Australia Association for Research in Education
Teacher education
If only we really wanted to solve the problems
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
How to support our proud and essential profession
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
The One Teacher Test Which Won’t Make A Difference
Improving teacher quality has been central to recent education reform initiatives around the world. However, what counts as …
We Found Education Schools Across The Nation Are Victims Of Targeted Cuts But More Threats Are Looming
At every university around the country, academics in schools and faculties of Education have been hit hard. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have lost their jobs. Many of them are people we know. Yet it is not easy to identify the particular staff who have ‘disappeared’ from classes, courses and schools of Education among the seventeen and …
The government must know how to fix the teacher shortage. Why won’t it act now?
Schools are struggling with major teacher shortages and the reason is clear. Australia’s education system is missing one fundamental part – a national teacher recruitment and retention strategy. Every other country I have reviewed has one; here’s England’s, here is Bulgaria’s, Zimbabwe’s is recently announced. I’m not emphasising this because we should copy other countries. …
Teachers do not want or need another review. Trust is proven to work.
Christine Cunningham, Maggie McAlinden, Michelle Striepe, Christa Norris, Madlen Griffiths, Zina Cordery, Wei Zhang. We are a group of exhausted expert teacher educators from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia with a long and proud history following in the footsteps of Edith Cowan who did so much to improve the lives of women, the …
Unexceptional students can grow and develop into highly professional teachers: I know I did it
Aspiring teachers will need to meet a raft of new requirements if they want to get a job …
Teachers are NOT under-qualified and NOT under-educated: here’s what is really happening
Australian teachers are doing well. They are not under-qualified and they are certainly not under-educated, as some media stories would have you believe. They are doing an admirable job managing exhausting workloads and constantly changing government policies and processes. They are more able than past generations to identify and help students with wide ranging needs. …
Three major concerns with teacher education reforms in Australia
We are deeply concerned about advice the Australian Government has been given on teacher education. We believe it is seriously flawed. The advice has led, and is leading, to major reforms to teacher education throughout Australia. Teacher educators and educational researchers like ourselves would like the public to know what is happening. Significantly we want …
Creativity in Australian schools suppressed by onerous testing regime and crushing teacher restrictions
Once upon a time early childhood teachers used to learn singing and playing the piano, primary school teachers could study electives (and even majors) in areas such as drama and art, and universities could add new courses (such as ones in teacher as entrepreneur or global citizenship) through putting in a course variation form to …