Senator William Proxmire, D-Wisconsin, famously made fun of government waste with his "Golden Fleece" awards, which were "given to the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic example of government waste." In December 1978, he selected the United States office of Education: For spending $219,592 to develop a "curriculum package" to teach college students how to watch television. The product o…
This reflective article considers the impact of policy development and literacy practices in two remote schools in the Northern Territory. It discusses some of the programs that have been introduced and presents some celebratory snapshots of multi-strategy approaches. By highlighting what is working in some communities, the article shows how some approaches are talking back to NAPLAN by detract…
This article reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, with a special focus on issues of language, education, and literacy. The article sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to a range of theoretical persp…
Increasing recognition of the cultural and linguistic diversity that is characteristic of the Australian school population, and the wide distribution of literacy achievement amongst students raises a number of equity issues for policy makers, school leaders, and teachers in all education jurisdictions. These issues are as relevant in the middle years of schools as at all other stages of schooling.
This article reports on research that investigated what teachers and children's caregivers said about literacy education in a school in Hawaii. Drawing from a study that explored understandings about literacy as explained by teachers and caregivers, this paper considers the importance for a school community to unpack and explore the similarities and differences of what literacy means, before th…
The current research included the formation of a clear conceptual framework on the two variables (knowledge management on time and crisis management strategies) and their applicability in the Iraqi environment. In order to know this, the study was applied to the study society represented by the administrative leaders, who are at the level of general manager and their assistants, Baghdad Municip…
Preservice teacher candidates hold disparate repertoires of beliefs and values about teaching. Many construct primitive, underdeveloped knowledge bases that influence their teaching styles and affect their responses to teacher education programs. If teacher education programs do not recognize and addres their prior knowledge, preservice teachers experience little or no change in their values an…
The aim of this study is to evaluate the new Turkish education program that has been being implemented since 2005 gradually in light of teacher suggestions. The study has been done in scanning model. In this study which has been conducted with the purpose of evaluating the newly prepared Turkish education programs, the program has been tried to be evaluated in light of Turkish teachers' opinion…
Early years and primary teachers have a unique opportunity to apply their strong teaching practices, classroom management and understanding of childhood literacy development to teaching a language. They could provide the 'dream scenario' of introducing a subsequent language in a purposeful, social and communicative environment with only a simple level of language acquisition and cultural unders…
Different aspects of diversity have been explored in order to assess whether preservice teachers are being prepared to meet the needs of their diverse student population. Diversity continues to be examined in a fragmented way by looking at issues separately. It seems necessary that prior to assessing preservice teachers' competence in diversity, teacher education programs be examined in their t…