{"title":"The oral language productive vocabulary profile of children starting school: A resource for teachers","authors":"Clarence Green","doi":"10.1177/0004944120982771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944120982771","url":null,"abstract":"The oral language proficiency of students in early education is crucial as teachers draw on this as a resource when developing literacy. There is a need to better understand what this oral language resource consists of at school entry, particularly the diversity amongst children so as to address inequalities. This article reports a study on a key component of oral language, namely productive vocabulary. It profiles the oral language vocabulary in approximately 3.6 million words produced by a large sample of almost 800 children under the age of five. The results are reported in a productive vocabulary resource, structured as a list of 2767 vocabulary targets. This profile represents highly productive vocabulary presumably known by most children as well as more advanced vocabulary not part of every child’s oral language. The article demonstrates the pedagogical implications of this research in the context of the National Literacy Learning Progressions of the Australian National Curriculum.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"41 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944120982771","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41839687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucy Corbett, P. Phongsavan, L. Peralta, A. Bauman
{"title":"Understanding the characteristics of professional development programs for teachers’ health and wellbeing: Implications for research and practice","authors":"Lucy Corbett, P. Phongsavan, L. Peralta, A. Bauman","doi":"10.1177/00049441211003429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00049441211003429","url":null,"abstract":"Professional development (PD) provides an opportunity to promote the psychological, social, and physical health tools teachers require to maintain teacher wellbeing. Despite their potential, little is known about PD programs targeting the health and wellbeing of Australian teachers. This study aimed to summarize the characteristics of Australian PD programs targeted at teacher wellbeing, identify gaps in existing PD and make recommendations for future research and practice. Three search strategies, (1) search engine results, (2) a manual search of known Australian education websites, and (3) requests for information from Australian education organizations, were combined to ensure a comprehensive inventory of PD programs was compiled. This study found 63 PD programs promoting health and wellbeing that currently exist for Australian teachers. Of these, only three provided evidence of their evaluation indicating programs are advertised and implemented without evidence of their effectiveness. Future PD should be evaluated with findings of the evaluations reported publicly so evidence-based programs promoting teacher’s health and wellbeing can be recommended and implemented.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"139 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00049441211003429","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43359517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing African students with refugee backgrounds for transition: School practices","authors":"Tebeje Molla","doi":"10.1177/0004944121997468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944121997468","url":null,"abstract":"For young people, the end of secondary school represents a critical transition point. This article aims at understanding how schools support a particular group of disadvantaged students to transition into education, training, or employment. Drawing on a life-course perspective and with refugee-background African students as an empirical focus, this qualitative case study documents career support practices in nine government schools in the State of Victoria. The findings show that schools provide transition opportunities that support African students to envision their post-school educational and career trajectories. The arrangements include career planning, alternative pathways, and employment of community engagement officers. However, there are persisting challenges that impede this group of students from fully benefiting from these arrangements. The main barriers identified here are academic disengagement, doxic aspirations, misconceptions about qualifications, and low self-efficacy. The article also argues that the persistence of these challenges is attributable at least in part to such overlooked factors of engagement as institutional practices, student agency, and home environment.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"66 1","pages":"5 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944121997468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45440672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School librarians supporting students’ reading for pleasure: A job description analysis","authors":"M. Merga, C. Ferguson","doi":"10.1177/0004944121991275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944121991275","url":null,"abstract":"Reading for pleasure is an undervalued but highly beneficial practice conferring a range of educative and socio-emotional advantages. School librarians may play a key role in supporting reading for pleasure and associated literature advocacy; however, relatively little is known about how reading for pleasure may be valued within the job description of contemporary school librarians. It cannot be assumed that reading for pleasure is positioned as a valued aspect of the school librarians’ educative role in the United States and Australia, given factors such as evolving demands placed on the profession. Through hybrid content analysis of job description documents, this article explores which aspects of the current school librarian role are related to supporting reading for pleasure, comparing expectations between nations. While there are some similarities in the nature of the reading for pleasure role in the United States and Australia, Australian school librarians are far more likely to be expected to foster reading for pleasure.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"153 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944121991275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48993870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Willis, P. Grainger, Stephanie Menzies, R. Dwyer, Sue Simon, Catherine Thiele
{"title":"The role of teachers in mitigating student stress to progress learning","authors":"A. Willis, P. Grainger, Stephanie Menzies, R. Dwyer, Sue Simon, Catherine Thiele","doi":"10.1177/0004944120982756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944120982756","url":null,"abstract":"Many Australian young people experience mental health concerns, academic and study-related stresses, and socio-economic pressures. Phenomenological research conducted among primary and secondary schoolteachers in four Australian states investigated how teachers manage student wellbeing concerns and academic pressures and stresses. Findings identify key stresses that affect students’ performance and how teachers respond to these stresses to progress student learning. Creating space, finding margin, mitigating and reducing pressures and stresses, while upholding academic rigour, are the salient capabilities described by teachers in this study for simultaneously managing student wellbeing concerns and academic performance.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"122 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944120982756","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43745949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sport and academic performance in Australian Indigenous children","authors":"D. Dumuid, Rachel Wilson, T. Olds, John R. Evans","doi":"10.1177/0004944120971373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944120971373","url":null,"abstract":"Objective Sport may promote academic performance through physiological and psychosocial mechanisms. We aimed to examine the association between sports participation and academic performance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Methods Participants were from four successive waves of Australia’s Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (n = 303, baseline age 5–6 y). Cumulative sports participation was regressed against academic performance from two standardised tests. Results Children participating in sport at all four waves performed significantly better than children participating in sport in 0, 2 or 3 waves in Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) Maths (110 vs. 103, 105 and 105, p = 0.007, 0.02 and 0.02, respectively), and better than children participating at two waves in National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) numeracy (438 vs. 409, p = 0.006). There were no significant differences in PAT reading or NAPLAN literacy. Conclusion Sports participation appears to be associated with subsequent better numeracy (2–7 months of learning) in a sample of Australian indigenous children. Fostering sports participation among indigenous children may be an avenue for reducing disadvantage.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"103 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944120971373","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Indigenous leadership in the academy: A methodological approach","authors":"S. K. Coates, M. Trudgett, Susan Page","doi":"10.1177/0004944120969207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944120969207","url":null,"abstract":"Formal Indigenous leadership within Australian universities has expanded significantly in the last decade. Given this advancement, understanding how to integrate Indigenous leadership into existing institutional governance structures is an area that requires investigation. Recognising the need to further examine Indigenous leadership in the higher education governance structure, the Walan Mayiny: Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education project commenced in 2018. This Australian Research Council funded project specifically aims to examine the roles and subsequent responsibilities of senior Indigenous appointments within the Australian higher education sector and senior Indigenous higher education roles across Canada, New Zealand and the United States. In doing so, it investigates the responsibilities, impacts, key advantages and barriers of senior Indigenous appointments within Australian universities from an Indigenous perspective. The article provides details of the theoretical framework and research methods adopted within the Walan Mayiny: Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education project. Preliminary findings and demographic information pertaining to the participants who have currently contributed to the study will be presented in order to help us gain a better understanding of the role and subsequent value of Indigenous leadership within the higher education sector.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"84 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944120969207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41404157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presentation Feedback as an Indigenous methodology","authors":"T. Woodroffe","doi":"10.1177/0004944120969987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944120969987","url":null,"abstract":"This article explains Presentation Feedback as a potential Indigenous methodology realised during a research study. Presentation Feedback methodology involves a three-step method and is considered complementary to other methodologies such as Indigenous women’s standpoint theory and shared epistemology and is explained in this article as culture-specific, adding to the existing knowledge in the field of Indigenous ways of knowing. The Presentation Feedback methodology emerging from the research study helped the Indigenous researcher to utilise an Indigenous lens for more effective communication in the presentation of research concepts and themes at different stages of the research process. The researcher used the feedback from Indigenous audience members to reflect on concepts in and progression of the research. The impact was positive and helped the project gain momentum through Indigenous community support.","PeriodicalId":46741,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"73 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0004944120969987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42516483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}