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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · May 14

Do you work in history education or research? This workshop is for you’ Modern Methods for Studying the Past: Technology for Research in History and Education

Read about our speakers here www.linkedin.com/company/aare...

When: Monday 26 May, 2025

Register: aare.eventsair.com/modern-metho...

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Australian Curriculum Studies Association @acsaedu.bsky.social · Apr 16

👩‍🎓 Curriculum Perspectives Special Issue Call For Papers:
Curriculum Materials in a Changing Educational Landscape: link.springer.com/collections/...
Be part of what is shaping up to be another excellent publication! #educationalresearch
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Special Issue - Curriculum Materials in a Changing Educational Landscape: Research, Policy and Practice

Over the past decades, curriculum materials have played an increasingly central role in shaping educational practices worldwide. With the rise of digital ...

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Mar 11

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Australian Curriculum Studies Association @acsaedu.bsky.social · Mar 2

What do we do here at ACSA? We bring together all individuals from our profession and provide that national voice on all things Curriculum. Want to know more or have access to our PL? Click here to explore our membership options: acsa.edu.au/membership/
#curriculum #educationalresearch

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Jonathon Dallimore @jvdallimore.bsky.social · Feb 24

This is a concise and generous review of 'Teaching History' by @vincewall.bsky.social He has clearly read the book and understood the key intentions, even when they are not stated explicitly. Reading like a historian :) Thanks, Vince: disruptedhistory.com/2025/02/24/q...

Quick Thoughts: Book Review | Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers

Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers is a book that many history educators, including myself, are currently engaging with. If you have been on that…

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Feb 7

Stephen King definitely, Patricia cornwall, James Patterson would have to be close….

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Jan 29

Oh totally! Also no recognition that while EI might help drill kids for standardised tests like NAPLAN, inquiry develops the critical thinking that will let them make informed judgments (about using AI, trusting sources, voting as egs). A focus on short term gains over learning to learn.

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Jan 29

It’s a lack of nuance. There was definitely a renewed focus on EI after the TEEP/Strong Beginnings directive for unis to include explicit instruction in teacher Ed programs last year, but no acknowledgment of the interplay between federal and state systems, varied approaches over time etc. Annoying!

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Jan 23

But could you get more ‘Straya than hosting an Olympic event in croc-infested waters? I mean, we could add Drop-bear Dodge to the Decathlon, or the Bob Hawke Yard-Glass Time Trial…maybe enter a roo into the boxing? Do the 100m sprints across hot sand at Surfers? I think the rowing is very on brand 😂

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 11

A diversity hire so it’s not all Ass. Rightessors on staff?

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 9

Woot!!! Well done- a great milestone :)

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 5

All good, I was early. There were some increasingly stressed people on the queue though :)

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 5

Took about an hour from when I arrived to drop bag and clear security. Lots of snaking queues!

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 5

Just a heads up #AARE2024 @australianare.bsky.social - Sydney airport is a hot mess (quelle suprise) with long bag drop lines at both jet star and virgin airlines in the domestic terminal. It is moving, but don’t plan on a speedy departure.

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 4

@drclaire.bsky.social presenter her work with Nicole Mockler and Helen Proctor on the importance and impact on the Metherell education ministry. Cool to see corpus analysis and media frame analysis in action to explore the ‘schools war’ of 1988 in NSW. #AARE2024

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 4

Jose Merigo’s bibliometric analysis of @australianare.bsky.social’s Australian Educational Researcher over the last 40 years provided a great outline of a really interesting methodology and the growth and trends in the journal’s citation data. #AARE2024

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 4

Brett Rolfe’s presentation on experimental schools in New South Wales gave a comprehensive overview of how alternative schooling emerged and changed over time. Another great contribution to the #AARE2024 History and Education SIG sessions, and a killer (clear, engaging & colour coded!) slide deck!

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 3

President Julie McLeod challenges #AARE2024 to consider ‘how time works in educational research - how generational time plays out in research design, concerns and method’ as we face increasingly disconnective futures. A great provocation! @australianare.bsky.social

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 3

A great paper from Christopher Burns on Aotearoa New Zealand’s History curriculum in our History and Education SIG session #AARE2024

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 2

The program is so lit we can’t handle the heat at #AARE2024. 🔥🔥🔥@australianare.bsky.social any chance we can crank the air con in Macquarie Theatre?

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 2

@drnomyn.bsky.social session on her team’s method for using big data analysis to answer qual questions offers exciting new opportunities to historians and those interested in the history of education. Another great paper on the fist day of #AARE2024 and the History and Education SIG sessions!

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 2

Fantastic presentation to kick off the first of the History and Education SIGs sessions at #AARE2024 from @pennyvlies.bsky.social on the development of secondary schooling policy in Australia in the post war era. Fascinating archival research!

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Alison Bedford @bedforda1.bsky.social · Dec 1

All the presentations!! Don’t know where the end of my sentence went…