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Literacy and numeracy can be assessed through creative tasks, like creating a drama performance or an electrical circuit, without hindering creativity.
Not great at thinking in pictures? Try drawing, talking or using equations.
Identifying three types of schools that are prone to radical values.
NAPLAN has now been in place for a decade and needs ongoing review and refinement to make it more useful to classroom teaching and learning.
May 16 marks the 300th anniversary of the first woman to write a mathematics textbook.
First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
Volunteers have long been the lifeblood of rural communities. But as their numbers shrink, remote towns are at a loss for how to replace them.
Assessments need to be relevant to the real world and test more complex skills to better predict competency, standards of literacy and teaching.
Consumer law requires legal agreements to be transparent – so how does this apply to complicated terms and conditions we’re expected to read?
Education policy experts run through the major changes for education in Budget 2018 for schools, VET and higher education.
When teachers are more adaptable, they’re better able to respond to the changing nature of teaching, and navigate a complex workplace.
As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
Democratic schools already employ some of the recommendations from the Gonski report, chief among them individualisation of teaching.
The colonial and apartheid education project still echoes in South Africa’s post-1994 school system.
The role of general capabilities in a subject-based curriculum has been a recurring theme in Australian curriculum history.
The recently released Gonski 2.0 report focuses on overhauling core aspects of curriculum and reporting, and proposes a move away from the industrial model of education towards individualisation.
The damning report, released on Monday, says the decline is widespread and “equivalent to a generation of Australian school children falling short of their full learning potential”.
For the thousands of children who have left armed groups, education is crucial to their reintegration.
Rwandan girls with disabilities are challenging domination and stereotypes in a male-dominated setting.
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
