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The book is divided into three sections which explore three linked issues.Part I focuses on the concept and nature of quality and accountability and the process of developing a culture of quality. Part II addresses the issues of managing staff and resources, leadership for high-quality teaching and learning and relationships with stakeholders. Part III considers the impact and prospect of quality and accountability, including internal evaluation and external inspection. The book is intended for educational leaders and managers, advisors and inspectors, and academic researchers. It may also be of interest to Masters and doctoral degree students specialising in school leadership and management. Adapted from publisher's description.

The new Australian Curriculum edition of the ICE-EM Mathematics series has been published by Cambridge University Press. It has been rewritten for the Australian mathematics curriculum, while retaining the structure, depth and approach of the first edition. It offers thorough coverage of each of the three strands of the Australian Curriculum, as well as their substrands and additional topics. Adapted from publisher's description and a review in Prime Number (publication of the MAV) Volume 27, Term 2 2012.

This book is about people preparing to teach mathematics to children in the first half of their schooling, in the context of insistent demands to raise standards. Centred on over 200 hours of interview data from government-funded studies, the book documents teachers over a five-year period, from the outset of their training to the end of their first year of teaching in a school. The book is aimed primarily at teacher educators but may also appeal to researchers across the field of education. Adapted from publisher's description. The book is part of the Mathematics Education Library series.

The book examines the evolution and expansion of education business and the rise of the education business manager. The business manager's role has become highly complex and accountable, and the scope of the work wide-ranging and changeable. Education business managers are professionals holding knowledge, skills and ideas that increase organisational capacity, viability and provision, and enable other educational leaders to focus on learning and teaching. Adapted from publisher's description.

Literature to Support the Australian Curriculum contains annotated lists of literature which support the new Australian curriculum. Sections include: Asian themes, Indigenous themes, Sustainability themes, Poetry books, Books suitable for class sets and Books suitable for reading out loud. For primary and secondary. Adapted from publisher's description.

This book provides annotated lists of a wide range of books covering all topics in the Australian Curriculum: History, from Personal Histories for the Foundation year students to the Shogun Japan for year 8 and Vietnam and the Environmental Movement of the 1960s. Adapted from review on the publisher's website.