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| The systemisation of independent schooling in Australia : is unity really strength.
| De Nobile, John | 2015 |
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Title: The systemisation of independent schooling in Australia : is unity really strength.
Author(s): De Nobile, John |
Journal Details: Australian Educational Leader v.37 n.4 p.35-38
Published: Term 4, 2015
ISSN: 1832-8245
Abstract: This article presents some preliminary information in preparation for a national study that will seek to investigate the systemisation of independent schooling in Australia. A number of principals from Adventist and Lutheran schools were interviewed to find out the extent to which systemisation is occurring (or not) among types of schools, identify potential benefits and advantages of drawing closer together as a system, and to look at how they saw their systems developing in the future. The article concludes with implications for school leadership.
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=209739
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| The Alice : learning in the 21st century.
| Qualischefski, Rebecca
Synnott, Anita
Casey, Andrew | 2010 |
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Title: The Alice : learning in the 21st century.
Author(s): Qualischefski, Rebecca | Synnott, Anita | Casey, Andrew |
Journal Details: Teacher n.215 p.14-16
Published: October 2010
ISSN: 1449-9274
Abstract: Yirara College of the Finke River Mission in Alice Springs provides a wide range of resources and opportunities for students to gain knowledge and skills in the use of information and communication technology (ICT). Students have access to three computer labs, while several classes utilise personal laptops daily within their programs. Elective classes enable many students to explore a larger range of media and software applications. In these sessions students create their own productions using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story, and Comic Life, developed by a company called plasq. In 2010, Yirara invested in 30 literacy-based and numeracy-based foundation bundle licences of SuccessMaker, an individualised multimedia learning program. ICTs are also used for career development, with each student creating a profile, an action plan and a resumé that can be updated as required. In the classroom, Microsoft Word is used for publishing, and other software is used in science education, along with an interactive whiteboard for completing quizzes, to vote in online polls, browse websites and watch ABC TV's 'Behind the News'. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=186702
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| Building bridges : designing shared-resource schools.
| Chester, Max | 2010 |
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Title: Building bridges : designing shared-resource schools.
Author(s): Chester, Max |
Journal Details: Professional Educator v.9 n.1 p.8-13
Published: March 2010
ISSN: 1447-3607
Abstract: The Commonwealth government pilot program, 'New Directions for our Schools: Local Schools Working together', is encouraging schools to share educational facilities and is doing more than breaking down the barriers between government, independent and Catholic schools. Early and evolving examples of shared resources are libraries, science laboratories, administration facilities, performing arts facilities, before-school and after-school care, halls and gymnasiums - some of which have been successful, some not quite so successful. The sharing of resource facilities is now a policy initiative, however, with the federal government's pilot program funding about 25 projects across Australia. The article outlines several projects that are either already established or are in the planning stage. The author concludes that as the pilot program unfolds we are beginning to see that the sharing of resources has additional benefits, such as the breaking down of prejudice in communities. There has been, however, hesitancy in some Catholic and Lutheran schools concerned about becoming too involved in sharing or bridging school cultures, perhaps due to a protective element that may have arisen from hard-won gains over many decades. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=182092
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| Celebrating success in the middle years.
| Crichton, Rebecca O'Grady | 2010 |
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Title: Celebrating success in the middle years.
Author(s): Crichton, Rebecca O'Grady |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Middle Schooling v.10 n.1 p.32-34
Published: June 2010
ISSN: 1445-2928
Abstract: Success is a term so closely linked to teaching and learning. Educators have their own methods they use to determine whether or not their students are achieving success. However, do they measure success in the same way as their students do? Which experiences and emotions do middle years students relate to a sense of achievement? At Concordia Lutheran College' Redlands Campus in Toowoomba, an event was designed to enable students to reflect upon their personal success, share their success with the wider community and achieve success through the participation in the school's first 'Success in the Middle years Evening'. The article describes how these successes were celebrated, with the students planning the events, designing displays, reflecting and problem-solving. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=183687
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| Icons in religious education : inviting students to enter into a gift.
| Carroll, Sandra
Jacqueline, Dominique | 2010 |
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Title: Icons in religious education : inviting students to enter into a gift.
Author(s): Carroll, Sandra | Jacqueline, Dominique |
Journal Details: Religious Education Journal of Australia v.26 n.1 p.27-31
Published: 2010
ISSN: 0815-3094
Abstract: This paper describes a workshop using an interactive process in which participants engage with an icon, asking of it a series of questions. Websites are provided for future retrieval by teachers. The workshop modelled a process that can be applied in a range of educational settings. It proposes the creation of a teaching and learning space that gives room for reflection and metacognition and serves as a catalyst for the learner to make connections between the icon and his/her own personal story. The workshop focused particularly on some icons of baptism. Background information on elements of icons was provided to enable participants to understand the purpose and language of icons. Hull's gift of the child pedagogy is discussed at length in this paper. The gift to the child method provided the initial idea and continues to inspire and influence the direction of this religious education endeavour. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=183610
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| Mobile learning technologies at St James Lutheran College.
| Pentti, Amanda
Bartels, Derek
Altmann, Shane | 2010 |
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Title: Mobile learning technologies at St James Lutheran College.
Author(s): Pentti, Amanda | Bartels, Derek | Altmann, Shane |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Middle Schooling v.10 n.1 p.22-24
Published: June 2010
ISSN: 1445-2928
Abstract: St James Lutheran College at Hervey Bay, Queensland commenced the intake of secondary students in 2010 with two Year 8 classes. An innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) program is being developed, including an emphasis on laptops and hand-held devices. The college has launched a 1:1 iPod initiative that provides mobility and flexibility in learning supported through the use of Apple iPod Touch technologies. Every Year 8 student and their teachers have been given an Apple iPod Touch mobile device which has access to WiFi Internet. The iPod Touch devices enable every Year 8 student to deal with rich content as well as Internet-based activities almost any time and anywhere. Those involved with the 1:1 iPod initiative at St James are seeing a shift from teachers delivering an information product to be worked through and fed back by the students to a mode of exchange where the teacher and students are mutually involved in assembling and dissembling ideas, images and products. Co-creators both 'play' with the technology and make errors. The teachers are experimenting and learning from their errors alongside the students. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=183684
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| Reflective learning and student roles in reporting at Faith Lutheran College.
| Osland, Deb | 2010 |
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Title: Reflective learning and student roles in reporting at Faith Lutheran College.
Author(s): Osland, Deb |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Middle Schooling v.10 n.1 p.30-31
Published: June 2010
ISSN: 1445-2928
Abstract: From the establishment of the Middle School at Faith Lutheran College, Redlands in 2003, students have held an important role in the formal reporting process, through reflecting on their own learning. Over the years, their role has been refined, to ensure that they are supported in their preparation for Partnership Meetings (three-way meetings) and also in assisting them to produce specific information relating to the learning journeys and personal growth, which is included in their formal academic reports at the end of each semester. It has always been the school's intention to empower its students in taking more responsibility for their learning and this process has been developed to support that. Over the past seven years the school has learnt by trial and error how this works best, and clear structuring of the formatting of this information has shown to be most valuable. Whilst the reporting program continues to be tailored to suit the emerging needs of young people, the school is at least endeavouring to include their opinions and personal observations as crucial evidence to direct future learning pathways. The students' opinions are valued, and by listening to their ideas in a formal setting and planning the future together, the school aims to help develop well informed independent learners with a true understanding of their gifts and talents. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=183686
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| Innovations in education : tablets.
| Bond, Lee
Iannicelli, Giovanna
Warnant, Pascale
Peres, da Silva, Sheila
Patrick, Rhoda | 2009 |
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Title: Innovations in education : tablets.
Author(s): Bond, Lee | Iannicelli, Giovanna | Warnant, Pascale | Peres, da Silva, Sheila | Patrick, Rhoda |
Journal Details: Teacher n.206 p.38-42
Published: November 2009
ISSN: 1449-9274
Abstract: In this group of three separate articles the authors discuss the use of tablet PCs in educational applications at their schools. In 'Tablets: the smart medicine for teaching and learning', Lee Bond explains how Immanuel Lutheran College on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland is using ICT to make real systemic change in the delivery of education in physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. The project team is also planning to embed the technology in subjects like art, Japanese, music and environmental education. In 'Tablets: integrating infotech', Giovanna Iannicelli explains how the tablet PCs are being used at Adelaide's St Mary's College interdisciplinary Engineering and IT Day, in conjunction with UniSA. Years 9 and 10 attend workshops in robotics and programming. Pascale Warnant, Sheila Peres da Silva and Rhoda Patrick, in 'Tablets: redesigning the learning experience', discuss how tablet PCs are being used at Our Lady of Mercy College in Sydney to develop student understanding of scientific concepts in biology over the next two years. The teachers leading the project will evaluate the impact of the technology on the teaching and learning as well as changes in students' attitudes towards biology. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=179377
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| Remote community Indigenous education.
| Doecke, M. | 2008 |
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Title: Remote community Indigenous education.
Author(s): Doecke, M. |
Journal Details: Independence v.33 n.2 p.10,12,14
Published: 2008
ISSN: 1324-2326
Abstract: In mid-2007, Yirara College in Alice Springs was invited to assist in rebuilding a remote area Indigenous college, Nyangatjatjara College, situated in the south-west of the Northern Territory, as it was suffering from poor governance structure, inexperienced management, low student and staff morale, and poor student attendance. The aim of this arrangement was stabilise the operation, to give local communities a chance to talk about how to get the College functioning properly again, and to think about how they want the College run. 2008 has presented challenges for the new management and staff which include: the difficulty of attracting quality long-term staff; irregular attendance of students; and the behaviour of students. Other initiatives, such as sending students away from the local environment to mainstream boarding schools, is seen as an alternative to the advantages of schooling 'in their own country' where it is considered that learning can be less distracting, and the opportunity for student engagement is greater. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (archived) : http://web.archive.org/web/20110412173853/http://ahisa.zooclients.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/independence_oct2008p1.pdf
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=171924
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| Notions of 'civilisation' and the project to civilise' Aborigines in South Australia in the 1840s.
| Scrimgeour, A. | 2006 |
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Title: Notions of 'civilisation' and the project to civilise' Aborigines in South Australia in the 1840s.
Author(s): Scrimgeour, A. |
Journal Details: History of Education Review v.35 n.1 p.35-46
Published: 2006
ISSN: 0819-8691
Abstract: During the first half of the nineteenth century Aboriginal schools were established in a number of Australian colonies as a part of a project to 'civilise' Aboriginal people. Using the case study of schools established in Adelaide, South Australia, in the 1840s, this article examines differences in the way the notion of 'civilisation' was understood by colonial educators and civilisers, and how these differences impacted on the form of schooling provided. In particular, the article compares the views of German Lutheran missionaries who established the first Aboriginal school in Adelaide in 1839, and those of Governor George Grey, who instituted changes in the approach taken in Aboriginal education which reflected his own views about 'civilisation' and the 'civilising' process. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08198691200600004
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| Hallelujah : school unite on religion and values.
| Holden, Steve | 2004 |
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Title: Hallelujah : school unite on religion and values.
Author(s): Holden, Steve |
Journal Details: Educare News n.145 p.16-17
Published: March 2004
ISSN: 1327-8800
Abstract: The Prime Minister's comments on values education in schools has encouraged considerable debate among educators. This article considers the differences in state and religious schools' approaches to values in education.
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=133321
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| Lutheran future.
| Volk, N. | 2000 |
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Title: Lutheran future.
Author(s): Volk, N. |
Journal Details: Educare News n.100 p.46
Published: January-February 2000
ISSN: 1327-8800
Abstract: This article reprints some findings and strategies of the 1999 Australian Conference on Lutheran Education.
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=99150
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| Social control and the standardisation of the word: Luther and Melanchton's curriculum.
| Luke, C. | 1989 |
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Title: Social control and the standardisation of the word: Luther and Melanchton's curriculum.
Author(s): Luke, C. |
Journal Details: Discourse v.9 n.2 p.69-81
Published: April 1989
ISSN: 0159-6306
Abstract: The foundation of state financed mass schooling in sixteenth century Germany is considered by many the beginning of the pursuit of universal literacy. Lutheran education had as its intent individual access to and interpretation of the word of scripture. The printing press enabled the provision of standardized textbooks, and of school ordinances and curricular documents for the specification of administrative and instructional procedures. This paper reviews Luther's Latin and vernacular school curricula, arguing that they marked the establishment of a new selective tradition of uniform social knowledges, attitudes, beliefs and (textual) skills.
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0159630890090205
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