Australia Association for Research in Education
emotions and gender in education
Promising news: how young men think about Andrew Tate and what he sells
Recent media and public discourse in Australia and globally are replete with concerns about young men’s online behaviours, …
Six things schools need to do now to stop gendered violence
Wesley College refers sexual assault and harassment complaints to police (ABC News, March 2021) Abuse Scandal Shocks St …
My immediate reaction was one of stunned disbelief and shock
Australia’s leading expert in visual methods and learning design wonders if learning designers actually had any hand in the creation of the Good Society resources. Like many members of the public my first encounter with The Good Society Resources was through social media posts and the evening television news. This was designed to be the …
Why bizarre milkshakes will never replace world-class consent education
The Government would only have had to go as far as Victoria to do better, writes Amanda Keddie. Education academics, women’s rights campaigners and many in between have criticised some of the material in the government’s new respectful relationships resource for schools. Particularly controversial in the Good Society resource is a video of a girl …
There’s an urgent need to teach empathy but not everyone will connect or care
Sometimes our frames of reference are too narrow and limited for us to comprehend alternative ways of knowing and being. Our frames of reference limit our capacity to empathise. So, is it possible to teach empathy? Empathy training has featured in the news media recently as a way to begin remedying the abhorrent sexual misconduct …
Power of emotions and gender in education and in the work of educational researchers
Emotions and gender identity play powerful roles in education. Every day, every child and every educator in every classroom …