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Emily Markovich Morris; Laura Nóra; Richaa Hoysala, Contributor; Max Lieblich, Contributor; Sophie Partington, Contributor; Rebecca Winthrop, Contributor – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2024
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical role that families and communities play in ensuring students and schools can flourish. It is a culmination of over two years of collaborative research and hundreds of…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Educational Researchers, Academic Achievement
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Charlotte Kamrudeen; Harriet Star; Desma-Ann van Rosendal – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This paper presents the findings of a ten-week research project exploring the intricacies of a co-located intergenerational program in Southeast Queensland. The research involved an early learning centre, North Early Learning, operated by a large not-for-profit organisation, Queensland Child Learning, and an aged care residence, Aged Care Living…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Alison Owens; Bhavani Sridharan; Adam Burston; Laurine Hurley – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Four stories of social learning from one Australian university reflect on communities of practice (CoPs) focused on different aspects of quality in teaching and learning. Each convener writes about their CoP convening experience in the context of Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner's mapping of the "mindset of a systems convener" (2021,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Socialization, Self Concept
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Peta Salter; Tanya Doyle; Kelsey Lowrie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This critical discussion paper explores the epistemic governance of "community readiness" in and for teacher education. Classroom ready is often interpreted as technical skill which places emphasis on practice to the detriment of more complex interpretations of the relational nature of teachers' work, leading to a potential narrowing of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Governance, Teacher Education, Community
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Tuyet Thi Tran; Thi Chi Nguyen; Dinh-Hai Luong – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study dives deep into the evolution of research on teacher emotions (TE), teacher agency (TA) and their role within higher education institutions (HEIs) from 1975 to the present. Combining a meticulous bibliometric and content analysis, the paper has painted a detailed picture of how the academic conversation has developed over nearly half a…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Global Approach, Higher Education, Emotional Response
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Betlem, Elisabeth; Clary, Deidre; Jones, Marguerite – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
Governments worldwide have invested in teaching standards and performance benchmarks to improve teacher preparation and teacher quality that impacts student achievement. As a means of addressing these imperatives, the Australian government has recently encouraged formal partnerships between tertiary providers, schools and education systems in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Faculty Development, College School Cooperation
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Willis, Linda-Dianne; Povey, Jenny; Hodges, Julie; Carroll, Annemaree – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2021
This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing. It highlights the imperative of parent engagement as evidenced by clear, consistent findings from research over the last fifty years and government…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Principals, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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White, Simone – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2019
Teacher educators are an occupational group currently experiencing increased scrutiny by international policy makers and researchers alike. This occupational group however is increasingly difficult to define and identify in a complex, internationally changing teacher education policy reform environment. The question posed is an enduring one: who…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Identity, Career Development
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Francisco, Susanne – International Journal of Training Research, 2020
Vocational Education and Training (VET) teachers often begin teaching with limited or no teaching qualifications, and necessarily much of their learning to be a teacher takes place in the teaching workplace. This paper considers what novice VET teachers learn in the workplace and what enables and constrains that learning. We argue that teachers…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Workplace Learning, Barriers
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García-Moya, Irene; Bunn, Frances; Jiménez-Iglesias, Antonia; Paniagua, Carmen; Brooks, Fiona M. – Educational Review, 2019
The aim of this scoping review was to map and summarise research relating to school and teacher connectedness, in order to increase current understanding of the ways these terms have been conceptualised in adolescent research. Specifically, this scoping review focuses on the analysis of the actual definitions used and the ways in which school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Teacher Student Relationship, Student School Relationship, Definitions
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Watson, Jane; Wright, Suzie; Beswick, Kim; Allen, Jeanne Maree; Hay, Ian; Cranston, Neil – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
School completion to the end of Year 12 in rural, regional, and disadvantaged communities is an acknowledged challenge in Australia and internationally. This research reports the beliefs of 86 rural and regional community leaders in the Australian state of Tasmania. A survey on issues associated with students' school completion was designed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Access to Education, High School Graduates
Watson, Jane; Wright, Suzie; Allen, Jeanne Maree; Beswick, Kim; Hay, Ian; Cranston, Neil – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
This paper draws from a large longitudinal study into issues related to student retention beyond the compulsory years of schooling and gives voice to a commonly-overlooked set of stakeholders, namely those in the community. Although many studies report on students' and teachers' opinions of the influence of the community on student engagement and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Community Attitudes
Tyler, Mark; Dymock, Darryl – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
There is a lack of distinction and definition around how the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia might effectively recruit and retain suitably qualified teachers, trainers and assessors. The logic is clear: in order to enable and develop an immediate pool of competent and qualified workers for new and developing industries,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Recruitment
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Pather, Nalini; Blyth, Phil; Chapman, Jamie A.; Dayal, Manisha R.; Flack, Natasha A.M.S.; Fogg, Quentin A.; Green, Rodney A.; Hulme, Anneliese K.; Johnson, Ian P.; Meyer, Amanda J.; Morley, John W.; Shortland, Peter J.; Štrkalj, Goran; Štrkalj, Mirjana; Valter, Krisztina; Webb, Alexandra L.; Woodley, Stephanie J.; Lazarus, Michelle D. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2020
Australian and New Zealand universities commenced a new academic year in February/March 2020 largely with "business as usual." The subsequent Covid-19 pandemic imposed unexpected disruptions to anatomical educational practice. Rapid change occurred due to government-imposed physical distancing regulations from March 2020 that…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Educational Practices, Disease Incidence
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Nye, Adele – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2016
When a major fire occurs in a school, the impact can be felt for years to come. How the school community rebuilds depends on strong leadership and the resilience of the members of that community. This article explores the stories of four Australian schools, two rural NSW schools, Kelso High School and Oxley High School and two urban schools;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
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