Have we made advances in eliminating sex role stereotyping in the materials we use in our pre-schools and junior schools? Do we now show young children that women are active exciting people found often in occupational roles as well as domestic roles?
Those of you who believe not, are right ...

For some years now the Finke River Mission has been concerned about the educational programme at Hermannsburg. There was very low correlation between the amount of effort and resources provided and the results, particularly academic progress. Associated with this was always the problem of non-Aboriginal teacher morale, with a resultant ...

During the last decade, we have heard a good deal about the need for curriculum change in the secondary schools. The Educational Development Conference reports, the Johnson Report, and the McCombs Report have made probably the most significant contributions. Their arguments frequently focus on the 'hidden curriculum', aspects of school ...

Curriculum developers have in the past almost invariably structured and developed curricula from the perspective of the teacher. Our contention is that no matter what curriculum framework is employed, nor what principles teachers use in organizing the subject matter, learners are going to structure that subject matter in their own ...

Children say they can write but that they can not read. They can hold a crayon, marker, pencil or some other kind of writing instrument and they can produce some form of written expression. When this school year began I wanted to find out what my first graders attending the ...

All classroom teachers make quantitative assessments of how well their students are performing and frequently must combine marks from several different essays, tests, exercises or subjects to obtain an overall measure of achievement. At the simplest level, a teacher may combine the several marks for the essays or extended answers ...

Learning to read is a remarkable human achievement: a possibility realized by the invention of written language. Each new member of our culture is expected to make use of this invention. How do children learn the skills which enable them to do this?

Project PATH is investigating issues and developing material for Parents As Teachers of the Handicapped. It was set up at the University of Waikato in February 1978 and will end in September 1981. The philosophy behind it comes from three powerful ideas which have emerged in the last decade, ideas ...

We in Australia and New Zealand are proud of the way we broke free of the British class system when we set up our own nations. In the new lands Jack and Jill became as good as the Master and Mistress. However, as the world becomes economically, if not culturally ...

Once upon a time there was a passerby who stopped to watch three workmen going about their labours on a building site. After a time he approached each of the workmen in turn and asked them what they were doing. The first man replied: 'I 'm laying bricks, for $4.50 ...