The research reported here aims to develop understandings around the expectations and perceptions of Canadian students entering a Graduate Diploma of Education program in an Australian university. The study align well with the theme of "crossing borders", as the study focuses on international students "crossing borders" to…

This research investigated associations between classroom environment and student affective outcomes in Australian secondary schools. The Technology-Rich Outcomes-Focused Learning Environment Inventory (TROFLEI) was used to assess 10 classroom environment dimensions: student cohesiveness, teacher support, involvement, investigation, task…

The field of youth studies appears to have increasingly taken on a self-consciously "international" orientation, characterized by grappling with how to represent local youth identities and social practices within international, transnational, or global contexts. This challenge is repeated across many different types of study and worked…

Ludwig Wittgenstein taught only a couple of Australian philosophers, at Cambridge in the late 1940s, and one of them, Frank "Camo" Jackson (Chair, Philosophy, Monash University) taught the author epistemology and philosophical psychology in the 1970s. In this article, the author describes how this teaching was central to his subsequent…

This article is a comparative discussion of women's and men's development through an analysis of two current influential works. The discussion focuses upon the themes found in "Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind" (Belenkv, Clinchy, Goldberger & Tarule, 1986) and "Iron John: A Book about Men"…

Article investigated the challenges for the arts posed by civilizational transformations. (Author/RK)

This paper discusses the life of Carl Jung, analyzing the relationship to his work of selected events in his life. Biographical elements of Jung's life such as his family and childhood experiences are described, and specific incidents that Jung reported to have had a great impact on his emotional health are highlighted. Jung's professional…

As professionalism and commercialism descend through the ranks or schooling, athletics begin to resemble other forms of school work -- and this destroys their value as a conservative social force and as good theater. (Editors)

Looks at some positive aspects of athletics, particularly football, to share some experiences both personal and vicarious to establish a truism: While athletics may not make great men, some great men have been athletes. (Editors/JF)

Report describes the rationale underlying a procedure for eliciting personal estimates of probabilities utilizing a proper scoring rule, and illustrates some new techniques for calibrating those probabilities and providing better feedback to students learning to assess uncertainty. (Author)

Seen throughout all the goals of education (the development of individuality, self-realization, human relationships, economic efficiency, and civic responsibility), the central purpose of education today is the development of rational powers to create the freedom of mind necessary for dealing with traditional tasks as well as with recent changes.…

Examines the constructs of individuation, differentiation, and identity formation from the individual development and family system theory perspectives. States that individuation and identity formation process encompass both the individual's efforts toward separation from family of origin and impact of these efforts on identity formation and the…

Examines the intellectual development of the French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, who from his earliest work on phenomenology and symbolism to his more recent work on problems of language and text, has made significant contributions to both methodology and theory in the human science. (Author)

Approaches the regulation of aging by perturbing the rate of senescent changes in studying how the modulating agent exerts its effects. Shows that very subtle molecular changes may be involved in the overall regulation of cellular aging. (Author/BL)

Intentionality can be fostered among hearing impaired students by approaches to improve goal setting, striving, and ownership of consequences. (CL)