{"product_id":"9780522870411","title":"Educating Australia","description":"Author: Tom Bentley\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522870411\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 18 Jan 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 422\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere is Australian schooling heading? What forces will shape its future direction? How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education institutions for the challenges being thrust on them? With chapters ranging across the landscape of school-age education, this book proposes new, evidence-based directions for change in teaching, assessment, curriculum, funding and system-wide collaboration. It provides a grounded, forward-looking guide to questions that will be central to Australia's educational debates, and our performance, in the years ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Drawing directly on research, innovation and policy analysis at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, this book creates an engaging and rigorous overview of the issues confronting school-age education in Australia, and provides insights and actions to help shape our responses into the future. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eContents \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEvolving the purposes of schooling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 1 Time for a reboot: Shifting away from distractions to improve Australia's schools – \u003ci\u003eJohn Hattie\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 2 The changing role of the teacher in a knowledge economy – \u003ci\u003ePatrick Griffin, Lorraine Graham, Susan Marie Harding, Nives Nibali, Narelle English and Monjurul Alam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 3 The state of public schooling – \u003ci\u003eJessica Gerrard \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 4 Asia Literacy and the Australian curriculum – \u003ci\u003eFazal Rizvi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 5 Curriculum: The challenges and the devil in the details – \u003ci\u003eLyn Yates \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 6 Monitoring learning – \u003ci\u003eGeoff N. Masters \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew pathways to student achievement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e7 What is 'school readiness', and how are smooth transitions to school supported? – \u003ci\u003eFrank Niklas, Collette Tayler and Caroline Cohrssen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 8 Chinese: More equal than others – \u003ci\u003eJane Orton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 9 Lying on the floor: Why Australia can lead the world in music education – \u003ci\u003ePip Robinson and Ros McMillan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Young people at the margins: Where to with education? – \u003ci\u003eHelen Stokes and Malcolm Turnbull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 11 What if you're not going to university? Improving senior secondary education for young Australians – \u003ci\u003eJohn Polesel, Mary Leahy, Suzanne Rice, Shelley Gillis, Kira Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 12 From inequality to quality: Challenging the debate on Indigenous education – \u003ci\u003eElizabeth McKinley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe role and impact of teachers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e13 Supporting the development of the profession: The impact of a clinical approach to teacher education – \u003ci\u003eLarissa McLean Davies, Teresa Angelico, Barbara Hadlow, Jeana Kriewaldt, Field Rickards, Jane Thornton, and Peter Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 14 Creating a third space for learning in teacher education – \u003ci\u003eHelen Cahill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 15 Building knowledge about oral language skills into teacher practice and initial teacher education – \u003ci\u003ePatricia Eadie, Hannah Stark and Pamela Snow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 16 Aligning curriculum, instruction and assessment – \u003ci\u003eNatasha Ziebell, Aloysius Ong and David Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges of system reform\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e17 Hard-to-staff Australian schools: How can we ensure that all students have access to quality teachers? – \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Rice, Paul W. Richardson, Helen M.G. Watt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 18 Collaboration in pursuit of learning – \u003ci\u003eTom Bentley and Sean Butler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 19 Aligning student ability with learning opportunity: How can measures of senior school achievement support better selection for higher education? – \u003ci\u003eEmmaline Bexley \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 20 Other people's children: School funding reform in Australia – \u003ci\u003eTom Bentley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e 21 Improving national policy processes in Australian schooling – \u003ci\u003eGlenn C. 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