Music Assessment Antipodean Style

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Frank Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
New South ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Public Examination ◽  
Music Assessment ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
School Based ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Pupil Achievement

In the last few years, New South Wales has witnessed a change in the method of assessing pupil achievement in the final stage of secondary education. What was once done through a public examination is now carried out through a combination of the former method together with school-based assessment. This article considers the procedures which have been developed for the two music programmes which are offered in Years 11 and 12, and concludes with an examination of the advantages and disadvantages of the current approach.

Retrieving the forgotten influence of Herbart on subject English

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Don Carter
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
New South ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Content Type ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
School Based ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
New Education ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the strong influence of Herbartian ideas on the first secondary school-based English course (1911) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Whilst previous research has established the influence of the “New Education” on the (NSW Director of Education, Peter Board, the architect of the) 1911 courses, no specific analysis of Johann Friedrich Herbart’s educational ideas has been undertaken in relation to this seminal secondary English course. Design/methodology/approach Through using three of Herbart’s key educational ideas as an interpretive framework to analyse the 1911 NSW Courses of Study for High Schools English course, the paper demonstrates the influence of those ideas on this inaugural secondary English course. Findings The analysis reveals that the NSW 1911 secondary English course was influenced by Herbartian educational ideas underpinning the course. Research limitations/implications This paper focuses on the “pre-active”1911 rhetorical English curriculum in NSW, rather than the “enacted” implemented curriculum. Practical implications The paper identifies Herbartian influences on the 1911 NSW English syllabus, revealing important philosophical ideas. Social implications Future English curriculum design will benefit from the identification of the philosophical ideas embedded in the NSW 1911 English curriculum. Originality/value This analysis provides insights into the Herbartian influences on the first secondary English course in NSW.

Amenity enhancement and biodiversity conservation in Australian suburbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
New South ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
Suburban Landscape

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the historical background and current approach of the most common statutory instrument to maintain green landscapes in private residential gardens in cities and townships in suburban New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The narrative presents a transdisciplinary study. While its emphasis is on law and town planning, it also encompasses local government and legal history while touching upon environmental management and ecological science. This panoply of areas reflects the sheer complexity of the topic. While the presentation is initially descriptive, it moves on to a critique of the NSW Government's recent statutory approach. Findings – The paper demands that further attention must be paid to improving the design and architecture of statutory plans and underlying policies to not only improve urban biodiversity but also retain, as far as practicable, the visual beauty of the suburban landscape. This means reliance on local government to devise their own acceptable approaches. Flexibility rather than rigidity is warranted. Originality/value – The amount of scholarly material on this topic is relatively rare. The majority of information relies on excellent on-ground research and experience on the part of local experts, namely council employees and consultants. Academic and practical material must be drawn together to improve biodiversity conservation at both the local and regional spheres.

Transforming Traumatised Children within NSW Department of Education Schools: One School Counsellor's Model for Practise – REWIRE

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Costa
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Developmental Trauma ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
School Based ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
The Impact

Adequately supporting the needs of maltreated and traumatised children within New South Wales (NSW) public education system schools is often frustrated by poor perception of the impact of developmental trauma on children's school-based functioning and the need for additional, specialist support; the push for, and provision of, behaviour diagnoses for these children to fund basic assistance and supervision; competing demands on an overextended School Counselling resource impacting capacity for school-based trauma informed psychological services, and seemingly stretched capacity of government/non-government agencies to reliably provide effective support. This is accompanied by a lack of understanding of behavioural signals of distress children display and underreporting to agencies; persistent, simplistic behaviourist views of children's behaviours within schools and low-level collaboration between schools and external agencies. Facilitating a trauma sensitive environment within NSW schools can ameliorate these frustrations and attend to these inadequacies in a pragmatic, achievable way. This practice paper presents a School Counsellor-led model (REWIRE) for achieving this.

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