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 4,104 3 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 4,712 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 3,797 3 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 4,259 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 3,664 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 809 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 2,374 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 6,567 3 View