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By Nicole (Nikki) Brunker, University of Sydney Adding to the clamour of argument over whether schools should be open to all during lockdown is confusion in terminology. Using the term “home schooling” to describe schooling during lockdown is disrespectful to both teachers and home schoolers. Home schooling requires parents to seek registration for their child [...]
By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University Parents at a loss to find activities for their children during COVID lockdowns can encourage them to escape into a book. New research shows how reading books can help young people escape from their sources of stress, find role models in characters and develop empathy. Recent media reports have [...]
Join host Andrew Fuller and guest Angela White as they discuss adolescent success. In this episode: What is adolescent success? 2020 caused a major rethinking for practices of wellbeing - What's working effectively in schools, what's not? Practical takeaways for schools to implement Listen now below: Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, [...]
Ken Purnell, CQUniversity Australia New South Wales recently announced it would trial different start and finish times for various year levels in primary schools. The reported aims include reducing traffic congestion and providing more flexibility to certain families, including shift workers. In Queensland, principals already have the option to stagger the start of their school [...]
David Roy, University of Newcastle and Jill Duncan, University of Newcastle With more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus emerging, teachers and students have been required to wear masks in high school classrooms. It was mandatory in Greater Sydney and all of Victoria before the recent switch to remote learning under lockdowns. Mask wearing has [...]
Another Australian curriculum review, and yet more politicians balk at the word “invasion”. The conservative political outcry follows the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s recent proposal that First Nations peoples’ experience of British colonisation be recognised and taught as invasion. The Federal Minister for Education, Alan Tudge, responded to the proposal by saying: “Honour[ing] [...]
Linda Rowan, Massey University and Fiona Murray, Massey University As university students wait on their mid-year exam results, some will no doubt be thinking about more than just passing. Since COVID-19 pushed teaching and testing online last year, the issue of cheating has come into sharper focus. Recent reports of University of Auckland students allegedly [...]
Philip D. Parker, Australian Catholic University; Jake Anders, UCL; Rhiannon Parker, University of Sydney, and Taren Sanders, Australian Catholic University We have all met the parent who thinks their kid is the next Picasso or Einstein regardless of the evidence. But it’s hard to know if these beliefs are helpful or harmful. Overly optimistic parents [...]
In this episode: “Loneliness is the most dangerous circumstance one can find oneself.” What is a positive relationship, how do you go about forming it, and how do you nurture it? How do you deal with the changing nature of a relationship, and with the mistakes you inevitably make within the relationship, or that [...]
In this episode: Executive functions - what are they? How executive functions relate to wellbeing and learning Implications to start seriously and dynamically developing these skills in schools Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, speaker and creator of Learning Strengths Guest: Estee Stephenson, Head of Gifted Education, St Andrew’s Cathedral School Total time: 20 [...]
