Thrilled to be invited to open the 2026 school year with a keynote address to all staff at St Aloysuis’ College on 27 January. The topic is prescient given the Bondi terror attack on the 14 December and the commitment by the Federal Government to a greater focus on how Australian schools can prevent, tackle…
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…
Read my latest piece with Associate Professor Don Carter in Education Review – if you can’t access it online – send me a DM or an email. Here is a link We examine the Orange Book 2025: Policy priorities for the federal inquiry published by the Grattan Institute – a surprising document that weighs into…
In a new book of essays edited by the unstoppable Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith AM, my colleague Associate Professor Jorge Knijnik and I have a contribution titled: “Hope and Courage: A collective pedagogy to build sustainable gender and equality and more”. In this essay we concern ourselves with learning regarding gender equality through different organisational structures…
Since the beginning of 2024 I have received hundreds of emails in regard to distress teachers and principals have about the direction education in NSW public schools is taking. It’s fair to say it’s quite depressing for someone like myself who has always sought to deeply understand what great classroom teaching can look like and…
Thank you for the amazing response to this op ed published on 16 July in ‘Education Review’ – link is here Please get in touch using my jane.hunter@uts.edu.au – if you would like a pdf of the piece.
