Disadvantaged young people experience significantly lower levels of teacher support and life satisfaction at school than their more affluent peers, research has shown. A new study, led by Flinders University, analysed survey responses from over 3,500 young people aged between ...
More »We can’t stop teenagers sexting, so let’s educate them about safety: expert
We can't stop teenagers sending and receiving sexually explicit texts, so it's time we started to include sexting as part of sex education, an expert says. Professor Andrew Goldsmith from Flinders University is part of a longitudinal study tracking a ...
More »Physical education: the forgotten subject during the pandemic
Physical education (PE), which is often viewed as less important than other “academic” subjects in the school curriculum, was “further marginalised” during the Tasmanian COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new research from the University of Tasmania (UTAS) and Flinders University. The ...
More »How more traditional Aboriginal games can be brought into the PE curriculum – Podcast
Associate Professor Shane Pill of Flinders University recently conducted a study with Dr John Williams of the University of Canberra on how different frameworks, including self-determination theory (STD) and a Game Sense Approach (GSA), could be utilised to teach the ...
More »Should school-provided lunches be on the menu?
Australian researchers believe uniform delivery of lunchtime food at school could be a recipe for better childhood nutrition and learning. Nutrition and dietetics researcher at Flinders University Professor Rebecca Golley said the model would involve all children in school being ...
More »What the 2020 word of the year tells us about students’ experiences of the pandemic
The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) is ‘virus’, shining a light on how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning and school closures have impacted students this year. To come to this decision, children’s language experts analysed ...
More »Study finds excellence, not perfectionism, is key to high achievement, social and emotional wellbeing
As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for the culmination of their schooling, a proportion of over-achievers will be setting their expectations high and will likely be fearful about not reaching their perfectionist heights. The perfectionist syndrome led clinical PhD ...
More »Bullying from best friends especially harmful: study
Bullying hurts children more if it comes from a friend, and they're less likely to report it, says a new study. Flinders University researchers found that victims identify the pain of relational bullying from best friends as being especially harmful ...
More »Teaching self-regulated learning skills needs greater emphasis, expert says
A Flinders University researcher has highlighted that developing students’ ability to self-regulate their learning will be one of the most critical skills to develop during the COVID pandemic, with the growing shift to online learning. Professor Stella Vosniadou has concluded ...
More »The role of feelings and intuition in mathematics – podcast
Feelings. It's probably not a word that many of us would associate with mathematics. But according to Dr Carol Aldous from Flinders University, feelings and intuition play a critical role in solving novel maths problems – problems that require students ...
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