I want to share here the deep concern I have for the role of educational researchers and teachers in this burgeoning post-truth and fake news world.
Soul-searching and navel gazing into the quality of teaching and teacher education in Australia has been rife lately. There were already concerns about the decline in Australia's international rankings.
As an Australian educator and researcher, I am regularly taken aback by what seems to be a residual cultural cringe when we turn to other countries for insight and inspiration…
I am concerned that recent reforms to the NSW Higher School Certificate are based on a narrowly conceived vision for education which will see students graduating with a basic but…
The Australian government has launched a new independent review into regional, rural and remote education, with the aim of improving the education outcomes of rural students and their access to…
The digital literacy of pre-service teachers was put in the spotlight recently.
The serious dumbing down of the senior English syllabus in NSW will have significant repercussions for students, employers, writers, poets, and Australian culture. The changes have been widely criticized.
The movie “Lion” is a snapshot into the life of Saroo Brierley who was born in India and adopted by a Tasmanian couple.
Most Australian students in years 9 to 12 were provided with a laptop courtesy of The Digital Education Revolution between 2008 and 2013.
The 2015 Australian census data establishes that women make up 56.
I am deeply concerned about changes to the HSC English syllabus.
My student teachers often question the value of educational theory in their initial teacher education.
The recent announcement by Education Minister, Simon Birmingham, of a nation-wide phonics assessment for six year olds is of great concern to me.
This blog post is a response to Charlotte's Pezaro's post Specialist science and maths teachers in primary schools are not the solution
To support the teaching and learning of STEM, and…
The idea to put specialist science and maths teachers into Australian primary schools gained a lot of support after the latest results of international tests were announced.