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The Aboriginal Family Futures Training
Program - A community based Training Program for Aboriginal people.
John Mallard and Gerard McKelvie - Centre
for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
Accelerated Learning for Everyone.
Dr Tony Owens - Faculty of Education,
Language and Community Services, RMIT University, Australia.
Across the threshold
of home/community and school through the eyes of recent Australian
research: What are we not seeing in our literacy pedagogy - issues
of difference, equity, culture and identity.
Christina Davidson and Jan Connelly - School of Education, University of
Ballarat, Victoria, (45 min. paper).
Acculturation of values in Education
Model Building.
YTM Dr. Tunku Sarah bt. YTM Tunku Mhd.
Jiwa - Faculty of Education, University Technology of Malaysia,
Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Addressing Student Needs in the Transition
to University: An Australian Perspective.
Dr Pam Green -
FELCS, RMIT University, Melbourne.
The Art of Story Telling/Writing.
Siva Prasanna Krishnan
- Head of Department for Languages, Sekolah Menengah Batu
Gajah, Jalan Tanjung Tualang, Perak, (45 min.
paper).
Assessment at the Chalkface - Trends for
the Practitioner
John King - Australian Council For
Educational Research [ACER], Camberwell, Victoria.
The Challenges
of Leading a Learning Organisation into a Global Information
Age.
Jan Parkes - Melbourne
Girls' College, Richmond, Victoria.
(changing nature of field
experience within a preservice teacher education course...)
Maureen Morriss, Bill Eckersley - Department of School and Early Childhood
Education, Melbourne, Victoria. PRESENTERS: Professional Practice
Team Members - RMIT University field experience staff; Field
experience site partners (schools, centres, and workplaces);
Preservice teachers.
Characteristic Features of Planning of
Speech and Production of Secondary School Children's Spontaneous
Speech.
Mária Laczkó,
- Gyál, Tinódi, Budapest, Hungary.
Choices for Indigenous Secondary
Students.
Miss Dina Gollan and Mrs Sue Sifa - Indigenous Education Team, Catholic
Education Office, South Australia.
CITEP: Community Based Indigenous
Teacher Education Program.
Paul Muirhead -
Dept of Curriculum Studies, University of New England,
Armidale, NSW, Australia, (45 min. paper).
The Collaborative
Aspects of On-line Learning: A Pilot Study.
Dr Donald Wilson McMurray and Marinka
Ellen Dunlop - Southern Cross University.
A Computer on
Every Desk: Computer Literacy in the Age of the Web and the Net
.
Professor Robyn Usher
- Director of Research, Faculty of Education and Training,
RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Constructing texts: mixed-modes, multimedia,
literacy and socio-economically disadvantaged students.
Ruth Motley - The
Department of Education, Training and Employment, South Australia.
Creating New Links: using on-line technology
for communication between geographically isolated teaching practitioners.
Beth Marr - IPAE,
Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services, RMIT,
Melbourne Australia.
Culture and Learning: A cross-cultural
comparative study on learning style preferences.
Hariharan N. Krishnasamy and Syaharom
Abdullah - SBPS, Universiti Utara
Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia.
Designing a Decentring of Domination: Multiliteracies-in-action
in a South African high school.
Frank Rumboll -
Saint Stithians College, Randburg , South Africa.
Development of Wood Technology Education
Curriculum in Malaysia.
Salim Hiziroglu, Department of Forestry,
East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
The Development
of Self-Paced Learning Package for Vocational Training in Taiwan.
Prof. Hsi-Chi Hsiao, A/Prof. Chih-feng
Chuang and Dr Chih-Yang Chao - Department
of Industrial Education, National Changhua University of Education,
Changhua City, Taiwan.
Educating culturally-diverse
entrepreneurs: immigrant and indigenous experiences in Australia.
A/Prof. Jock Collins
- University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
The Effects
of art appreciation on Chinese writing ability in primary 3 pupils
in Hong Kong A pilot study.
Vanessa Lok-wa Li
- Department of Creative Arts, The Hong Kong Institute
of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
The Effect
of Interactive Computer Simulation for Certain Post-Secondary
Technical Concept Learning.
A/Prof. Chih-feng Chuang, Dr Chih-Yang
Chao and Prof. Hsi-Chi Hsiao - Department
of Industrial Education, National Changhua University of Education,
Changhua City, Taiwan.
The Effect of
Verbal Tasks on the Speech Performance of Malaysian Learners
of English.
Dr Alias Abd Ghani - English Section,
School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
The English
Reading Habits of ELLS students in Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Ms Sarjit Kaur and Ms Rosy Thiagarajah - School of Humanities, Universiti Sains
Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Explicit
teaching, benchmarks and improved outcomes: Florey Literacy Intervention
Program
Brian McLoughlin and Jan Carr
- Florey Primary School, ACT, Australia.
Exposing some myths surrounding literacy
and unemployment
Marilyn Kell - Faculty of Education,
Language and Community Services, RMIT University.
Facilitating workplace Discourse acquisition:
Developing English I materials in a co-operative learning project
for Commerce Foundation students using English as an Additional
Language at Technikon Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Nicky Sanders -
Technikon Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, South Africa.
Family and staff perspectives
on literacy in the years before school: are they congruent or
incongruent?
Leonie Arthur -
University of western Sydney, Macarthur,
(45 min. paper).
Flashpoints: Effective
modelling of productive cultural diversity in educational settings.
Dr Anne Campbell, Mr Henk Eijkman and
Ms Val Faulkner - Centre for Research
in International Education, University of Canberra, Australia, (90 min. workshop).
Gender Diferences: Challenges In
Education.
T Murugavel - Sri
Venkateswara College of Engineering, Dept. of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Sriperumbudur, India.
Getting it right for Aboriginal students:
Paths to partnership in learning.
Prof. Bernard T Harrison - Edith Cowan
University, Churchlands, Western Australia: Co-authors - Assoc.
Prof. Gary Partington, Korungkurl Katitjin School, Dr John Godfrey,
Dr Mort Harslett and Ms Kay Richer, Edith Cowan University, Mount
Lawley Campus, Western Australia.
GLOW: Good Learning On the World
wide web.
Dr Richard Johnson
- Deakin University, Australia, (45 min.
paper).
Grade Skipping: Lessons From A School.
Vincent Pang - School of Education and
Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
The Impact of Individual Differences
in Learning Styles on the Acquisition of Literacy Skills: A Practical
Approach for Pre-School and Primary School Age Children.
Dr Val Chapman
- University College, Worcester, United Kingdom.
Implementing the inclusive curriculum.
Dr Evelyn Johnson
- Learning and Professional Development, Methodist Ladies
College, Kew, Victoria, Australia.
Improving the status of
teachers: a career path to reward and recognise classroom teachers.
Dr Anne Jasman
- The Australian Institute of Education, Murdoch University,
Western Australia, (45 min. paper).
Incorporating Generic Skills Into the
Curriculum - A Major Project of Curtin Business School.
Mrs Kate Hutcheson
- School of Accounting, Curtin University of Technology,
Perth Western Australia.
Infants and emotional literacy.
The first language.
Berenice Nyland
- RMIT, FELCS, Victoria, Australia.
Influence of the mass communication
system on the processes of reading.
Irina Krassavtseva
- University of Belrus, Minsk, Belrus.
International Education: Strategic planning
and practice in Secondary school.
Presenter: Ms Paddy Teh, Co-Author: Mark
Wade - Cherrybrook Technical High
School, Cherrybrook NSW, Australia.
Investigating literacy
and gender in an Islamic context: A research project.
Robyn Cox - Universiti
Brunei Darussalam.
The Interactive
Paperless Virtual Class for traditional and distance students.
Dr Dan Lim - Instructional
Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Crookston, USA, (45 min. paper).
Internationalising
preservice teacher education: Use of Internet conferencing to
promote greater awareness of cultural differences.
Dr Chris Forlin, Dr Clayton Keller and
Dr Ragnar Thygesen - Dr Chris Forlin,
University of Southern Queensland; Dr Clayton Keller, University
of Minnesota, Duluth; and Dr Ragnar Thygesen, Norwegian University
of Science & Technology, (45 min. paper).
Internet literacies and research in
tertiary academic discourse.
Dr Cecile Badenhorst -
Graduate School of Public and Development Management,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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