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The Australian Association for Research in Education invites qualified Faculties, Schools or Departments of Education to nominate a successful doctoral student for the annual “Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education". This award is intended as recognition of excellence in educational research by doctoral students and is seen by the Association as a way of recognising the high quality contribution made to educational knowledge by graduate students, and at the same time promoting d…

Videos from the 2021 Language and Literacy SIG forums 

 1.   Title: The affordances and limitations of participatory research in the TESOL classroom

Dr Yvette Slaughter (University of Melbourne)

The affordances and limitations of participatory research in the TESOL classroom: Identity texts as a pedagogical tool/Identity texts as a professional learning tool

In this presentation from the 2021 AARE Language and Literacy SIG Research Round Table, Dr Yvette Slaughter (University of Melbourne) p…

The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is excited to announce its first face-to-face conference in two years. It will take place on Sunday 27 November – Thursday 1 December at the University of South Australia, City West Campus.  

Conference theme: Transforming the Future of Education: The Role of ResearchTaken-for-granted ways of thinking and working in early learning settings, schools, universities and other sites of formal and informal education have been disrupted in th…

Assessing Australia Research Council Grant Applications

Did you know that many Australian Education researchers provide feedback in ARC assessment reports, which is putting applications at risk of not being funded? 

At the recent Australian Education Research Leaders’ Summit, the assessment of ARC applications was discussed. Informal advice from previous ARC College of Experts indicates that, in Education we could do better in the way we provide assessments.
 
For example, many Australia…

Aims:Our SIG aims to enliven understandings about teachers' and school leaders’ work and lives through research that is conducted by/with/for teachers. We recognise teachers as educators and educational team leaders working in diverse settings including early childhood, primary and secondary schools, skills training institutions, universities (in particular Initial Teacher Education), and other discrete or alternative settings. We use a range of theoretical and methodological frameworks to…

For Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers2024 Conference Bursary Program:Overview and purposeAARE is pleased to provide a conference bursary program to support conference attendance in 2024.  This program is offered as a way of reaching new members and as a service to existing AARE members.  The program is in recognition of the equity issues faced by postgraduate students and early career researchers in the current Higher Education context.

The 2024 AARE Conference is being held at…

The Australian Association for Research in Education was founded in 1970 as the voice of education researchers. Our members are educational researchers from Australian universities, local, state and federal governments, early childhood education contexts, schools, colleges and training organisations as well as private research agencies.

Some founding members perspectives:

Michael Dunkin, AARE founding member, former President and now Honorary Life Member of AARE: Read his 2010 memoir of his li…

Rationale:The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Special Interest Group (SIG) was founded at the Adelaide Conference of AARE in 2013.  Since then, we have worked to increase the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation within AARE including an Aboriginal Interpretive Tour and an Indigenous Keynote Speaker.  Our Indigenous led SIG brings together both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples, inclusive of Masters and PhD Research students, early car…

We welcome researchers from all fields of education and social science who are interested in using and advancing our understanding of human activity using the powerful theoretical tools derived from Vygotsky and the community of scholars that have arisen from this tradition. We are united by our use of the theories and methodologies of Cultural-Historical Theory, Activity Theory, and Socioculutural Theory. We have members who work in social justice, STEM education, emotion, early childhood educa…

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…