As school winds down for the summer, it is worth considering the past 16 months of pandemic schooling. As difficult as this time has been for schools and families, it provided an opportunity to ask: What insights into parent-teacher relations has the pandemic provided so far? The adage “it takes a village to raise a […] … learn more→

It’s not uncommon to hear teachers and other educators talk about being “June tired” — the way they typically feel in June after a full school year. But this year, educational workers may be experiencing a new, and much deeper, form of fatigue. Teachers, principals and other school staff spent this past year perpetually shifting between in-school and […] … learn more→

A Coalition party room meeting this week debated the A$1.7 billion childcare package announced in the budget, which would increase subsidies for families with more than one child in care and remove a cap on subsidies for higher-income families. Some MPs reportedly argued childcare shouldn’t be the only type of care being subsidised and parents should also […] … learn more→

If humans and mosquitoes had a battle at the end of the world, who would win? That’s the question I pose to 30 young kids each summer during a two-week camp called “Mosquitoes & Me” in Des Moines, Iowa. I am an educational anthropologist who studies the cultural dynamics of science education. Along with my colleagues Lyric Bartholomay and Sara […] … learn more→

When it comes to education, we cannot think about race, sex and class in isolation. When I was commissioned by the UK government to investigate how these issues affect academic achievement, I discovered how they all matter – and in combination. I believe that an analysis that focuses on any one of these in isolation […] … learn more→

Mentoring is known to be a critical component of job satisfaction and career development. It is also widely recognised that career advancement in medicine, research and health more broadly remains in favour of men. Traditional academic mentoring programs rely on a unidirectional mentor-mentee relationship: a senior academic mentors a junior (female) academic. This model has been shown […] … learn more→

Neuroscience has established a clear link between music and language acquisition. To put it simply, learning music in the early years of school can help children lay the foundations of reading. In the brain, neural networks involved in processing musical information and developing language overlap. From an evolutionary point of view, the processing of music developed in […] … learn more→

The Australian Senate yesterday voted in support of a motion calling on the federal government to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum. The motion was moved by Senator Pauline Hanson. Critical race theory, or CRT, is an academic theory developed primarily by Black scholars and activists to highlight the systemic and institutional nature of racism. […] … learn more→

Australian children are among the least active in the world. In a recent study, Aussie kids ranked 140th out of 146 countries for physical activity. And in 2018, a physical activity “report card” gave Australian children a D-minus for overall physical activity levels. The grade was based on only 18% of young people meeting the physical […] … learn more→

The Teaching is the discipline that studies educational communication aimed knowledge. It is applicable to any educational stage, from Early Childhood Education to university training. Therefore, the didactic methodology is constituted by the techniques and ways of generating communication spaces that provide greater knowledge. The study of didactic methodologies has been a fundamental field of pedagogy since its birth […] … learn more→