Download or read book The competency movement and higher education in Australia written by David Battersby and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competency based Education and Training written by Roger Harris and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1995 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of a text which discusses the history of competency-based education and training in Australia and internationally. Analyses the major issues relating to competency and provides step-by-step applications of competency-based education and training. Includes an index and bibliography. Barry Hobart is a professor and Roger Harris an associate professor in adult education and human resource development at the University of South Australia. Hugh Guthrie is a senior research fellow and David Lundberg is the research manager at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.
Download or read book Education and Public Policy in Australia written by Simon Marginson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today.
Download or read book Governing Australia written by Mitchell Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Foucault's discussion of governmentality, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of government. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, and combines theoretical discussion with empirical focus. It includes a substantial introduction by the editors, and contains work critiquing the central notion of governmentality. A range of topics are discussed, including regulation of the unemployed and people with HIV/AIDS, sexual harassment in the military, the corporatisation of education, new contractualism and governing personality. While their topics are varied, the contributors explore a range of shared concerns, including notions of problematisation, expert knowledge, rationality, freedom and autonomy, giving the volume focus and rigour. This book will be essential reading in political science, sociology, law, philosophy, education and economics.
Download or read book Developing Competent Teachers written by David Hustler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, Developing Competent Teachers aims to explore the implications of different ways of thinking about the professional competences of teachers. It does so through case studies of competence frameworks used in a number of teacher education contexts – and, for comparative insights, in social work, nursing and police training. The intended readership is all involved in teacher education: in particular, Higher Education tutors; mentors and senior staff in schools.
Download or read book Connotative Learning written by and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If Freeman Butts Calls Tell Him We Might be Changing Course written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper sets out a number of assumptions underlying Australian education in the 1950s that were identified at that time by Freeman Butts, a visiting US professor of education. These assumptions were a little education is good for all, but much education is good for only a few; increasingly rigid selection of students is required after the first 8 or 9 years of schooling; traditional academic studies are more valuable than non-academic studies; differentiation and specialisation should occur on the grounds of ability, interest and gender; and intellectual attainment needs to be supported by rigid requirements of syllabus, teaching methods and external examinations. Reforms of the 1960s and 1980s are reviewed in this context. In the 1960s there was a shift to comprehensive, coeducational high schools with increased participation up to Year 10 and greater emphasis on social sciences. The 1980s saw a move to increased participation in Years 11 and 12 on the basis that education is good for both the individual and society. Greater student choice and course offerings also occurred, although a strong academic spine continued to attract students. Assumptions underlying the proposed changes of the 1990s are then examined. These assumptions are that postcompulsory education and training is good for all young people; there is a key set of competencies essential for work, social settings, and further education and training; all young people should attain key competencies; both training and school education have roles in delivering key competencies; key competencies are not subject, gender or vocationally dependent; differentiation of schools and training programs is made less significant through a focus on competencies; and evidence of competence is based on explicit performance criteria. These assumptions are seen as significantly different from those identified by Freeman Butts in the 1950s.
Download or read book Educating Australia written by Simon Marginson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a history of three decades of Australian education systems, programs and policies. Drawing on economic and sociological data, key texts and political events, it traces the shift from universal public provision to market systems and examines the implications of this change for the labour market and the economy. An important focus of the book is the discussion of the extension of citizenship through education.
Download or read book Educational Policy and the Politics of Change written by Miriam Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation. This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are taking place. It examines the way in which schools live and work with these changes, and the policies which result from them. The book examines policy making at each level, from perspectives both inside and outside the state bureaucracy. It has a particular focus on social justice. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students will find that this book enables them to understand the reasoning behind the changes they are expected to implement. It will help to prepare them to confront an uncertain educational world, whilst still retaining their enthusiasm for education.
Download or read book Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector written by Jack Frawley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the higher education sector in cultural competence policy and practice. Drawing on lessons learned, current research and emerging evidence, the book examines various innovative approaches and strategies that incorporate Indigenous knowledge and practices into the development and implementation of cultural competence, and considers the most effective approaches for supporting cultural competence in the higher education sector. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and general readers interested in cultural competence policy and practice.
Download or read book Pathways and Participation in Vocational and Technical Education and Training written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD countries have widely differing traditions regarding basic vocational training. This report describes the internal logic and workings of some of these different systems.
Download or read book Outcomes Learning And The Curriculum written by John Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education (NVQs GNVQs etc). It contains contributions from leading experts in the field and, as such, is likely to become the core text in this area. An initial discussion of the main themes leads the reader into a discussion of key ideas and the theory behind the Outcomes approach covering, in addition, issues concerning standards and quality. Areas of the curriculum covered include assessment, modularization, flexible learning and work-based learning, higher level competences and the autonomous learner. It should be of interest to all concerned with the development of the curriculum, ranging from school sixth forms through further and higher education to professional industrial trainers with an interest in the development of education and training in the UK.
Download or read book The Australian Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vocational Quest written by Helen Connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how the schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely to have to change jobs and where work will fill a smaller proportion of their lives. The Vocational Quest maps the evolution of vocationalism in Britain in historical terms and examines how the particular forms that have come into being in the last few years compare with developments in other parts of the world, including Continental Europe, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It argues for new forms of communication and partnership between formal education and training and the wider community, in which values will be shared and no one partner will win at the expense of others.
Download or read book Literacy and the Competencies written by Suzanne Mellor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace written by Christine R. Velde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s economy develops into a more dynamic, fast-moving, and unpredictable entity, it is crucial that the workers who create wealth have the ability to assess and respond to new and unforeseen challenges. In other words, the future will require a more competent workforce. What, though, does this mean in practice? In this, the fully revised second edition of Christine Velde’s book, a variety of researchers from around the world provide a truly international perspective on the issue. They help to redefine the term competence. Rather than responding to challenges using a pre-existing set of skills, they see competence as having the ability to assess new situations, and then adapt one’s response accordingly, particularly in collaboration with others. Providing the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts, the book’s sections explore the concept of competence in industry and vocational education, in schools and colleges, in small businesses and companies, and in universities. The interpretation, experience and teaching of competence in the workplace is boiled down to five essential components that in themselves represent an argument for a more holistic conception of competence. Velde herself concludes the book by synthesizing and reflecting on the contents. This book provides the reader with insightful perspectives on competence, and the characteristics of learning environments in different workplace contexts. Drawing on phenomenographic insights allows it to present a more enlightened view of competence, at the same time as opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace. Useful not only to educators and researchers, this volume will also assist leaders and managers in a variety of contexts to develop more meaningful workplaces.
Download or read book The Australian Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
