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AARE is pleased to announce that it has again been invited to host a symposium as part of the program at the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting to be held virtually April 9 through April 12.  AARE proudly invites members to submit expressions of interest to present a symposium at this conference. 
Submissions should be submitted using the form on the AARE website by COB 30 November 2020.

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…

For Aboriginal &/or Torres Strait Islander HDR & ECR ResearchersOverview and purposeAARE is pleased to offer bursaries to support conference attendance by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander HDR Students and ECR Researchers in 2023, open to both members and non-members of AARE.

The AARE Conference Bursary program is part of initiatives aimed to address equity issues in the education sector.

The 2023 AARE Conference is being held at Melbourne University 26-30 November.  Please see…

The Australian Association for Research in Education invites qualified Faculties, Schools or Departments of Education to nominate a successful doctoral student for the annual “Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education". This award is intended as recognition of excellence in educational research by doctoral students and 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 d…

Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews1, Shannon Foster, and the D’harawal Traditional Descendants and Knowledge Holders Circle.

1University of Technology Sydney

 In any attempt to understand or engage with this year’s NAIDOC theme, Heal Country (https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2021-theme), one thing should be abundantly clear, Country [with a capital ‘C’] ‘is more than just a place.’ Country is not just some siloed off block of land that an individual can claim sole ownership of whilst thumping away o…

We are very sad to have to pass on the news that Professor Peter Fensham passed away on 23 August 2021 aged 93 years. Peter was one of the 123 founding members of AARE, as a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. In 1991, Peter delivered the Radford Lecture, titled “Common Sense Knowledge: A Challenge to Research” that sounds as topical today as it undoubtedly was then.

Peter contributed enormously to education and education research in Australia. He was Professor of Scienc…

AARE is pleased to announce that registrations for the 2021 conference are now open. Registration rates:
$200 AARE Member
$150 Concessional 
$350 Non-Member

Register here

Our new Secretary.

This month we are excited to be able to welcome immediately into the role of Secretary, Emeritus Professor John Lester. John brings to the role a wealth of knowledge gleaned from over 40 years experience working and in leadership across the education and government sectors, including a rich background of service in executive positions  for a number of different National, State, and Community organisations including Director of Aboriginal Education and Training in the NSW Depa…

On 22 October 2021, the Australian Association for Research in Education hosted a seminar followed by an AARE members’ discussion: ‘Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) and its relevance to AARE and members’.

The Australian Education Research Organisation was established in 2021 as ‘Australia’s national education evidence body, working towards excellent and equitable outcomes for all children and young people’ (Tehan, 2020). It has received $50 million over four years from the Comm…

 

Children and student voice across all sectors SIG bursary 2021Purpose

The Children and student voice across all sectors SIG is keen to encourage emerging researchers, based nationally, with an interest in this field to attend the 2021 AARE virtual conference (Nov 28-Dec 2) and the Children and student voice SIG online symposium (13-15 December).

This bursary will aid an awardee to: 1) expand their knowledge in this field; 2) provide networking opportunities with other professionals with an…