How Awareness Changes the Relative Weights of Evidence During Human Decision-Making

A combined behavioral and brain imaging study shows how sensory awareness and stimulus visibility can influence the dynamics of decision-making in humans

Primary specialisation in Australian education:Pre-service teachers’ lived experiences

The positioning of teacher quality as a global problem in primary education has led to the introduction of primary specialisation in Australian teacher education programs. In this chapter, we adapt Ball, Braun, and Maguire’s (2012) theorisations around policy enactment and Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) narrative inquiry space as an innovative approach to make visible five Master of Teaching (Primary) pre-service teachers’ experiences as they complete a new science specialisation. In doing so we give voice to these participants as policy receivers who are rarely heard in the policy process. Findings reveal fourteen themes around the material, interpretive, and discursive facets of primary specialisation policy enactment. A number of challenges are described that contest the primary specialisation in its current form and recommendations are suggested for moving the policy agenda forward