Tables of contents

A comparative study of educational research in China and the United States

Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Wenzhong (Eric) Yang, David Kirkland, Xue Han, Jianwei Zhang

1

Beyond orientalism in comparative education: Challenging the binary opposition between Japanese and American education

Keita Takayama

19

The Buddhist approach to education: An alternative approach for sustainable education

Sant Chansomsak, Brenda Vale

35

Education and inequalities in rural Vietnam in the 1990s

Danièle Bélanger, Jianye Liu

51

'Countability not answerability?' Accountability in Hong Kong and Singapore universities

Jan Currie, Lesley Vidovich, Rui Yang

67

Teacher–student talk in Singapore Chinese language classrooms: A case study of initiation/response/follow-up (IRF)

Yongbing Liu

87

Touching the void: Arts education research in Australia

Robyn Gibson, Michael Anderson

103

Climates of opinion and curriculum practices

Catherine Cornbleth

143

What we need to prepare teachers for the moral nature of their work

Matthew N Sanger

169

A sociocultural analysis of mandated curriculum change: The implementation of a new senior physics curriculum in New Zealand schools

Teresa Fernandez, Garth Ritchie, Miles Barker

187

The significance of the concepts 'elemental' and 'fundamental' in didactic theory and practice

RA Krüger; George D Yonge

215

Representing self-in-society: Education for citizenship and the social-subjects curriculum in Scotland

Hamish Ross; Pamela Munn

251

Change of editorship for Language Awareness

Peter Garrett, Suzanne Burley and Cathy Pomphrey

1

Training 8-year-old French immersion students in metalinguistic analysis: An innovation in form-focused pedagogy.

Laura Annie Bouffard and Mela Sarkar

3

Evaluating the use of corpus-based instruction in a language teacher education context: Perspectives from the users

Fiona Farr

25

Writing a critical review: Reflections on literacy practices

Hiromi Teramoto and Peter Mickan

44

Language attitudes and gender in China: Perceptions and reported use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the southern province of Guangdong

Limei Wang and Hans J Ladegaard

57

Teachers' choice and learners' preference of corrective feedback types

Reiko Yoshida

78

Creative writing: 40 years, 400 years, 4,000 years

Graeme Harper

171

Targeting an international audience: Can creative writing texts cross the world without jet lag?

Jeri Kroll

174

Father’s Day

Stuart Pickford

186

The endless search: Writing as a way of being

Deborah Ben-Shir

188

Aubade

Nigel McLoughlin

205

I leave myself

Tony Williams

206

Mythic structure in screenwriting

Sue Clayton

208

Writing and Responsibility

Book review

224