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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…

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…

Recent ARC Successes in Education
Our congratulations to all members and educational researchers who were successful in the 2022 ARC DP and Linkage schemes, and commiserations to those whose projects were not funded – preparing these applications is always a huge amount of intellectual and emotional labour. While outcomes according to FOR codes provide a guide to tracking the success of educational researchers in ARC schemes, it is not definitive.

Do we know about your success? Please advise t…

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…

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 Australian Educational Researcher (AER) is the scholarly journal of the Australian Association for Research in Education.

Editor-in-Chief: Associate Professor Stewart Riddle (University of Southern Queensland)

The journal aims to:

Promote understandings of educational issues through the publication of original research and scholarly essays.
Inform education policy through the publication of papers utilising a range of research methodologies and addressing issues of theory and practice.
Pr…

The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is excited to announce its first face-to-face conference in two years. It will take place on Sunday 27 November – Thursday 1 December at the University of South Australia, City West Campus.  

Conference theme: Transforming the Future of Education: The Role of ResearchTaken-for-granted ways of thinking and working in early learning settings, schools, universities and other sites of formal and informal education have been disrupted in th…

This report shows the number of views of the ERIC records for AARE content and the number of PDF downloads (where if full text is permitted to display in ERIC).

These statistics are for the six-month period from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

A view is counted whenever a user accesses the abstract.
A download is recorded whenever a user opens the PDF attached to the ERIC record.
This report is only for AARE content hosted on the ERIC digital library of education research at https://eric.ed…

Thank you to our Executive Committee members who met on 15th and 16th June at the University of Sydney. It was a full agenda that considered and decided upon a range of important items and initiatives, including:
 

An Executive position statement supporting a ‘Yes’ vote at the forthcoming Referendum on the amendment to the Australian constitution to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament
Approval of the 2023-2024 SIG Funding applications; it is wonderful to see…