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- Title
Middle schooling in Tasmania: Teachers' beliefs about classroom pedagogy.
- Authors
Dowden, Tony
- Abstract
Middle schooling has attracted growing interest and attention in Australia but this has been slow to spread to the island state of Tasmania. The exception is provided by independent schools in Tasmania, some of which have created dedicated middle schools within their larger organisation. This article discusses the indings of a study on middle school teachers' beliefs about classroom pedagogy in Tasmanian independent schools. Although the participant teachers were highly dedicated and relective with sophisticated understandings about their specialist subject areas, they lacked the speciic knowledge base about young adolescence generally considered to be an essential precursor to the design and implementation of developmentally responsive pedagogies.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; MIDDLE school education; TEACHING; NATIONAL Middle School Association (Organization); ADOLESCENCE; EDUCATION
- Publication
Australian Journal of Middle Schooling, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1445-2928
- Publication type
Article