Educating Australia

Where is Australian schooling headed? What forces will shape its future direction? How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education institutions for the challenges being thrust on them? In this edited collection, these questions are addressed by some of Australia’s leading education researchers, practitioners and policy entrepreneurs.

With diverse chapters ranging from music education to equity and assessment in senior secondary education, from how to support school-based collaboration to preparing teachers to exercise professional judgment, this book provides a grounded, forward-looking overview of issues that will be central to Australia’s educational debates, and our performance, in the years ahead.

Drawing directly on research, innovation and policy analysis at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, this book creates an engaging and rigorous overview of the issues confronting school-age education in Australia, and provides insights and actions to help shape our responses into the future.

About the Author

Tom Bentley is a writer and policy adviser on education, social inclusion and economic innovation. From 2007-13 he was Deputy Chief of Staff and senior policy adviser to Julia Gillard. From 1999-2006 he was Director of Demos, an independent think tank based in London. He now works with institutions around the world on how to learn more effectively. He is an associate of the Melbourne University Graduate School of Education.

Glenn C. Savage is a Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and ARC DECRA Fellow (2016-19) in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Glenn's research focuses on education policy and governance at national and global levels, with a specific interest in curriculum, equity and standards-based reform.