{"title":"Narratives of high school teachers’ identity renewal through teaching a new intercultural curriculum subject","authors":"David Browning, J. Kriewaldt, Julie McLeod","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00734-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00734-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"53 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141349544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Hitches, Stuart Woodcock, Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan, John Ehrich
{"title":"Leveraging students' voices: understanding ways university support services can strengthen student support","authors":"Elizabeth Hitches, Stuart Woodcock, Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan, John Ehrich","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00731-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00731-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"112 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Sky’s the limit’: a case study in fostering young children’s creativity during STEM online learning experiences","authors":"K. Maslin, Karen Murcia, S. Blackley, Geoff Lowe","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00739-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00739-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"104 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Coombs, Shanna Langdon, Zana Jabir, Cathie Burgess, Rose Amazan
{"title":"The impact of Learning from Country on teachers’ understandings of place and community: insights from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project","authors":"David Coombs, Shanna Langdon, Zana Jabir, Cathie Burgess, Rose Amazan","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00735-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00735-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"48 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141358994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The things students don’t say: theorising Narrative Identity to understand non-traditional students’ experiences in higher education","authors":"Myfanwy Tilley","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00732-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00732-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"72 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141382485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The school-wide pedagogical framework at an Australian primary school: experiences and perspectives of teachers","authors":"Wendi Beamish, Kathy Gibbs, Anh Hai Le","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00727-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00727-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Teachers play a pivotal role in the implementation of school-based pedagogical reforms. The study reported here explored how participating teachers (<i>n</i> = 54) viewed the pedagogical framework developed at their Australian primary school to improve teaching and learning. Responses to an online survey revealed that teachers understood the pedagogical components of the framework, were confident implementers of the framework, and strongly endorsed its use throughout their school. Strength-based properties were associated with school-wide consistency, increased learning, and the monitoring of student progress while implementation challenges were related to (a) time constraints and teacher performance demands, and (b) catering for the needs of specific student groups. Additionally, a list of improvements was offered, including practical ideas to address the identified challenges and recommendations related to increasing professional flexibility, professional wellbeing, and professional development. While these findings are site specific, they provide directions for further research into pedagogical reforms for school improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic literacy in enabling education programs in Australian universities: a shared pedagogy","authors":"Charmaine Davis, Kathryn Lawson, Lisa Duffy","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00729-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00729-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Widening participation in higher education has led to the global expansion of universities, increased student and program diversity, and greater provision of flexible pathways into university. Critical to supporting a growing student body is helping all students develop their ability to communicate confidently and effectively in their academic communities. This research employs a collaborative benchmarking framework to explore academic literacy instruction in pathway or ‘enabling’ programs across nine Australian universities. While prevailing assumptions hold that such programs are overly diverse, the findings demonstrate that these programs have developed remarkably similar approaches; in particular, the investigation found that the programs all drew on established academic literacy models and reflected an emerging disciplinary coherence across the enabling education sector, despite the lack of a formal curriculum and standards framework.Kindly check and confirm the processed Article title is correct.This is correct</p>","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student voice and agency for transformative change in matters that matter: Impactful inquiry in primary science","authors":"Melinda Kirk","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00721-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00721-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In an era of socio-ecological challenges and uncertain times, it is imperative that student voice is supported to enable student transformative agency and desired positive change in their lives and community. Although international policy, the Australian Curriculum, School Strategic Plans, communities, teachers, and students often advocate for student voice, authentic enactment remains a challenge. This paper illustrates a transformative curriculum enactment of student voice and agency as <i>impactful inquiry</i> that resulted in student-desired transformative whole-school change. Conducted in a Melbourne metropolitan primary school following multiple Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, a contextually responsive Year 6 Microorganisms Learning sequence is reported. A student-identified health risk and high microbial load in a Lost Property Box resulted in the students' collective agentic pursuit and implementation of scientifically grounded solutions, processes, and policy changes in the school community. Students, teachers, and school leadership reported student voice and agency as key outcomes of the student-driven inquiry that followed student voice and concerns for positive change. It is argued that it is a critical educative responsibility to support student voice in establishing bearing, which encompasses recognised positioning, direction, and path forward to make a difference in matters that matter to students. This paper seeks to inform and inspire further student voice-responsive impactful inquiry, which develops students' capacity and efficacy for their desired positive impact in their community now and possibly in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Australia’s teacher shortage: the importance of psychosocial working conditions to turnover intentions","authors":"Mark Rahimi, Ben Arnold","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00720-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00720-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australian policymakers are currently attempting to address an ‘unprecedented teacher shortage’. Through a survey of 905 teachers in Australian government schools, this paper examines some of the key factors influencing the career intentions of teachers in Australian government schools. Drawing upon the concept of the psychosocial work environment from the field of occupational health, this analysis examines the relationship between key workplace demands, workplace resources, teachers’ experiences and attitudes towards work, teachers’ mental health outcomes, and their intentions to either remain in or leave their roles. The results reveal significant relationships between teachers’ intentions to leave their roles and challenging working conditions, adverse work experiences, as well as heightened levels of stress, burnout, and depressive symptoms. In contrast, remaining in their role was associated with factors indicative of a supportive psychosocial work environment, such as job recognition, trust in management, organisational justice, positive work experiences, and lower levels of mental health difficulties. The study underscores the urgent need to understand and assess the psychosocial work environments of teachers, and for multi-level strategies that address both protective and risk factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}