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)

• Time-space compression

• Global consciousness

• (Singh, 2004)

4. Dimensions of Globalisation

• Economic

• Political

• global-national-local; the role of the citizen

• Cultural

• 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.

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7. Australian Education in a Globalised World

• A global policy context

• Culturally diverse classrooms

• Teachers professional identities

8. A New Statement on Australian Schooling

• Five Priorities

• The quality of teaching and school leadership

• Early childhood

• School retention and transitions from school

• Curriculum

• Accountability

• (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

• (Meiers, 2007)

10. Teachers use research and evidence for the overarching purpose of improving teaching and learning (Meiers, 2007, p. 50)

• Research

• Impact on teacher professional learning

• Changes in teaching practices

• Changes in student learning outcomes

11. Defining Real Research

• experts

• numbers (quantitative)

• 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

• Relevance

• Presentation

• Accessibility

13. Engaging with Research

• Confront the research-practice gap by

• getting your hands dirty

• risk taking

• respect for the classroom

• giving support in their room with their kids

• validation

• 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?

• (Gale. 2007)

16. Identifying a Research Issue

• Consider

• • • 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

• • • READ

• • • LISTEN

• • • CONGREGATE with birds of a feather i.e. use the Wiki.

18. Tools to help our research

• Databases

• Endnote

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

• Next week

• 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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• Simon Howell

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