Product Description: Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students...read more

This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new ‘post-progressivist’ model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative ‘self-corrective’ trend in the case-study schools.

Product Description: This collection seeks to define the emerging field of "ubiquitous learning," an educational paradigm made possible in part by the omnipresence of digital media, supporting new modes of knowledge creation, communication, and access...read more

Product Description: Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism...read more

Product Description: Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism...read more

Product Description: Learning for the Future examines the ways in which the changing purpose of education influence the development of new identities and new human capabilities. There is an emerging need to recognise different forms of cultural capital and competence and to facilitate "border crossings" through the education of whole persons for a multicultural and global era, as well as a need to work towards equity in and through education...read more

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Product Description: What is an essay question really looking for? And how do you deliver it? * How do different subjects require different types of essay? * What are the different types of questions asked in essays and exams, and what are they looking for? * How do you organise information for different questions? * What words should you look for? * How can this help you in essays and exams? This books answers these questions and shows you how to use three basic types of essay to help you write more successfully in essays and exams...read more