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Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο ; Integrating computer-based technologies into all Key Learning Areas of every school's curriculum has been a priority school policy of the Victorian government since the mid -1990s. Over the last 10 years, huge sums of money have been provided to set schools up with computers and associated technologies, and a range of initiatives have been establised to assist with the implementation of this policy. In the area of science, a range of LT resources is available for use in the teaching and learning processes in the classroom. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, this paper presents findings that are aimed at identifying where science teachers are currently at with the use of computer-based technologies in their teaching. The study investigated science teachers' attitudes towards the use of computer-based technologies in their teaching; the types and availability of computer-based resources for use in the teaching of science in their schools; those resources that they have found to be effective pedagogical tools in helping students learn science; and the kinds of professional development that they would like to undertake with regards to using computer-based technologies in their classes. The study on the attitudes of science teachers toward the use of computer-based technologies is discussed in depth in Science and Computer-based Technologies: Attitudes of Secondary Science Teachers (Ng & Gunstone, 2003). This paper focuses on the use, and manner of use of these technologies in the science classroom.

The central argument of this article is that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions "chosen" or "determined" for the purposes of sociological theory. This argument will be developed with reference to the two theorists of the greatest importance in advocating the sociological value of the concept of agency: Talcott Parsons, with his "voluntaristic theory of action," set the scene for the whole agency and structure debate in modern sociology, and Anthony Giddens, in his theory of structuration, provides the most comprehensive recent account. Both theorists put forward grounds and justifications for their use of the concepts of "choice" and "agency," but it will be argued here that in the last analysis, none of them has any sociological merit.

Within dominant North American discourse, individual freedom is a substantive tag line for the mind-numbing tacit approval of the loveless marriage between capitalism and democracy. This paper provides an overview of the conflicted relationship social work have with the politics of liberation, empowerment theory, and self-determination, underscoring an ongoing identity crisis, which has been dressed-up as 'various tenets of the profession'. Connecting with the humanizing aspirations inherent to social work while building on critical and anti-oppressive theories and practices, I argue for social work to re-visualize and act on a cohesive emancipatory social work identity. True solidarity, which can only be uncovered through the relinquishing of a professional identity based on false consciousness and fear, is risking an act of love.

This book presents the case for making critical gerontology central to contemporary social work with older people. It brings together the latest research in critical gerontology with social work knowledge and practice to provide an accessible source for students, academics and those interested in underpinning practice with research evidence

Over the last 20 years, the notion of relevance vis-à-vis political science became not only a subject of academic debates but also a domain of practice, largely due to the developments in the research funding, increasingly referred to as the 'impact agenda'. In this article, we explore how the growing focus on socio-economic impact as the assessment criterion of research funding shapes the discipline of political science itself—its knowledge production, dissemination and the emergent forms of accountability of political scientists. The article presents the results of a major international study that has examined the emergence of 'impact agendas' across 33 countries. We report on the changing idea of relevance of political science through the lens of its strategic ambiguity and historical evolution. We then explore these broader trends through an in-depth analysis of the UK as an 'extreme case' and a blueprint for funding system reforms. These developments, we argue, are not a mere funding policy innovation but rather a paradigm-level change, reshaping the position of political science in society as well as the types of scholarship that are possible and incentivised.

The collapse of New Order regime was caused by the Asian financial crisis with the crisis of confidence by Suharto and his political cronies. The origin of the Indonesian crisis situated in the effort to maintain foreign financial capital could not restore the deficit of the national market, while they also tried to keep the stability of fixed exchange rate. Under Suharto, Indonesia was ruled by the military dual-function system and authoritarianism. Popular uprising, pillages, and demonstrations arose in the breakdown of New Order. The aim of this paper is to analyze the rational choice theory of New Order regime and the social solidarity of the popular uprising in the Indonesian people. By the attempt to scrutinize the New Order regime, there are some questions need to be asked. Firstly, how was the emergence and his political scheme in the history of Indonesia? Secondly, why the Asian Financial Crisis brought Suharto and New Order regime into its downfall? and thirdly, what was the effect of mob violence that appeared in 1998? Through these questions, rational choice institutionalism and social solidarity will be the approaches to delve the analysis of New Order regime by differentiate the governmental, national and international scale of the study.

Résumé La loi du 22 mai 2001 relative à la participation des travailleurs au capital et aux bénéfices des entreprises établit un cadre général organisant un système conventionnel qui s'adresse à tous les travailleurs de l'entreprise et qui implique les représentants des travailleurs dans sa mise sur pied. Avant cette loi, seules des mesures prises dans le cadre du droit fiscal et du droit des sociétés encadraient les pratiques mises en place dans les entreprises à l'initiative de leurs dirigeants. L'opposition de principe à la participation financière des travailleurs manifestée par les deux principaux syndicats, la FGTB et la CSC, a longtemps retardé une avancée législative en la matière, malgré la pression insistante des milieux patronaux. Étienne Arcq et Aurélie Van Melkebecke rappellent les conceptions des principaux intéressés, les travailleurs et les chefs d'entreprise, à travers les positions de leurs organisations représentatives dans le cadre de la concertation sociale. Ces prises de positions sont replacées dans le contexte du long processus de gestation de la loi du 21 mai 2001. Cette mise en parallèle d'un travail législatif et du débat tel qu'il se déroule au sein des organes de la concertation sociale permet de mesurer la capacité d'influence des interlocuteurs sociaux sur un processus proprement politique.

The policy of positive discrimination in favour of areas of acute social need has resulted in a number of studies which concern themselves with methods of identification. Hatch and Sherrott found that deprivations are concentrated only to a limited extent, and that for this reason an index summarising a range of deprivations is not efficient, They suggest that a multi-dimensional approach might be indicated because different combinations of deprivations are found in different areas needing a variety of remedies. Barnes, in discussing the work done for the Inner London Education Authority, points out that the majority of disadvantaged children is to be found in areas not classified as priority, and that the majority of children in priority areas is not disadvantaged. Little and Mabey show that the reading achievement of disadvantaged children (unskilled and semi-skilled manual) does not vary as much in relation to either the social mix of the school or the degree of priority of the area as that of less disadvantaged pupils. The methods identifying deprivation are diverse and largely related to either objective criteria (absence of basic housing amenities, free school meals, etc.) or vulnerable groups (one-parent families, immigrants, unskilled, etc.).