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Gender and schooling in Australia
This special issue presents a collection of recent papers drawing on qualitative research in and about schooling in Australia and the ways in which...
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Was COVID-19 an unexpected catalyst for more equitable learning outcomes? A comparative analysis after two years of disrupted schooling in Australian primary schools
By the end of 2021, more than 168 million students across the globe had missed a year of face-to-face schooling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In NSW,...
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Doing decolonisation: cultural reconnection as political resistance in schooling
As the final piece of scholarship in the special issue, this paper pulls together data from the Aboriginal Voices project to analyse how Aboriginal...
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Gender Gap in STEM Pathways: The Role of Gender-Segregated Schooling in Mathematics and Science Performance
According to the World Economic Forum, the occupational gender gap with men dominating well-remunerated STEM careers is a key factor in the gender...
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Curricular justice and contemporary schooling: Towards a rich, common curriculum for all students
Despite the commitment by governments and educational leaders to high-quality and high-equity systems, the defining features of contemporary...
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'Everyone would freak out, like they’ve never seen a boy before’: young people’s experiences of single-sex secondary schooling in NSW
Although gender expansive views are increasingly evident amongst young people, segregation according to binary notions of gender underpins the...
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Outdoor learning across the early years in Australia: Inconsistencies, challenges, and recommendations
In this article, we explore inconsistencies in the implementation of outdoor learning across Australian early years’ education. The benefits of...
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Fostering Professionalism for Geography in Primary Schooling
Primary school teachers are highly professional people. Being a primary teacher means committing to enabling primary children’s development of...
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“You get to ‘feel’ your culture”: Aboriginal students speaking back to deficit discourses in Australian schooling
Despite an expenditure of over $45 billion in the last decade aimed at meeting the Closing the Gap strategies, successive Federal and state...
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Comparative Study of Primary School Students’ Values in Mathematics Learning in Ghana and Australia
Valuing in mathematics education continues to attract the attention of mathematics educators and researchers worldwide. Many studies have compared...
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The impact of Learning from Country on teachers’ understandings of place and community: insights from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project
In this paper, we present findings from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling (CNS) project data, collected during and after a series of experiential...
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Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels
Industrial Design education is poorly understood by laypeople but is present in Australian curricula from primary through to tertiary education...
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The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition
This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with...
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Reinvigorating Country as teacher in Australian schooling: beginning with school teacher’s direct experiences, ‘relating with Country’
The Country as Teacher research project was a formative exploration of how Indigenous pedagogies might be taken-up as part of mainstream schooling...
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Schooling upheaval during COVID-19: troubling consequences for students’ return to school
Efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus resulted in various stay-at-home orders and school closures around the globe, causing unprecedented disruption...
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The Equity of Class Ability Grou** Practices in Australian Education: Findings from a Survey in Western Australia and Queensland
Grou** students into separate classes according to their ‘ability’ is an inequitable practice that does not, overall, improve academic outcomes....
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Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education in Primary and Secondary Classrooms in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the UK
This chapter shares an overview of students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) in the United States and three other prominent...
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The systemic implications of housing affordability for the teacher shortage: the case of New South Wales, Australia
Legal attendance requirements and national declarations establish a social contract between the State and its citizens for the provision of...
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Being critical of the student achievement problem in Australia
This paper presents a critical exploration of a reported decline in student achievement in Australia (2000–2020). Declining student achievement is...