The recent call for a ‘national education evidence base’ by the Australian Government came as no surprise to Australian educators.
We have evidence that teenagers who regularly play online video games get higher than average grades in OECD-administered maths, science, and reading exams.
Teacher training institutions across Australia are constantly striving to improve the way they educate our future teachers.
I believe in the power of story.
Education ministers from all of Australia’s governments, state, territory and Commonwealth, met on Friday to begin negotiations over school funding. Various claims have been made and strong positions taken.
Why write blog posts? I write about whatever it is I want to yell to the rooftops at the time.
Education is increasingly positioned as a problem in need of fixing.
A key recommendation of the recently released Review of the NSW Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES) is a call for “a more risk based approach to the…
I am a full-time high school teacher and part-time researcher, doing a Doctorate of Philosophy, trying to make meaning in an ever-changing world.
In education systems today there is a real danger of children’s voices being swamped by those of bureaucrats, economists and politicians.
Positive personal attributes such as fairness, humour and kindness, I believe, should be considered necessary attributes for a teacher.
University students and most secondary school students today carry connected devices with them at all times.
Pokémon Go has been sweeping the world like no other game before it.
Debates surrounding the Safe Schools Coalition in Australia, particularly comments by conservative politicians and lobby groups, show that gender diversity is not only marginalised, it is largely misunderstood.
My research interests are closely aligned to the development of civics and citizenship education.