Perundungan adalah masalah serius. Tapi, yang jarang menjadi topik dalam bahasan atau riset adalah pengalaman orang tua yang anaknya menjadi pelaku bullying dan telah membuat anak lain menderita.
- Professor of Inclusion and Educational Psychology, Adelaide University
The government should make the most of educational psychologists, who already provide vital front line services.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he is considering linking funding to NAPLAN data. This may seem like an obvious way of improving literacy and numeracy, but the challenges would be as complex and divisive as the testing regime itself.
The accepted international view for many years has been to move away from segregating children with special needs in special schools. However, special education seems to be experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in Australia and a recent piece in The Conversation argued that this might be positive.
Results from NAPLAN testing could actually be inflated given the high rates of absenteeism from the lower bands of achievement.
Bullying in schools is a subject that is talked about a lot. One of the quieter areas of discussion and research is the experience of parents whose child is responsible for harassing and victimising others.
School refusal is a serious difficulty for many students, but it is often ignored in policies for increasing school attendance.
Inclusive education, where students with disabilities are educated within mainstream classrooms rather than special schools or classes, is widely recognised as being the best way to ensure everyone gets…
Since taking over as chief executive of the Football Federation Australia (FFA), Australian soccer’s governing body, David Gallop would have “sold his arse” (to paraphrase Tony Abbott) to have the sport…
On being asked the question, “what do you think of disability support in Australia?”, I would have to quote Gandhi’s fabled response when he was asked what he thought of Western civilisation: “I think…
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