About

Creating New Dialogues is the fifth in a series of annual collected papers produced by doctoral students from the School of Education, The University of Queensland. The work featured within this volume celebrates the innovative work of a new generation of educational researchers. The researchers come from diverse backgrounds and bring to their work varied experiences - but together they constitute the collective that is the postgraduate community within this school.

Using a wide variety of approaches, and investigating a multiplicity of educational contexts, these writers examine what educational research can be in the shifting environment of New Times. The chapters explicate issues ranging from teacher/child interactions through to the implications of policy on identity construction. In their own ways the writers work toward reconstructing competence, power, knowledge and identity.

Constituting a space for ongoing dialogue, this volume embodies the collaborative spirit of diversity and richness that is created through the high levels of scholarship mentored and developed at the School of Education, The University of Queensland.

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Contributions

Foreword
Carolyn Baker

Introduction
New Times, New Dialogues: Educational Research in Transition
Annette Woods, Ros Capeness, Anne Kolatsis

SECTION ONE
Interaction: The construction of the school as an institution

Literacy Competence: Issues of ennoblement and constraint in a Reading Recovery lesson
Annette Woods

Diverse Voices in a Second Language Classroom: Burlesque, Parody and Mimicry
Elizabeth Hirst

Hoax or Swindle: English Teachers as teachers of literacy
Lenore Ferguson

Reading the Transition from Primacy to Secondary School as a Journey by Embodied Selves
Lisa Hunter

Second Language Learning Motivation And Foreign Language Learning Motivation
Yuanfang Yu

SECTION TWO
Policy and Reform: The construction of education according to context

Professional Development and Reserved Space in Public Policy: A Study of the Leadership Training Program from Principals in Hong Kong
Wing-Leong Cheung

What and Who are Held to Change in the Current "The Chance to Change" Document? The focus on science in education: an exercise in governmental reasoning
Shaun Rawolle

Deinstitutionalisation in Queensland or whatever happened to the people who used to live at The University of Queensland, Ipswich campus?
Louise Young

Teacher Professional Learning Communities: Two Queensland Case Studies
Jo Ailwood and Ros Capeness

A Study of School Leadership, Teacher and School Networks
Agli Orr

Pedagogy and Partnership Society: Riane Eisler's Contribution
Ivana Milojevic

SECTION THREE
Society: The construction of education within community

"Say Your Experiences Come On!": A Dominant Husband In An Interview with (Greek) Cypriot-Australian Women
Eleni Petraki

Learning Through Differences: Mothers' Work in a Community Education Setting
Kathy Landvogt

Every Single Mother's Dream: To be Underpaid and Beautiful
Sandra Thibodeaux

The Language of Primary Caregivers and Vocabulary Acquisition In Toddlers: Do Style and Context Matter?
Anne Kolatsis

Communal Divisions in Northern Ireland: Addressing Visual Symbols and Signs
Simone Smala

A Tale of Two Cities: Globalisation, Education, and Governmentality in Singapore and Hong Kong
Wing-Leong Cheung and Ravinder Sidhu

National Education in Singapore: A Situated Response to Globalisation
Aaron Koh

Globalisation and Change in Gender and Cultural Identities of Japanese Female Students in Australia
Takae Ichimoto

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