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Education for a socially just worldSunday 1 - Thursday 5 December 2019
Queensland University of Technology
Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane Australia

Much has been researched, written and debated about what it means to be a ‘good’ teacher. Conversations in Australia continue around quality teaching and teacher quality and the way we educate our teachers. Governments at national and state levels have specifically designed and established teacher accreditation regimes to produce ‘good’ teachers.

Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) i…

At the AARE conference in Sydney today, an Acknowledgement was delivered by the president on behalf of the members, apologising for any harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through past research practices and processes. WATCH VIDEO

Associations have done this in the past including the Australian Psychological Association in 2016. AARE encourages other Associations to consider what a process of acknowledging pasts and considering futures might provide.   

In Australia children with disabilities have the right to be consulted about what can be done to help them participate fully in school life.

Research Through, With and As Storying explores how Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can engage with storying as a tool that disassembles conventions of research. For more details

AARE thanked retiring Secretary Debby Cunningham by awarding her an Honorary Life Membership Award at the conference held in December. Debby had held the position of Sectretary of AARE for more thank 20 years. 

The will and vital capacity of Australian universities to support academics to combine teaching and research is under grave threat. Intensifying workloads—much of it kept invisible in workload models—short-change time and opportunity for research. And governing forces—within and beyond universities—have been moving to restructure investment in university labours towards teaching at the expense of research.