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BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 893

BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-01
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  • Publisher: BookPOD

SOUNDING 3 begins with Echo 34: DERRIMUTT THE GO-BETWEEN. This clan head of the Bunurong people was the traditional ‘owner’ of the town site that became Melbourne’s CBD on the western side of the river. Bible-bashing Protector Thomas’s journals of camping with the natives at what is now the Botanic Gardens is eye-opening and reveals mind-bending mysteries and misery with grog and gun-control issues that resonate on up to today. This Sounding personalises many local Kulin identities such as Polierong aka Billy Lonsdale and Yabbee aka Billy Hamilton who name-swapped with the early leading townsmen and squatters on their ‘country’. Next follow snippets from Mick Woiwod’s fictional...

Violent Minds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Violent Minds

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

PISA 2012 Results: Students and Money (Volume VI) Financial Literacy Skills for the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

PISA 2012 Results: Students and Money (Volume VI) Financial Literacy Skills for the 21st Century

This sixth volume of PISA 2012 results examines 15-year-old students’ performance in financial literacy in the 18 countries and economies that participated in this optional assessment.

Children’s Mathematics 4-15
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Children’s Mathematics 4-15

The mistakes children make in mathematics are usually not just ‘mistakes’ - they are often intelligent generalizations from previous learning. Following several decades of academic study of such mistakes, the phrase ‘errors and misconceptions’ has recently entered the vocabulary of mathematics teacher education and has become prominent in the curriculum for initial teacher education. The popular view of children’s errors and misconceptions is that they should be corrected as soon as possible. The authors contest this, perceiving them as potential windows into children’s mathematics. Errors may diagnose significant ways of thinking and stages in learning that highlight important o...

PISA Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World First Measures of Cross-Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

PISA Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World First Measures of Cross-Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003

This book examines the results of the special portion of the 2003 PISA survey of student achievement relating to problem-solving skills. It examines how countries can raise their performance in this area and what countries with lower performance levels can learn from those whose students do well.

PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Volume 1: Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Volume 1: Analysis

PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World presents the results from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on science and also assessed mathematics and reading. It is divided into two volumes: the first offers an analysis of the results, the second contains the underlying data.

Educational Research and Innovation The Nature of Problem Solving Using Research to Inspire 21st Century Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Educational Research and Innovation The Nature of Problem Solving Using Research to Inspire 21st Century Learning

Solving non-routine problems is a key competence in a world full of changes, uncertainty and surprise where we strive to achieve so many ambitious goals. But the world is also full of solutions because of the extraordinary competences of humans who search for and find them.

PISA 2009 Results: Learning Trends Changes in Student Performance Since 2000 (Volume V)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

PISA 2009 Results: Learning Trends Changes in Student Performance Since 2000 (Volume V)

This volume of PISA 2009 results looks at the progress countries have made in raising student performance and improving equity in the distribution of learning opportunities.

Teaching mathematics in seven countries : results from the TIMSS 1999 video study
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236
PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background Equity in Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Volume II)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background Equity in Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Volume II)

This volume of PISA's 2009 results looks at how successful education systems moderate the impact of social background and immigrant status on student and school performance.