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Peter Anderson, Griffith University; Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology; Owen Forbes, Queensland University of Technology, and Zane M. Diamond, Monash University Every year, NAPLAN tests are used to see how Australian students are tracking in reading, writing and maths. And every year, we see analysis that Indigenous students are lagging behind their non-Indigenous [...]
Rebecca J. Collie, UNSW Sydney and Andrew J. Martin, UNSW Sydney Research shows that students who are confident about their ability to succeed at school tend to be more academically successful. Researchers call the thoughts, actions and emotions behind this confidence “academic agency”. Essentially, it is about students’ sense they are able to do particular [...]
Melissa Cain, Australian Catholic University and Melissa Fanshawe, University of Southern Queensland About 90% of Australian students with disability attend mainstream schools. Equitable access and participation in education is a fundamental human right. But as last year’s disability royal commission found, this does not mean students with disability are fully included in their classrooms, school [...]
Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Seattle University The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill set? And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help? To sum it up in a sentence: Resilience [...]
Lydia Brown, The University of Melbourne “I have to be hard on myself,” Sarah told me in a recent telehealth psychology session. “I would never reach my potential if I was kind and let myself off the hook.” I could empathise with this fear of self-compassion from clients such as Sarah (not [...]
Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania and Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University Many people believe teaching is an easy job involving short days and long holidays. Anyone working in the profession, however, will tell you this is not the truth. They will tell you teaching is a rewarding job, but that teachers are stressed and overworked. [...]
Trevor Mazzucchelli, Curtin University As the holidays progress, parents will no doubt be hearing a classic line from their kids: “I’m boooooored”. We all get bored from time to time and there is nothing particularly wrong with feeling bored. In fact, it is a useful emotion because it is helps us reflect and make changes [...]
Sarah Blunden, CQUniversity Australia Sleep, along with diet and physical activity, is one of the three pillars of good health. Good sleep makes it easier to grow, learn, perform, be happy, stay in our best weight range and generally be in the best mental and physical health. This is true for all humans but is [...]
Rachel Hennessy, The University of Melbourne; Alex Cothren, Flinders University, and Amy T Matthews, Flinders University The consequences of climate change weigh on all of us, especially as we face an El Niño summer, with floods and fires already making themselves felt in the Australian environment. But even outside of being directly affected, there is [...]
Alexandra McEwan, CQUniversity Australia; Michael Hewson, CQUniversity Australia, and Rolf Schlagloth, CQUniversity Australia As each day passes, the need to protect Australia’s environment grows more urgent. As noted in the most recent State of Environment Report in 2021, we are increasingly turning to “measures of last resort” to prevent species extinctions and the collapse of [...]
