Perspective Images of Curriculum (Schubert)

The purpose of this chapter is to sketch with broad strokes the academic area that, during the past century, has come to be known as the curriculum field. While some who technically differentiate terms such as field, discipline, and area of study debate whether curriculum really is a field (see Westbury and Steimer, 1971; Jackson, [...]

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METAPHORS We Live: Concept We Live By (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson)

Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish – a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well [...]

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Constructivism and Interpretive Research

Constructivism and Interpretive Research

Peter C Taylor

Key Centre for School Science and Mathematics
Curtin University of Technology
Perth Australia

Paper presented at seminar, Science Education Center,
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
7 May 1996

Two Faces of Science Education
Janus is the god of Roman mythology who guards doors and gates. As a metaphor,Janus [...]

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Learn from Mathematics: Lesson Plan in Mathematics Using Glasson’s Learning Cycle

Lesson Plan in Mathematics Using Glasson’s Learning Cycle
By Lerry

Year Level : First Year Secondary Students
Section : Heterogeneous Class
No. of Students : 40
Prior knowledge required : Fundamental operation of numbers, Fractions,
Decimals

Lesson 1: Topic Title: Percent

§ Teaching Strategy Applied: Glasson’s Learning [...]

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Experience: Observation Science Classroom at Trinity College, Perth, WA

About Trinity College
Trinity College is one of Catholic school for boys in Perth, Western Australia which is founded in 1894. The school is located in the central city with beautiful view of Swan River which gives the positive learning environments for the students. Trinity College provides the strong religious education, academic excellence, quality music [...]

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Susahnya Berpikir Kritis: Sebuah Refleksi Diri

Tuntutan berpikir kritis menjadi hal utama dalam proses pembelajaran saya di Australia, yang sangat membuat saya tidak nyaman. Di jurusan saya, tidak ada ujian dalam bentuk test yang biasa dilakukan. Tugas-tugas dalam bentuk paper, menuntut mahasiswa untuk memiliki pemahaman terhadap topik yang diberikan sekaligus belajar bepikir kritis. Suasana akademik yang mendukung, dosen-dosen yang sangat low [...]

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What Is the Goal?

I am looking out the lecturers’ room. Since the re-arrangement the university rooms, I am little bit confuse to find out the chemistry lecturer room. Finally, I find it, room 1.6 which I see my colleague read the book. I am still not used to call miss E “my colleague”, because she is my [...]

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My Dilemmas on Research Paradigms

I close the SPSS program on my computer after I finished analysis my quantitative data. I start to look at the data and I am confused how to use those data to give valuable information of my students’ perceptions? How those means, standard deviation, and reliability could represent my students’ voice? I am looking back [...]

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Indonesia vs Australia

Kalau baca judulnya, pasti dah ketebak isinya. Bahkan mungkin banyak orang yang ke luar negeri baik sekedar jalan-jalan ataupun studi, selalu berpendapat Indonesia lebih buruk..(..sedihnya ya..bener ga ya???). Tertarik dari isi milist temen2 sekelas di APS (Australian Partnership Scholarship), beberapa dari kita tetap berpikir lebih baik tinggal di Indonesia (beda ya??..he2), gitu juga saya, he2..Sekalipun [...]

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Are you proud to be Indonesian?:The awareness of my nationality

I read through the news on the issue of nationalism, since there are interesting debates on e-mail groups of Indonesian students in Perth about becoming Australia citizen or permanent resident.. The ideas of living overseas or living in Indonesia to give contributions for the country becoming the centre issue related to the nationalism. My eye [...]

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