Early Bird registration is open

Lend a Hand

AARE is pleased to announce a new initiative that has been launched in conjunction with the opening of conference registration. The Lend a Hand program will ask those people registering for the conference to make a small contribution via a special link attached to this image. This money will be used by AARE to offer bursaries to help subsidise non and low waged ECR and Postgraduate students attendance at the AARE conference. One hundred percent of money raised will go towards these bursaries, either for the 2018 year or subsequent years. 

Theory Workshop - Sunshine Coast

A second Theory Workshop weekend will be held at the University of the Sunshine Coast October 19-21 co-hosted by the School of Education-University of the Sunshine Coast and co-convened by Rachael Dwyer. 

Theme: 'Theoretical insights in our stories of education'
Our research in education aims to tell a story or many stories, big or small, new or old, in different ways, and for different reasons. In this series of workshops presenters will tell the story of their research and work to bring out your stories, through theory and through discussions of methodology, aims, processes and outcomes.

Workshops presenters and topics:
Professor Lyn Yates: Using theoretical insights in developing your educational research
Michael Crowhurst: Exploring and experimenting with connections between stories, practice, research and theory – a workshop
Liz Mackinlay: Writing with theory on the sensational edge: Storying our educational selves and research
Dr Kevin Lowe: Researching in and about the 'hostile community': Undertaking community responsive research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Presenter using creative arts: TBA
Professor Tania Aspland: Misconceptions of qualitative research design: Sharing perspectives and finding alignment across epistemology, methodology and examination/evaluation
 
Other activities include a Keynote by Professor Lyn Yates Friday evening 'The work of theoretical insights in developing new research stories for education', plenary sessions for Q&A  or topical issues with workshop presenters on Saturday and Sunday, an informal dinner Friday evening and lots of collegial discussions over a catered lunch and breaks.
 
 Registrations open (Closing October 12)

AARE Quantitative Research Methodology Summit 2018

We are pleased to announce the “AARE Quantitative Research Methodology Summit 2018”.
This is your opportunity to access a range of international experts and topics ranging from introductory to complex, rarely available in Australia, and never at this greatly subsidised cost. The target audience for the Summit is those seeking to become more familiar with quantitative methods in educational research - whether university students/staff or researchers in other organisations.

For more information

Book release

AARE congratulates the Education Theory and Philosophy Special Interest Group (SIG) who, as an outcome of the AARE SIG competitive grant in 2015 have just released a book titled, Theory-and-Philosophy-in-Education-Research-Methodological-Dialogues edited by John Quay, Jennifer Bleazby, Steven A. Stolz, Maurizio Toscano, and R. Scott Webster. See more at https://www.routledge.com/Theory-and-Philosophy-in-Education-Research-Methodological-Dialogues/Quay-Bleazby-Stolz-Toscano-Webster/p/book/9780815386025

Third book in the series available now. Local and Global Issues in Education

AARE is pleased to say that the third edition of the Book Series Local and Global Issues in Education has been released.

AARE has a some copies that are being made available at a discounted rate. To purchase

The book, titled The Relationality of Race in Education Research, is an edited collection that examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the interesectional context of contemporary education. Analysing a broad range of examples, it highlights how race and racism comprise a relational phenomenon that interconnects local, national and global contexts and ideas. For more information

AARE Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Education Evidence Base

Please find the report here

Guidelines for the NSW State Education Research Applications Process

These guidelines have been amended. For further information.