Tables of contents

Articles

Pedagogy as discursive practice: enabling spaces for social justice

Amanda Keddie, Jennifer M Nayler

1

Constraining factors affecting the use of cooperative learning in primary schools

Kam Wing Chan

11 

Including students? Student voices in policy and educational change

Karin Oerlemans, Lesley Vidovich, Marnie O'Neill

23 

Activating learners using the Learner Autonomy Approach

Rita Berry

34 

Teaching science to adult pre-university students: Science as a way of knowing

Wanja Gitari

44 

Point and counterpoint

National curriculum consistency

Alan Reid

55 

National curriculum collaboration in senior secondary schooling

Geoff N Masters

56 

Will national consistency raise curriculum quality?

John Graham, Roy Martin

61 

Is consistency the only rationale for national curriculum collaboration?

Alan Reid

66 

Book reviews

Thinking about purpose in classroom assessment: assessment for, as and of learning

Claire Wyatt-Smith

71

Not just any direct experience will do: recasting the multicultural teaching practicum as active, collaborative and transformative

Renée DePalma, Miguel A Santos Rego, María del Mar Lorenzo Moledo

327

The impact of the political context on discourse characteristics in Jewish–Arab encounters in Israel: between peace talks and violent events

Shifra Sagy, Shoshana Steinberg, Hansaa Diab

341

Conservative Christian teachers: possible consequences for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth

Michele Malamud Kahn

351

Educating for difference in a Romany community in Spain: an exercise in integration

Oscar Fernandez

373

Under the invisibility cloak? Teacher understanding of cultural difference

Jennifer Mahon

391

Towards intercultural communication: from micro to macro perspectives

Xiaoping Jiang

407

A system theory approach to interfaith dialogue

Mehrdad Massoudi

421 

Special Issue: Creativity in Education

Reflecting on the creativity agenda in education

Pamela Burnard

313

Creativity and education: an American retrospective

David Henry Feldman, Ann C Benjamin

319

Fostering creativity with wisdom

Anna Craft

337

Thinking at the edge: developing soft creativity

Guy Claxton

351

Adaptive educational environments as creative spaces

Daria Loi, Patrick Dillon

363

Creating good education against the odds

Wendy Fischman, Jennifer A DiBara, Howard Gardner

383

Creative teaching and learning: towards a common discourse and practice

Bob Jeffrey

399

Creativity, uncertainty and discomfort: teachers as writers

415

Arias of learning: creativity and performativity in Australian teacher education

Julie White

435

Leading under Labour: leadership and management in changing times

Howard Stevenson

455

The acquisition of spatial constructions in American sign language and English

Amber Joy Martin, Maria D Sera

391

Laughter among deaf singers

Robert R Provine, Karen Emmorey

403

Do you see what I mean? Shared reference in non-native early signing deaf children

Erland Hjelmquist

410

Benefits of sign language interpreting and text alternatives for deaf students’ classroom learning

Marc Marschark, Greg Leigh, Patricia Sapere, Denis Burnham, Carol Convertino, Michael Stinson, Harry Knoors, Mathijs PJ Vervloed, William Noble

421

Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of linguistic input support to a prelingually deaf child with cued speech: a case study

Santiago Torres, Ignacio Moreno-Torres, Rafael Santana

438

Examining the communication skills of a young cochlear implant pioneer

Carol McDonald Connor

449

They only see it when the sun shines in my ears: exploring perceptions of adolescent hearing aid users

Bruce Kent, Sandra Smith

461

The role of educational experiences in the development of deaf identity

Magda Nikolaraizi, Kika Hadjikakou

477

Parental resources, parental stress, and socioemotional development of deaf and hard of hearing children

Manfred Hintermair

493