Australia Association for Research in Education
Education policy
The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity in Australia
I believe the most important outcomes of education for children today are the enhancement of their individual intelligence …
Educational researchers are right: schools should dump naughty corners and time-out strategies
Popular media erupted this week around the use of naughty corners in Australian classrooms. Two South Australian researchers, …
Direct Instruction is not a solution for Australian schools
Christopher Pyne is embarking on his own education revolution. He wants our nation’s teachers to use a teaching …
School chaplaincy program: from small fund raising dinner to multi-million dollar national folly
The key to it all is Rosebud. I don’t refer to Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, whose enigmatic protagonist dies with that mysterious word on his lips. I’m talking about that other bewildering shapeshifter, the National School Chaplaincy Program. Rosebud Secondary College, on the Mornington Peninsula, is one of 60 or so Victorian public schools with local …
Manufactured panic around teacher quality obscures the bigger issue
Politicians of all persuasions use the language of panic and crisis to whip up fear about the ‘quality’ …
Around the traps
Australian educational researchers continually produce world leading research findings that challenge the way we do things in schools …
Pyne’s proposed changes to higher education will polarize institutions and students
It is good news for many of us involved in higher education that the radical changes to higher …
Decisions about teaching methods should be made by educators not politicians
Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Australia One of the chilling features of the Federal Government’s education policy is its obvious intention to tell teachers how they should teach. Until now governments have stopped short of dictating how teachers should teach, on the assumption that these are professional decisions that are best …
Teacher Education: Beyond the ‘Policy Problem’
Much has been said in the media in the past week or so about teacher quality prompted by …
A Letter to Mr Pyne
Last week on Radio National, Shadow Education Minister Christopher Pyne gave us a glimpse of the Coalition’s vision …