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A. R. BARLOW graduated in arts in 1978 and is a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and a part-time tutor in psychology and education at the University of Wollongong. He has had several years of experience in various managerial positions in sales and marketing and is interested in the psychological variables related to driver performance. SID BOURKE, a Chief Research Officer at the Australian Council for Educational Research, was previously an officer of the Royal Australian Army Educational Corps and began his career as a secondary mathematics teacher in New South Wales. He holds the degrees of B.Se. (University of New South Wales), B.A. and Litt.B. (University of New England). P. G. CARPENTER, B.Ed. (Qld., 1973), M.A. (Qld., 1978), has recently been appointed Victoria-Institute of Catholic Principal Lecturer in Education at State College of Education in Melbourne. After early teaching experience in primary and secondary schools, he moved to the Papua New Guinea Agricultural College at Vudal, New 1973-1978 he lectured in education at Britain, as a lecturer in social science. During Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in Brisbane. He is currently involved with Professor J. S. Western in a study of educational and occupational achievement amongst Queensland youth. P. R. de LACEY is Reader in Education at the University of Wollongong. He started his academic career as a demonstrator in Zoology at Sydney University; he lectured in psychology and optometry at the University of Auckland during 1964-1965, and in education at the University of New England (1966-1969). He has been at the University of Wollongong since 1970. He is a co-editor of the recently published book Mosaic or Melting Pot: Cultural Evolution in Australia and a consultant to early-childhood enrichment programs at Bourke and Weipa South. He holds the degrees of B.Se. (1959), M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1970). W. J. FOSTER, B.Ed. (Qld.}, has been a lecturer in psychology at North Brisbane College of Advanced Education since 1971. He has also taught in primary and secondary schools and has been a primary school principal. He is heavily involved in computer based instruction in Colleges of Advanced Education and in research into the specifi cations of the dimensions of the classroom environment in the context of explanatory observational studies. J. P. POWELL, B.A. (Bristol, 1959), M.A. (Dublin, 1963), Ph.D. (A.N.U., 1969), is Acting Director of the Tertiary Education Research Centre at the University of N.S.W. He has taught in universities in England, Ireland, Canada and Papua New Guinea and is the author of over fifty papers dealing with higher education and the philosophy of education. SHIRLEY N. SAMPSON is a graduate in arts from the University of Western Australia and holds the degree of B.Ed. (1971) from Monash University. She was a lecturer at Rusden State College during 1970-1972, and in 1973 came to her present position of lecturer in sociology of education in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. In December 1975 she was appointed to chair the Victorian Committee on Equal Oppor tunities for Boys and Girls in schools. A. J. WATSON has been a lecturer in developmental psychology and reading at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education since 1976. He graduated in arts from the University of New England in 1966 and holds the Diploma of Religious Education from the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has 11 years' teaching experience with the N.S.W. Department of Education and for four years lectured in education at Katoke Teachers' College in Tanzania where he led a team project to develop a program for beginning Swahili readers as part of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. GREGORY C. R. YATES is a psychology lecturer at the De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood Studies, Hartley College of Advanced Education, North Adelaide. He graduated M.A. (Hons.) from the University of Auckland in 1974 and specialises in child development and educational psychology. SHIRLEY M. YATES is a senior lecturer in special education, Adelaide College of the Arts and Education. She graduated M.A. (Hons.) from the University of Auckland in 1974, and is currently completing M.Ed. at the University of Adelaide. Her current res~!ch interests include examining the selection criteria for entry into teacher traimng, assessing the academic performance of mature entry students and also children's communication difficulties.
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Jun 1, 1979
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