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Local/Global Issues in Education is the Australian Association for Research in Education supported book series, published by Routledge.

The Series Editors call for proposals for the Local/Global Issues in Education book series. We welcome high-quality edited collections or monographs from members of the Australian educational research community addressing key issues in education today.

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Proposal due date: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Proposals to be submitted…

News from the Sociology of Education SIG
Michael Mu will convene a session at this year’s AARE Conference to launch recent and forthcoming book series and books in Bourdieusian sociology of education. These include the new Routledge book series ‘Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific’, forthcoming edited volumes by Routledge and Bloomsbury, and recently published monographs by Routledge. The editors and the authors of these books (e.g., Karen Dooley, Gath Stahl, Pat Thomson, Hui Yu) will introd…

This book explores the everyday ways in which time marks the experience of education as well as the concerns and methods of education and youth research. It asks: what do we notice afresh and what comes into sharper view when temporality becomes a focal point? What theories and ways of seeing offer new angles onto temporality in interaction with space and place?

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Teacher performance-linked pay, teacher performance generally and student achievement – these are three issues that are never far from the headlines. But are the debates founded on sound evidence or merely the thought bubbles of politicians and populist commentators? Link to the video

Aim:The Social Justice SIG aims to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners interested in the provision of schooling and post-compulsory educational opportunities that are accessible and of benefit to all students, especially those from low income, bilingual, Indigenous and other marginalised backgrounds.

Since educational outcomes in Australia are strongly correlated with the socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of students, this SIG supports research aimed at reducing…

Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) i…

An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private secto…

An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private secto…

For Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers2024 Conference Bursary Program:Overview and purposeAARE is pleased to provide a conference bursary program to support conference attendance in 2024.  This program is offered as a way of reaching new members and as a service to existing AARE members.  The program is in recognition of the equity issues faced by postgraduate students and early career researchers in the current Higher Education context.

The 2024 AARE Conference is being held at…

The AARE Executive offers opportunities to support the quality and reputation of education research in Australia, serve the research community, lead within the organisation, and to gain valuable Board experience.The AARE Executive offers opportunities to support the quality and reputation of education research in Australia, serve the research community, lead within the organisation, and to gain valuable Board experience.

I invite members to nominate for a role on the Executive Committee.

Nomin…