To improve Australia’s education system, we need to move away from the idea that the basic features of education are fixed, writes Professor John Quay Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the...
How well does the new Australian Curriculum prepare young people for climate change? Researchers Kim Beasy, Chloe Lucas, Gabi Mocatta, Gretta Pecl and Rachel Kelly give a pleasing update. You’d be forgiven for not having heard about the long-awaited new Australian Curriculum, which was released with...
Lucinda McKnight looks at War, social media and the urgent need to update how we teach English The war in Ukraine is being described as the first social media war, even as “the TikTok war”. Memes, tweets, videos and blog posts communicate both vital information...
