Welcome to Curriculum Leadership: an electronic journal for leaders in education. Curriculum Leadership is published by Curriculum Corporation as a service to the Australian and New Zealand school education communities, on behalf of the Curriculum Corporation Board, comprising representatives from all Australian Ministers of Education.
Curriculum Leadership aims to provide comprehensive coverage of issues concerning school education leaders in Australia and New Zealand, while also aiming for a broad international perspective. Its audience includes senior staff in schools, officers in education authorities, teacher educators, professional association staff, consultants, journalists, and researchers. The journal will also be of interest to classroom teachers who aspire to professional excellence.
The journal takes up issues and trends relating to primary and secondary education. Core subject areas are curriculum policy, leadership and management, technology, pedagogy, the teaching profession, and assessment. Vocational and careers education at the secondary school level are covered, as well as the transition from school to work and higher education. There is also some coverage of early childhood education, particularly in terms of the transition to school.
Curriculum Leadership is published on Fridays during school terms. There are 40 issues per year. Readers are able to receive an email alert each Friday prior to each issue’s publication.
The journal’s contents
The Articles section contains feature material written for the journal by educational leaders in the field.
The Abstracts section contains summaries of articles and conference papers selected from a wide range of education journals and published conference proceedings. The abstracts offer links to help readers to access the full text of articles and papers summarised.
Tables of contents are listed for journals and conference proceedings published in print or online
The New Publications section offers regular updates on new print or web based books and reports.
What's New provides news and announcements from the school education community
The journal website also provides
A calendar listing details of upcoming events
A professional resources section, currently under construction, which will provide links to a wide range of websites for organisations, databases and other sites offering resources to help school leaders.
A Back issues section offering access to archived copies of the journal. Each weekly edition since February 2005 is separately archived. Material from back issues published in 2003 and 2004 can be accessed via the site's search engine.
The articles, papers, books and reports summarised in Curriculum Leadership are selected for their perceived value to readers, according to criteria such as subject relevance, currency, authoritativeness of source, and authoritativeness of author. The most common sources for articles are academic or professional journals, periodicals from school education authorities, and newspapers. Conference papers are selected from published conference proceedings.
How to access the full text of articles and papers summarised in Curriculum Leadership.
Access to material published free of charge on the Web
To access articles, papers and reports on the Web, click on the title of the item, which is hyperlinked to the full text. A new browser window will open containing the full text of the piece on the publisher’s website. Full text articles can also be accessed via the ‘View full article free online’ link that appears under the abstract.
Access to material available for a fee on the Web
To access articles available for a fee from the publisher, click on the ‘Purchase full text online from the publisher…’ link that appears under the abstract. A new browser window will open to a relevant section of the publisher’s website. Curriculum Leadership does not have any commercial relationship with the publishers concerned
In some cases there may be commercial online access to books and reports listed under New publications section, or to conference papers in the Abstracts section. Click on the link to the publisher provided.
Access to material available only in printed form
To access printed articles, papers, books and reports, click on the link to the publisher provided with our summary of the text. Readers may then wish to ask the publisher for a complimentary copy of the item, subscribe to the journal, or negotiate other forms of access
Readers may also wish to access library copies of the item. The National Library of Australia provides a national directory of library websites covering libraries at universities and government departments as well as state libraries. See also the National Library of New Zealand's catalogues and the Te Puna Web Directory of New Zealand libraries and Pacific Island websites.
The journal's archive of material from back copies
Curriculum Leadership has been published since February 2003. The journal website provides access to all articles, abstracts, tables of contents, new publications and What’s New items published since the commencement of the journal.
Each weekly edition since February 2005 is separately archived. They can be accessed via the Back Issues button. Past editions published in 2003 and 2004 are no longer separately archived.
All weekly content published since February 2003 can be accessed via the website's search engine.
The search engine: simple searches using the Search box.
The simplest way to search is by entering a word or phrase in the Search box on the top left of the screene.The search engine retrieves articles, abstracts, journal and conference contents listings, new publications and what's new from all issues of the journal by searching across a range of indexes.
Sample searches
Teacher will find all items containing the word teacher
Teacher training will find all items containing the word teacher and the word training
“longitudinal study of teacher change” will find items containing the phrase longitudinal study of teacher change
“longitudinal study of teac” will find items containing any phrase that begins with ‘longitudinal study of teac’ such as ‘longitudinal study of teacher change’, ‘longitudinal study of teachers’ etc.
Teacher training “primary education” will find all items containing the word teacher and the word training and the phrase ‘primary education’
Assessment or reporting will find all items containing assessment or reporting or both
(Assessment or reporting) (queensland or tasmania) will find all items containing assessment or reporting or both which also contain either queensland or Tasmania or both.
Class will find class, classes, classification etc
“wom*n” will find items containing woman or women. Note the need for double inverted commas
Advanced searches
The advanced search enables users to limit their search by various criteria using drop down menus. Click on the ‘Advanced search’ beside the search box, top left of screen.
Advanced allow limiting of results by:
Key Learning Area. To select more than one KLA hold down the Control key, lower left of keyboard, when clicking on each KLA to be searched
Subject Heading.To select more than one subject heading hold down the Control key, lower left of keyboard, when clicking on each subject to be searched
Periodical title. This option will limit results to abstracts or tables of contents from a particular peridical
Date of publication in Curriculum Leadership. Note: this is not the same as date on which the original article etc. being summarised material was originally published, which is not searchable. Date searches can be done with just a lower range (start date), just a higher range (end date), or a range (start and end dates). Date ranges are exclusive, searching after/before that date, but not including that date.
Other tips when using Advanced Search
In the Advanced search, only the first search text field can be used for Full Text searching
The searcher must fill in each successive search text field to have the one below included in the search criteria. Eg. filling out only the 3rd search text field will yield no results from the search
Searches can be limited by KLAs, Periodicals and date ranges regardless of whether one two or all the search text fields are filled in
The staff of Curriculum Leadership journal
Tony Sullivan is the journal's Project Manager. He has worked for Curriculum Corporation since 2002 after previous roles at the State Library of Victoria in research and knowledge management, and at RMIT as lecturer and tutor. He holds a B A (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies from RMIT. Tony has been a parent representative on the councils of two public primary schools in Victoria.
Sara Ciesielski commenced work in February 2008 as Project Officer for the journal. She has completed a combined Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Melbourne and an Honours year in Linguistics, and a qualification in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Sara prepares abstracts and other content for the journal, and provides administrative support.
The journal staff are supported by the wealth of teaching expertise available within Curriculum Corporation.