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Symposium: The Body, Embodiment, & Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach

On Wednesday 12th June 2019, at the La Trobe University City Campus, a symposium was held on the following theme: “The Body, Embodiment, and Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach”.

The event brought together a range of highly distinguished academics to present their research on the symposium theme. Co-sponsored by the School of Education at La Trobe University, and the Australian Association for Research in Educ…

Promote your latest research to policymakers, practitioners and scholars by submitting a blog post to the British Educational Research Association (BERA). In 2021, the BERA Blog reached readers in over 200 countries, totaled over 160,000 unique page views and published its 1,000th post. The blog aims to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner. It welcomes articles of up to 750 words on any topic in education.

Submit your blog post to blog@bera.ac.uk…

Purpose:The purpose of the Assessment and Measurement SIG is to provide a forum where AARE members with an interest in educational assessment and measurement can meet to discuss relevant research, theory and its implications for classroom practice, and assessment policy.

Research interests:Qualitative and quantitative approaches across all phases of education to:

classroom assessment, and
standardised assessment in education.
This includes:

approaches to formative and summative assessment inc…

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
 

How might educational leaders and teacher improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practiced and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people's literacy learning. 

Includes postage and packing in Australia
Additional $10 int…

PurposeEduResearch Matters Blog/Blogger of the Year Award recognises an outstanding contribution to public understanding and debate of educational issues.

Merit criteriaConsideration will be given to:

Quality of blog submission/s
Ideas and argument
Timeliness
Engagement
Selection processThe Judging panel consists of the Communications Coordinator for the Australian Association for Research in Education and the EduResearch Matters Editor. The panel’s decision will be final and no further corres…

How might educational leaders and teacher improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practiced and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people's literacy learning. 

Includes postage and packing in Australia
Additional $10 int…

AARE is engaged in activities to promote and advocate for the positive impact of educational research on policy and practice in education and associated areas of society. 

 

Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) i…

An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private secto…