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 Lecture25 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...
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Free Public Lecture14 May 2013
Architecture, Building and Planning Dean's Lecture: Gregg Pasquarelli, Out of Practice
Gregg Pasquarelli, American Architect and a founding partner of SHoP Architects of New York, will join the internationally renowned speakers of the Dean's Lecture Series on 14 May this year, as he presents his lecture, Out of Practice. Gregg, wi...