1. Module Two
What are the educational issues facing Australian education in
a global society?
2. This module aims to:
explore issues currently impacting on Australian education
understand the research-practice nexus
identify a topic for further investigation in your
assignment
extend your information literacy skills
3. A Globalised World
A world characterised by accelerated international flows of
goods, capital, labour, services, and information that have
occurred in response to improved transport, the seemingly limitless
revolution in communications technologies, and the deregulatory
policies adopted in many countries during the past two decades
(Green, 1999, p. 57)
4. Dimensions of Globalisation
global-national-local; the role of the citizen
standardisation & fragmentation ; cultural homogeneity
& cultural heterogeneity
(Appadurai, 1996 ; Burbules & Torres, 2000; Rizvi, 2000;
Smelser, 2003)
5. Reflecting on Globalisation and Education
Consider each of the three dimensions of globalisation.
What evidence have you seen of each dimension in educational
contexts?
Identify examples that have had a positive/negative
impact.
Outline your position on the relationship between globalisation
and education.
6.
7. Australian Education in a Globalised World
Culturally diverse classrooms
Teachers professional identities
8. A New Statement on Australian Schooling
The quality of teaching and school leadership
School retention and transitions from school
(Council for the Australian Federation Review Steering
Committee, 2007)
9. Research can help us to meet these challenges by:
improving teaching & learning
strengthening professional knowledge
developing skills to enhance teaching practice
leading to more successful student outcomes
10. Teachers use research and evidence for the overarching
purpose of improving teaching and learning (Meiers, 2007, p. 50)
Impact on teacher professional learning
Changes in teaching practices
Changes in student learning outcomes
11. Defining Real Research
reflection: thinking about what you are doing
thinking differently about educational problems
conversations with colleagues
teacher interests v researcher interests
questions of prestige & status
12. The research-practice gap
13. Engaging with Research
Confront the research-practice gap by
respect for the classroom
giving support in their room with their kids
create a culture of professional learning: a collective
activity
positioning teachers as experts and learners
14. Reflecting on Teaching & Teachers professional learning
Is teaching a private and personal activity OR
Is teaching a professional activity that can be continuously
improved if it is made public and examined openly?
15. Questions for Professional Learning
What should be the purposes of schooling?
How should it be achieved?
Who should schooling benefit?
What should schooling deliver?
16. Identifying a Research Issue
What makes your eyes light up i.e. what are you passionate
about?
Does it make a difference i.e. is it worth your while to spend
time investigating this issue?
Is it a brick or a wall (not a brick but a line of bricks) i.e.
will your investigation result in an outcome?
17. Strategies to help you in your investigation
CONGREGATE with birds of a feather i.e. use the Wiki.
18. Tools to help our research
19. MODULE TWO ACTIVITY
Read the set readings and study notes
Consider your answer to Question 5 in the Module ONE
activity
Complete the answers to the following three questions:
1. What do I know about Australian education already?
2. What do I want or need to know?
3. How will I go about finding out?
Post your answers in the course Wiki. Your answers to these
questions will be the starting point for work in Module 3.
20. At the end of this module, you should have:
Read the set readings and study notes
Completed the activities for self-reflection
Identified a topic for further investigation in your
assignment.
Posted your answers to the three questions in the Module 2
Activity on the course Wiki.
Entered your Introduction and completed Module 1 Activity 1 on
the Course Wiki if you have not already done so.
Completed your answers to the Module 1 Activity 2
Extended your knowledge of the library databases
Become familiar with the Endnote software program
21. endnote
5pm room 2:25 in the library
We will explore endnote and you will begin your own endnote
library.
Bring at least one reference with you so you can begin your own
endnote library
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