Just kids, aged nine to twelve, so you wouldn't expect any great insights from them about the world, would you? I asked them how they thought houses would be different when they grew up. Most thought they'd be bigger and better. One thought they would be smaller because people would ...

It is profoundly disturbing to learn that 70% of Australian 15-year-olds' expect the future to be ended by nuclear war. The research which revealed this was not elaborate. It was called 'Images of the Future'; Australian secondary students at Years 9 and 10 (approximately 15-16 years old) were asked what ...

The story I have to tell is not a particularly cheerful one. Discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin - racial discrimination - is widespread. The evidence for it is well established by research, by the investigations of Commissions and by what we see in front of our eyes in our ...

Helping children become less prejudiced. That is one of our airns as teachers. In Social Studies prejudice often shows up as, 'My
culture, my ways, are right and other cultures, other ways not like mine, are wrong.' Strictly speaking, prejudice is pre-judging, making up our minds without evidence and we ...

The sweeping and controversia1 1978 American Education Act is now challenging many assumptions about the integration of handicapped with nonhandicapped children. The Act stated that al1 handicapped children should be educafed in mainstream schools, except in the most extreme cases. Professor Douglas Biklen of Syracuse University, New York, was commissioned ...

Children often enjoy play fighting and wrestling together. From the preschool years onwards, this kind of play - often called rough-and-tumble play - is a common feature of school playgrounds or any open spaces where children can play. But attitudes to rough-and-tumble (or r&t for short) vary considerably. Some adults ...

Teachers are the keepers of attendance registers. They have a legal obligation to do so. But where there are absences, what can be said? What can be inferred? What can be done? Most research into attendance difficulties has focused on families and their problems. It is true that the vast ...

This discipline strategy is designed for schools rather than single classes. A proper implementation process involving in-service training for all staff is recommended. The strategy requires consistent application by all teachers and administrators. It is only for use when students are being difficult and their disruptive behaviour is making it ...

Schools do not create jobs. They do create school leavers. However, there is no reason why they should create school-leavers who do not have the practical know how to participate competently in life beyond school. In Melbourne schools programmes which join academic study with practical experience have been underway for ...

'Who cares for the caregiver?'. American researcher and' grand old man' of family studies, Urie Bronfenbrenner, asked that question at the Second Early Childhood Convention in 1979. He suggested that the caregiver and the child are like two legs of a stool. For intact families, the 'third leg of the ...