TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION 1: RESEARCHING POLICY AND CURRICULUM -- POLICY AND CURRICULUM RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGE -- THE CHAPTERS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHANGES IN POLICY RELATED TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE IN AUSTRALIA: THE JOURNEY TOWARDS PEDAGOGICAL LEADERSHIP -- ECEC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA: LANDMARKS OF CHANGE -- Policies for Parent Workforce Participation -- Australia's Quality Agenda: Moving Toward a Focus on ECEC Practice -- The Birth of Australia's Unified Children's Agenda -- Early Childhood Development Strategy -- RESEARCH INFLUENCES ON CURRENT ECEC POLICIES AND PRACTICE -- IN CONCLUSION: ECEC POLICY SHIFTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PEDAGOGICAL LEADERSHIP -- REFERENCES -- PARENTS' EVALUATION OF AN EARLY LEARNING SUPPORT PROGRAM -- METHODOLOGY -- Participants -- Instrument -- Procedure -- RESULTS -- Demographic Sample Information -- Parental Survey Responses -- DISCUSSION -- Benefits for Children -- Benefits for Parents -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FACTORS INFLUENCING AN INDIVIDUAL'S DECISION TO DONATE TO A STATE UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF TWO UNIVERSITIES -- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY -- WHAT DO WE KNOW FROM THE LITERATURE? -- BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY -- Philanthropy in the Australian Higher Education System -- Philanthropy in the Malaysian Higher Education System -- METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY -- Conceptual Framework -- Research Design and Questions -- Instruments -- Sample -- Statistical Methods -- Thematic Methods -- FINDINGS -- Individual Background Factors -- DETERMINANT FACTORS OF PHILANTHROPIC GIVING -- Groups Means Ranks Compared -- Personal Internal Motivations -- Government and Public Policies on Philanthropy -- Institution's Profile -- Social and Cultural Context -- Religious Giving -- DISCUSSION -- Individual Background Factors.

Determining Factors of Giving -- Limitations of the Study -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PREPARING TASMANIAN ENGLISH TEACHERS FOR CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION -- WHAT IS MEANT BY 'SCHOOL CURRICULUM'? -- THE AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: ENGLISH -- LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND LITERACY -- THE PROPOSED STUDY - INVESTIGATING TEACHER CONCERNS AND PD FOR A NEW CURRICULUM -- METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH -- Procedure -- Data Gathering -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MUSICAL ENGAGEMENT AND WELLBEING IN YOUNG GARAGE BANDS -- LEARNING, MUSIC USE AND IDENTITY WORK IN YOUNG GARAGE BANDS -- Introducing Local Menace -- Music and General Wellbeing -- Music and Emotional Life -- Music and Relationships -- Identities and Music -- FINAL REFLECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2: RESEARCHING TEACHERS' EXPERIENCES -- INVESTIGATING TEACHERS' EXPERIENCES -- REFERENCES -- CHALLENGES FACED BY THE MALE PRIMARY TEACHER: A LITERATURE REVIEW -- CONTEXT -- LITERATURE -- DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE -- Fear and Uncertainty -- Role Models for Boys -- Societal Perceptions of Male Primary Teachers -- Schools Perpetuating Gendered Beliefs and Roles -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ART OF PRACTICE: EXPLORING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ARTIST PRACTICE AND TEACHER PRACTICE -- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- METHODS AND TECHNIQUES -- DISCUSSION: THEMES FROM THE NARRATIVES -- Tension -- Conflict -- Reciprocation -- Negotiation -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION OF CREATIVITY RESEARCH -- A HISTORY OF CREATIVITY RESEARCH -- Pre- Christian Understandings of Creativity -- An Eastern View -- Christianity [0-Late 17th Centuries] -- The Enlightenment [Mid-17th to Late-18th Centuries] -- The Industrial Age [19th Century] -- 20th Century: A Time to Take Notice the First 50 Years... -- 1950s-1960s -- 1970s Onward -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

BEGINNING TEACHERS' MATHEMATICAL TEACHER-EFFICACY CONFIDENCE -- BACKGROUND -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Teacher-efficacy -- Early Teaching Experience -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- Preferred Status of Employment -- Employment Gained -- Mathematical Teacher-efficacy Confidence -- Change in MTEC -- Four Factors of Teacher-efficacy -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- JUST GIVE ME A BREAK, WILL YOU? EFFECTS OF UNINTERRUPTED BREAK TIME ON TEACHERS' WORK LIVES -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- THE STUDY -- Data Collection -- Variables -- Analysis -- RESULTS -- UBT Distribution -- Effect of UBT on Sunday Time Allocation -- Effect of UBT on Weekly Time Allocation -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 3: RESEARCHING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES -- ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES -- DEFINING ENGAGEMENT -- THE CHAPTERS -- Personal Engagement -- Academic Engagement -- Intellectual Engagement -- Social Engagement -- Professional Engagement -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES: INDISPENSABLE RESOURCES IN AN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY CONTEXT -- CONTEXT -- METHODOLOGY -- FINDINGS -- Significance of Web-based Technologies -- Instrumentality of Web-based Technologies -- Different Views and Behaviours of Students and Teaching Staff -- Evaluation of Web-based Learning Environment and MyLO -- Challenges Faced and Recommendations Made by the Participants -- DISCUSSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INFORMATION LITERACY: A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE LITERATURE -- SITUATING INFORMATION LITERACY -- In the Beginning: Information as a Physical Resource to be Catalogued, Filed, and Managed -- Shifting Perspectives: Information, Power, and Equality -- Information Literacy in the New Millennium: Implications for Learning in the 21st Century -- DEFINING INFORMATION LITERACY.

Information Literacy: Developing the Definition in Relation to Learning in Modern Society -- Untangling the Terminology: Clarifying Inconsistencies in Language Used -- TECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA -- Digital Technologies: A Snapshot of Access and Use of Technology in Present Day Australia -- FUTURE IMPLICATIONS -- More Access, More Information, More Knowledge? -- REFERENCES -- PROGRESS IN VIDEO-BASED INTERVENTION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM: IMPACTS OF IMITATION SKILLS AND MODEL TYPES -- CHARACTERISTICS AND PREVALENCE OF AUTISM -- VIDEO-BASED INTERVENTION -- AIMS OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT -- METHODS -- Pre-baseline Data Collection -- Imitation Assessment -- METHODS FOR THE THREE STUDIES -- DATA ANALYSIS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Project Synthesis -- Implications for Practice -- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF VBI -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE USE OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS IN EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES -- WHAT IS AN IWB? -- IWBS AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOW-HOW -- TEACHING PEDAGOGY -- STAGES IN TEACHERS' IWB USE -- Substitution -- Accommodation -- Exploration -- Interaction -- Advancement -- INSTRUMENTAL GENESIS -- FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHERS' PROGRESSION IN IWB USE -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS -- IWBs IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 4: RESEARCHING THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS -- INVESTIGATING THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS -- REFERENCES -- FACTORS INFLUENCING MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: A REVIEW -- METHODOLOGY -- MATHEMATICS ANXIETY -- ATTITUDE TOWARDS MATHEMATICS -- PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT -- THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER -- CULTURAL DIFFERENCES -- A PROPOSED MODEL -- REFERENCES -- COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGIES USED BY YEAR 2 STUDENTS -- DEVELOPING COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS -- EARLY ARITHMETICAL STRATEGIES -- METHOD -- Case 1. -- Case 2. -- APPROACH -- RESULTS -- Anna.

John -- DISCUSSION -- What Strategies Are Demonstrated By Year 2 Students Undertaking Computation Tasks? -- How Did These Strategies Change Over Time? -- IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING -- REFERENCES -- STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF VARIATION ON ENTERING TERTIARY EDUCATION -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- Part A -- Part B -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- DEVELOPING A SEQUENCE OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN STATISTICS -- BACKGROUND PLANNING -- Connections to Real World Contexts -- Statistical Investigations -- Curriculum Frameworks -- Development of Understanding -- Data Analysis Software -- Discussion of Background Planning -- SEQUENCE OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPPENDIX 1 -- SECTION 5: RESEARCHING LITERACY DEVELOPMENT -- LITERACY DEVELOPMENT: AN INTERACTIVE PERSPECTIVE -- LITERACY IS A BROAD PEDAGOGICAL DOMAIN -- A Cognitive Model of Literacy Development -- Reciprocal Relationships -- Memory -- Effective Literacy Pedagogy -- Digital Texts -- Profs' Phonics -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LITERACY AND STUDENTS' TRANSITION INTO SECONDARY SCHOOL -- NATIONAL ENGLISH CURRICULUM -- LITERACY AND TRANSITION -- LITERACY -- LITERACY TRANSITION -- THE IMPACT OF TRANSITION -- TRANSITION AND LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT -- PROMOTING TRANSITION -- CURRICULUM CONTINUITY -- COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS -- GENERAL TRANSITION PROGRAMS -- THE TRANSITION EXPERIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ENGAGED YOUNG WRITERS: DIALOGIC CHOICES BEYOND NAPLAN -- THE NAPLAN MARKING GUIDE -- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- ANALYSIS -- HETEROGLOSSIC CONTRACTION -- HETEROGLOSSIC EXPANSION -- THE MONOGLOSSIC -- READER MODELLING -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- EXTERNAL REVIEWERS.