Professional Voice Journal

AEU Victoria's Professional Voice journal aims to stimulate debate on contemporary professional and curriculum issues.

Edition 14.2: Re-evaluations

The articles in this edition of Professional Voice provide new ideas and understandings about climate futures education, pedagogy, staff welfare, professional autonomy, school autonomy, autobiographical episodic memory and a re-imagining of schooling reform.

Editorial: Re-evaluations
John Graham

Australia needs a climate change education policy
Hilary Whitehouse

Climate justice education: The need for climate action in education
Natalie Purves

Explicit instruction v Inquiry-based teaching: A case study in narrowing the education debate
Alan Reid

What can schools do to support teacher wellbeing?
Rebecca Collie

Autobiographical episodic memory: A missing link in remote teaching
John Munro

Public Education and school autonomy reform: Implications for social justice
Katrina MacDonald, Jill Blackmore and Amanda Keddie

Australia’s failed quest to revolutionise schools
Glenn C Savage

Edition 14.1: Assessment, technology and the impact of social concerns

This edition is about the impact of social concerns on education and reassessing two of the longstanding and still current debates within schooling – assessment and technology.

Editorial: Assessment, technology and the impact of social concerns
John Graham

Putting NAPLAN to the test: Towards a new national assessment system
Rachel Wilson and Pasi Sahlberg

How well do grades convey student attainment and progress?
Geoff Masters

Addressing issues of sexual consent: key considerations for schools and teachers
Amanda Keddie

Early childhood: The invisible scars of domestic and family violence
Jodi Dorney

Understanding racism: students must empathise with its impact and teachers must embrace discomfort
Niranjan Casinader

ADHD affects girls too, and it can present differently to the way it does in boys. Here’s what to look out for
Rachael Murrihy

Neil Selwyn on technology: issues, dilemmas and futures
Interview by John Graham

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Edition 13.3: The new basics

The articles in this journal make a case for reinterpreting the basics of schooling to ensure that education is fit for the sort of evolving society and economy we want to live in.

Editorial: The new basics: equity, wellbeing and technology
John Graham

How do Australian students see their teachers?
Sue Thomson

The politics of ‘back to basics’
Naomi Barnes

The decline and fall of NAPLAN’s objectives
John Graham

Music education in Australian schools: An essential place for all students
Leon de Bruin

Victorian teachers: stressed but still dedicated
Cathy Sheehan

Deep fakes, authenticity and authentication in the age of artificial intelligence
Erica Southgate

Trevor Cobbold on equity, public education and the role of private schools
Interview by John Graham

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Edition 13.2: Learning in the shadow of the pandemic

This winter edition is being published in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. The articles we feature either implicitly, or in some cases explicitly acknowledge this situation.

Editorial: Learning in the shadow of the pandemic
John Graham

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and why educators need to skill up now
Erica Southgate

Student voice, agency and participation
Roger Holdsworth

What the Arts teach and how it shows (in the time of COVID-19)
Mark Selkrig, Kathryn Coleman and Abbey MacDonald

Attracting and Retaining Australia’s Teachers
Amanda Heffernan, David Bright and Fiona Longmuir

The National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools Program
Diane Toe and Lynette Longaretti

Remote learning in pandemic times
Steven Kolber

Barbara Preston on public education, the digital divide and teacher professionalism
Interview by John Graham

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