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Laura B. Perry 《高等教育研究与发展》2018,37(2):343-358
This study uses bibliometric data to assess the performance of educational research in Australian universities. It provides an alternative perspective to the Australian government’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. ERA results suggest that the performance of educational research is substantially less compared to other disciplines, with only a handful of universities performing ‘above world standard’. I use a range of indicators that capture citation impact and journal quality from Elsevier’s SciVal research benchmarking tool to provide an alternative perspective that is authentic, transparent, comprehensive and multi-dimensional. The findings show that most Australian universities are performing above the world average in educational research. Australian universities perform especially well on the citation indicators, with more than 75% of universities performing above the world average on all three indicators. Performance on ERA is only moderately correlated with research performance in my analysis but is strongly related to one indicator, publication volume. This finding suggests that ERA assessments favour large entities and disadvantage smaller ones. The findings also suggest that the current ERA peer-review process may not accurately or fully reflect the performance of educational research in Australia. I anticipate that this alternative, bibliometric-based assessment will be a useful benchmarking tool for a range of purposes. I conclude with recommendations for future research. 相似文献
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Jan Wright 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2008,35(1):1-16
In March 2004, Stephen Ball and others presented a symposium at the conference of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) on the necessity of theory in educational research. Like Ball, I have observed that theory, not just social theory, is a difficult space and one that divides researchers (those comfortable with theory and those less so), within educational research. It is an aspect of educational research training that rarely receives the attention essential for ‘quality’ educational research. In the context of the contemporary research assessment exercises, it is worth reflecting on the relationship between research informed by social theory and expectations of quality and impact. In this paper I revisit the argument made by Ball and others for the necessity of theory, and discuss its role in framing research questions, informing analysis, and promoting reflexivity on the significance and relevance of research. I illustrate this process by discussing the ways theory can assist in the generation of research agendas and questions. I conclude the paper with an example of how a team of educational researchers from Australia, UK and New Zealand have made use of social theory to inform an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project investigating the recontextualisation of health knowledge in schools. 相似文献
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Terri Seddon Dawn Bennett Sue Bennett Janette Bobis Philip Chan Neil Harrison Sue Shore 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2013,40(4):433-451
Processes of national research assessment, such as Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) are a type of audit technology that confronts and steers established institutional identities and traditions. This nexus between policy and practice drives boundary work that diffracts prevailing policy logics, organisational practices, and habits of mind. We use this notion of ‘boundary work’ as an analytical lens for understanding the nature and effects of ERA in the Australian educational research space. This paper explains the methodology that informed the AARE–ACDE research reported in Strategic Capacity Building for Australian Educational Research. It documents the policy logic of ERA and the way it cuts across the established ecology of educational research, revealing social and symbolic work that is remaking the boundaries of educational research. We report on the historical trajectory of Australian educational research, the way ERA codes research outputs, and how educational researchers are repositioning in this shifting research space. We argue that there are specific loci of boundary work where capacity building in Australian educational research can make a difference to future educational knowledge building. 相似文献
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科学管理并合理使用科研经费以及科研成果产业化是高校面临的重要课题。澳大利亚促进科研投入的立法和措施完备,科研管理及绩效评估成熟;澳大利亚国立大学是世界一流的研究型大学,科研管理工作严谨有序,科研成果产业化有效开展。我国高校对其进行借鉴,通过完善制度体系、开展从业教育、健全机构设置等,加强对科研经费的管理并促进科研成果产业化。 相似文献
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Ian Hardy Peter Grootenboer Laurette Bristol 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2016,29(7):925-945
In this article, we utilise recent theorising on praxis and educational development to explore how academics in universities can foster public, institutional and more personal development, even as they are challenged by what are sometimes described as more ‘managerial’ and ‘neoliberal’ conditions. The research draws upon a variety of sources of data, including publicly available correspondence on the university sector in Australia, interviews with colleagues, and personal reflective journals. These data reflect three instances of educational praxis development in the Australian university context, and at three scales/levels: nationally; unit-wide (university/faculty/institute); and sub-unit/individually. The findings reveal such development in the form of: academics using mainstream media to inform the general public about the nature of university industrial relations and funding at a national level; junior and senior academics collaborating and engaging in mentoring practices to build institutional research capacity at a university/institutional level; and, individual academics meeting to develop individual teaching practice. Through explicating the characteristics and value of educational development for and as praxis, we provide resources for hope for better understanding how the work of universities, including their broader mission to inform the public, might be enacted more educationally. 相似文献
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Katharina Bense 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2014,41(4):485-497
Narrative studies with migrant teachers offer new perspectives on local educational practices and policies. As part of a study investigating German migrant teachers’ experiences in Australian language classes, this paper uses narratives to evaluate present language education strategies in Germany and Australia. It examines the provision and uptake of foreign languages as a subject area in the two countries and compares existing educational goals and arrangements regarding language education in Germany and Australia. The German migrant teachers’ accounts illustrate how current school policies and the value placed on language proficiency and multilingualism in the two countries’ education are impacting on learning and teaching in the language classroom. The findings have significant potential to inform and stimulate the evaluation of recent national initiatives in language education in Australia. 相似文献
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Karen GUO 《Frontiers of Education in China》2021,16(1):60-78
The 2014 national curriculum of Australia is a significant initiative that the Australian government has taken in proposing a curriculum that stresses Australia’s engagement with Asia. In practice, this means that Asian cultures, beliefs, environments and the connections between Australia and Asia are embedded in the learning processes of Australian schools. This article provides an analysis of Australia’s engagement with Asia, which is a cross-curriculum priority in the Australian curriculum. In particular, using the example of China, the article examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis involved in Australia’s engagement with Asia from an educational perspective, especially during the global pandemic with the spread of COVID-19 affecting the world so significantly. The intent of this analysis is to map out the educational factors involved and consider what might happen to Australian students and schools as a result of their engagement with the educational cultures, beliefs and practices of China. This is connected to the two countries’ economic engagements and people-to-people ties. By considering some of the current discourses that shape the Australia-China relationships, possibilities are opening up to rethink educational positions. 相似文献
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Kenneth J. Rowe 《The Australian Educational Researcher》1992,19(2):11-22
Persistent calls for closer relations between research and policy from the educational research community in Australia and elsewhere, reflect growing concerns about a perceived lack of impact which educational research has on educational policy formulation and implementation. Rarely, however, is there any systematic attempt on the part of those expressing such concerns to explicate source reasons for the obvious hiatus existing between research and policy. Though not possibly accepted by the prevailing wisdom, several reasons particularly germane to the Australian context are proposed and discussed. The central theme underlying the paper is that there is an acute shortage of researchers (both staff and postgraduate students) in Australian tertiary schools and faculties of education with the training, skills and experience to meet either the current or emerging educational policy agendas of State and Federal governments. The paper argues that this state of affairs, seriously militates against the academic research community’s present and future capacity to make relevant contributions towards government policy requirements for research, unless radical steps are taken to redress these shortages. 相似文献
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澳大利亚学前教育质量评估研究的发展与启示 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
2012年1月,澳大利亚推出了新的"早期教养国家质量框架",该框架包括立法、质量标准、评估程序及评估机构四部分内容。以这一框架为核心,澳大利亚政府鼓励各学术机构参与学前教育质量评估研究,推动了"学前教育有效性研究"等大型评估项目的开展。这告诉我们,必须高度重视评价的作用,拓展评价主体,并不断提高评价质量。政府主导下的多元、科学的评价体系也将是我国学前教育质量评价研究发展的趋势。 相似文献
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Inclusive education in Australia ten years after Salamanca 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Chris Forlin 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2006,21(3):265-277
While many states and territories in Australia were initially a little slow to develop a strong momentum towards inclusive
educational practices, this has been addressed quite dramatically in the past ten years. Acknowledging that each jurisdiction
in Australia has its own department of education and determines its own educational directions this paper will focus on broad
developments across all jurisdictions in order to provide an overall analysis of how inclusive education has evolved. This
discussion paper will focus on systemic changes since the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), involving the education of students
with diverse learning needs. A review of Australian research identifies the implications for specialist peripatetic support
staff, the personal beliefs and values of teachers and the need for more structured pre- and in-service training for teachers
to enable them to meet the educational, social and emotional needs of all children engaged in inclusive experiences. 相似文献
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Richard K. Coll Neil Taylor Mark C. Lay 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(6):725-755
In Australia, education is the responsibility of each of the six states and two territories. Consequently there are significant differences between the science curricula offered by these eight educational authorities. This research analyses the educational significance of these curricular variations. A five‐level categorization of curriculum was used as the framework for the analysis. These five levels extend from the statement of the vision for the learning of science to the assessment of learning. The goal of the analysis was to determine the individual visions and whether they were consistently expressed in the syllabus documents published by the authorities. The study was restricted to physics, biology and chemistry in the senior school. The conclusion is that there is a richness of curriculum design within Australia and much can be learnt from the implicit curriculum experiment that is being undertaken with Australian school students. 相似文献
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Current tendencies in educational research in Sweden are presented and compared to Australia. We here refer to; organization of research, research allocation, publication patterns, and assessments of research qualities. Different trajectories of educational research were identified, where Australian research was organized as a field of study, while Swedish research had a disciplinary organization, which now is eroding into a situation more close to the Australian one. In other aspects the Australian and Swedish trajectories seem to harmonize, except for the fact that RAEs in Sweden are initiated and run by the universities themselves. There are also some differences in how research qualities are assessed and the outcomes of these assessments. Given these findings different strategies to deal with the current situation are discussed. 相似文献
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澳大利亚联邦教育、科学与培训部及相关教育机构对本科教学质量进行评估的重要方式之一是针对全体毕业生进行绩效评估。本文介绍了澳大利亚全国性的绩效评估工具,着重描述了联邦教育、科学与培训部结果绩效指标的数据来源、处理和应用,并就这种评估所存在的问题进行了阐述。 相似文献
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This article is a response to ‘Mapping educational research and its impact on Australian schools’, Chapter 2 of The Impact
of Educational Research, in which researchers Allyson Holbrook, John Ainley, Sid Bourke, John Owen, Philip McKenzie, Sebastian
Mission and Trevor Johnson report on their Commonwealth Education Department commissioned study. They mined the Australian
Education Index and the Bibliography of Education Theses in Australia for patterns in education research in Australia over
the years 1984–1997 and compared the results with additional data obtained from university education faculties, postgraduate
students of education, school principals, system-level administrators and professional associations. 相似文献
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Dawn Bennett Erica Smith Sue Bennett Philip Chan Janette Bobis Neil Harrison Terri Seddon Sue Shore 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2013,40(4):473-492
Educational research has long been the subject of lively and agitated debate, not least because of its diversity. Ranging in scope from academic development and broad-scale policy research through to student engagement and discipline-specific research, it includes methods of traditional academic inquiry and investigations and also less traditional modes of research. However, the topography of Australian educational research and the characteristics of the people who undertake this complex body of work are currently unclear. This paper explores some of the complexities of the Australian research community, drawing on the findings of a national online survey of academics who identified as researching in the field of education from within and outside education schools and faculties. The survey attracted 504 responses from 38 of Australia’s 39 universities, and just over two-thirds of respondents were located in a school or faculty of education. We draw on the results to answer the questions of who is undertaking educational research and who how they might be supported. We utilise a conceptual model that ‘segments’ the educational research workforce represented by the survey respondents, and we conclude by indicating strategies that might be utilised to address research barriers indicated by educational researchers. 相似文献
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Paul Ramsden 《Innovative Higher Education》1994,18(3):177-188
This paper considers some implications for teaching in higher education of quality assurance demands made in circumstances of financial restraint. The paper suggests that responses must be anchored in improvement in student learning. This has implications for university teaching, for the evaluation of its effectiveness and for leadership in universities. The paper commences with a discussion of an understanding of the nature of the relationship between teaching and learning in higher education resulting from an Australian investigation of student perceptions of university teaching. The understanding arising from this study suggests that, given that the environment is an educational one, both evaluation of teaching and educational leadership should be in harmony with effective approaches to learning and teaching.Paul Ramsden is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Griffith Institute for Higher Education at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has taught in polytechnics, universities, and schools in the United Kingdom and Australia. His research field is the influence of teaching and assessment on the quality of student learning. Dr. Ramsden has been professionally involved in faculty development for over 15 years and published the textLearning to Teach in Higher Education, Routledge, New York (1992). He holds degrees from the University of London and the UK Council for Academic Awards, and a Ph.D. from the University of Lancaster. 相似文献
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Administration for innovation in higher education 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The paper commences from the premise that the major paradigms of administration are not appropriate to higher education. Structural approaches place too great an emphasis on the organization and its mission, subjectivist approaches fail to acknowledge the constraints and enablements of structure and the role of continuity and radical change approaches fail to provide a positive basis for administration. The paper outlines an approach to educational administration which addresses these difficulties. It is based on structuration theory together with cooperative learning theory and group work. The paper reports an investigation of an attempt to apply this approach to the administration of a program of teaching awards in an Australian university. It reports some success and some limitations.Peter Ling is engaged in education quality assurance and educational development at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the President of the Victorian Branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia. Dr. Ling's current research is in faculty responses to educational development activities. He holds M.Ed, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne. Lorraine Ling is Chair of the Teaching Center at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. The focus of her research and publication is analysis of administrative systems in education. She has wide experience in schools and in teacher education. She has engaged in educational consultancy, including faculty development, in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She holds an M.Ed, from Deakin University. 相似文献
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《Distance Education》2012,33(2):151-164
This article discusses the role of open and distance learning to widen participation and promote social inclusion within Australian higher education, as well as the benefits that open educational resources (OER) could bring to that context. It also explores some of the most relevant social inclusion policies and related initiatives developed in Australia over the past two decades and their implications for OER. The article then reports the findings of an environmental scan of the use of OER across the higher education sector in Australia as part of a centrally funded research project. The research identifies a number of misconceptions within the higher education community about the nature of OER and reveals the lack of awareness regarding the potential of OER to close the gap between formal and informal education in Australia. Despite the strong evidence of the educational possibilities of OER, they are yet to play a significant role in promoting social inclusion Down Under. 相似文献
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Over the last two decades, teachers in Australia have witnessed multiple incarnations of the idea of ‘educational accountability’ and its enactment. Research into this phenomenon of educational policy and practice has revealed various layers of the concept, particularly its professional, bureaucratic, political and cultural dimensions that are central to the restructuring of educational governance and the reorganization of teachers’ work. Today, accountability constitutes a core concept of neoliberal policy-making in education, both fashioning and normalizing what counts as teacher professionalism in the ‘audit society.’ This article focuses specifically on the recent introduction by the Australian Federal Government of standardised literacy testing in all states across Australia, and raises questions about the impact of this reform on the work practices of English literacy teachers in primary and secondary schools. We draw on data collected as part of a major research project funded by the Australian Research Council, involving interviews with teachers about their experiences of implementing standardised testing. The article traces the ways in which teachers’ work is increasingly being mediated by standardised literacy testing to show how these teachers grapple with the tensions between state-wide mandates and a sense of their professional responsibility for their students. 相似文献