Australia Association for Research in Education
Educational research
Your focus isn’t broken, it just needs time
My recent book, Writing Well and Being Well for your PhD and Beyond includes a chapter on thinking …
Welcome to the fourth #AARE2023 blog of the conference
Day Four, November 29, 2023. We will update here during the day so please bookmark this page. Our …
Open access: why we must break down the paywalls now
Publication via open access increases visibility, reach and impact of educational research, so why are we still hitting our heads against paywalls? Why do we publish? For attention, for funding and for impact. The quality research undertaken by Australian education researchers has the biggest chance of impact if it is readily accessible to educators and …
Why we must take the pulse of education research in Australia now
Australian education research is at a key turning point in a pandemic world where the dramatic effects of …
How the ARC could destroy our amazing education research
Australia has an impressive record when it comes to its education research. Our education research is third in …
Race and class politics in competitive schooling
Australia’s traditional middle class is feeling anxious about its ability to pass on class status to their children. Competition has grown for jobs, housing, and places in desirable schools. Our research reveals transformations in Australia’s middle class which can be seen through the lens of education, and in particular, competitive relations in schooling markets. Neoliberal …
The astonishing adventures of Angela and Kimberley: this is how it all ends*
Our two authors have told their stories of leaving university life to return to school over three blogs this year. You can read part one here and part two here. An introduction from Kimberley Let me take you for a moment into my Year 6 classroom. It’s the last morning of Term 4 and my …
How our messy research journey survived floods, fires and COVID19
See this presentation in real time today (December 2, 2021) in the Schools and Education Systems SIG at …
We Found Education Schools Across The Nation Are Victims Of Targeted Cuts But More Threats Are Looming
At every university around the country, academics in schools and faculties of Education have been hit hard. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have lost their jobs. Many of them are people we know. Yet it is not easy to identify the particular staff who have ‘disappeared’ from classes, courses and schools of Education among the seventeen and …