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Results from the 2023 election of Executive Committee members were announced at the AARE 53rd Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21st November 2023.  AARE will be supported by the following Executive Committee members for 2024:
 

Prof
Julie McLeod
President

Prof
Annette Woods
Secretary

Prof
Michele Simons
Treasurer

L/Prof
Jennifer Gore
President Elect

Dr
Babak Dadvand
SIG Coordinator

Dr
Naomi Barnes
Communications Coordinator

A/Prof
Stewart Riddle
AER Editor in Chief

A/Prof
Joel Windle…

The Technology and Learning SIG will be releasing monthly podcasts on research and topics of interest in the area of technology and learning. Please enjoy the episodes and share with your colleagues.

Episode 5In this episode, we explore transformative innovations in online learning and assessment that bring uniqueness and attractiveness to online education in higher ed. Over the past decade, technology has significantly reshaped teaching, moving beyond traditional methods to create more dynamic…

ENGAGING WITH EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS

JULY - AUGUST 2024

Researchers are increasingly interested in engaging with and communicating their research to a wide range of audiences and stakeholder groups. AARE members have identified a need to strengthen our individual and collective capabilities in working effectively with government, the media and philanthropic organisations. In response, we have developed the following program of seminars for members, beginning July 23.

Each seminar features inpu…

This special issue is devoted to exploring the concept of interdisciplinary educational work in a range of local, national and international contexts.

Guest co-editorsA/Prof. Ange Fitzgerald, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland – angela.fitzgerald@usq.edu.au
A/Prof. Graham Parr, Faculty of Education, Monash University –
graham.parr@monash.edu
Dr. Judy Williams, Faculty of Education, Monash University – judy.williams@monash.edu

Overview of special issueThe unique appeal of…

The 2023 AARE Conference will be held from 26 to 30 November in Melbourne, hosted by the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. We can announce the theme for this year’s conference will be Truth, Voice, Place: Critical junctures for educational research. 

As the newly appointed Standing Chair, I’d like to acknowledge the incredible work of volunteers that draw this conference together as a point and place for care for education and educational research. The AARE Conference has…

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…

As in previous years, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) has invited AARE to submit a representative symposium for inclusion in their annual conference – which next year will be held in person from April 11-14 in Philadelphia, PA. 

As you will likely know, acceptance into the AERA program is very competitive and we are delighted that AARE has the opportunity to profile some of our leading research through this process. It is also part of strengthening our links with major inte…

We are very sad to have to pass on the news that Professor Peter Fensham passed away on 23 August 2021 aged 93 years. Peter was one of the 123 founding members of AARE, as a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. In 1991, Peter delivered the Radford Lecture, titled “Common Sense Knowledge: A Challenge to Research” that sounds as topical today as it undoubtedly was then.

Peter contributed enormously to education and education research in Australia. He was Professor of Scienc…

Since 2014, it has been practice that the AARE Executive include two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researcher Member and the Co-opted Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Researcher Member. In October 2022, leaders of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research SIG called attention to this and noted that the AARE Constitution only referred explicitly to one identified Indigenous member position. This is despite long term advoc…

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…