Sponsor

Deakin University

Objectives

1. Research; 2. Curriculum Development; 3. Policy Development; 4. Teacher Development; 5. Produce Resources for Schools and Workplaces; 6. Organizes Conferences, Seminars and Workshops; 7. Publishes Research and Development Materials.

Mission

• To promote links with industry and government.

• To undertake consultancies for schools, education systems and agencies.

• To develop specific professional development courses, reports, publications, and materials where commissioned.

Partners

N/A.

Guiding Principles

Publications

• Videos

• Monographs

• Conference Proceedings

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

• Annual seminars with 8 presentations

• Annual two day symposiums

Research Projects

• Contestation over 'national' and 'community' interests in the development of environmental education.

• Practical Mechanics in Primary Mathematics: Fostering links between children's spontaneous concepts and Newtonian mechanics.

• Use of interactive multimedia to enhance teachers' awareness of key characteristics of effective teaching.

• Competing discourses in health and physical education.

• The educative role of community, government and private environmental agencies and groups.

• Teaching for conceptual change in science: Towards a theory of content.

Project Management Plan

Formative Evaluation Plans

N/A

Timeline of Project Activities

Ongoing

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