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Teacher education
What’s the best way to support teachers to become interdisciplinary?
Read our first post on our interdisciplinary project: Why you need to spot the invisible elephant Teachers need interdisciplinary expertise. Why? So they can navigate increasingly complex theory, evidence and practice landscape, so they can keep up with technological developments, such as AI, and so they can prepare students for the 21st century. This is …
Why you need to spot the invisible elephant
TODAY Thursday April 27: Webinar is 4 pm – 5 pm (AEST). For more information and registration, please …
A frantic year for education. ICYMI – here are our big reads of the year
Thank you to our many wonderful readers so far this year – and particularly to our many wonderful …
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 – …
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 …
How to support our proud and essential profession
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
The One Teacher Test Which Won’t Make A Difference
Improving teacher quality has been central to recent education reform initiatives around the world. However, what counts as …
We Found Education Schools Across The Nation Are Victims Of Targeted Cuts But More Threats Are Looming
At every university around the country, academics in schools and faculties of Education have been hit hard. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have lost their jobs. Many of them are people we know. Yet it is not easy to identify the particular staff who have ‘disappeared’ from classes, courses and schools of Education among the seventeen and …
The government must know how to fix the teacher shortage. Why won’t it act now?
Schools are struggling with major teacher shortages and the reason is clear. Australia’s education system is missing one fundamental part – a national teacher recruitment and retention strategy. Every other country I have reviewed has one; here’s England’s, here is Bulgaria’s, Zimbabwe’s is recently announced. I’m not emphasising this because we should copy other countries. …
Teachers do not want or need another review. Trust is proven to work.
Christine Cunningham, Maggie McAlinden, Michelle Striepe, Christa Norris, Madlen Griffiths, Zina Cordery, Wei Zhang. We are a group of exhausted expert teacher educators from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia with a long and proud history following in the footsteps of Edith Cowan who did so much to improve the lives of women, the …