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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…

Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials, including digital information. Characteristically, the theory is used to generate hypotheses that are tested using randomised controlled trials. Cognitive load theory rests on a base of hundreds of randomised controlled trials tes…

Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials, including digital information. Characteristically, the theory is used to generate hypotheses that are tested using randomised controlled trials. Cognitive load theory rests on a base of hundreds of randomised controlled trials tes…

A new title in the Local and Global Issues in Education book series is now available at the special discounted rate of $35 for AARE members and $40 for non-members.

Edited by Sharon Tindall-Ford, Shirley Agostinho, John Sweller. Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials,…

Congratulations to the following members who have been appointed to the AER Editorial Team following our recent call for Expressions of Interest.

Associate EditorsCathie Burgess, University of Sydney
Emma Burns, Macquarie University
Steven Lewis, Deakin University

ECR EditorsAbbey Cruickshank, University of Tasmania
Troy Heffernan, LaTrobe University
Melitta Hogarth, University of Melbourne
Katrina Thorpe, University of Technology, Sydney

We warmly welcome the new members of the Editorial Tea…

AARE is pleased to announce the following shortlisted and winning papers for the 2020 Springer and AER Best Paper Awards are being made free access until the end of January.

Winner:

Emma Rowe and Laura B. Perry, ‘Private financing in urban public schools: inequalities in a stratified education marketplace’

 

Shortlisted papers:

Helen Adam & Caroline Barratt-Pugh, ‘The challenge of monoculturalism: what books are educators sharing with children and what messages do they send?’

Sheelagh…

Much has been researched, written and debated about what it means to be a ‘good’ teacher. Conversations in Australia continue around quality teaching and teacher quality and the way we educate our teachers. Governments at national and state levels have specifically designed and established teacher accreditation regimes to produce ‘good’ teachers.

AARE invites early career researchers, postgraduate students, and other interested people to participate in a series of activities. 

Please contact the 2024 Postgraduate Representative, Ms Sarah Langman, or the ECR Representative, Dr Ben Zunica, if you have any questions.

Call for presenters and abstract submissionAs economies and schools emerge from the pandemic, it is time to take an opportunity to examine how schools effectively support the needs of students by including their voices in the reshaping and rebuilding activities that are taking place.  Building on our commitment to empower children and student voice, agency and participation, some questions we ask are:

How can student voice become more inclusive? 
What were school-system priorities in the age…

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…