4 events Coming up
28 Aug 2012
The new Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: A case of/for gradualism in curriculum reform?
In March this year, the Shaping Paper for the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (HPE) was released for consultation. It suggests Health and Physical Education should take a strengthsbased approach, focus on educative outcomes, d...
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Free Public Lecture05 Sep 2012
Master of Teaching information session
Find out why the Master of Teaching is different, and how we link theory and practice through our unique partnership model with schools. Professional student advisers are available after the session to answer your questions and to discuss course ...
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Other25 Sep 2012
How Finland remains immune to the Global Educational Reform Movement
This presentation describes the birth of the global educational reform movement, which has seen the emergence of an educational reform orthodoxy based on increased competition, more school choice, use of data from standardised tests to determine t...
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Free Public Lecture16 Oct 2012
Why we should be worried about current educational reforms
Throughout the world, educational agendas based on privatisation and marketisation are being pushed, as are calls for a return to a romanticised and standardised view of common culture and curricula. At the same time, competitive testing and exter...