Tables of contents

The public comprehensive high school in New South Wales

     Craig Campbell & Geoffrey Sherington, University of Sydney

1 

Principled moral reasoning of students in education and counseling: assessment intervention

     Rhoda Cummings, Cleborne D Maddux, Mary Finn Maples & Edil Torres-Rivera University of Nevada, Reno

17 

Beginning teaching in rural-remote schools: implications for critical teacher development

     Barry Down, Murdoch University & Sandra Wooltorton, Edith Cowan University

31

Attracting the bright and committed into teaching: political rhetoric or practical reality?

     Anne Graham & Renata Phelps, Southern Cross University, Berenice Kerr & Lee MacMaster, Catholic Education Office, Lismore

47 

Neil Cranston on revolutionary leadership

     Jim MacKenzie, University of Sydney

64 

Giving girls voice

     Kristine Needham, Asquith Girls High School

77 

Generational and situational change

     Jennifer Sumsion, Colin Symes, David Saltmarsh & Anne McMaugh

1 

Practicum pairs: an alternative for the first field experience in early childhood teacher education

     Kerryann Walsh & Leona Elmslie

5 

Lifelong learning and the reform of the teaching practicum in Australia

     Ron Toomey, Judith Chapman, Janet Gaff, Jacqueline McGilp, Maureen Walsh, Elizabeth Warren & Irene Williams

23 

Teachers' perceptions of their professionalism in government primary schools in Karachi, Pakistan

     Meher Rizvi & Bob Elliot

35 

Becoming a teacher: encouraging development of teacher identity through reflective practice

     Jackie Walkington

53 

Teachers' attitude to and knowledge of metalinguistics in the process of learning to read

     Ruth Fielding-Barnsley & Nola Purdie

65 

'Education for equality' and 'education for life': examining reading literacy and reading interest in Papua New Guinea primary schools

     Sarah Hopkins, Graham Ogle, Lisette Kaleveld, John Maurice, Betty Keria, William Louden & Mary Rohl

77 

Educating pre-service teachers for a sustainable environment

     I P A Cheong

97 

Australian research in early childhood education: contexts, tensions, challenges and future directions

     Sue Dockett

 3 

Genealogies of governmentality: producing and managing young children and their education

     Jo Ailwood

19 

Accounting for young children's competence in educational research: new perspectives on research ethics

     Susan Danby

35 

The cultural construction of family involvement in early childhood education: some indigenous Australian perspectives

     Marilyn Fleer

51 

Child care choices: a longitudinal study of children, famililes and child care in partnership with policy makers

     Jennifer M.Bowes et al

69 

The politics of logic in early childhood research: a case of the brain, hard facts, trees and rhizomes

     Glenda MacNaugton

87 

Quiet please! There's a lady on the stage – boys, gender and sexuality non-conformity and class

     David McInnes and Murray Couch

 431 

Wounded identities, sex and pleasures: 'doing it' at school. NOT!

     Mary Lou Rasmussen

 445

Within the new moment – an interview with Judith Halberstam

     Vicki Crowley

 459 

Telling truths: wounded truths and the activity of truth telling

     Valerie Harwood

 467

     Deborah Youdell