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The Journal of Educational Change

Volume 5 Number 3,  2005

Educational change: putting reform into perspective

     Michele Schmidt and Robert E. White

207 

Closing the achievement gap: a metaphor for children left behind

     Henry A. Giroux and Michele Schmidt 

213 

Historicizing the future: educational reform, systems of reason, and the making of children who are the future citizens

     Thomas S. Popkewitz and Sverker Lindblad

229 

Rhetoric versus reality in educational reform: the case of the National Science Foundation's Urban Systemic Initiative

     Kathryn M. Borman, Bridget Cotner, M. Yvette Baber, Theodore Boydston, William Katzenmeyer, Gladis Kersaint, Jeffrey Kromrey, Reginald Lee and Kazawaki Uekawa

249 

Restructuring educational leadership in changing contexts: a local/global account of restructuring in Australia

     Jill Blackmore

267 

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Subject Headings

Education policy
Educational planning
Leadership

Journal of Early Childhood Research

Volume 2 Number 3,  2005

Teaching children at risk:an American preschool teacher's folk psychology and folk pedagogy

     Kyunghwa Lee and Daniel J. Walsh

229 

Re-visited: a tracer study 10 years later: detective process

     Miry Levin-Rozalis

247 

Home-education: comparison of home- and school-educated children on PIPS baseline assessments

     Paula Rothermel

273 

Understanding early childhood leadership: emerging competencies in the context of relationships

     Min Sun Shin, Susan L. Recchia, Seung Yeon Lee, Yoon Joo Lee and Lara S. Mullarkey

301 

Devereux, Jane and Miller, Linda Working with Children in the Early Years

     Reviewed by Dorothy Selleck

317 

Holland, P. We Don't Play with Guns here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years 

     Reviewed by Jackie Marsh

319 

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Subject Headings

Early childhood education
Child development

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volume 42 Number 1,  2005

Editorial: A note from the incoming Co-Editors: Our vision for the Journal of Research in Science Teaching

     J. Randy McGinnis and Angelo Collins

 1 

Influence of a shared leadership model in creating a school culture of inquiry and collegiality

     Claudie Khourney-Bowers, Richard L. Dinko and Raymond G. Hart

 3 

A case study of one school system's adoption and implementation of an elementary science program

     Michael P. Kelly and John R. Staver

25 

Factors influencing elementary school children's attitudes toward science before, during and after a visit to the UK National Space Centre

     Tina Jarvis and Anthony Pell

53 

A reconstruction of development of the periodic table based on history and philosophy of science and its implications for general chemistry textbooks

     Angmary Brito, Maria A. Rodriguez and Mansoor Niaz

84 

Patterns of informal reasoning in the context of socioscientific decision making

     Troy D. Sadler and Dana L. Zeidler

112 

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Subject Headings

Science teaching

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volume 26 Number 2, April 2005

'They never go off the rails like other ethnic groups': teachers' constructions of British Chinese pupils' gender identities and approaches to learning

     Louise Archer and Becky Francis

165 

The assault on the professions and the restructuring of academic and professional identities: a Bernsteinian analysis

     John Beck and Michael F. D. Young

183 

Comparing state hegemonies: Chinese universities in postwar Singapore and Hong Kong

     Ting-Hong Wong

199 

From 'school correspondent' to workplace bargainer? The changing role of the school union representative

     Howard Stevenson

219 

Mathematical stories: why do more boys than girls choose to study mathematics at AS-level in England?

    Heather Mendick

235 

The distribution of leadership and power in schools

     Richard Hatcher

253 

New generation's career aspirations and new ways of marginalization in a postindustrial economy 

     Jung-ah Choi

269 

What does good education research look like? (Lyn Yates)

     Reviewed by Paul Connolly and Sara Delamont

285 

Whatever happened to the (likely) lads? 'Learning to Labour' 25 years on

     Christine Griffin

291

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Subject Headings

Educational sociology

Papers from the 13th VET Research Conference

The strategies supporting the applied research in technical and vocational education and training
Mohammed K. Alhezab 

 

Lifelong learning – are school students being prepared through their vocational training?
Dr Jeanne Boote and Don Adams  

 

Recognition skills – when is this a good idea?
Robin Booth and Sue Roy

 

Realize the full potential of Recognition of Prior Learning
Kaye Bowman, Brian Knight, Jo Hargreaves, Nhi Nguyen and Davinia Woods

 

Ensuring good practice through good policy on recognition
Graham Brophy

 

Impact of quality training to organisations in the disability sector
Kathy Buckler

 

Leaving VET with no recorded achievement
Victor J Callan

 

A learning survey of job seekers: Does RPL have a role?
Ros Cameron

 

Cognitive apprenticeships and their application to trades-based apprenticeships
Selena Chan

 

What works in ACE in Queensland
Terry Clark

 

Sustaining the skill base of Australian RTO's
Berwyn Clayton

 

Employability Skills: Revisiting the Key Competencies or a new way forward?
Catherine M. Down

 

Rapidly Evolving Technology: Meeting enterprise needs
Cathy Down, Fiona Martin and John Pittman

 

Self-pace learning. Nothing to write tomes about
Dr Vic Dunncliff

 

Knowledge mapping – building capacity in a scarce skills area (A South African case study)
Fiona Farquharson

 

Helping the helpers: IT skills development for educators through the Vula Programme
Jeremy Farquharson

 

Putting good practice into effect: analysing and telling people's stories
Thea Fisher

 

Abstract and generalised forms: training packages and the ruling relations of VET
Lauri Grace

 

VET in school teacher training
Annette Green


Challenges and opportunities for a 'both-ways' articulation to underpin pathways in post-compulsory education
R. E. (Bobby) Harreveld

 

Adult lateracy: Lifewide learning for longer life living
J. M. Hazzlewood


Rural communities – what is the role of VET?
Bernie Ingle and Pat Walls

 

Health and Wellbeing – What's VET got to do with it?
Robyn Jackson

 

A strategic action research approach to implementing Cert IV in youth work (Juvenile Justice)
Amanda Johnston

 

The effects of generational cohort change and training needs for 2010–2020
Malcolm King

 

Equity connects with Reframing the Future
Suzy McKenna

 

Insights from interviews with privately owned RTO's in Victoria
Joan McPhee

 

Literacy and numeracy, young people and mobile phones
A. Paterson and S. Jeavons

 

Learning partnerships: What do they mean?
Heather Peirce

 

Applying information and research: Good practices from 2003
Wendy Perry

 

Body awareness as the connecting skin in disembodied flexible learning contexts
Dr Karen Ritchie

 

Making the most of what we have – Increasing the 'employability' of older workers
L. Rolland

 

Supporting TAFE educators through research
Linda Simon

 

Valuing RPL – case studies of private training providers
Associate Professor Larry Smith

 

Teacher as a researcher: stepping in and having a look
Sarah Sutcliffe

 

VET as an innovation intermediary
Dr Phillip Toner

 

Skilling Small Business for the Future
A Victorian Small Business Development Project
Dawn Walker and Geoff Cotton

 

Formation and implementation of an institute's strategy to redress racial imbalance in tertiary outcomes
Jennifer Weavers

 

Knowing that, knowing how and knowing with: what are the implications for RPL?
Leesa Wheelahan

 

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Subject Headings

VET (Vocational Education and Training)