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Aim:The Politics and Policy in Education SIG provides a space within which AARE members can present, discuss and debate research on the production, enactment and impacts of politics and policy in relation to educational issues. The SIG includes members engaged in quantitative, qualitative, interpretive, critical, ethnographic and comparative methodological approaches. It brings together researchers from a broad variety of disciplines and professional areas to foster and support the conduct, coll…

Aim:The Rural Education Special Interest Group aims to foster and promote research and scholarly work into the needs of rural, regional and remote schools and other educational settings and their communities. 

Rationale:A focus on rural education is imperative for the economic and social well being for vibrant and productive rural communities. Across Australia there are many different research groups focusing of the needs of rural schools and their communities. This SIG provides a place for the…

We welcome researchers from all fields of education and social science who are interested in using and advancing our understanding of human activity using the powerful theoretical tools derived from Vygotsky and the community of scholars that have arisen from this tradition. We are united by our use of the theories and methodologies of Cultural-Historical Theory, Activity Theory, and Socioculutural Theory. We have members who work in social justice, STEM education, emotion, early childhood educa…

PurposeThis award recognises excellence in educational research by doctoral students. Normally only one award will be made each year. It is seen by the Association as a way of recognising the high-quality contribution made to educational knowledge by graduate students, and at the same time promoting dissemination of research.

Originally known as the AARE Award for Doctoral Research in Education, the first award was made in 1989. In 2014 the Award was renamed in honour of Dr Ray Debus, AARE foun…

RationaleWith the shifting landscape in education, learning has increasingly been seen more so as a “career” where students are expected to take more responsibility of their learning and future employment. In addition, given the opportunity, students may be able to negotiate new ways and possibilities to achieve successful and sustainable educational outcomes across and within various spaces. As such, important critical questions around student voice are being raised, discussed and debated and i…

AARE is pleased to announce the following shortlisted and winning papers for the 2020 Springer and AER Best Paper Awards are being made free access until the end of January.

Winner:

Emma Rowe and Laura B. Perry, ‘Private financing in urban public schools: inequalities in a stratified education marketplace’

 

Shortlisted papers:

Helen Adam & Caroline Barratt-Pugh, ‘The challenge of monoculturalism: what books are educators sharing with children and what messages do they send?’

Sheelagh…

Dear AARE Members

I’d like to welcome all new and returning members to AARE. It is a tremendous privilege to begin my term as President of the Association. I look forward to meeting many of you throughout the year and particularly at our annual conference in Melbourne (November 26-30).

The year is already shaping up to be an important one for educational researchers and the education sector broadly. The field of education, covering everything from early childhood education through to tertiary,…

AARE has several special awards for exceptional achievements by members. The following awards were presented at this year’s annual conference in Adelaide. 

A special thank you to all judges who served on the Awards Panels and Selection Committees this year.

Distinguished Contribution Awards 2022 
Radford Lecture
To honour Dr William C Radford’s long record of commitment to promoting research in education and his contribution to the development of the Australian Association for Research i…

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Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including: media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance; pressures within school systems and on schools; effects on the work an…

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Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including: media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance; pressures within school systems and on schools; effects on the work an…