Education : Research

Jean McNiff's new edition of this well established text includes a general update on the methodological discussions involved in action research and provides case study material and information on supporting action research. more...

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The need to imagine, examine, study, take a proactive stance in regard to and make a steadfast commitment to the future of nursing has never been more imperative. As Bezold et al. (1999: 4) persuasively argue, the nursing profession (and others) have never had a greater need to understand the future, to envision a preferred future, and to develop strategies to create the preferred future than it does today. Vision and commitment are needed more than ever. The reasons for this are twofold. First, the nursing profession world-wide is facing a crisis in recruitment and retention. This crisis, widely recognised as involving ‘the worst nursing shortage in the last 50 years’ (Hodges et al. 2002), is having a significant and negative impact on health care and the capacities of the health care systems around the world (including the Australian health care system) to respond appropriately, safely, and effectively to the health needs of the individuals, groups and communities they serve. There is a critical need for stakeholders to collectively and creatively ‘think and work’ their way out of this crisis. A second key reason is that the health, welfare and well-being of both current and future generations depends on the access, equity, quality and viability of professional nursing services. The accessibility and sustainability of quality nursing services, in turn, depend on nursing futures work and the capacity of this work to ‘confront the will to act’ in regard to the realisation of a preferred healthier future for all (Bezold et al. 1999: 4). In sum, the future of nursing is imperative because: Nursing’s future is inextricably, and rightly so, bound to society’s future and the future of health care (Bezold et al. 1999:8). Australian health care crisis Few would disagree that Australian health care is in a crisis. Despite policies that advocate access and equity to Australia’s health care services, thousands of Australians do not have timely access to a more...

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A collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It takes a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the dilemmas as they have lived through them. more...

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In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have become more successful pursuing their educational goals than boys – especially in educational outcomes relating to literacy. In addition there is evidence from a range of studies that boys regard their school experience less favourably than girls and are less strongly engaged in the work of schools. This paper focuses on students’ achievement and attitudes to school, and the influences that shape different outcomes for boys and girls. Beyond school, a smaller proportion of boys than girls progress to higher education, although a larger proportion of boys participate in vocational education and training programs. Consideration is also given to the broader social development of boys and how schools contribute to that development. more...

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How do young people navigate their way through school, home and the Internet? What value systems are they adopting? What strategies are young people using to learn: problem solving, trial and error, risk taking, common-sense learning, intuition or activity based learning? In order to motivate children to learn in classrooms, educational practices need to evolve from the content and range of young people’s personal experiences. In their first book, The Child’s World (ACER Press 2000), Margaret Robertson and Rod Gerber examined the idea that insight into how children interact with the world around them can be used to improve their ways of learning. Children’s Ways of Knowing explores further the experiences of children as they make sense of their environment. This collection of essays draws on contributions from experts in fields as diverse as education, information technology, popular culture, philosophy, geography, architecture and the environment. more...

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