Submissions from 2020
The gateway science: A review of astronomy in the OECD school curricula, including China and South Africa, Saeed Salimpour, Sophie Bartlett, Michael T. Fitzgerald, David H. McKinnon, K. Ross Cutts, C. Renee James, Scott Miller, Lena Danaia, Robert P. Hollow, Sergio Cabezon, Michel Faye, Akihiko Tomita, Charles Max, Michael de Korte, Cyrille Baudouin, Daina Birkenbauma, Maria Kallery, Sara Anjos, Qixuan Wu, Hye-eun Chu, Eileen Slater, and Amelia Ortiz-Gil
Exploring the cosmos: The challenge of identifying patterns and conceptual progressions from student survey responses in cosmology, Saeed Salimpour, Russell Tytler, and Michael Fitzgerald
Pedometers for measuring physical activity in children and adolescents, Joseph J. Scott
The ‘obvious’ stuff: Exploring the mundane realities of students’ digital technology use in school, Neil Selwyn, Selena Nemorin, Scott Bulfin, and Nicola F. Johnson
Generation 1.5 learners: Using an arts-informed, grounded theory approach to understanding how these students managed their undergraduate studies in a Perth-based, public university in Western Australia over an academic year, Elizabeth Jane Charlotte Serventy
Australian attitudes towards privacy of information: Will COVID-19 make a difference?, Leah Shanley, Michael Johnstone, Michael Crowley, and Patryk Szewczyk
7 tips to help kids feeling anxious about going back to school, Mandie Shean
8 tips on what to tell your kids about coronavirus, Mandie Shean
Parents, you don’t always need to entertain your kids – boredom is good for them, Mandie Shean
Building emotional safety for students in school environments: Challenges and opportunities, Mandie Shean and David Mander
Yes, there’s money in the budget for school chaplains. But that doesn’t mean your child will be preached to, Mandy Shean
A measure of classroom management: Validation of a pre-service teacher self-efficacy scale, Eileen Slater and Susan Main
“Becoming a Better Teacher” Exploring the cultural competence of non-Aboriginal teachers in a northern Australian boarding school, Megan Hayley Spiers
Alannah, Bree and CASSIE: The ABC of girls on the Autism Spectrum in early years classrooms, Jillian Stansfield
Primary school teachers’ experience of mathematics education: A phenomenological study, Sarah Jane Tamburri
Lower secondary students’ perspectives towards Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) at three Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) schools, Ekaterina Thiveos
Enacting dialogic pedagogy in primary literacy classrooms: Insights from systemic functional linguistics, Anne Thwaite, Pauline Jones, and Alyson Simpson
No STEM success without way more maths, Lynette Vernon
Setting policy and student agency in physical education: Students as policy actors, Shaun D. Wilkinson and Dawn Penney
The enactment of setting policy in secondary school physical education, Shaun D. Wilkinson, Dawn Penney, Linda Allin, and Paul Potrac
The implications of the non-linguistic modes of meaning for language learners in science: a review, Melanie Williams
Montessori, Steiner or Reggio Emilia: which childcare philosophy is best for your family?, Nadia Wilson-Ali and Marianne Knaus
Investigating communicative dissonance within relationships of adults with Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD Level 1), Bronwyn Maree Wilson
Utilizing small telescopes operated by citizen scientists for transiting exoplanet follow-up, Robert T. Zellem, Kyle A. Pearson, Ethan Blaser, Martin Fowler, David R. Ciardi, Anya Biferno, Bob Massey, Franck Marchis, Robert Baer, Conley Ball, Mike Chasin, Mike Conley, Scott Dixon, Elizabeth Fletcher, Saneyda Hernandez, Sujay Nair, Quinn Perian, Frank Sienkiewicz, Kalee Tock, Vivek Vijayakumar, Mark R. Swain, Gael M. Roudier, Geoffrey Bryden, Dennis M. Conti, Delores H. Hill, Carl W. Hergenrother, Mary Dussault, Stephen R. Kane, Michael Fitzgerald, Pat Boyce, Laura Peticolas, Wilfred Gee, Lynn Cominsky, Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman, Denise Smith, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, John Engelke, Alexandra Iturralde, Diana Dragomir, Nemanja Jovanovic, Brandon Lawton, Emmanuel Arbouch, Marc Kuchner, and Arnaud Malvache
Submissions from 2019
“Portray cultures other than ours”: How children’s literature is being used to support the diversity goals of the Australian Early Years Learning Framework, Helen Adam, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, and Yvonne Haig
Cultural diversity and children’s literature: Kindergarten educators’ practices to support principles of cultural diversity through book sharing, Helen Joanne Adam
Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started, Helen Joanne Adam
Data on parametric influence of microwave-assisted extraction on the recovery yield, total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of Phaleria macrocarpa fruit peel extract, Oluwaseun R. Alara, Siti K. A. Mudalip, Nour H. Abdurahman, Mohammed S. Mahmoud, and Emmanuel O. Obanijesu
EALD students at university level: Strengthening the evidence base for programmatic initiatives, Sophie Arkoudis and Anne Harris
The impact of a flipped classroom approach on student learning experience, Isaiah T. Awidi and Mark Paynter
Facebook group in the learning design of a higher education course: An analysis of factors influencing positive learning experience for students, Isaiah T. Awidi, Mark Paynter, and Tijana Vujosevic
Learning through play in early childhood education, Lennie Barblett and Marianne Knaus
Factors enabling a successful transition to boarding school for Australian Aboriginal students, Peter Barrett
Does theory matter? Reflection, transformation and agency after receiving a doctoral award, Donna Barwood
Pre-service teachers, co-creating sun safety education for adolescents, Donna Barwood and Andy Jones
Shimmering: Animating multispecies relations with Wurundjeri Country, Mindy Blaise and Catherine Hamm
Punk feminism and #FEAS: A low-brow protest of academic sexism, Mindy Blaise, Linda Knight, and Emily Grey
Enacting feminist materialist movement pedagogies in the early years, Mindy Blaise and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Listening to and telling a rush of unruly natureculture gender stories, Mindy Blaise and Tonya Rooney
Weather wanderings, Mindy Blaise, Tonya Rooney, and Jo Pollitt
Engaging with critical theories and the early childhood curriculum, Mindy Blaise and Sharon Ryan
An Investigation of secondary student perceptions of fairness about assessment processes implemented by their teachers, Tania Blazevic
Management of universal basic education policy in the villages in Nigeria, Stephen D. Bolaji, Glenda Campbell-Evans, and Jan Rosemary Gray
Teaching and learning indigenous histories and cultures: at the intersection of school culture and curriculum, Sarah Booth
Learning in a digitally connected classroom: Secondary science teachers’ pedagogical reasoning and practices, Julie Boston
Emerging strategies for Western Australian secondary school jazz ensemble directors: Improving engagement with drum set students, Gregory Roy Brenton
Dynamics that impede and facilitate educational effectiveness in the Philippines, Melanie C. Brooks and Jeffrey S. Brooks
Issues in academic educational research: The impact of current issues on research activity, Natalie Brown
Homeschooled children are far more socially engaged than you might think, Kate Burton and Eileen Slater
What matters most in the design of universal professional learning for school leaders: An international perspective, Matt Byrne, Andy Scott, Carol Caverley, and Liz Wenden
Engaging adolescent Kyrgyzstani EFL students in digital storytelling projects about astronomy, Nadezhda Chubko, Julia E. Morris, David H. McKinnon, Eileen V. Slater, and Geoffrey W. Lummis
SOLO taxonomy as EFL students’ disciplinary literacy evaluation tool in technology-enhanced integrated astronomy course, Nadezhda Chubko, Julia E. Morris, David H. McKinnon, Eileen V. Slater, and Geoffrey W. Lummis
Influence of a drama based education program on the development of empathy in year 10, Western Australian students, Scott Corbett
Why Chinese and Hong Kong students clash in Australia: the patriotic v the protest movement, Christine Cunningham, Clive Barstow, and Wei Zhang
Critical reflections on postgraduate andragogy from the points of view of a Kenyan student and an Australian academic, Christine Cunningham and Eunice Wandei
A long-term investigation of the science teaching efficacy beliefs of multiple cohorts of preservice elementary teachers, James Deehan, David Henry McKinnon, and Lena Danaia
Correction to: What do students believe about effective classroom management? A mixed-methods investigation in Western Australian high schools, Helen Egeberg and Andrew McConney
Creative reuse: The impact artmaking has on raising environmental consciousness, Sue Girak, Geoffrey W. Lummis, and Jackie Johnson
“I feel very fortunate to still be doing what I love”: Later career Performing Arts teachers still keen and committed, Christina Gray, Geoffrey Lowe, Peter Prout, and Sarah Jefferson
Investigating the use of the interactive notebook as a pedagogical tool in a primary music specialist classroom, Kristie Anne Gray
Educational researchers and the regional university: Agents of regional-global transformations, Monica Green (Ed.), Susan Plowright (Ed.), and Nicola F. Johnson (Ed.)
Explainer: what is explicit instruction and how does it help children learn?, Lorraine Hammond
Teachers’ perspectives on the identification of, and provisions for, gifted and talented English as an additional language students, Lucy Byramji Hands
Quality of life and psychological distress in cancer survivors: The role of psycho-social resources for resilience, Craig A. Harms, Lynne Cohen, Julie Ann Pooley, Suzanne K. Chambers, Daniel A. Galvao, and Robert U. Newton
Mobile augmented reality activities in EFL classrooms at a Vietnamese university from the students’ perspective, Diem Thi Ngoc Hoang and Ngoc Thi Bich Nguyen
Managing informal sport participation: Tensions and opportunities, Ruth Jeanes, Ramón Spaaij, Dawn Penney, and Justen O’Connor
Pre-primary teachers’ enacted understandings of explicit instruction of phonics and phonological awareness as evidenced in practice, Helen Faith Jensen
Teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ preparedness to use ICT: a Western Australian perspective, Huifen Jin
Dysfunctional devices in the classroom meet the habitus of the new, Nicola F. Johnson
Teaching with information and communication technologies, Nicola F. Johnson
Using information and communication technologies, Nicola F. Johnson
Rethinking digital forensics, Andrew Jones and Stilianos Vidalis
Performing ‘teacher’: Exploring early career teachers’ becomings, work identities and the [mis-]use of the professional standards in competitive educational assemblages, Kirsten Lambert and Christina Gray
A pedagogical model for integrating blended learning into EFL education in Vietnamese universities, Thi Nguyet Le
Positive veteran teachers: Who are they, and where are they to be found?, Geoffrey Lowe, Christina Gray, Peter Prout, Sarah Jefferson, and Therese Shaw
Still keen and committed: Piloting an instrument for identifying positive veteran teachers, Geoffrey Lowe, Christina Gray, Peter Prout, Sarah Jefferson, and Therese Shaw
Transformational learning in first-year Australian preservice primary teacher, Geoffrey Lummis, Graeme Lock, Clare Freeman, and Catherine A. Ferguson
The self-reported perceptions, readiness and psychological wellbeing of primary school students prior to transitioning to a secondary boarding school, David J. Mander and Leanne Lester
The influence of extrinsic and intrinsic variables on children’s reading frequency and attitudes: An exploration using an artificial neural network, Saiyidi Mat Roni and Margaret Kristin Merga
Parents as partners in learning, Stephanie Louise McDonald
Listening to our best: Making way for passionate veteran teachers to model and lead excellence in effective teaching, learning, and assessment, D. Meister and Peter Prout
School libraries fostering children's literacy and literature learning: Mitigating the barriers, Margaret K. Merga
‘The constant rejections hurt’: Skills and personal attributes needed to successfully complete a thesis by publication, Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason, and Julia E. Morris
‘What do I even call this?’ Challenges and possibilities of undertaking a thesis by publication, Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason, and Julia E. Morris
10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools, Margaret Kristin Merga
Collaborating with teacher librarians to support adolescents’ literacy and literature learning, Margaret Kristin Merga
Do librarians feel that their profession is valued in contemporary schools?, Margaret Kristin Merga
How do librarians in schools support struggling readers?, Margaret Kristin Merga
Librarians in schools as literacy educators, Margaret Kristin Merga
Read aloud to your children to boost their vocabulary, Margaret Kristin Merga
Ten ways teacher librarians improve literacy in schools, Margaret Kristin Merga
Building a school reading culture: Teacher librarians’ perceptions of enabling and constraining factors, Margaret Kristin Merga and Shannon Mason
‘Let’s design a waterproof shoe for a refugee child’: how to teach science and maths so students actually care, Paula Mildenhall
The honey bees game: Engaging and inspiring the community with STEM, Paula Mildenhall, Barbara Sherriff, and B. Cowie
A STEM extended learning project to raise awareness of social justice in a Year 3 primary classroom, P. Mildenhall, B. Cowie, and B. Sherriff
The development of a student engagement instrument for the responding strand in visual arts, Julia Morris
Fluid identities in multiple cultural practices: How practice changes becoming teachers’ perceptions of themselves, Julia Morris and Kathryn Coleman
Helping teachers ‘practise what they teach’ could help them stay teaching for longer, Julia E. Morris and Wesley Imms
Using local rural knowledge to enhance STEM learning for gifted and talented students in Australia, Julia Morris, Eileen Slater, Michael T. Fitzgerald, Geoffrey W. Lummis, and Eddie van Etten