Rebecca Cairns Researchers often participate in shut and write sessions to carve out dedicated time for writing. What about having more time to shut up and read? But you don’t have time, I hear you say. This problem is the focus of the first of these recent publications from TCAP research group members. Time […]
Tom Mahoney This post was originally posted on Tom’s blog The Interruption. Listen to the podcast segment of Ideology in Education (at 15:34) based on this blog post for the Teacher’s Education Review below. There are a growing number of teachers, consultants, think tanks and edu-businesses espousing the science of learning as the saviour […]
Rebecca Cairns History curriculum is again making news with headlines like ‘Colonisation will be taught in school as curriculum in NSW is overhauled’ and ‘Studying colonisation and Aboriginal resistance to be mandatory in NSW high schools.’ This is not to say that studying the effects of colonisation and the resistance of First Nations […]
Penny Harry & Robyn Barallon Australian teachers often express an uncomfortableness or low confidence, in developing lessons embedded with Indigenous knowledges. This may turn them towards an online ‘marketplace’ of resources to procure ready-made lessons. Think Teach Starter, Teachers Pay Teachers, Twinkl etc. But are these resources credible, are they appropriate, and how do […]
Arif Kabir The media pays increasing attention to global university rankings (GURs) results published by different agencies every year. However, there is a lack of research to understand the power dynamics underlying the coverage of GURs from a Global South perspective. New research Shahjahan Riyad, Nishorggo Niloy, and I have recently published a […]
Maria Nicholas NAPLAN, PIRLS, TIMSS and PISA results, among other standardised outcomes, have shown that over many years, here in Australia and abroad, a large portion of school-aged children are ‘underachieving.’ That is, they are producing outcomes that fall below the expected minimum standard for same-aged peers, in mathematics, reading and science. At the […]
Rebecca Cairns, Michiko Weinmann and Elvie Tamata The Education Show that accompanies the National Education Summit is an annual exhibition event held in Melbourne and Brisbane in June. As first-time visitors we were interested to see what was being spruiked as “the latest innovations in the education section” (The Education Show, 2024). Given the […]
Karen Guo Reviewing early childhood studies research The field of early childhood studies (ECS) is experiencing a transformative shift with the rise of international comparative (IC) research. Fuelled by foundational efforts from international agencies, this growth has significantly altered our understanding of children’s learning, teaching pedagogy, and early childhood curricula. As international comparative research flourishes, […]
Michiko Weinmann Recent education research has increasingly sought to engage with the complexities of curriculum making, specifically by amplifying the voices from the curricular landscape that represent the lived curricula of teachers and students. Our project Students as multilingual and multicultural influencers was undertaken in 2022 as part of Deakin University’s Students as Partners […]
Rebecca Cairns Welcome to the TCAP blog Issues related to curriculum, assessment and pedagogy constantly make the news. In recent weeks headlines from South Australia indicate the Education Department is reviewing curriculum to improve how children learn about periods, as menstruation increasingly commences at an early age. In Victoria, academic experts are being […]