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Why the future of professional experience is now in peril
Performance funding for initial teacher education, mandating core curriculum and improving the quality of Professional Experience are issues …
It’s a No-Brainer: Beginning Teachers Should Learn About the Brain
Universities around the world train professionals to support children and young people’s academic and social-emotional development. A lot …
The way teachers work must change now. The Scott report doesn’t even try to fix the real challenge
There is a collective sigh of frustration from education academics when initial teacher education (ITE) is yet again the subject of review, with a series of recommendations that promise to transform not only ITE, but the teaching profession. Apparently the problems with the teaching profession are entirely the result of the failures of ITE. It …
This sure ain’t Hollywood: It’s a long way from neurons to the classroom
It would help to empower emerging teachers via a solid grounding in the basic research that has the most potential for impact in the classroom. That research isn’t about how the brain works. …
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 we must do now to rescue Australian schools
We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop …
Here’s what a brave new minister for education could do right away to fix the horrific teacher shortage
The new Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare announced last Friday he would convene a Teacher Workforce Roundtable …
How to fix education: cut tests, defund private schools
In the final part in our series of what the next government should do to save Australian education, …
My urgent wish list for Australian education
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
If only we really wanted to solve the problems
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …