Australia Association for Research in Education
Early childhood help for children of deployed military personnel
One parent shared with me that she was told ‘You’re just on your own until they go to school. There’s nothing out there’. She was part of my research project to find out what 2-5-year old children understand and experience when their parent worked away due to military deployment and training. During the project many …
Universities are exploiting their sessional academics. We need to do better for our precariously employed
As the 2020 academic year begins, this will be the first in my seven years of working in universities that I have a permanent position and am not relying on contracts or sessional work. I know how privileged I am to be in this position, but I also know first-hand what precarious employment feels like. …
Video-based educational research: Remembering David Clarke
Video has been used as a method for researching teaching and learning for decades. It offers significant and creative ways of seeing, hearing, capturing, collecting and curating the processes of teaching and learning in classrooms. As digital technologies and data production have evolved so has the way this mode of research is used by educational …
Would you like ethics with that? The possibilities and risks of (Mc)Mindfulness in schools
It’s easy to get excited about the prospects of mindfulness in education. However, as I see it, in …
A 21st Century approach to emergent literacy: No flashcards in preschool please!
We believe children need a strong emergent literacy foundation in the years prior to school in preparation for …
Stop all government funding for private schools. (Why and how we could do it)
Along with many fellow Australians I was momentarily heartened last year by the United Kingdom’s Labour party announcing that it would scrap elitist private schools in the UK (which are confusingly called “public schools”) if it won the UK election. Had it happened, those UK private schools would have been nationalised, their charitable status removed …
Is this what Dan Tehan means by ‘back to basics’? The Mparntwe Declaration
The Mparntwe Declaration was released at the end of last year. I do not use the official full title of the document on purpose. I do this as a final hurrah to 2019, the Year of Indigenous Languages and I do this because, as was pointed out, this was the first time a national education …
2019 REPORT CARD for Australia’s national efforts in education
It’s the end of the school year and school reports are being sent home. Let’s imagine every Australian …
Help refugee students transition to tertiary ed and everyone wins
Young people from refugee backgrounds face a raft of complex challenges when entering the Australian education system, stemming …