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Dec 27, 2024 | 
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By Mark Vicars and Janine Arantes
This year’s backflip by the Australian government, reversing its decision to exclude LGBTQIA+ questions from the 2026 census, has sparked an important conversation about data justice and the visibility of marginalised communities in our increasingly automated world.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
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The Arts have often been agitators in challenging systems. The NSW Educational Standards Authority (NESA – and there are no equivalent bodies in other states and territories) has stirred a hornet’s nest. How? It introduced a new draft drama syllabus for senior school and new draft music syllabuses for senior school with not enough consultation.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
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By Joel Windle, Laura Perry and Quentin Maire
A major driver of inequality in contemporary education systems internationally is the segregation of students from different social backgrounds into separate schools. Australian education separates students from different backgrounds to a greater extent than many other countries.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
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By Monique Mandarakas and Melissa FanshaweThere have long been debates over homework and children’s resistance to doing it. It is seen to lead to fights at the kitchen table after school. This may stem from time-poor working families or parents and carers unsure of how to do it in the ‘right’ way. As teachers, and parents, we too have struggled with homework. We decided to research this further. Homework is widely used in primary school. There is also a continuing debate in the media.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
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By Stephanie Wescott and Steven Roberts
The men who helped Trump sweep to victory through inspiring young men to vote, such as billionaire investor Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan, hold a network of power and influence that might further exacerbate the undermining of women and girls’ rights and safety during a second Donald Trump presidency and beyond.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
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By Sue Ollerhead
Time-strapped teachers are turning to advanced AI models like ChatGPT and Perplexity to streamline lesson planning. Simply by entering prompts like “Generate a comprehensive three-lesson sequence on geographical landforms,” they can quickly receive a detailed teaching program tailored to the lesson content, complete with learning outcomes, suggested resources, classroom management tips and more.
What’s not to like?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
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We know that learning the arts improves both student engagement and well-being. Students develop self-esteem, capacity to collaborate and share their emotions, all part of learning to communicate and developing socialisation skills.
The COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia forced families and teachers to rethink how children might learn, in new online contexts where the usual teacher/student and student/student relationships were disrupted by emergency remote learning and teaching.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
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By Wendy Johnson
A paradigm shift from medical model to social model of disability seems to have occurred – and nowhere is that more apparent than in the many responses to the Royal Commission on Disability. This shift adds impetus to the provision of adjustments for those I describe in my book, Light Sensitive Learners: Unveiling Policy Inaction, Marginalisation and Discrimination.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
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By Mark Selkrig
In today’s educational climate, with its intense focus on raising standardised test scores, it seems like we have lost sight of nurturing the extensive human potentials of both our students and teachers. There is an ongoing fixation with individualised student-centred approaches, along with drilling basic competencies in reading, writing and maths. Approaches are increasingly narrowed to “teach to the test” to accommodate these high-stakes metrics.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
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By Christopher Boyle, Joanna Anderson and Tom Porta
For decades, debates around inclusive education have persisted, with systems globally striving to make schools more inclusive. Yet, how much progress has truly been made? Despite years of reform and substantial financial investment, increasing numbers of students are being excluded or removed from schools. In Australia, no state or territory government has fully committed to inclusive schooling.
