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This is mistaken and disrespectful – a wasted opportunity
Teacher educators have been driving improvement in initial teacher education for decades. That’s been clear from as early as 1998 when the Australian Council of Deans of Education released “Preparing a Profession: Report of the National Standards and Guidelines for Initial Teacher Education Project”. The report outlined the first program standards for ITE and, as …
International Day of Education: why Jason Clare and Sussan Ley must get to class immediately
“Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and …
Why the federal government must ditch Jobs Ready Graduates now
New figures challenge the assumptions behind the Job-Ready Graduates package, introduced by the former Coalition government and unchanged …
Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them
The federal minister for education Jason Clare convened a roundtable to solve the teacher shortage on the eve of the new government’s Job Summit. Items on the agenda? It wasn’t hard to go past working conditions, status, and a growing, chronic teacher shortage as the impetus for history-making industrial action and considerable media coverage. Concerns about …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Will the curriculum really embrace the true spirit of Anzac?
Q and A with Anna Clark, author of Making Australian History The “wokeness” of Australia’s National Curriculum has again made headlines and again it is more electioneering. On Friday a Nine newspapers headline claimed the revised version of National Curriculum will elevate Western and Christian heritage. Crikey picked up on the Sydney Morning Herald headline …
One provocative question: what on earth does evidence-based really mean?
This post was written before Alan Tudge took leave from his position as the Minister for Education. But he’s not the only one to bang on about ‘evidence’ without really being clear what he means. There can be little argument in wanting university Schools of Education to impart to their students, knowledge premised on systematically-acquired …