Catherine McTamaney, looks at how she changed teaching and why she remains influential today One hundred and fifty years after Maria Montessori’s birth, tens of thousands of teachers around the world still hail her innovations and educational philosophy. One of Italy’s first female doctors, Montessori applied her...
Imagine you go to the supermarket to buy food for your family. You purchase three bags of groceries. As you leave the store, you throw one bag into a rubbish bin … This scenario might seem ridiculous, but it’s a very apt analogy for the waste...
Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia, writes Professor John Halsey Students in regional, rural and remote Australia have been behind their urban counterparts on almost every recognised measure of...
Guillemette Perrin and her girls find that store-bought vegies aren’t a patch on the ones they grow themselves How can we reconcile the desire to eat healthier food and be more self-sufficient with a busy lifestyle? Day after day, we hear scientific and media reports on...
by The Urban Field Naturalist Project Murdoch Books | August 2022 | RRP $32.99 Whether it's an afternoon of exploring or a walk to the letterbox, A Guide to the Creatures in Your Neighbourhood is your ticket to slow down and get curious about urban nature. No matter where you...
From shopping lists to jokes on the fridge—learning how to be a confident and communicative writer is one of the most important skills students learn at school, report researchers Anabela Malpique, Deborah Pino Pasternak, Debora Valcan and Susan Ledger But NAPLAN results show a significant decline in...
Emily Ross looks at why the National curriculum is controversial. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority released a proposed revision of the foundation to year 10 national curriculum for public consultation in April. Since then, the draft national curriculum — the final version of which...
How well does the new Australian Curriculum prepare young people for climate change? Researchers Kim Beasy, Chloe Lucas, Gabi Mocatta, Gretta Pecl and Rachel Kelly give a pleasing update. You’d be forgiven for not having heard about the long-awaited new Australian Curriculum, which was released with...
A group of Monash University researchers report that over the past 20 years, there have been monumental shifts in the way we work with young people with disability and their families. Back in the 1990s, when a child was diagnosed with autism it followed a sad...
Researchers Rebecca English, Chris Krogh, Giuliana Liberto, and Karleen Gribble say, Australia needs more flexible options Schools were thrown into a spin by the COVID-19 pandemic. When children were sent home to learn remotely, teaching methods remained largely the same. Many children, parents and teachers were...
