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The Australian Association for Research in Education ( AARE) is the national association for fostering educational research in Australia. AARE facilitates contact between educational researchers and supports the development of high quality educational research. Australian educational researchers continually produce quality research that is used across Australia, and internationally, to..
Australian Association for Research in Education
2d ago
The first school term for 2025 is ramping up, and many teachers are returning to complex and tiring – if extremely important and fulfilling work. A key part of this work is making decisions: from long-term, considered decisions, to those which occur ‘in the moment’, consciously or subconsciously during classroom interactions. Indeed, there’s a common ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
2d ago
03 February 2025, Canberra, ACT: The Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association (ICPA) Australia iscalling on the Federal Government to commit to critical funding increases and new supportmeasures to ensure equitable education access for geographically isolated students. ICPA Australiasays rural and remote families are being left behind by an outdated education support system thatfails to keep pace ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
1w ago
You are probably aware of the current political and public furore surrounding children’s reading development and the decades-long reading wars. The reading skills and behaviours of young Australians are a cause of major concern for parents and carers, teachers and teacher educators, and future employers and education stakeholders. For 15 years, NAPLAN reading test results ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
1w ago
In a viral ABC interview, Gina Chick, winner of Alone Australia 2023, echoed what research is increasingly telling us. Risk-taking is good for us, but Australian society is risk averse. “We live in a culture that pathologises discomfort…whereas, we only grow when we’re uncomfortable…and so being able to have tools to be in that discomfort…that’s ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
1w ago
Mark Selkrig, Nicky Dulfer, Ron ‘Kim’ Keamy, Troy Heffernan and Kristiina Brunila announce the “Academic Turning Points” Playlist Collection: Academics’ Journeys Expressed Through Music Many readers of this blog would know that higher education continues to be an ever-shifting landscape where constant change prevails. Academics worldwide who work inside higher education are navigating a myriad of ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
2w ago
That’s a question we can all ask ourselves as we interrogate the UN International Day of Education. This year’s theme is AI and education. What does the teaching profession gain and lose with Gen AI? Two hundred million people use ChatGPT each month, with growth doubling in one year. A recent article from Harvard Business ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
2w ago
My recent book, Writing Well and Being Well for your PhD and Beyond includes a chapter on thinking towards writing which includes a focus practice using a rubber duck, a walking practice, and more information about focussed and diffuse thinking modes; and another chapter on recharging that gives advice on what to do when your ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
3w ago
Hello and happy new year to readers of EduResearch Matters, the blog of the Australian Association for Research in Education. We celebrated ten years of publication last year and again, we want to thank our wonderful founding editor, Maralyn Parker. This year, we begin our regular publication schedule tomorrow, Tuesday, January 21. Once again we ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
1M ago
We’ve had a wonderful year here at EduResearch Matters, the blog of the Australian Association for Research in Education, thanks to our contributors, commenters and readers. This is our last post for 2024 and will recommence on January 21, 2025. In 2024, we’ve published well over 100 posts (that doesn’t include the many posts over ...
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Australian Association for Research in Education
1M ago
Escape Oppression Now: Disrupt the Dominance of Evidence-Based Practice by Nicole Brunker, University of Sydney This post is the most read of the year on EduResearch Matters and it continues to be read months after publication. Dr Brunker wrote the post in response to an online forum “What counts as evidence in teacher education research ...
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