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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…

The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is seeking to appoint a member to take on the role of Chair of the Conferences Standing Committee. The successful appointee will ideally join the Conferences Standing Committee in the final quarter of 2024 as a member and assume the Chair position after the 2024 Conference when the current Chair’s term concludes.

The new appointment would preferably be for a three (3) year term and cover conferences in 2025, 2026 and 2027. However, the…

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…

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This 2 hour online symposium is being convened by the AARE Professional and Higher Education SIG co-convenors. The first question that we consider is whether conferences have gone missing at all. Is it possible that the routine work of face-to-face conferences has been distributed across new platforms for gathering academics and disseminating knowledge? What affordances do these new forms of gathering promise? What are their limits? The second question we consider is this: c…

The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is seeking to co-opt a member to take on the role of Chair of the Conferences Standing Committee for this year’s conference, scheduled for 26th to 30th November 2023 and to be held at the University of Melbourne. The Chair position has typically been a 3 year role held by one member. Ideally this current appointment would be for a three (3) year term covering the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Conferences. However, the Executive Committee is happy…

Aim:The AARE Inclusive Education SIG aims to provide a forum for researchers in inclusive education to present research, collaborate and discuss current issues. The SIG endorses the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) definition of inclusive education which is outlined in General Comment No. 4 on Article 24, as:

. . . a process of systemic reform embodying changes and modifications in content, teaching methods, approaches, structures and strategies in edu…