Category: Academic
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‘Donoghue Day’ wins Connecting with Law Short Film Competition
The Connecting with Law Short Film Competition is an annual event run by Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand. It is open to all students enrolled in an Australian law degree and has proven itself to be unique way of encouraging law students to connect with their field of study and contribute to legal…
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Ethics, legal professionalism and mental health
By Paula Baron and Lillian Corbin The growing awareness of mental health issues in the legal profession has significant implications for those entering the legal profession and for their ethical conduct. Knowledge that lawyers, as a profession, have higher rates of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide than other trades and professions has been well…
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Oxford Literacy Assess – What is the impact?
Researchers are increasingly focusing on the role of assessment in teaching practice, not only to measure learner progress, but also to enable it, allowing teachers to accurately identify the needs of their students and tailor their plans more efficiently. The importance of selecting the right assessment program is therefore paramount and has led to a…
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Brad Gobby and Rebecca Walker discuss Powers of Curriculum
Curriculum as the entirety of learners’ experience in an educational setting. Powers of Curriculum explores education in Australia today through the notion and practices of curriculum. It broadens our conception of curriculum to include the lived experiences of learners in educational settings. It also explores historical and current forces within and beyond education that constitute…
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Celebrating the best Connecting with Law short films of the past decade
Check out the top 10 Connecting with Law Film Competition entries from the past decade.
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Forget about Maths experts, Australian schools need well-supported teachers
By Brian Murray Hardly a year seems to pass by without some survey or other exposing a slip in numeracy standards in Australian schools. In late 2016, Education Minister, Simon Birmingham, said he was “embarrassed for Australia” because of the way Year 4 students had fallen behind other countries in Maths. Bodies such as the…
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Grab the students’ hearts and then sneak the information into their brains – An engaging approach to learning about ageing.
As editors of Healthy Ageing and Aged Care, Maree Bernoth and Denise Winkler aimed to provide students with an engaging resource to encourage students to read and learn about ageing. The authors appreciate the most valuable sources of information about ageing come from those who have lived life and experienced what it means to age….
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Literature and the everyday
By Rosemary Ross Johnston (Please note: Some parts of this appeared in an earlier blog for the Australian Association for Educational Research Contemporary research is increasingly showing the benefits of reading. Such benefits – exposure to unremitting flows of ideas and multiple stories – extend way beyond the conventional; they include benefits to health, wellbeing…