Tables of contents

Seeing forward, looking back: the New Zealand literacy picture

     Guy Broadley

 8 

Young children engage with the metafictive in picture books

     Sylvia Pantaleo

19 

Young people choose: adolescents' texts pleasures

     Josephine Ryan

38 

Kindergarten connections: a study of intertextuality and its links with literacy in the kindergarten classroom

     Sharyn Roache-Jameson

48 

Deconstructing binary oppositions in literacy discourse and pedagogy

     Kathy Mills

67 

Ring fenced research: the case of computer assisted learning in health sciences

     Gabriel Jacobs, Barry Ip

361

A knowledge management technology architecture for educational research organisations: scaffolding research projects and workflow processing

     Muthukumar, John G.Hedberg

379

Seeing is believing: the role of videoconferencing in distance learning

  Marie Martin

397

Users' views about the usability of digital libraries

     Alex Koohang, James Ondracek

407

Netskills and the current state of beliefs and practices in student learning: an assessment and recommendations

     Liam Murray, Triona Hourigan, Catherine Jeanneau, Dominic Chappell

425

Three-dimensional virtual worlds and distance learning: two case studies of Active Worlds as a medium for distance education

     Michele D Dickey

439

Managing content in e-learning environments

     Daisy Mwanza, Yrjo Engestrom

453

Do two heads search better than one? Effects of student collaboration on web search behaviour and search outcomes

     Ard W Lazonder

465

Audiences' judgements of speakers who use multimedia as a presentation aid: a contribution to training and assessment

     Bruce Christie, Jenny Collyer

477

What campus-based students think about the quality and benefits of e-learning

     Fiona Concannon, Antoinette Flynn, Mark Campbell

501

Evolution of a laptop university: a case study 

     Gloria J McVay, Kimberlee D Snyder, Kenneth A Graetzz

513

Issues in the adoption of broadband-enabled learning

     Elizabeth Murphy

525

Implementation and evaluation of computer-aided Mandarin phonemes training system for hearing imparied students

     Hui-Jen Yang, Yun-Long Lay

537

Introduction: education and the Labour Government

     Geoffrey Walford

3

Transforming the early years in England

     Kathy Sylva and Gillian Pugh

11

Primary schooling under New Labour: the irresolvable contradiction of excellence and enjoyment

     Kevin J Brehony

29

Diversity, specialisation and equity in education

     Chris Taylor, John Fitz and Stephen Gorard

47

Labour government policy 14–19

     Richard Pring

71

New labour and higher education

     Alan Ryan

87

Lifelong learning and the labour governments 1997–2004

     Richard Taylor

101

New labour and teacher education: the end of an era 

     John Furlong

119

Reinventing 'inclusion': New Labour and the cultural politics of special education 

     Derrick Armstrong

135

Race, ethnicity and education under New Labour

     Sally Tomlinson

153

Reconstruction of the gender agenda: the contradictory gender dimensions in New Labour's educational and economic policy

     Madeleine Arnot and Philip Miles

173

Impact of a school district's science reform effort on the achievement and attitudes of third- and fourth-grade students

     James A Shymansky, Larry D Yore and

771

Teaching evolution biology: pressures, stress and coping

     Joyce A Griffith and Sarah K Brem 

791

Discursive identity: assimilation into the culture of science and its implications for minority students

     Bryan A Brown

810

A longitudinal study of the educational and career trajectories of female particpants of an urban informal science education program     

835