivation on their reading and drawing submicrorepresentations achievements

Iztok Devetak & Saša Aleksij Glažar

1561 – 1593

Children's typically-perceived-situations of force and no force in the context of Australia and Korea

Yong Jae Joung & Richard Gunstone

1595 – 1615

The mismatch between students' mental models of acids/bases and their sources and their teacher’s anticipations thereof

Jing-Wen Lin & Mei-Hung Chiu

1617 – 1646

Should we teach primary pupils about chemical change?

George Papageorgiou, Maria Grammaticopoulou & Phil Michael Johnson

1647 – 1664

High school students' attitudes towards spiders: a cross-cultural comparison

Pavol Prokop, Andrea Tolarovičová, Anne M. Camerik & Viera Peterková

1665 – 1688

Letter from the Editor

Eva Johansson

Imparting cultural values to Chinese children through literature

Chenyi Zhang & Johnetta W. Morrison

7–26

Exploring kindergarten teachers' pedagogical content knowledge of mathematics

Joohi Lee

27–41

Same age, different page: overcoming the barriers to catering for young gifted children in prior-to-school settings

Rosalind L. Walsh, Kerry A. Hodge, Jennifer M. Bowes & Coral R. Kemp

43–58

An introduction to Chinese early childhood inclusion

Bi Ying Hu & Judit Szente

59–66

Mathematics learning in early childhood, national research council (2009). Washington, DC: The National Academic Press

Ingrid Pramling-Samuelsson

67–68

OMEP World Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, August 3–7, 2009

Ingrid Engdahl

69–74

Editorial

Sue Dymoke

85–87

Easily influenced

Kay Quilter

88

The readiness is all the degree level qualifications and preparedness of initial teacher trainees in English

Julie Blake & Tim Shortis

89–109

Poetry immersion: reading, writing and performing with secondary students

Trace Schillinger, Tom Meyer & Ruth Vinz

110–125

Exploring assessment of students from different language backgrounds: a look at reading comprehension using informational texts

Keri-Anne Croce

126–145

English lessons: children's poetic perspectives

Kay Fuller

146–163

Book Reviews

The teaching of English in schools 1900–1970

Tony Burgess

164–168

New literacies and the English curriculum

Julia Davies

169–171

The SAGE handbook of writing development

Josephine Brady

172–174

Editorial: The significance of leadership theory

Tony Bush

266–270

Paradigms: how far does research in distributed leadership ‘stretch’?

David Hartley

271–285

Distributed curriculum leadership in action: a Hong Kong case study

Edmond Law, Maurice Galton & Sally Wan

286–303

No teacher left behind: subject leadership that promotes teacher leadership

Norma Ghamrawi

304–320

‘We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England’: Location as a significant factor in international school micropolitics

Richard Caffyn

321–340

Working with secondary school leadership in a large-scale reform in London, UK: consultants' perspectives of their role as agents of school change and improvement

David Hagen Cameron

341–359

Alienation, servility and amorality: relating Gogol’s portrayal of bureaupathology to an accountability era

Eugenie Samier & Jacky Lumby

360–373

Complexity theory, school leadership and management: questions for theory and practice

Keith Morrison

374–393

Radical reforms: perspectives on an era of educational change

Lorraine Thomas

394–395

Full range leadership development

Helen Gunter

396–397