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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · 4d

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])!

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Sep 9

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

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Aug 20

'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...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Jul 30

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...

A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up

www.nytimes.com

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent

Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments

www.theguardian.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · Jul 28

Alderaan never even existed", says Darth Vader

Totally responsible headline, The Age

"No starvation in Gaza, says Israel", according to The Age

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 28

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)

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Michael Dezuanni @dezuanni.bsky.social · Nov 20

The ABC is reporting laws to ban social media for under 16s will be introduced to federal parliament tomorrow. This is such a poor excuse for proactive and meaningful policy to address the relationship younger teens have with social media. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Live: Laws to ban social media for kids to be introduced tomorrow

The federal government's legislation aims to get kids off social media by the end of the year. Follow live.

www.abc.net.au

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Nov 22

Donald Trump has threatened to abolish the Department of Education. He’s not likely to achieve that goal—but he can exert his will on American education in other ways, if he wants to, Lora Kelley writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Trump Wants to Have it Both Ways on Education

He says he wants to give power back to the states, but has also signaled his intention to align American schools with his own cultural agenda.

www.theatlantic.com

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jul 21

Maybe if everyone did more of the former, we would have less of the latter.

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jul 10

Now with working link!

aare.edu.au/news/express...

Expressions of Interest: Appointment of Editors in Chief for The Australian Educational Researcher

aare.edu.au

Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jul 10

I've enjoyed my 8 years on the team (5 as Associate Editor and 3 as Editor-in-Chief), but now it's time for some other folk to take the reins.

Happy to chat if you have any questions 😊

Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jul 10

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...

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jun 3

'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...

Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources

Exclusive: More schools identified as targets after controls on IDF action against Hamas operatives at civilian sites loosened

www.theguardian.com

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · May 23

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...

Why NZ is embracing a controversial school system rejected by Australia

New Zealand is opening a series of charter schools and giving them "considerable flexibility" when it comes to the curriculum, but education scholars point to the US as they warn against the policy.

www.abc.net.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · May 13

It's so important to make spaces for conversations like these, and I'm humbled to be invited to share my thoughts with folks who care deeply about our democracy and young people's futures.

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · May 13

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...

SCEAA Conference 2025

SCEAA and James Cook University invite individuals with a keen interest democratic citizenship education to SCEAA's 2025 Conference Place, Democratic Participation, and the Futures of Citizenship Educ...

www.sceaa.org.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · May 6

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...

Labor settled the ‘funding wars’ just before the election. Here are 4 big issues schools still face

Now Labor has been returned for a second term, what should its priorities be for schools?

theconversation.com

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Apr 28

'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...

Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on teaching

Reinstate trust in the teaching profession. That might just be the perfect place to start in fixing the teacher shortage.

blog.aare.edu.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Mar 10

New paper on teachers as double agents with Michelle McCarthy and Andrew Hickey.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Mar 9

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...

Schooling now in a crisis: Inky darkness, crippling anxieties, overreactions, love, care and glorious beauty

Schooling in a crisis? How do conduct “education research” in these times? Education is a part our lives - but it's not separate.

blog.aare.edu.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Mar 8

"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-...

The trickle-down theory of schooling • Dean Ashenden

An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there

insidestory.org.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Mar 4

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...

NSW has finally struck a school funding deal. What does this mean for schools and students?

The results of the reforms will not be felt for some time. Underfunded schools will continue to be underfunded for years to come.

theconversation.com

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Feb 18

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...

FULL SHOW: checking your poo, understanding democracy + an interest rate cut - triple j

Interest rates have dropped for the first time since 2020. It might not feel important, but it’ll affect what you pay in rent, the cost of buying a home, and even who the next Prime Minister is... A...

www.abc.net.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Feb 17

We need to help young people to become critical and creative citizens. Things aren’t going great.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results

National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.

www.abc.net.au

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Feb 17

Ta!

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jan 31

Here be the link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jan 31

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.

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jan 26

'This is the age of reactionary tech oligarchy.'

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

Why It's Time to Fight Back Against the Dystopian Tech-Trump Oligarchy

Those who watched silently as reactionary tech bosses seized power in the US must now wake up and fight back, argues Johan Farkas and Aurelien Mondon

bylinetimes.com

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Stewart Riddle @stewartriddle.com · Jan 13

Dear English teaching pals,

Come and teach future English teachers with me!

usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...