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A Note from the Editors of the Special Issue for the Bicentennial Year

A Note from the Editors of the Special Issue for the Bicentennial Year Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 32, No.3, 1988, 257 A Note from the Editors of the Special Issue for the Bicentennial Year It has been our privilege to serve as the editors of the Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Education for the bicentennial year, 1988. In preparing this issue, we have aimed to present a retrospective view of changing emphases in educational and practice in Australian education, a critical examination of thought, research existing assumptions, beliefs and values, and informed speculation on future trends and developments. We believe that the articles presented achieve these aims, and we are grateful to the authors whose contributions have made this possible. Because this issue was intended to be different in character from regular issues of the AJE, we have followed somewhat different editorial procedures. Following a call for papers in May 1987, we encouraged authors whose proposals seemed par­ ticularly suited to the bicentennial theme to prepare full manuscripts for submis­ sion. No commitments were made that specific papers would be published and all manuscripts submitted were subject to the usual reviewing procedures. The over­ view article 'Research and Reflection: Thirty years of the Australian Journal of Education' was handed to the regular editor, who arranged for three reviews without any involvement on our part. Books selected for review were those considered to be of potentially lasting significance. There were common deadlines for all papers and all reviews, which meant that revisions, where required, were carried out with a sense of urgency. The responsiveness of the authors to our often unreasonable requests has been gratifying, perhaps reflecting similar experiences to those of Jerome Weidman, who wrote in BtUk Talk that he had found editors to be: friendly and pleasant, but unpredictable and uncertain and occasionally embarrassing in their desperation. So seldom do they get what they think they want that they tend to become incoherent in their insistent repetition of their needs. A writer does well to listen to them, but not too often, and not for too long. The contributors to this issue have listened to us, but not, we hope, too often or too long. They have tackled issues oflasting importance, and have set them in a national context. We believe that their work deserves to be widely read and discussed, and our hope is that, through this Special Issue of the AJE, it will be. JUDITH CHAPMAN GILAH C. LEDER GLENN ROWLEY http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

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SAGE
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© 1988 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494418803200302
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Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 32, No.3, 1988, 257 A Note from the Editors of the Special Issue for the Bicentennial Year It has been our privilege to serve as the editors of the Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Education for the bicentennial year, 1988. In preparing this issue, we have aimed to present a retrospective view of changing emphases in educational and practice in Australian education, a critical examination of thought, research existing assumptions, beliefs and values, and informed speculation on future trends and developments. We believe that the articles presented achieve these aims, and we are grateful to the authors whose contributions have made this possible. Because this issue was intended to be different in character from regular issues of the AJE, we have followed somewhat different editorial procedures. Following a call for papers in May 1987, we encouraged authors whose proposals seemed par­ ticularly suited to the bicentennial theme to prepare full manuscripts for submis­ sion. No commitments were made that specific papers would be published and all manuscripts submitted were subject to the usual reviewing procedures. The over­ view article 'Research and Reflection: Thirty years of the Australian Journal of Education' was handed to the regular editor, who arranged for three reviews without any involvement on our part. Books selected for review were those considered to be of potentially lasting significance. There were common deadlines for all papers and all reviews, which meant that revisions, where required, were carried out with a sense of urgency. The responsiveness of the authors to our often unreasonable requests has been gratifying, perhaps reflecting similar experiences to those of Jerome Weidman, who wrote in BtUk Talk that he had found editors to be: friendly and pleasant, but unpredictable and uncertain and occasionally embarrassing in their desperation. So seldom do they get what they think they want that they tend to become incoherent in their insistent repetition of their needs. A writer does well to listen to them, but not too often, and not for too long. The contributors to this issue have listened to us, but not, we hope, too often or too long. They have tackled issues oflasting importance, and have set them in a national context. We believe that their work deserves to be widely read and discussed, and our hope is that, through this Special Issue of the AJE, it will be. JUDITH CHAPMAN GILAH C. LEDER GLENN ROWLEY

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Australian Journal of Education – SAGE

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