Myths about learning and teaching maths continue to plague classroom practice despite consistent lack of evidence demonstrating positive outcomes for …
This paper examines the impact of changing approaches to teaching history and citizenship on the cultivation of national identity in Australia and the UK.
Children’s mathematical competencies in school impact on their long-term outcomes at work and in general life.
Developing creative and critical thinking is a major priority of educators and policymakers. This is promoted because of popular views that students today require more creativity and critical thinking than past generations.
Policymakers have increasingly looked to improvements in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) as key to overcoming declining education outcomes. The analysis in …
This paper outlines the evidence and scientific reasons that inquiry based learning reduces academic performance. Why inquiry based learning reduces …
Generational decline in student achievement and teacher expertise in writing skills — the poor cousin of reading skills in Australian …
Indigenous education disadvantage remains among the most pressing and persistent public policy challenges in Australia. Despite bipartisan and intergovernmental commitment …
Overcoming Indigenous education disadvantage is possible with the right teaching approaches and school policies. It demands abandoning flawed and antiquated …
Australia is among the world’s highest-spending countries on schooling. Yet, the educational return on this investment for parents, taxpayers, employers, …
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …
People ask me why I am opposed to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait …
A national body can’t speak for Aboriginal people as a group and Aboriginal people won’t recognise it. Any representative ‘voice’ …
This week’s economic statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers has answered some pressing economic questions. First and foremost, inflation will remain …
Rugby league is one of Australia’s great spectator sports, and for spectators the game offers respite from politics. Yet as …
Think of the great Enlightenment philosophers — Hume, Hegel or Kant — and what comes to mind? Religious tolerance, individual …
Thank you, Madam President. I am immensely honoured to be standing here before you as part of the 47th Parliament …
When I learnt that a SCOTUS judgment — on abortion, no less — had leaked, I was stunned. Partly, this …
During the past few weeks, The Australian newspaper, as it has done responsibly many times before, reported on the problem …
So Australia will follow New Zealand’s ‘lead’ in introducing a wellbeing-focused budget. Labor has been flagging the desire to adopt …