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Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) i…

At the AARE conference in Sydney today, an Acknowledgement was delivered by the president on behalf of the members, apologising for any harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through past research practices and processes. WATCH VIDEO

Associations have done this in the past including the Australian Psychological Association in 2016. AARE encourages other Associations to consider what a process of acknowledging pasts and considering futures might provide.   

In Australia children with disabilities have the right to be consulted about what can be done to help them participate fully in school life.

Research Through, With and As Storying explores how Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can engage with storying as a tool that disassembles conventions of research. For more details

AARE thanked retiring Secretary Debby Cunningham by awarding her an Honorary Life Membership Award at the conference held in December. Debby had held the position of Sectretary of AARE for more thank 20 years. 

AARE is pleased to announce that it has again been invited to host a symposium as part of the conference program at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) (University of Manchester, Tuesday 10 to Thursday 12 September 2019). 

AARE Executive - call for nominations, SIG Coordinator 

AARE welcomes people interested in becoming a member of the AARE Executive, in the role of Special Interest Group (SIG) Coordinator, to nominate by Monday 25 February 2019. This role will be for one year initially with the opportunity to re nominate for a further term if willing.    
AARE acknowledges that the SIG's are the backbone of the Association and as such the SIG Coordinator has an important role and as such provides signific…

The Series Editors call for proposals for the Local/Global Issues in Education book series. We welcome high-quality edited collections or monographs from members of the Australian educational research community addressing key issues in education today.

Series AimsThis series investigates the interplay between the local and the global in contemporary education policy and practice. While globalisation is transforming local education systems, the local cannot be conceived as homogeneous or passiv…

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm AEST
La Trobe University City Campus, Level 20, 360 Collins Street, Melbourne, Vic 3000
Notions of the body and embodiment have become prominent across a number of established discipline areas, like philosophy, sociology, psychology, and so on. Likewise, emerging areas in related fields, such as embodied cognition, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, bio-power/bio-politics, and so on, approach the body and embodiment in novel ways, and offer the possi…