Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research

Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research

Helen Askell-Williams

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 381

ISBN13: 9781466674950|ISBN10: 1466674954|EISBN13: 9781466674967

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7495-0

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The field of education is a vital component of today’s society, enriching and facilitating the attainment of new knowledge. Progress continues to be achieved in this area as new methods are envisioned that increase education’s value.

Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research brings together diverse perspectives that underscore the importance of research practices toward the enrichment of teaching. Highlighting themes of learning, diversity, education communities, and student wellbeing, this book is an essential reference source for teacher educators, researchers, teaching practitioners, and professionals interested in the value of research within the field of education.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series

List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

Learning

Chapter 1

Changes in Students' Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use over Five Years of Secondary Schooling (pages 1-19)

Helen Askell-Williams, Michael J. Lawson

As students progress through school, we expect that their knowledge about the various subject matters, such as biology or maths, becomes more extensive, well structured, and readily available for application in diverse contexts. This...

Chapter 2

Valuing Learning in, through, and about Sport-Physical Education and the Development of Sport Literacy (pages 20-35)

Shane Pill

This chapter offers a clear and convincing argument for reconceptualising current approaches and dominant paradigms at play in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE). Throughout the study reported in this chapter, the author...

Chapter 3

Visual Mental Imagery: A Key Representational Format (pages 36-50)

Lihui Wang, Michael J. Lawson

Opinions diverge on the nature of visual mental imagery as a form of representation. Researchers adopting the pictorial position propose that visual mental imagery is concrete and pictorial in nature. Researchers adopting the...

Chapter 4

Modelling Teachers' Promotion of Powerful Positive Affect in the Primary Mathematics Classroom (pages 51-78)

Shaileigh Page, Julie Clark

This chapter describes and analyses teachers' promotion of powerful positive affect in primary mathematics classrooms. A qualitative approach (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005) was used for the study described herein, which focused on the...

Chapter 5

Students' Strategies for Planning and Reflecting on the Process of Carrying out the International Baccalaureate Personal Project (pages 79-98)

Penny Van Deur

Students in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools running the Middle Years Programme have been involved in completing the IB Personal Project for a number of years. This chapter describes how the IB approach to research influences...

Diversity

Chapter 6

The Schooling Experiences of African Youth from Refugee Backgrounds in South Australia: Key Findings and Implications for Educational Practice (pages 100-124)

Svetlana M. King, Laurence Owens

African students from refugee backgrounds constitute a special group in Australian schools because of their complex lives and previous schooling and life experiences that are unlike most of their non-refugee peers. This chapter draws...

Chapter 7

Analysis of National Test Scores in Very Remote Australian Schools: Understanding the Results through a Different Lens (pages 125-143)

John Guenther

Based on the current research of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, this chapter presents an analysis of the 2012 Australian National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy data from very remote...

Chapter 8

Understanding Adolescent Offending: The Intentions to Transgress (ITT) Model (pages 144-160)

Grace Skrzypiec, Laurence Owens

The purpose of the research reported in this chapter is to provide a theoretically based model to inform educational interventions that aim to divert young people from criminal pathways. This chapter outlines the cross-disciplinary...

Chapter 9

The Australian Curriculum: Assessment Practices for Diverse Learners (pages 161-180)

Karyn Carson, Peter Walker

A distinct synergy exists between pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and reporting. The implementation of the new Australian Curriculum F-10 (henceforth abbreviated as “Australian Curriculum”) has provided both opportunities and...

Communities of Practice

Chapter 10

Re-Framing the Formation of Rural Educational Leaders (pages 182-200)

R. John Halsey

The primary purpose of this chapter is to present a rationale for reframing the formation of educational leaders1 that is distinctively rural in its purpose, its character, its ontology, and how it might be progressed. Firstly...

Chapter 11

Shaping a Strengths-Based Approach to Relational Leadership (pages 201-220)

Michael Bell, Carolyn Palmer

Much of the contemporary research and theorising on educational leaders' practices has portrayed leadership as a relatively static set of interactions between entities. In contrast, the social constructionist literature revisits...

Chapter 12

The Impact of School-Community Involvement on Students, Teachers, and the Community (pages 221-239)

Carolyn Gregoric, Laurence Owens

Business and community groups have a long history of involvement in schools. Although their role in schools is gaining prominence and recognition in national and state government education policies, few Australian studies have...

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing

Chapter 13

Social-Emotional Learning and Students' Transition from Kindergarten to Primary School in Italy (pages 241-258)

Valeria Cavioni, Maria Assunta Zanetti

The transition from kindergarten to primary school is a critical period in the development of children. Children who start primary school with good emotional and social skills have more friends, can easily establish new social...

Chapter 14

How Can We Help?: Indirect Aggression among Girls and What to Do about It (pages 259-274)

Laurence Owens

Traditionally, human aggression was thought to be almost entirely the preserve of males. This is because males usually displayed overt physical and verbal behaviour that is noticed. Over the last two decades, researchers have...

Chapter 15

Translating Research Knowledge into Effective School Practice in the Field of Social and Emotional Learning (pages 275-295)

Ann Lendrum, Neil Humphrey

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process of developing intra- and inter-personal competencies in children and young people, typically in school settings. It has become a major orthodoxy in education in recent years. This...

Chapter 16

Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing (pages 296-312)

Grace Skrzypiec, Helen Askell-Williams, Phillip Slee

There has been limited consensus on how young people's wellbeing should be measured (O'Hare & Gutierrez, 2012). One approach, suggested by Lau and Bradshaw (2010), is that people's subjective judgments capture the essence...

Reflections

Chapter 17

Transforming the Future of Learning: People, Positivity, and Pluralism (and Even the Planet) (pages 314-324)

Rosalyn H. Shute

In this final chapter, the author reflects on a number of themes that she identifies as threads running through multiple chapters in this book. After explaining the background that informs her perspectives, she discusses six areas...

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Compilation of References

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