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Purpose:Members of the Motivation & Learning SIG are interested in issues relating to complexity of learning, instruction, and motivation for both students and teachers in the contemporary classroom. The aim of this SIG is to bring together international researchers interested in contributing to a better understanding of how learning processes, instructional quality, and motivation impact students’ and teachers’ academic lives. This is related to the intra- and interpersonal motivational pro…

Aim:The Politics and Policy in Education SIG provides a space within which AARE members can present, discuss and debate research on the production, enactment and impacts of politics and policy in relation to educational issues. The SIG includes members engaged in quantitative, qualitative, interpretive, critical, ethnographic and comparative methodological approaches. It brings together researchers from a broad variety of disciplines and professional areas to foster and support the conduct, coll…

Purpose:This SIG is the home of post structural theory, post qualitative methodologies and  posthuman research manifestations in education.  Feminist and new materialist theory is engaged with and promoted along with the turn to affect within educational research.  We also embrace creative, critical and arts based thinking and practices.

Research interests:
Post qualitative methodologies
Posthumanism
New materialism
Feminisms
Affect
Aesthetics
Creative Methodologies
 

Aim:The Professional and Higher Education (PHE) SIG provides a forum for researchers to build critical mass and strategic focus in the areas of higher, professional and vocational education, and workplace and organizational learning. It supports theoretical and methodological discussions across these diverse sites in order to explore big questions facing post-secondary education, enabling members to develop research agendas in relation to student equity, globalization, knowledge, technology, pol…

Aim:This is to provide a broader space to discuss, explore ideas and debate qualitative methodological issues (such as ethics and research designs) in social and educational contexts. This change endeavours to address the wider spectrum of methodologies that are emerging and merging with others. The SIG welcomes exploration of all qualitative methodologies, including (but not limited to) action research, arts-based research, autoethnography, biographical research, case studies, decolonising meth…

Aim:The Rural Education Special Interest Group aims to foster and promote research and scholarly work into the needs of rural, regional and remote schools and other educational settings and their communities. 

Rationale:A focus on rural education is imperative for the economic and social well being for vibrant and productive rural communities. Across Australia there are many different research groups focusing of the needs of rural schools and their communities. This SIG provides a place for the…

Aim:The STEM Education Special Interest Group was created as a vehicle to promote teaching, learning and research in integrated STEM education. By “integrated” we mean the deliberate full or partial integration of any or all of the key components of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics with or without other areas such as The Arts.

We have the following aims:

To build a network researchers interested in integrated STEM education and stimulate debate and discussion;
To pursue opportu…

Aim:The Social Justice SIG aims to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners interested in the provision of schooling and post-compulsory educational opportunities that are accessible and of benefit to all students, especially those from low income, bilingual, Indigenous and other marginalised backgrounds.

Since educational outcomes in Australia are strongly correlated with the socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of students, this SIG supports research aimed at reducing…

We welcome researchers from all fields of education and social science who are interested in using and advancing our understanding of human activity using the powerful theoretical tools derived from Vygotsky and the community of scholars that have arisen from this tradition. We are united by our use of the theories and methodologies of Cultural-Historical Theory, Activity Theory, and Socioculutural Theory. We have members who work in social justice, STEM education, emotion, early childhood educa…

Aims:The Sociology of Education SIG aims to:

build a network of researchers interested in sociological approaches to research in education and to stimulate debate and discussion,
pursue opportunities for advancing sociological analysis of education and sociology of education in broad terms,
encourage and support postgraduates and early career researchers working in the field of sociology of education, and
provide a basis for streams on the sociology of education at AARE conferences.
Research in…