education [n.]

1. the process of educating or being educated. 2. the theory and practice of teaching. 3. information about or training in a particular subject. 4. [an education] informal, an enlightening experience. DERIVATIVES educational, adjective; educationalist, noun; educationally, adverb; educationist, noun.

Oxford Dictionaries

This page provides links to information and resources for units and topics covered in this subject at a range of Australian universities. It does not attempt to include all these. Be aware some units/topics have different titles in different universities, even though content may be the same or similar. Australian information is supplied wherever possible.

They are at undergraduate level and listed in alphabetical groupings for ease of access. Some information may be useful at a higher level.

In addition, there are journals, search engines, reference material and other general information where these are seen to be relevant.

Additional unit material will be included as time permits.

If you are aware of any worthwhile information which is not included, suggestions or additions are welcome and will be given every consideration.

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Behaviour Management

Behaviour management, practical and theoretical.

• Behaviour Disorders & Educational Intervention
  Research home page.
• Behaviour Management
• Behaviour Management : Teach-nology
• Classroom & Behaviour Management
• Classroom Management
• Positive Behavioural Interventions & Support
• The Behaviour Home Page
  Kentucky, US, Behaviour Encyclopaedia. Stated to be a top site. Check Behaviour Interventions and Intervention Central.

Comparative & International Education

• Comparative and International Education Bibliography
  Relevant texts useful in this area. Many linked to higher education.
• Comparative and International Educational Society
  ‘To foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices’.
• Comparative and International Education Society
  American. The most valuable information for Australians will be Papers & Documents and Related Links. Book reviews, journal access, archives.
• The National Center for Education Statistics
  ‘Within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education’.

Curriculum Studies

• Australian Association of Curriculum Studies
  Conferences, publications, links, policies, projects, middle schooling, curriculum perspectives, more. Access Conference Papers by clicking on Conferences/Past Conferences. Abstracts provided, Copies are Fee-based.
• Journal of Curriculum Studies
  Sample copy, archived information about contents for the last 30+ years. Canadian site is here.
• Curriculum Studies : Pedagogy, Culture & Society
  ‘Seeks to provide an international forum for curriculum discussion and debate’. Content listing for Volumes 1-10, full-text articles available in PDF.

Education & Values

Input to education and values by links or information on particular programs e.g. Living Values, UNESCO.

• Character Education Links
  A second site with Character Education and Life Skills Links can be found here
• Education & Values
  ‘Interface on the Internet [Resources]’.
• Education
  UNESCO, Asia & Pacific.

Ethics

• Centre for Applied Ethics : Resources
  Use the menu on the left.
• Centre for Applied Ethics : Specific Topics
• Ethical Resources : Readings & Surfings
• Ethics Education
• Good Character

• Living Values [Australia]
• Values Education Articles
  Annotated collection, collated by DEEWR.
• Values Education Council
  Information and resources. DET, WA.
• Values and Education in a Democracy
  ‘Annotated Bibliography’.

Educational Change

• Bibliography for Educational Change
  Lists books from the 1990s on educational change. A number annotated.
• Educational Change : Creating the Future
  Information, links to people connected with educational changes from Arthur Costa to Howard Gardner and Dee Dickinson.
• Journal of Educational Change
  Archived issues. Abstracts, PDF versions.
• Systemic Change
  You now need to be able to log in to access this site. Fee-based. Check your institution to see if they are connected to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
• Understanding Systemic Change in Education
  Aspects of systemic change especially centred around the SIGGS model.

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General Sites

• Centre for Higher Education Management & Policy
  University of New England, New South Wales.
• Child & Family Web Guide
  ‘Evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice. Topics selected on the basis of parent recommendations; they cover all ages, from early child development through adolescence’.
• Early Childhood Education Teacher’s Pages
  Links about early childhood. Some areas applicable in the wider educational context, e.g. multiple intelligences, brain research, learning styles, child development, looping, behavioural support.
• Education Home
  Wadsworth. Links to their books, to courses, students, instructor and discipline resources in contemporary issues in education.
• Education Index
  ‘Annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. Sorted by subject and life stage, so you can find what you’re looking for quickly and easily’.
• Education Links
  University of Sydney. Access major sites and their links. Among the best are these.

• EdResearch Online
  ACER.
  Excellent !.
• ultiBase e-Journal
  RMIT. No longer publishing but still maintained.

• Educational Systems Design
  Links to areas from systems theory to resources for change agents.
• Inventio
  Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching. ‘Creating a Culture for the Scholarship of Teaching’. Article under chapter headings.
• Operant Conditioning
  On a site for behavioural psychology, this restricts itself to information on operant or instrumental conditioning. Links, information, diagrams.
• School Psychology Resources Online
  ‘For Psychologists, Parents and Educators’. Two major sections - Specific Conditions, Disorders and Disabilities, and Other Information, bookstore, daily cartoon, what is a school psychologist ?, links to sites on the web ring.
• Teacher Pages
  Links on educational research, child development, multiple intelligences, behavioural aspects, more.
• Teaching Tips Index
  University of Hawaii. Links on methodology, assessment through to what to do on your first day of teaching.

History of Education

For information on the History of Education in Australia visit this page on the site.

• History of Education
  Yahoo directory providing information on the history of education in the US, Britain and the world.
• History of Education and Childhood
  ‘Where colleagues can describe their ongoing research, post syllabi or links to teaching web sites, discuss archives and other source materials, and post news about outlets for research and other discussions’.
• History of Education : Public & Private Schooling
  Overview with extensive bibliography of resources for the history of Australian education since the First Fleet.

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Journals

• For others, check the Education Journals page.
• Educational Philosophy : Theory into Practice
  ‘Multiple perspectives and scholarly, yet accessible, discussions of current and future concerns of interest to today’s educators’. Issues listed in themes, then contents.
• International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning
  Journal articles, abstracts, links to full text versions.
• Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
  Electronic journal through ERIC. Click on Articles to find listings by totality, topic, of interest to and issue.

Language Teaching

• Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
  UK. Sections are informative for language studies, especially links and information sheets.
• National Centre of Language Teaching & Research
  Macquarie University, Sydney. ‘Research, professional development, publications and resources’ sections will prove valuable.
• Foreign Language Teaching Forum
  Best section is the web resources.

Linguistic Links

Links to both linguistics and language.

• Applied Linguistics Links
• CAL/CLL Linguistics
• Centre for Applied Linguistics
  ‘Improving communication through better understanding of language and culture’. Check Topic Areas and Links.
• Languages & Linguistics
• Linguistic Abstracts
  Journals, articles. Subscribe or have access to a linkage and 55 000 abstracts are available.
• Linguistic’s Lexicon
  Descriptors for everything from A to Z of linguistic terminology and usage.
• Linguistics Meta-index
  ‘A guide to the best linguistic resources on the web’. Stanford University.
• Linguistics & Human Languages [Yahoo]
• Oceanic Linguistics Journal
• The Linguist List

Clipart for Teaching Language & linguistics

• UVic’s Language Teaching Clipart Library
• Language Teaching Clipart

• Linguistics, Virtual Library
  Links from the profession to research, pedagogy, main linguist sites, services, research, more.

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Multicultural Education - Resources

Practical applications to theoretical articles.

• 15 Misconceptions about Multicultural Education
  Details 15 of the most common misconceptions. US, but misconceptions are common.
• Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies
  Australian National University. Information, activities, encyclopaedia, links to world sites including countries of origin.
• Educating All
• Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
  Online magazine. Abstracts, full text of articles, links to book, multimedia and arts reviews.
• Multicultural Education
  Articles.
• Multicultural Education & Ethnic Groups
• Multicultural Education Internet Resource Guide
  ‘Guide to over 50 web sites to assist multicultural educators in locating educational resources on the Internet’.
• Multicultural Education Links
  Links from teaching and learning to equity and historic collections.
• Multicultural Resources for Children
  ‘Find tools for ushering in these ideas to the classroom and adapt them to your audience as necessary’.
• Multicultural Education Supersite
  Defining multicultural education, curriculum transformation, promising practices and links. Broken into general and subject specific resources. Super site.

PsychoEducational Assessment

• ERIC Clearinghouse
  Assessment & Evaluation.
• Evaluation
  Assessment Resources. ERIC.
• Journal of PsychoEducational Assessment
  Articles, available monographs, subscriptions, general information.
• Pearson Assessment
  A major supplier of educational assessment tests in Australia. Has links for testing material in multiple areas. The other major supplier in Australia is ACER.
• Professional Standards
  ERIC listing. Covers evaluation of staff.
• PsychoEducational Assessment : A Bibliography
  Bibliography of journal articles .
• Psychological Testing : BUROS Institute
  Find tests. Reviews of tests, articles, links, test locator, more.
• Test Collection

Remedial Reading

Activities, articles, references, programs. Some in PDF.

• AFT Reading Resources
  Select from appropriate sections.
• Phonemic Awareness
  From Wikipedia.
• Phonemic Awareness in Beginning Reading
  ‘Learn what this is, why it’s important, how to teach it and how to assess your students’.
• Remedial Reading Chat Board

Research, Educational

• A+ Education
  ‘Online collection of scanned images of articles from more than 130 Australian journals indexed in AEI, the Australian Education Index, produced by the Cunningham Library at ACER. Over 12 000 records in A+ Education link to full text information freely available on the web’. A Free trial , access should be available through university libraries.
• A Policy Maker’s Primer on Education Research
  How to Understand, Evaluate and Use It. Full online presentation, abbreviated PDF download.
• Research Methods in Psychology
  ‘This site provides resources for hands-on learning in research methods and statistics’. For Non-Experimental Methods visit this page.
• Research Methods in Psychology [Wikibooks]
  Introduction, the role of theory, collecting data, experimental design, non-experimental design, measurement, issues in research, descriptive statistics, what are inferential statistics, using inferential statistics, references.
• Teaching Educational Research Methods
  Part of Escalate. Check links in the left hand column.
• What Works Clearinghouse
  ‘Collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions [programs, products, practices, and policies]’. Institute of Education Sciences.

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Sociology of Education

• International Studies in Sociology of Education
  Journal with a listing of contents for issues since 1991. Full-text articles in PDF.
• Sociology of Education
  Intute links to information on the topic.

Teaching English as a Second or Other Language

• TESOL : The ESLOOP
  ‘Collection of sites relevant to English Language Teaching and Learning on the World-Wide Web, as a way to offer teachers and students of English a way to browse the internet for resources specific to English language teaching and learning’.
• The Australian Council of TESOL Associations
  Events, advocacy, teacher education, links, publications, information about meetings.
• The Internet TESL Journal
  ‘Articles, Research Papers, Lesson Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links’, student activities, jokes, games, search engine for the ESL/EFL Web. The Links page is very good. The pages for Teaching Techniques, Teaching Tips and Ideas and Selected Links for ESL Teachers [priority suggestions] appear most useful.
• VicTESOL

Texts & Other Documentation

• Teaching Handbook
  Online book in 3 parts that looks at practical applications within classrooms. US. Other resources can be found through the Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning [CITL] and the Web Resources [PDF format documents] in the New Faculty Teaching Resources
• The Art of Teaching
  Articles, behaviour management, special needs, teaching methods. Provides selections from texts described as respected teaching resources.
• Wiley InterScience : Education
  Books, journals, databases, more.

Yahoo Directories

• Educational Psychologists
• Educational Psychology
• Humanistic Education
• Instructional Design
• School Psychology

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