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RationaleWith the shifting landscape in education, learning has increasingly been seen more so as a “career” where students are expected to take more responsibility of their learning and future employment. In addition, given the opportunity, students may be able to negotiate new ways and possibilities to achieve successful and sustainable educational outcomes across and within various spaces. As such, important critical questions around student voice are being raised, discussed and debated and i…

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…

Aims:Teacher Education Research and Innovation [TERI] purpose is to support scholarly work in the field of teacher education research within the broader context of educational research in Australia. Researchers from a wide range of theoretical traditions are welcome. Further, TERI aims to raise the profile of teacher education research within the wider research community in education. Researchers in education typically are teacher educators, many of whom research in teacher education. We aim to…

Aim:This SIG is open to anyone involved or interested in researching technology and learning. We welcome researchers who use qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in both small and large-scale technology and learning focused studies.

Our aim is to grow a vibrant community where members can connect and interact with fellow researchers to exchange ideas, knowledge and form research partnerships and have fun in the process.

Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learni…

AARE Congratulates Professor Susan Danby and her team on the award of the ARC Centre of Excellence for The Digital Child.

This is a first for Education in Australia and involves funding of $34.9 million for the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child to be based at QUT. Researchers from QUT including Professor Danby, Professor Annette Woods, Associate Professor Sonia White and associate investigators Dr Chris Chalmers and Dr Nerida Spina will work with a large team of re…

Strong Beginnings: Report of the Teacher Education Expert Panel (2023)The recently released Report of the Teacher Education Expert Panel (2023, the Scott Report) makes a number of recommendations that look set to have a significant impact on the design, purpose and provision of initial teacher education.

AARE emphasises the need for a robust and comprehensive research base to inform the direction of initial teacher education programs. This must take account of the breadth of expertise available…

Aim:The ESE SIG aims to bring together Australian and international researchers passionate about environmental and sustainability education research, policy and practice. As a collective we aim to be a place for promoting new directions in environmental and sustainability education.

The planet has entered a new geologic era - the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene represents the devastating impact that humankind has had upon Earth. It also represents a renewed opportunity to re-think, re-imagine an…

Rationale:The research areas of gender, sexualities and cultural studies are brought together by an interest in the politics of everyday life. Broadly speaking, our interest lies in the everyday ways in which adults and young people embody, perform and express gendered and sexualised identities in varying contexts. Scholars in this SIG address the cultural politics that accrue in relation to identity work and explore how different practices and identifications shape experiences and interpretatio…

Aim:To foster networking and dialogue between researchers whose interests involve literacy and/or language research, broadly defined. The group is inclusive in relation to theoretical perspectives, methodologies, levels of schooling, and contexts of research. It welcomes researchers at all stages of career and aims to provide a supportive environment in conferences and events. 

Research interests:Members’ interests include:

literacy/language curriculum, pedagogies and assessment;
digital and m…