Handbook manuscript submitted ✅ New paper published ✅ Ready for AARE conference and holidays ✅

Abstracts have been extended to 8 December for the Relation-Centered Education Network Conference at Griffith University (Gold Coast) in June 2026. rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716

If you find yourself close to Stirling (UK) on 19 Jan 2026, come along to this free research event on curricular justice in a complex world! www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Anyone know a maths teacher who is looking for some part-time teaching in Term 4, Years 7 - 9? Please get in touch ([email protected])!

The Relation-Centred Education Network Conference is going to be at the Gold Coast next year (15–17 June 2026). This is a really great, dare I say 'relational' conference! Call for papers now open =) rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716

'What if ... we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds ... and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?' www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza. This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people. Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society. The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide (🎥 Gaza Notice)

Alderaan never even existed", says Darth Vader Totally responsible headline, The Age

Adani was given free reign by both major parties to open up dangerous thermal coal mining in the Galilee basin. They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Who wants to take over running The Australian Educational Researcher from me at the end of the year? It's a great journal, with a wonderful team, which publishes high-quality education research. Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...

'According to latest UN assessments, 95% of Gaza’s schools have sustained some level of damage to their buildings. Approximately 400 schools were classified as having suffered a “direct hit”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Charter schools seem like a good idea at first glance, but they have mixed outcomes and come at a cost to a vibrant, public education system. I share some of my concerns in this piece, which looks at the current push in NZ for charter schools. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Really looking forward to being part of the SCEAA Conference on 'Place, Democratic Participation, and the Futures of Citizenship Education at JCU Townsville next month (27/28 June). www.sceaa.org.au/conference20...

School funding might be sorted, but there is still lots to be done to make schools liveable for teachers and students. Here be my thoughts on the matter. theconversation.com/labor-settle...

'Anyone who thinks we can standardise our way to an education system that will prepare our young people for the turbulent times they’re going to navigate, hasn’t been paying attention for at least 20 years.' Truths being told here by @nicolemockler.bsky.social blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...

New paper on teachers as double agents with Michelle McCarthy and Andrew Hickey. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The focus on schools as knowledge-distribution machines ignores the complexity of their care work and community importance, especially during times of (increasingly common) crisis. blog.aare.edu.au/schooling-no...

"Students learn all kinds of other things in the classroom and everywhere else at school. They learn about themselves, the world, how the world treats them, and how they can and should treat others. Students are, in other words, co-producers of learning." insidestory.org.au/the-trickle-...

Here are my thoughts on the 'full and fair' funding announcement today for NSW schools. They just have to wait another 10 years! theconversation.com/nsw-has-fina...

Going to confess to a total fanboy moment... After listening to triple j for 30 years, I was beyond excited to be invited onto the Hack program to talk about the importance of civics and democratic engagement. The piece is 20 minutes into the show: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...

We need to help young people to become critical and creative citizens. Things aren’t going great. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Love ending the week with a new paper! This one is a collaboration with Charlie Thomson and Andrew Hickey on hip-hop pedagogy and affinity groups, drawn from Charlie's really interesting doctoral study.

'This is the age of reactionary tech oligarchy.' bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

Dear English teaching pals, Come and teach future English teachers with me! usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

Really pleased to see Part II of the 'New Perspectives on Curriculum and Democracy' special issue out in the world! link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Very sad to hear about John Marsden. Inviting him to be a keynote at the 2015 English Teachers Association of Queensland conference was a real privilege. He wrote many good words and helped to show us that schools really could be different. RIP.

I'm hoping that we get a #AARE2024 conference app soon...

We have a new paper out from our Youth Community Futures project, which is very exciting! This one is about the 'spatial' young person in regional Queensland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was reminded this morning of a blog post I wrote following the first election of Donald Trump in 2016. Interesting to revisit these thoughts eight years later... blog.aare.edu.au/what-does-th...

Over 20 years ago, Michael Apple warned of the increasing influence on US education from a monstrous alliance of neoliberals, neoconservatives and religious extremists. Of course, education as a public good is under threat all over the world, but the US seems poised to dismantle the entire project.

It will be as effective as banning mobile phones in schools.

With the @australianare.bsky.social conference just over a week away, I thought I'd start planning my schedule and immediately realised there are so many things I want to get to that are programmed at the same time! Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh