Australia Association for Research in Education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
Welcome to the first #AARE2023 blog of the conference
Day One, November 26, 2023. We will update here during the day so please bookmark this page. Our EduResearch Matters social accounts are: Please write, comment, participate about our AARE2023 blog on social media using this hashtag #AARE2023. Blog four! Voices from the panel Three amazing academics shared insights and experiences from the journeys they …
Why spectacular slogans and perfect pop ditties will never work
The phenomenon of moral politicking around an issue rather than a political party has been a key part of my research over the last five years. That’s been the case in many things to do with education – and education policy. Our social relationships now have a strong influence on our reality. Politics no longer …
Happy new year reading: our most popular posts of all time
EduResearch Matters began back in 2014 under the stewardship of the amazing Maralyn Parker. At the end of 2020, Maralyn retired and I tried to fill very big shoes. The unusual thing about EduResearch Matters is that even posts published in the first couple of years of the blog’s existence continue to get readers – …
What makes a culturally nourishing school?
AARE Symposium : The Culturally Nourishing Schooling Project Dr Keiko Bostwick (UNSW), Associate Professor Kevin Lowe (UNSW), Dr. Greg …
‘My attitude COMPLETELY changed’: why universities should move new teachers from resentment to respect for Indigenous Australia as we vote on the Voice
Editor’s note: One of the biggest challenges in Australian education is how we embed an understanding of Indigenous …
Patience, persistence and persuasion: the how-to of Indigenous curriculum practice
‘I can’t breathe’. As the Black Lives Matter movement gathered global momentum these words became a familiar refrain; forever linked to the African American man whose life was extinguished by police on a city street in 2020. Few recall the same words uttered by an Aboriginal man in a police cell in Sydney in 2015, …
Do we really have a frightening school to prison pipeline in this country? Only one way to find out
Exclusionary discipline is on the rise in Australian schools, as highlighted by recent research in Queensland and South Australia. This is highly concerning that suspension does not address the reasons underlying behaviour and can instead exacerbate those behaviours. For some students, these experiences devolve into ongoing cycles of repeated suspensions. In the long term, students …
The new review: good, bad, ugly and curiously ignorant
In what, internationally, is becoming a sure sign of an impending general election, here we have yet another review of initial teacher education in Australia – a ‘thousand and second damnation’, perhaps, in the words of one of the review panel members. Delivered to former minister Alan Tudge in October but released last Thursday with …
We must embed the full histories of this Country or rob all Australian students of understanding our home
We come together as Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal collaborators with a strong desire to see the excellent policy reforms in Indigenous education in Australia come to life. …
The ignorance of our shared history is shocking. Morrison’s denial shows us time for truth-telling is NOW
Never has the cultural gap been so evident. What I am talking about is the outright denial and whitewashing of the shared Australian history. The leader of colonial Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison proclaimed on commercial radio station 2GB that Australia was founded on the basis that there be no slavery. His failure to recall …