Education and Democracy in the Australian Media – A Decadal Report
This NEW report explores the representations of democratic education, youth, citizenship education and curriculum change in Australian schools in national print media.
A collection of keywords from the education literature were used to systematically select print media articles (n = 746) across four major Australian newspapers (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Age (Melbourne) and The Australian) over a 10-year period (2014 to 2023).
From this selection of articles we identified clear themes which provide a window, at least from a reportage point of view, into the importance or otherwise of the broader issues of democratic education, youth, citizenship education and curriculum change in Australian schools.
This link is to the technical report; the full findings will be shared in papers and journal articles across 2025-26