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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…

About the symposium

This 2 hour online symposium is being convened by the AARE Professional and Higher Education SIG co-convenors. The first question that we consider is whether conferences have gone missing at all. Is it possible that the routine work of face-to-face conferences has been distributed across new platforms for gathering academics and disseminating knowledge? What affordances do these new forms of gathering promise? What are their limits? The second question we consider is this: c…

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…

The latest book in the AARE series Local/Global Issues in Education is now available to purchase. Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s Aspirations for Higher Education is by Jennifer Gore, Sally Patfield, Leanne Fray and Jess Harris. Learn more about the book and if you are a member (or you need to renew your membership), you can purchase at a discounted price through our membership portal.

The 2023 AARE Conference will be held from 26 to 30 November in Melbourne, hosted by the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. We can announce the theme for this year’s conference will be Truth, Voice, Place: Critical junctures for educational research. 

As the newly appointed Standing Chair, I’d like to acknowledge the incredible work of volunteers that draw this conference together as a point and place for care for education and educational research. The AARE Conference has…

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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The latest book in the AARE series Local/Global Issues in Education is now available to purchase. Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research - by Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis, Amy McKernan. 

Members receive 50% discount on all books from the LGIE series through the AARE online bookshop (you must be logged in to receive the discount). 

Pre-order your copy now and it will be shipped when it arrives in Australia.