Where is Australian schooling heading? What forces will shape its future
direction? How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education
institutions for the challenges being thrust on them? With chapters
ranging across the landscape of school-age education, this book proposes
new, evidence-based directions for change in teaching, assessment,
curriculum, funding and system-wide collaboration. It provides a
grounded, forward-looking guide to questions that will be central to
Australia's educational debates, and our performance, in the years
ahead.
Drawing directly on research, innovation and policy analysis at the
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, this book creates an engaging
and rigorous overview of the issues confronting school-age education in
Australia, and provides insights and actions to help shape our responses
into the future. *
*Contents *
*Part 1
Evolving the purposes of schooling
1 Time for a reboot: Shifting away from distractions to improve
Australia's schools - *John Hattie
- 2 The changing role of the teacher in a knowledge economy - *Patrick
Griffin, Lorraine Graham, Susan Marie Harding, Nives Nibali, Narelle
English and Monjurul Alam
- 3 The state of public schooling - Jessica Gerrard *
- 4 Asia Literacy and the Australian curriculum - Fazal Rizvi *
- 5 Curriculum: The challenges and the devil in the details - Lyn
Yates *
- 6 Monitoring learning - Geoff N. Masters *
Part 2
New pathways to student achievement
*7 What is 'school readiness', and how are smooth transitions to school
supported? - Frank Niklas, Collette Tayler and Caroline Cohrssen *
- 8 Chinese: More equal than others - Jane Orton *
- 9 Lying on the floor: Why Australia can lead the world in music
education - Pip Robinson and Ros McMillan *
- 10 Young people at the margins: Where to with education? - *Helen
Stokes and Malcolm Turnbull
- 11 What if you're not going to university? Improving senior secondary
education for young Australians - *John Polesel, Mary Leahy, Suzanne
Rice, Shelley Gillis, Kira Clarke
- 12 From inequality to quality: Challenging the debate on Indigenous
education - *Elizabeth McKinley
Part 3
The role and impact of teachers
*13 Supporting the development of the profession: The impact of a
clinical approach to teacher education - *Larissa McLean Davies, Teresa
Angelico, Barbara Hadlow, Jeana Kriewaldt, Field Rickards, Jane
Thornton, and Peter Wright
- 14 Creating a third space for learning in teacher education - *Helen
Cahill
- 15 Building knowledge about oral language skills into teacher practice
and initial teacher education - *Patricia Eadie, Hannah Stark and Pamela
Snow
- 16 Aligning curriculum, instruction and assessment - *Natasha Ziebell,
Aloysius Ong and David Clarke
Part 4
Challenges of system reform
*17 Hard-to-staff Australian schools: How can we ensure that all
students have access to quality teachers? - *Suzanne Rice, Paul W.
Richardson, Helen M.G. Watt
- 18 Collaboration in pursuit of learning - *Tom Bentley and Sean
Butler
- 19 Aligning student ability with learning opportunity: How can
measures of senior school achievement support better selection for
higher education? - Emmaline Bexley *
- 20 Other people's children: School funding reform in Australia - *Tom
Bentley
- 21 Improving national policy processes in Australian schooling -
*Glenn C. Savage
