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This week at the Senate Estimates hearings, the ARC confirmed that in recent funding rounds for Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and Future Fellows Awards, the then Minister for Education Senator Simon Birmingham denied funding to 11 projects recommended by the Australian Research Council. All of the projects were in the humanities, with a combined total proposed funding of 4.2 million dollars.
 
This action is very concerning, as is Senator Birmingham’s wil…

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A new title in the Local and Global Issues in Education book series is now available at the special discounted rate of $35 for AARE members and $40 for non-members.

Edited by Sharon Tindall-Ford, Shirley Agostinho, John Sweller. Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials,…

AARE congratulates the Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA) on being named a South Australian finalist in the Social Change Maker Category of the 2019 Telstra Business Awards. For more information please contact MCERA

AARE Congratulates Professor Susan Danby and her team on the award of the ARC Centre of Excellence for The Digital Child.

This is a first for Education in Australia and involves funding of $34.9 million for the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child to be based at QUT. Researchers from QUT including Professor Danby, Professor Annette Woods, Associate Professor Sonia White and associate investigators Dr Chris Chalmers and Dr Nerida Spina will work with a large team of re…

The Australian Government has announced that it will support projects in Australian society, history and culture under the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiatives scheme.

A total of $12 million has been allocated for this initiative for up to three years. The Government anticipates this initiative will fund around 40 projects.

There is currently limited information available about this initiative.

In a media release, the Minister for Education indicated that applications fo…

2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Australian Association for Research in Education!We hope you will celebrate with us. A Committee is currently planning activities throughout the year and they are keen to hear your ideas as well.

What can you do to get involved?Contact  Allyson Holbrook who is leading the 50th Anniversary Committee if you have ideas or want to help organising our celebrations.

We are still looking for old photos and documentsIf you have photos or documents related to the…

Selected photos from the 2019 AARE Conference held in Brisbane. The conference theme was 'Education for a socially just world'. 

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?’

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AARE is seeking an outstanding scholar to take on a role as Series Editor (General) working alongside, Professor Greg Thompson (QUT) and Associate Professor Jessica Gerrard. The initial appointment will be for 3 years with the possibility of a further or extended term if interested.

For further information regarding the position click here.

Applications should be sent to LGIEeditors@aare.edu.au by June 1st, 2022 marked Local/Global Issues in Education.

It is expected that the successful candi…