When I was a teenager tossing up between journalism or teaching as a career, my mother who was a teacher told me straight: “Don’t do it, love”. After 25 years in the classroom, the low-status, long hours and her unyielding sense of responsibility to students had taken its toll.
Starting school is an important event for children and a positive experience can set the tone for the rest of their school experience.
Bullying is unfortunately a common problem in Australian schools, with surveys suggesting one in five teenagers are bullied.
On 16 November, the annual School of Education Research Awards were held, with special guest Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Caroline Finch in attendance.
A new collaborative project by Edith Cowan University (ECU) and the State Library of Western Australia Better Beginnings kindergarten program is seeking to boost the school readiness of WA’s children through a program of targeted text messaging.
A new collaboration between the School of Education and FUJIFILM Business Innovation Australia will see the introduction of the very latest in global printing technologies, with the installation of state-of-the-art UltiMaker 3D printers. A new PhD scholarship to investigate the use of 3D technologies in secondary schools will also be on offer.
In Rebecca Brady’s kindergarten classroom students answer a string of rapid-fire questions about nouns and verbs as they hop between coloured hula-hoops splayed on the floor.
The personal values that children aged 6-12 years-old carry has an affect on their self-esteem, according to new research.
Kids as young as six who put others’ needs ahead of their own have higher self-esteem than children who put themselves first, a world-first study has found.
Within the ‘Principals as STEM Leaders – Building the Evidence Base for Improved STEM Learning’ project, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment, and led by the University of Tasmania, we investigated the perceptions of a sample of 21 principals about the teaching and learning of STEM.
Hundreds of WA students aged between seven and 14 have farewelled the final semester of university, graduating from The Children’s University of WA at special ceremonies held across Perth and Albany.
On Friday, 18 November 2022, ECU held the 2022 Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Awards ceremony.
Bullying is unfortunately a common problem in Australian schools, with surveys suggesting one in five teenagers are bullied.
It’s not enough to be cyber safe, children need to be cyber secure.
Recently the Simulation and Immersive Digital Technology group (SIDTG) had the pleasure of visiting the new Centre for Innovation at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia to meet with Chris Little and his team . Chris leads the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group on Garden Island.