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.
On Friday 28th June Associate Professor Don Carter and I recorded the twelfth podcast episode* for Series 2 of Talking Teachers.This episode features Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare. Going to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices at 1 Bligh Street in Sydney to do the recording was a highlight – recommend a visit soon – the…
New work in secondary schools involves building student and teacher capacity in critical thinking by working with journalists – a group based in Berlin does this really well. Lie Detectors. Do you know their work? Lots of free resources for schools on their website. Thank you for featuring this good news story with links to…
The THREE I’s of school-university partnerships : delighted to work with Corinne and Michelle on this new Springer book – my chapter is Invitations, Impact, and Involvement: Tales from Successful School-University Partnerships in STEM and STEAM in Australian Schools, p.39-57. Full citation here Hunter, J.L. (2024). Invitations, Impact, and Involvement: Tales from Successful School-University Partnerships…
Thousands of podcasts on every possible topic in education are in the mix now – each one offering unique perspectives. In early December 2023 I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the generous and brilliant Professor Rose Luckin and two guests, Katie Novak and James Symons, to talk digital transformation in schools….
Excited once again to have our podcast series of SIX episodes go live. Been terrific to work with my colleague Dr Don Carter on each episode and our producer William Verity. The amazing Britta Jorgensen has produced an audiogram for each episode … listen to a taste of the whole episode with the talented Double…
