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Scholars in Context: Prospects and Transitions is an edited collection of papers from Face to Face, the 1996 University of Queensland Graduate School of Education Postgraduate Conference. It presents current research undertaken in one of Australia's largest and leading centres for postgraduate research in education.

The book is divided into three sections: classrooms through different lenses, in which a variety of classroom related issues are addressed through a range of frameworks; the big picture: global issues, which provides national and international perspectives on policy and cultural issues in a range of education sectors; and framing the individual: perspectives and insights, which includes different strands of research into individuals' development in the context of families and schools.

Scholars in Context: Prospects and Transitions demonstrates how current researchers maintain a commitment to innovation and rigour, despite the current uncertainties that bedevil higher education. The work presented here makes a significant contribution to many fields of education research. The range of issues this collection addresses, the variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives adopted, and the scholarship evidenced in each contribution, make this text a valuable compendium of very recent work in education research.

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Contributions

Introduction: Prospects and Transitions: A graduate School prepares for the third millenium
Karen Moni, Merrilyn Goos and John Knight

classrooms through different lenses

• "We Found Out If You Rub Crayon On The Bottom of Chairs They Slide Real Good": Students' accounts of their first semester of High School English
  Karen Moni
• Making Sense of Mathematics: The teacher's role in establishing a classroom community practice
  Merrilyn Goos
• "You can't explain 'Infinity'!" Collective argumentation discourse across primary school subject domains
  Ray Brown
• "What's the Problem?" One Teacher's response to conflict in an early childhood classroom
  Susan Danby
• Relationships Between Musicianship and Mathematical Skill
  Nan Bahr
• The Relationship between Automaticity in Handwriting and Students' Ability to Generate Written Text
  Dian Jones
• Voice Recognition Systems: Their possible uses in education and their effects on compositional styles
  Stephen Pell
• An Investigation of Social and Cognitive Interaction Occurring between Pairs of Year Three Children in a LogoWriter Environment
  Dell Topel

at home and abroad: the big picture

• The Ins and Outs of the Policy Document: Language and process
  Maureen Bella
• Workplace Reform through Overseas Experience
  Feng Guo
• Distance Education and Its Students: A case study from the University of the South Pacific
  Richard Wah
• LOTE in Primary School Contexts
  Jenny Miller
• The Influence of School Context on Adolescents' Reputation, Social Identity and Involvement in 'Tawuran' in Jakarta
  Winarini Mansoer
• Nigerian Higher Education in the Oil-boom Years
  Simeon Weli
• The Implementation of Educational Change in Indonesian Primary Schools
  Ella Yulaelawati
• The Development of Fijian Identity by the Curriculum
  Sam Bogotini
• Multiculturalism in Postmodern Australia: Towards a theory of practice for bicultural schooling
  Neil Hockey

framing the individual: perspectives and insights

• Review of Research on Children's Compliance
  Airong Zhang
• A Multimethod Approach to Examine Mothers' Perceptions of Family Life with and without Disability
  Anna Bower, David Chant and Alan Hayes
• Mastery Motivation: Young children's persistence with challenging tasks
  Linda Gilmore
• Intervention to Promote the Social Integration of Children with Disabilities in a Mainstream Preschool
  Marie de Daunton
• Conceptualising the Effects of Academic-Social Goals: Expanding a frontier of achievement goal theory
  Chi Hung Ng

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