Australia Association for Research in Education
How to reimagine research for self-determined Indigenous futures
An excerpt from Associate Professor Nikki Moodie’s keynote, opening the 2021 AARE conference on Monday November 29. Indigenous …
How strong schools became the backbone of the juggle struggle
When state premiers came out and said that schools were going to close in March of 2020, there …
Who stands to benefit? We all need to know
Some of the richest and most powerful individuals and corporations in Australia are involved in educational philanthropy – …
How to bridge the teacher and academic divide online
The Problem & the Proposal One of the most widely accepted facts in education is that teachers and …
One powerful way to beat the trauma of school transition with joy and fun
On the Monday post lockdown, schools again reverberated with the sounds of all their kids in the playground. In this pandemic much has changed but perhaps none more than schools and the work of teachers. For many parents, teachers and students there will be justifiable anxiety about what students have missed out on. There will …
The truth about Terra Nullius and why First Nations people say Tudge is wrong to say we need optimism
Australia’s federal Minister for Education, Alan Tudge, will not endorse the draft national curriculum for secondary teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) because the changes are “overly negative”and could teach kids a hatred of their Country” (ABC 2021). But from a First Nations perspective, the time has come to speak the truth about what …
Why Alan Tudge is now on the history warpath
Australian children will never defend the country if the draft history curriculum is adopted. That’s the takeaway from the Federal Education Minister Allan Tudge’s speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) on Friday. The minister called for yet another curriculum reform to ensure “a positive, optimistic view of Australian history”. His reasoning? “Individual students …
We struggled to make university more equal. Has that battle for equality worked now?
Australian education policy has really focussed on getting ‘equity groups’ into university and then onto completion with initiatives designed to improve access and participation. That worked. Recent data indicate that there has been growth in the university enrolment of these equity groups in the past ten years. Published studies have also found evidence for comparable …
Have we lost trust in science?
Trust in Science, Society, and the Australian State: A Crisis in the Making? “The return to school has …
Playground duty really is quality time: how joyful learning happens outside the classroom
The Quality Time Action Plan is described by the department of education as an approach intended to reduce and simplify administrative processes for teachers and provide them with more time for “high value tasks”. It is here that I have a quibble with this document and its definition of playground duty or supervision at lunch …