Back to the Future?: Educational Reform, and the Impact on Teaching and Teacher Education in Australia

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen Pugach

The preparation of the nation's teachers has undoubtedly received the greatest attention in this era of educational reform. The multiplicity of plans for its reform and their attendant solutions will no doubt affect the way special education teachers are prepared as well. This article examines the content and structure of teacher education as it relates to proposed reforms and considers the impact of those reforms on the existing structure of teacher preparation in special education. Its primary argument focuses on the need to reconceptualize the preparation of teachers of the mildly handicapped as a response to current efforts to improve the preparation of general classroom teachers.


Author(s):  
Ann Beer

This article provides a brief overview of current educational reform in Quebec, Canada, with a special focus on pluralism and citizenship. The article is organized into the following sections: culture and education in Quebec: a historical perspective; the reform – an overview; curriculum reform; teacher education reform; the challenge of rights, recognition, and school practice: questions for the future.


Author(s):  
Priyastiwi Priyastiwi

The purpose of this article is to provide the basic model of Hofstede and Grays’ cultural values that relates the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and Gray‘s accounting value. This article reviews some studies that prove the model and develop the research in the future. There are some evidences that link the Hofstede’s cultural values studies with the auditor’s judgment and decisions by developing a framework that categorizes the auditor’s judgments and decisions are most likely influenced by cross-cultural differences. The categories include risk assessment, risk decisions and ethical judgments. Understanding the impact of cultural factors on the practice of accounting and financial disclosure is important to achieve the harmonization of international accounting. Deep understanding about how the local values may affect the accounting practices and their impacts on the financial disclosure are important to ensure the international comparability of financial reporting. Gray’s framework (1988) expects how the culture may affect accounting practices at the national level. One area of the future studies will examine the impact of cultural dimensions to the values of accounting, auditing and decision making. Key word : Motivation, leadership style, job satisfaction, performance


2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
I G. A. K. Wardani

Facing the rapid changing world, concern on the future of the nation is increasing. This is due to the fact that a lot of practices in schools, families, as welf as in society do not conform with the etical conduct, moral, and good manner that are universially accepted by human being. Therefore, all people who concern on the future of the nation, especially educators, should aware of the importance of character education, in order to save the future generation from moral degradation. Related to the problem, this aims at trigerring the awareness of educator to the importance of character education, by discussing the conceptual meanings ( what, why, and how) of character education, then followed by the possibility for implementation, and ended with the implication on education and teacher education.


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