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In a survey study of 107 final year pre-service teachers attending a regional Queensland university, teachers fared as poorly as Year 10 students in their understanding of the greenhouse effect. Dr Helen Boon from the school of education at James ...

New legislation will force early childhood and primary school teachers to take exams through registration body, the Queensland College of Teachers, before they can enter the classroom. Education Minister Geoff Wilson said the scheme wasn’t designed to attack individual teachers, ...

Further, this interference ensures education policy is based on anticipated public popularity rather than sound empirical research. Renowned education expert and former dean of education at the University of Tasmania, Bill Mulford, said Australian governments have focussed on literacy and ...

The new curriculum’s attempt to contextualise Australian history by locating it in the wider context of world events has been welcomed by historians and experts. But some have concerns the curriculum focuses too much on learning knowledge rather than acquiring ...

Given the new curriculum provides for more complex maths to be learned at an earlier age, mathematicians and teachers, while endorsing the content, have concerns about the capability of primary teachers to deliver it. They are also wondering whether South ...

The curriculum’s stated emphasis on applied learning is “rhetorical” with the lead writers choosing a “very safe and very conservative curriculum” that resembles a 1970s teaching document, critics say. Despite its inclusion as an independent science stream no serious attention ...

Experts say the new curriculum needs more clarity and caution in relation to the contextual influences on language, literature and literacy. “Many parents and grandparents will remember with horror and dread chanting the parts of speech and the mind-numbing activity ...

The students of Bondi Public School have just finished harvesting yet another bunch of fennel. While a group of five children collect all the students’ gloves and hats and place them neatly in a basket, the others make their way ...

There is an old Chinese proverb that says: “When planning for a year, plant corn; when planning for a decade, plant trees; when planning for life, train and educate people.” As common sense as this may seem today, 10 years ...

Over the last decade or so there has been a vast increase in literature on countering bullying in schools. A significant proportion of it has focussed on what can be done to reduce its prevalence. Recently, researchers have begun to ...