Peter Brett

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What recent papers can RG members recommend on high quality teaching and learning approaches related to educating young people about diversity?

I have recently published papers related to this theme in collaboration with two recent Pakistani doctoral graduates - Yaar Muhammad and Rehana Kousar. I would be interested to read RG members...

07 February 2022 4,150 3 View

Is the effort that academics take to feedback to undergraduate students merited by the time devoted to the task?

I'm in the midst of a concentrated period of marking the work of undergraduate Education students - around a 100 mainly on-line but some face-to-face students to feed back to. It's approximately...

07 May 2018 6,140 11 View

How vibrant and viable are regional campuses of universities in different parts of the world?

In general across Australia regional campuses are in retreat. From having been viewed at one stage as a dynamic component of universities' participation and expansion agenda they can sometimes be...

29 April 2018 4,768 5 View

How are young people best educated to develop a deep, critical, and inclusive understanding of their own and others' identities?

Teaching and learning about multi-dimensional identity is complex. I attach an article chronicling my own wrestling with this issue in the context of Australian young people and the Australian...

05 December 2017 3,853 3 View

Did the 'History of Education' deserve to die a death within teacher education degrees?

Pre-service teachers usually had to know something about the History of Education - both in their countries and globally - as a part of their induction into teaching up to about the 1980s. From...

04 December 2017 8,310 20 View

How far is education for sustainability a priority within the school curriculum in your educational jurisdiction?

Education for Sustainability (EfS) is designated a Cross-Curricular Priority in Australia, but arguably this phrase is an oxymoron. We know that schools and teachers struggle with integrating...

27 November 2017 7,527 4 View

How important is it within the contemporary school curriculum for young people to understand and work with geo-spatial technologies?

I am supervising a higher degree research student approaching completion of a thesis exploring the take up of geo-spatial technologies by Geography teachers in Australia. What stories and evidence...

22 November 2017 7,695 4 View

What collective education projects exist which function across Commonwealth member states?

Colleagues and I are exploring the possibility of establishing a developmental network to explore common learning content across trans-national contexts.The project would involve negotiated and...

23 November 2016 1,351 12 View

To what extent are the professional needs of academic staff and research students taken into account in the design of new university buildings?

There is no doubt that architects are designing some stunning and inspirational learning and research spaces in universities around the world. There is significantly more attention being paid to...

01 January 1970 4,323 1 View

Research on the effectiveness of professional learning communities

I have an assistant principal based in a local school keen to undertake an action research case study of the effectiveness of a newly launched professional learning community in his school as it...

01 January 1970 3,710 20 View

What would you identify as the three main examples of educational research which have contributed to transforming teaching and student achievement?

Educational research sometimes gets a bad press for its ultimate lack of impact upon students' achievement and/or its disconnection from core elements of teaching. So how and where - historically...

01 January 1970 858 5 View

What are the ways in which education for sustainability can be given enhanced status across initial teacher education programs?

We are looking for good practice across the world on this. We are: Auditing, mapping existing practice with a view to sharing an EfS integrated and cross-curricular narrative with our beginning...

01 January 1970 2,428 0 View

Volunteering at Sporting events and Education

Some colleagues and I surveyed volunteers recently in relation to their involvement with an international Masters Games event in our State. The events took place in a rural/regional area. The...

01 January 1970 6,617 3 View