Teachers can reduce their workloads and boost student engagement by using innovative furniture in their classrooms, a new study shows.  A three-year study by Edith Cowan University found that 'innovative furniture' such as ottomans, sofas, high tables and benches in ...

Excessive gaming has an impact on teenagers schooling, behaviours and attention focus, a new study shows.  Teenagers who spend a lot of time gaming have difficulties learning and focusing in the classroom as they cannot manage their emotions and impulses, ...

In Australia, about 98% of schools are using some form of streaming to organise students into different classes based on their abilities. Yet, new research from the School of Education at Edith Cowan University suggests some students find streaming to ...

For the crimes of few – or even just one – the group must pay. This method of punishment was a Machiavellian favourite of Professors Umbridge and Snape in the famed Harry Potter series. Remembering the injustice, one smoulders still. ...

There's nothing sinister about cute monster avatars, right? Wrong, say University of South Australia researchers. They evaluated the cartoon critter-laden classroom app, ClassDojo, and reached a worrisome conclusion, namely, that it 'promotes controlling techniques of discipline and governance, rather than ...