Tables of contents

Articles

Three walks through fictional fens: multidisciplinary perspectives on Gaffer Samson's Luck

Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Maria Nikolajeva & Liz Taylor

189–206

Dramatic interpretations: performative responses of young children to picturebook read-alouds

Donna Sayers Adomat

207–221

"Into eternity's certain breadth": ambivalent escapes in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

Jenni Adams

222–233

The BFG and the Spaghetti Book Club: a case study of children as critics

A. Robin Hoffman

234–250

"A nightmare land, a place of death": an exploration of the moon as a motif in Hergé’s Destination Moon (1953) and Explorers on the Moon (1954)

Clémentine Beauvais

251–259

The reality of fiction and the ethics of storytelling in Eleanor Estes's The Witch Family

Dawn Heinecken

260–272

Articles

Female traditional principals and co-principals: experiences of role conflict and job satisfaction

Ellen Wexler Eckman & Sheryl Talcott Kelber

205–219

Supporting the middle tier to engage with school-based networks: change strategies for influencing and cohering

Christopher Chapman & Mark Hadfield

221–240

The importance of interplay between school-based and networked professional development: school professionals' experiences of inter-school collaborations in learning networks

Tünde Varga-Atkins, Mark O'Brien, Diana Burton, Anne Campbell & Anne Qualter

241–272

Changing organizational culture and instructional methods in elementary schools: perceptions of teachers and professional educational consultants

Hanna Shachar, Suss Gavin & Sharan Shlomo

273–289

Book review

Darling-Hammond: The flat world and education: how America's commitment to equity will determine our future

Teachers College Press, New York, 2010

Afra Ahmed Hersi

291–295

Big change question

How do development paradigms influence education policy?

Abrar Hasan & Joop Hartog

297–306

Articles

The priority of the question: focus questions for sustained reasoning in science

David Lustick

495–511

Impact of the knowledge and beliefs of Egyptian science teachers in integrating a STS based curriculum: a sociocultural perspective

Nasser Mansour

513–534

The effects of the design and development of a chemistry curriculum reform on teachers' professional growth: a case study

Fer Coenders, Cees Terlouw, Sanne Dijkstra & Jules Pieters

535–557 Open Access

The cross-case analyses of elementary students' engagement in the strands of science proficiency

James Minogue, Lauren Madden, John Bedward, Eric Wiebe & Mike Carter

559–587

Developing understanding of the nature of science within a professional development program for inservice elementary teachers: project nature of elementary science teaching

Tracy J. Posnanski

589–621

Articles

Chinese middle school teacher job satisfaction and its relationships with teacher moving

Junjun Chen

263–272

A comparative study of classroom teaching in Korea and Japan: a case study on reforming schools into learning communities

Kyunghee So, Jiwon Shin & Woojung Son

273–283

Policy efforts to increase women faculty in Korea: reactions and changes at universities

Namhee Kim, Hea Jun Yoon & Gary N. McLean

285–299

Prospective teachers' perceptions on different aspects of portfolio

Ahmet Ok & Mehmet Erdogan

301–310

Relationships among organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and learning organization culture in one Korean private organization

Taejo Lim

311–320

Final year undergraduates' perceptions of the integration of soft skills in the formal curriculum: a survey of Malaysian public universities

Evelyn Shyamala Devadason, Thirunaukarasu Subramaniam & Esther Gnanamalar Sarojini Daniel

321–348

The impact of after-school programs on educational equality and private tutoring expenses

Sanghoon Bae, Hunseok Oh, Hyunchul Kim, Cheolwon Lee & Beomho Oh

349–361

A project-based learning approach: a case study in China

Yueyu Xu & Wenqi Liu

363–370

Predicting organizational commitment from organizational culture in Turkish primary schools

Cemalettin İpek

371–385

Multicultural education in Korea: its development, remaining issues, and global implications

Won-Pyo Hong

387–395

The professional development needs of Hong Kong ESL teachers

Barley Mak

397–410

The determinants of demand for private tutoring in South Korea

Ji-Ha Kim & Daekwon Park

411–421

Validating onscreen marking in Hong Kong

David Coniam

423–431

Connecting administrative and professional perspective in the era of accountability

Kyu Tae Kim

433–445

Globalization and its challenges for developing countries: the case of Turkish higher education

Hanife Akar

447–457