Honouring the incomparable: Honours in Australian universities

The Honours undergraduate degree in Australia is unlike that in most other countries. It has taken on a particular significance as a qualification, as a pathway to and a pre-requisite for direct entry into doctoral programs. This paper explores the outcomes of a study that suggests that the aims, outcomes, curriculum, pedagogical practices, purposes and enrolment patterns of Honours vary substantially across disciplines and university types. It addresses the questions about the diverse nature of Honours programs and questions what this diversity means for Australian higher education in the context where global standardisation of awards is rapidly occurring. Honours is seen variously as a qualification, an experience, or a program. These variations are discussed and it is demonstrated that Honours globally has not one, but many meanings. These meanings are often poorly understood within, and outside the academy. These multiple meanings create confusion about what Honours stands for and inhibit communication about the role and purpose of Honours both within Australia and in a global context. © 2011 UK Crown: The Australian National University.

Is the frame broken? Seeking new metaphors for textual study in English

This article draws from a doctoral study of how female teachers design English curriculum around girls’ popular culture in a contemporary coeducational secondary setting and focuses on how English teachers contemplate the study of texts in the space of school-based curriculum planning. The article presents an argument for reflexivity around how we create both texts and identity through curriculum design; it advocates the pursuit of new metaphors for contemplating the study of text that might challenge models of education as delivery in a neoliberal imaginary, where curriculum design is depicted as the anonymous and rational articulation of aims and pedagogy to achieve outcomes.

Contribuições da CADES para a Educação (Matemática) Secundária no Brasil: uma Descrição da Produção Bibliográfica (1953-1971)

The so called Campaign for the Improvement and Diffusion of High School (in Portuguese, CADES) took place between 1953 and 1971, in Brazil. During this period, the Campaign published or helped publish dozens of books, in different teaching areas, and several of them were located by the authors of this article. These books guided high school teachers with respect to curriculum planning, legal aspects and methods of teaching. In this article, we contextualize historically this Campaign and also mention its objectives. We briefly describe some of the books found - especially those related to the teaching of mathematics - in order to open perspectives for future approaches and research that can be done based on this written material. Our main aim is to discuss its orientations and to provide ingredients that enable the construction of considerations related to this perspective of training mathematics teachers during a period when there were few colleges and universities to prepare teachers in Brazil.

Avaliação sistematizada para professores de alunos com paralisia cerebral (ASPA-PC)

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Undergraduate palliative care teaching in Swiss medical faculties: a nationwide survey and improved learning objectives

BACKGROUND In 2007, a first survey on undergraduate palliative care teaching in Switzerland has revealed major heterogeneity of palliative care content, allocation of hours and distribution throughout the 6 year curriculum in Swiss medical faculties. This second survey in 2012/13 has been initiated as part of the current Swiss national strategy in palliative care (2010 - 2015) to serve as a longitudinal monitoring instrument and as a basis for redefinition of palliative care learning objectives and curriculum planning in our country. METHODS As in 2007, a questionnaire was sent to the deans of all five medical faculties in Switzerland in 2012. It consisted of eight sections: basic background information, current content and hours in dedicated palliative care blocks, current palliative care content in other courses, topics related to palliative care presented in other courses, recent attempts at improving palliative care content, palliative care content in examinations, challenges, and overall summary. Content analysis was performed and the results matched with recommendations from the EAPC for undergraduate training in palliative medicine as well as with recommendations from overseas countries. RESULTS There is a considerable increase in palliative care content, academic teaching staff and hours in all medical faculties compared to 2007. No Swiss medical faculty reaches the range of 40 h dedicated specifically to palliative care as recommended by the EAPC. Topics, teaching methods, distribution throughout different years and compulsory attendance still differ widely. Based on these results, the official Swiss Catalogue of Learning Objectives (SCLO) was complemented with 12 new learning objectives for palliative and end of life care (2013), and a national basic script for palliative care was published (2015). CONCLUSION Performing periodic surveys of palliative care teaching at national medical faculties has proven to be a useful tool to adapt the national teaching framework and to improve the recognition of palliative medicine as an integral part of medical training.

First semester courses Navy V-12 and Engineering Civilians exclusive of freshman engineers.

"Sixteen-week courses November 2, 1945, to February 23, 1946".

Information for graduate students in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Mode of access: Internet.

Content-area standards : phase II advisory panel recommendations.

"Draft."

State goals for learning and sample learning objectives.

"Grades 3,6, 8, 10, 12."

Queensland's music outcomes: building pedagogical bridges

This paper discusses the challenges surrounding the implementation of the Music strand of the new syllabus for secondary teachers within the context of emerging trends in pedagogical reform in Queensland, and identifies several areas where research is needed to inform classroom music teaching practice and to guide teacher training programs. Secondary music teachers (Years 8-10) have not had the same systemic, school-based curriculum guidance that was given to teachers in years 1-7. This has resulted in a plethora of teaching and learning practices in lower secondary classrooms, many of which may be more experiential than developmental in approach and which may have little reference to the types of music programs common in primary classrooms.

Análisis didáctico fenomenológico como instrumento para la planificación currícular por parte de los docentes de matemáticas de la educación básica primaria

La planificación curricular (PC) constituye una de las actividades y competencias más importantes de los docentes en los distintos niveles de la educación escolar en general. Por esta razón en el trabajo de maestría que presentamos nos proponemos reflexionar con los participantes sobre los aportes que puede hacer el Análisis Didáctico Matemático (ADM) en general, y el Análisis Didáctico Fenomenológico (ADF) en particular, al desarrollo de los procesos de PC y de formación profesional relativa a la PC por parte de los docentes de matemáticas de EBP. Para esto nos enmarcamos en la propuesta teórica de los organizadores del currículo (Rico, 1998; Castro, 2001; Rico y Segovia, 2001; Bedoya, 2002) y sobre el ADF (Freudenthal, 1983; Puig, 1997). Desde el punto de vista metodológico se trabajó mediante estrategias de investigación y sistematización de experiencias educativas, que articulan en el diseño procesos de investigación acción y estudio de casos. Se llevaron a cabo talleres de formación docente en los que se propuso la planificación de una unidad didáctica (UD) sobre el CME (Conocimiento Matemático Escolar) de estadística descriptiva para grado quinto, a fin de analizarlas a la luz de las nociones conceptuales y concepciones de los maestros sobre el proceso de PC.

Modelos de gestión pedagógica, en zonas de atención prioritaria: análisis de una experiencia

The “División de Educación para el Trabajo del CIDE, Universidad Nacional”, started a research project for the benefit of educational administrators. The aim of the project is to devise a methodology for the implementation of pedagogical management models, useful to confront the necessities of each educational center. The results are the product of a series of action-reflection-action analysis. The project is being now developed in nine schools located in zones of prioritized focus. Among the most outstanding achievements was the development of their own pedagogical management models, pertinent to the school according to each context. It is expected that the findings will work as a contribution for management in educational institutions.

Comprehension and content : planning literacy curriculum in low socioeconomic and culturally diverse schools

This article reframes comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews literature on current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse and low socioeconomic students, noting the current policy emphasis on the teaching of comprehension as autonomous skills and ‘strategies’. The Four Resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) is used to situate comprehension instruction with an emphasis on student cultural and community knowledge, and substantive intellectual and sociocultural content in elementary and middle school curricula. Illustrations are drawn from research underway on the teaching of literacy in low socioeconomic schools.

Planning to Manage My Teaching in a Democratic Classroom

Preservice teachers consistently report that managing student behaviour is one of their major concerns prior to and during practicum (Capel, 1997; Kyriacou & Stephens, 1999). Not surprisingly, preservice teachers are keen to gain knowledge and understanding of effective classroom management approaches that facilitate the development of positive learning environments in which students are engaged in learning. Establishing democratic teaching practices that allow student choice, communicating in a positive, helpful manner, ensuring the right to teach and the right to learn without disruptions is upheld, and promoting self-discipline are important steps in preventing misbehavior and developing a democratic community of learners.