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PurposeInaugurated in 2001, the Betty Watts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Award recognises an outstanding conference paper related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, presented at the Annual AARE Conference.  

The award is intended to recognise excellence in research by individual researchers or teams of researchers across all career stages.  

This award honours the memory of Emeritus Professor Betty Watts.  A former primary school teacher, Professor Watts was…

Teacher shortages - what is the real issue and how can it be rectified?

MCERA hosted Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith of ACU, the University of Newcastle's Professor Susan Ledger (member of the NSW Council of Deans of Education) and Professor Jenny Gore (AARE member), and Associate Professor Jane Hunter of UTS talking about the underlying issues of the current teacher shortage.

A recording of the discussion can be found here.

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On May 15, AARE jointly hosted with ATEA and ACDE an online forum on ‘What counts as evidence in teacher education research and policy?’ We had a great turn-out, with close to 150 people joining in to hear our esteemed panellists: Prof Penny Van Bergen (Wollongong); Matthew Clarke (Aberdeen); Jenny Gore (Newcastle); and Sam Sellar (UniSa); with the panel ably chaired by Jo Lampert (Monash). The presentations offered compelling and diverse perspectives and prompted lots of engaged responses from…

Aim:The Health and Physical Education Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to bring together researchers with shared interests in health and physical education, as well as those who focus on the educational dimensions of health, physical activity and sport. The group includes scholars from a variety of areas within the field of health and physical education, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, adult education and broader social settings. …

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…

Aim:This SIG is open to anyone involved or interested in researching technology and learning. We welcome researchers who use qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in both small and large-scale technology and learning focused studies.

Our aim is to grow a vibrant community where members can connect and interact with fellow researchers to exchange ideas, knowledge and form research partnerships and have fun in the process.

Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learni…

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…

Call for Expressions of Interest: Associate Editors, ECR Editor Interns

The Australian Educational Researcher is seeking to appoint up to five new members of the Editorial Team to support the work of the journal in publishing high quality research by and/or of interest to members of the Australian educational research community: 

Two or three Associate Editors; and
Two or three Early Career Researcher Editor Interns.
As part of giving practical voice to AARE’s commitment, articulated in the As…

The Australian Educational Researcher is seeking to appoint up to six new members of the Editorial Team to support the work of the journal in publishing high quality research of interest to members of the Australian educational research community:

Two to three Associate Editors; and
Two to three Early Career Researcher Editor Interns.
As part of giving practical voice to AARE’s commitment—articulated in the Association’s Statement of Reconciliation of December 2018—to support Aboriginal and Tor…

Thank you to our Executive Committee members who met on 15th and 16th June at the University of Sydney. It was a full agenda that considered and decided upon a range of important items and initiatives, including:
 

An Executive position statement supporting a ‘Yes’ vote at the forthcoming Referendum on the amendment to the Australian constitution to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament
Approval of the 2023-2024 SIG Funding applications; it is wonderful to see…