Impact of context-tailored rural teaching placements on preservice teachers’ commitment to teach in a rural area - The Australian Educational Researcher A common strategy for jurisdictions confronting teacher shortages in rural schools is to support programs that encourage preservice teachers to undertake placements in rural areas. This strategy assumes that exposure to rural schools will increase the likelihood that participants will take up teaching positions in rural areas. There is, however, limited evidence of the impact of these programs. This paper reports on mixed-methods research into a placement program that connects preservice teac...

Have you read first online #OA article by Steve Murphy, Lindy Baxter, Kylie Murphy & Daniela Acquaro 'Impact of context-tailored rural teaching placements on preservice teachers’ commitment to teach in a rural area' in AER? https://loom.ly/2d1chPA

Join the for the AEPR SIG Arts Education Workshop - Critical & Creative Thinking Through Arts Practice for an upcoming Arts Education Workshop – Critical & Creative Thinking Through Arts Practice.

Friday 22 May and Saturday 23 May.

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The right to belong, the right to flourish Learning to read isn’t the only right children have. Across Australia and internationally, reading instruction has become a highly politicised space. Government introduced phonics‑centred mandates, scripted programs and high‑stakes assessments have a clear moral framing: these policies, we are told, protect children’s right to read. To question them can feel like questioning children’s futures. Yet ...

A rights‑affirming approach to literacy is not a rejection of evidence, nor an instructional free‑for‑all. Leane Fray and colleagues argue for a framework that integrates strong foundational instruction with explicit attention to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. https://loom.ly/3_3FT60

Shaping Futures: Conversations on Quality Early Childhood Education - Session Four | monday.com forms From campaigns to creatives, lead generation & more, manage every request, contact or feedback with monday.com forms

The Early Childhood SIG invites you to the final online session brings together three sector leaders for a timely and critical conversation on recent child safety and wellbeing reforms in early childhood education.

When: Monday 18th May
Time: 4pm-5pm AEST
Online

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We need arts education - not just creative industries The language we use will shape the policies implemented and whether we continue celebrating the creative economy while arts education collapses.

An arts education approach treats arts as a public good. Mark Selkrig argues Revive 2.0 must treat arts as education, not industry through public investment and a coherent national approach to arts education. https://loom.ly/PR4fIP4

The AARE Teacher Education and Research Innovation (TERI) SIG Journal Club is ready to launch with their first meeting on the 29 April featuring Professor Mary Ryan, Dean of Education at Monash University.
The program for the first five meetings: https://loom.ly/KzDNmfw
EOI: https://loom.ly/RRw0wKs

TERI Online Symposium: Evolving Professional Experience – School Staff | monday.com forms From campaigns to creatives, lead generation & more, manage every request, contact or feedback with monday.com forms

The AARE Teacher Education and Research Innovation (TERI) SIG second in a two‑part online symposium series session brings the conversation directly to those working in schools who support pre-service teachers in professional practice.

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Two Trees: now so different, so very human. Here's why Universities are grappling with effective approaches to guide students about GenAI use. My answer has been practiced by my people for tens of thousands of years. I am a Worimi man, and I grew up learning through story on our Country. Bush walks with my grandmother at Karuah; my father’s voice at night; my aunties ...

If you ask GenAI about Aboriginal culture and history, you always get a confident, fluent answer. Jordan Perry explains how GenAI flattens both cultural knowledge and the intellectual labor of Indigenous peoples. https://loom.ly/8LYqh0M

Now we must mine the past to enrich the present Reading: I the wasteland of poorly funded educational research, mining the past to scope what we already know may be the best strategy

Many schools across Australia are suffering under the administrative weight of standardised tests, teacher burn-out and student drop-out. Paul Gardner argues that teacher professional associations hold rich resources and knowledge bases that can keep classrooms alive. https://loom.ly/PNYdu-I

Whose responsibility is it anyway? Exploring the tutoring policy landscape in Australia using the Peters framework - The Australian Educational Researcher Supplementary education, also known as tutoring, has grown significantly in many jurisdictions around the world including Australia, where it is now estimated that more than one in seven students enrolled in school engage in academic tutoring. While there have been attempts at regulating tutoring around the globe, there is little to no concrete government policy regulating tutoring from federal, state and territory governments in Australia. The lack of regulation of such a large industry that...

Have you read first online #OA article by Ben Zunica, Bronwyn Reid-O’Connor & Katherin Cartwright 'Whose responsibility is it anyway? Exploring the tutoring policy landscape in Australia using the Peters framework' in AER? https://loom.ly/c41PFAA

Time Persistent Trust: What is it and why is it important to school change leadership? - The Australian Educational Researcher Building social cohesion through strong collaborative and trusting relationships is a critical aspect of school leadership which ensures teaching staff are committed to the shared goals of change. This paper reports findings on one leadership dimension (trust) arising from a six-year, longitudinal qualitative Ph.D study exploring leadership change practices across three consecutive school principal eras at a primary school in regional New South Wales, Australia. The leadership dimension of tr...

Have you read first online #OA article by Jennifer Vaughan, Joanna Anderson & Peter McClenaghan 'Time Persistent Trust: What is it and why is it important to school change leadership?' in AER? https://loom.ly/LsDXR6c

Parental perspectives on teaching Indigenous cultures: education, epistemic power, and colonial structures - The Australian Educational Researcher This paper examines the perspectives of 1,232 parents and primary caregivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths (aged 10.5–15 years) on how Indigenous cultures are taught in their children’s schools. Positioned within broader efforts to Indigenise and decolonise Australian education, this research addresses the dual imperative of fostering culturally safe learning environments for Indigenous students, along with providing all students with a more accurate and inclusive understand...

Have you read first online #OA article by Jacob Prehn, Taylor Wigg & Michael A. Guerzoni 'Parental perspectives on teaching Indigenous cultures: education, epistemic power, and colonial structures' in AER? https://loom.ly/I025IH0

Understanding school disengagement among refugee-background African students: institutional accounts - The Australian Educational Researcher School disengagement remains a significant challenge in many OECD countries, requiring a thorough understanding of its root causes. Using a socio-ecological systems framework, this paper explores factors contributing to school disengagement among African-heritage students with refugee backgrounds. Through in-depth interviews with school leaders, teachers, career advisors, student services staff, wellbeing officers, and community liaison personnel in three Australian states, the study identifi...

Have you read first online #OA article by Tebeje Molla 'Understanding school disengagement among refugee-background African students: institutional accounts' in AER? https://loom.ly/0O-diq4

Flaws remain - it's what happens next that matters ATEC: There is still much that we don’t know about how it will work but the legislation is vastly improved.

There is still much that we don’t know about how Australian Tertiary Education Commission will operate. Andrew Norton suggests it read like a rushed committee job with nobody in enough control to ensure internal coherence. https://loom.ly/ftia2i0

We’re pleased to announce the launch of AARE’s new Curriculum Inquiry Special Interest Group (SIG)—a vibrant forum dedicated to advancing research, theory and practice in curriculum studies across Australia.

👉 Visit the AARE website for full details https://loom.ly/OYfYu9g

AARE is please to announce that the 2026 conference will be held at QUT in beautiful Brisbane/Magandjin.
Join us Monday 30th November to Thursday 3rd December inclusive, with the Welcome Reception held on the Sunday evening of 29th November.

Improving Australia’s quality rating and improvement systems for early childhood education and care - The Australian Educational Researcher Australia’s Productivity Commission report, A path to universal early childhood education and care (2024), recommended a review of the National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care (ECEC) and increased funding to support regulatory activity. Evidence underpinning the report identified an imperative to improve the frequency, fairness and focus of Australia’s quality assessment process and attendant value of ECEC service ratings. We interrogated the assessment process to ide...

Have you read first online #OA article by Sally Staton, Sandy Houen, Peter Rankin & Karen Thorpe 'Improving Australia’s quality rating and improvement systems for early childhood education and care' in AER? https://loom.ly/9H_OLds

Taking civics education to the people on Instagram Civics education: These contributions shape civic discourse, but can sit in tension with expectations of teacher professional identity.

Given the decline in Civics education there is a need to rethink how citizens are educated about the way their government operates. Jessica Prouten argues we must reckon with digital spaces, and what expectations this field may have for the future of educational practice. https://loom.ly/rRtoVqY

Will politicians tell us what they really think about arts degrees? The Job-ready Graduates (JRG) scheme is up for debate in federal parliament this year. But will the politicians debate the employability of humanities graduates this time? My research reveals that in 2020 when the legislation was debated, the employability of humanities graduates was a matter of rhetoric, not targeted debate.   Using new Humanities and ...

If employability is to remain the central justification for higher education legislation, it must be treated seriously by Australian parliamentarians. Naomi Barnes examines the lack of evidence in parliamentary debates about Humanities, Arts and Social Science graduates. https://loom.ly/sUX9K3M

More Aboriginal teachers are needed now! - The Australian Educational Researcher This article describes a 2024 Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success First Nations Fellowship twelve-month research project about promoting teaching as a career to Aboriginal people. The innovation was to ask Aboriginal people how to best promote teaching and utilised Aboriginal voices and perspectives in the creation of promotional materials. The knowledge created could inform how Australian education departments and teacher education institutions attract Aboriginal people to the p...

Have you read first online #OA article by Tracy Woodroffe and Kushalta Chauhan 'More Aboriginal teachers are needed now!' in AER? https://loom.ly/fkP_HZ0

Don’t miss the Technology and Learning SIG's latest podcast episodes: https://loom.ly/_c72g6A

Podcast 18: Bridging the Gap: Digital Games, Pedagogy, and Equity in NSW History Classrooms with Shea Rigney
Podcast 19: Teachers Using AI in Literacy with Dr Simone Smala

100 years on: identity, education and the cost of 'exemption' Exemption: These histories continue to ripple through contemporary efforts to embed identity-affirming work for Indigenous Australians

Judi Wickes, Chenoa Masters and Marnee Shay explain why more work is needed to educate broader Australian society about Australian history and the laws and legislation that continue to shape how Indigeneity is perceived by non-indigenous Australians. https://loom.ly/GxQ3I3A

Am I an Education Researcher? - The Australian Educational Researcher How individual researchers and communities of scholars situate themselves with respect to each other has a range of consequences, relating to issues from identity and norms of practices, to how one is benchmarked or positioned to apply for jobs or funding. Education, perhaps more than other disciplines, has a longstanding attention to tensions in this situating. This paper provides a reflection from an individual researcher, relating their experience to the literature, and collated and origin...

Have you read first online #OA article by Simon Knight 'Am I an Education Researcher?' in AER? https://loom.ly/khQgk6k

Time, temporal burden and the futures of teachers: Why education must act now How to find time between teaching, mentoring, research, care responsibilities and the relational labour that sustains academic communities.

The urgency of women’s justice in education cannot be overstated. Sakinah Alhadad challenges our institutions to be courageous enough to give women the time, recognition and structural support to shape the future. https://loom.ly/cSVhQME

Partnerships for the Past Seminar Series: Partnerships with Museums - Reflections for Education and Research | monday.com forms From campaigns to creatives, lead generation & more, manage every request, contact or feedback with monday.com forms

Join the History and Education SIG Partnerships for the Past Seminar Series
Elsie Leask, UoN, discusses caring for artefacts, oral histories & testimonies from the Sydney Jewish Museum.
When: Thursday 2nd April 2026
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm AEDST
Online Register: https://loom.ly/jMx-qOQ

Inclusion isn’t failing but our systems are. Here's what we must do now When systems equip teachers with knowledge, resources, and professional support, inclusion succeeds—and everyone benefits.

A common misconception is that inclusive education exists primarily to support a small group of students, particularly those with disability. David Roy explains that in this framing, inclusion appears as “extra work” for teachers but research tells a different story. https://loom.ly/8pMrM6Q

The Australian Educational Researcher The Australian Educational Researcher (AER) provides a forum for education researchers to debate internationally relevant issues across all levels of ...

We are pleased to announce that the latest edition of the Australian Educational Researcher is now available. https://loom.ly/6QHycCU

Have you read first online #OA article by Kylie Rice, Sally A. Larsen, Ryan L. Davies & Adam J. Rock 'Beyond GPA: a quantitative evaluation of York et al.'s model of academic success in higher education' in AER? https://loom.ly/inMeIRA

Assessment and Measurement SIG: Meet the Members and Make Connections Event | monday.com forms From campaigns to creatives, lead generation & more, manage every request, contact or feedback with monday.com forms

Are you passionate about assessment and measurement in education?

The Assessment & Measurement SIG would like to invite you to attend an online event on Monday the 30th March, 3.30pm - 4.30pm. Please register: https://loom.ly/rla2oYU

Putting strong evidence to good use Narrowing what counts as “evidence” compromises scientific integrity, sidelining academic scholarship and classroom wisdom.

Click through to the March 2026 Communique from the Australian Association for Research in Education: Toward Greater Impact for Australian Education: The Case for Research, Evidence and ‘Truth’. https://loom.ly/0VskLss