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Aim:The Arts Education Practice and Research (AEPR) special interest group aims to facilitate networking opportunities, the dissemination of knowledge and creative collaborations amongst arts educators and arts education researchers across and beyond Australia.  We are keen to establish strong national cross-institutional links to foster future research partnerships within the Arts; particularly as the field approaches an increasingly significant period of discussion on the place of Arts Educati…

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…

The Series Editors call for proposals for the Local/Global Issues in Education book series. We welcome high-quality edited collections or monographs from members of the Australian educational research community addressing key issues in education today.

Series AimsThis series investigates the interplay between the local and the global in contemporary education policy and practice. While globalisation is transforming local education systems, the local cannot be conceived as homogeneous or passiv…

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and Community of Associate Deans Research in Education (cADRE), a subgroup of the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) are co-convening a national summit on 29 and 30 June in Adelaide at UniSA. This summit will bring together 80 senior education researchers from across Australia, including the Executive and senior members of AARE, and members of cADRE and ACDE. The purpose of the summit is to explore responses to existing and eme…

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…

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Workshop 2018PresentationsNaomi Barnes

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Leanne Holt

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Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Workshop 2017PresentationsGlenn Savage

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In this keynote address, Dr. Glenn Savage will explore the various challenges, possibilities and frustrations facing early career researchers as they seek to navigate the complex terrain of research funding in Australia and beyond. Based on his journey fro…

AARE are proud to have been represented by Emma Rowe, Laura Perry, Sue Winton, Bob Lingard and Glenn Savage at BERA on Wednesday at Manchester University, UK. The symposium entitled "A policy assemblage of school funding typologies, trajectories and tensions was well attended and the rigorous papers encouraged debate and discussion. Thanks to these strong researchers for representing AARE so well.

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Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews1, Shannon Foster, and the D’harawal Traditional Descendants and Knowledge Holders Circle.

1University of Technology Sydney

 In any attempt to understand or engage with this year’s NAIDOC theme, Heal Country (https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2021-theme), one thing should be abundantly clear, Country [with a capital ‘C’] ‘is more than just a place.’ Country is not just some siloed off block of land that an individual can claim sole ownership of whilst thumping away o…

Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews

Director of Indigenous Research, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership

Western Sydney University

‘Knowledge’ about Indigenous pathology circulates as strategic truth in the race war to rationalise the continuing subjugation of the Indigenous population and encourage non-Indigenous investment in patriarchal white sovereignty (Moreton-Robinson, 2009, p.72).

It was during a meeting that I started to consider writing of the NAIDOC theme Get Up! Stand U…