This week Curriculum Leadership presents a summary of the latest volume in the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey, which investigates the quality of schooling for Indigenous children in the State. It provides confronting evidence that the benefits of education remain poorly realised by the vast majority of Western Australian Aboriginal children. While there is a need to acknowledge individual commitment and localised success, the survey findings provide evidence of the need for change and a description of the challenges facing governments, educators, Aboriginal Australians and Australian society in providing educational opportunities for Aboriginal children and youth.
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The key to improving teacher education lies in establishing more realistic resourcing levels rather than moving to a school-based model – EQ Australia.
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The Credit Matrix developed by the Victorian Qualifications Authority offers a model of the kind of broad enabling framework that could achieve a more nationally consistent approach to certification at the senior secondary level – EQ Australia.
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There are prominent calls for school History to focus on a set of of core facts, but the most effective way to explore facts and ideas about the past is within a study of secondary historical sources – Theory and Research in Social Education.View Abstract...
Teachers' research should look beyond narrowly posed issues to examine the sources of problems in education, even if this means criticising current education policy – 2005 AARE conference.View Abstract...