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Nurturing creativity is a key focus of twenty-first century educational and employment discourses here and around the world.
The next twenty years will see teachers under increasing pressure to convincingly justify their existence.
My favourite episode of the American television comedy Seinfeld is the one titled “The Opposite”.
Response to the report of the Independent Review into Regional, Rural and Remote Education (IRRRRE) We welcome the attention given to rural and remote education by the recently released Independent Review…
In kindy, I was very sad for most of the time.
If you have a child in secondary school in Australia, you are probably familiar with assessment task sheets.
You know there is something going wrong with Australia’s national testing program when the education minister of the largest state calls for it to be axed.
Australia’s national literacy and numeracy testing program, NAPLAN, for 2018 begins today, on Tuesday 15th May.
The language we use to discuss the work of teachers in the public domain matters.
An academic‘s job is, quite often, to name what others might not see. Scholars of school reform in particular are used to seeing paradoxes and ironies.
This week many teachers will be turning their attention to the next event in the school calendar, the commemoration of ANZAC day.
As I come to the end of my doctoral journey, having recently submitted my thesis, I have been asked a number of times by well-meaning friends and family about how…
Recently unisex uniforms have taken centre stage in the annual school uniform debate in Australia.
The Australian Labor Party recently announced it would invest $280 million to fund a new educational research institute if it wins the next federal election.
Public discourse about schooling generally assumes that it’s in crisis.