The revelation that Victoria’s Education Department has a high-tech, round-the-clock crisis centre is one window into the challenges facing school leaders today. The fact that over a fifth of educators have been bullied by parents is another. Delivering quality education ...
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Save the dolphins, from the classroom
For years, there have been intermittent reports of animals in captivity lashing out, and even killing themselves and their trainers and keepers. The 2013 documentary Blackfish brought this issue into sharp relief. It told the story of Tilikum, an orca whale implicated ...
More »When did human rights become racist? A reflection on relativism in Australian education
I am an agnostic left-leaning history academic and a high school teacher committed to the defence of human rights and, in the era of alternative facts, truth and civility. I had always assumed that most humanities teachers in this country, ...
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