Alie Fataar exemplifies the type of teacher South Africa sorely requires today if its classrooms are to be used to develop a new generation of critical, engaged students.
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Child refugees talk about their experience of transitioning into a new high school in Australia.
New research shows programmes to widen STEM participation in students are failing.
Poetry has been a part of teaching and learning for hundreds of years. But how has poetry education changed? And how are young voices using poetry to express themselves today?
The classroom setting is better for early teenagers, while self-guided language learning is better for adults.
Schools need to have a formal policy in place for how to deal with heatwaves effectively and keep children cool and well.
But are UK universities running the risk of institutionalising public engagement?
For the first time since 1911, students in NSW can now complete Year 12 without having read a novel or poetry.
Teachers – get to really know your kids, their families, their community and its history, and what’s going on at home. While school policies are important, relationships are the real keys to success.
Our enemy is complacency – blaming the post-codes, fixing the students not the system, and arguing for more resources to continue what is not working.
Failing to provide an appropriate education for students who are gifted increases the risk of mental health issues, boredom, frustration, and behavioural problems.
Our schooling system needs a rethink.
Various forms of testing that reduce students’ knowledge, capacities and skills to a single number cannot of themselves help inform improvement.
Policy continuity is what is needed to improve Australian students’ maths capability.
Politicians need to stop meddling with education policy and invest in teachers if Australia’s science, mathematics and reading standards are to improve.
Australia’s performance in science continues to slide due to ineffective, traditional teaching practices and an outdated curriculum. Here’s what needs to change.
Because being a good teacher is about more than just subject knowledge.
In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
A look at the real causes of the teacher shortage in the wake of Lucy Kellaway quitting the FT for life as a maths teacher.
Being a good critical thinker is a desirable and highly-sought after trait for getting a job in today’s economy. But are universities actually teaching this skill effectively?
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Education, UNSW
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Learning Sciences, Monash University
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer & Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Course Coordinator, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Digital Transformation, Monash University
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International adviser, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Deputy Program Director, School Education, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University