This was the presentation that I did at the CharterED 2025 conference.
Tag: education
Thinking about the NAP-CC for 2024
In what has been a bumper period for Civics and Citizenship Education (CCE) in Australia, the NAP-CC report for 2024 was released this week, and immediately caused an uproar, as it indicated that the percentage of Australian students meeting the level of proficient had fallen (from what were already pretty low levels). This marks a…
Some initial thoughts on the JSCEM Report on CCE in Australia
A couple of weeks ago, the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters released their report “From Classroom to Community” which examined civics and citizenship education in Australia. It coincided with the delayed (due to COVID) release of the NAP-CC results (more on that later). This has contributed to something of a ‘boom’ in civics and…
Teaching in an Election Year
These are the rough notes I made for a panel session run by Social Education Victoria about Teaching in an Election Year. As is always the case, the students were the best part of the presentation. I’m going to say something that I think might prove to be a little bit provocative. While I think…
The potentials and pitfalls of the ‘metaverse’ for education
These are the slides that I used for a short presentation about ‘the metaverse’ and more broadly the value of AR and XR in educational settings. I wasn’t entirely satisfied with my presentation – I don’t think I communicated the three points as well as I would have liked. Perhaps I was also a bit…
Is Citizenship the wrong term?
Careful readers of educational policy, and especially those with an interest in Civics and Citizenship Education will have noted that the recent version of the Australian Goals for Schooling – the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration – has a number of significant changes from its predecessor, the Melbourne Declaration. One of the most overlooked, as far…
Citizenship and Power
I was recently asked to provide some feedback about a program that had been developed to encourage active citizenship amongst young people in one of Australia’s state. It was an interesting experience, and afforded me the chance to reflect just how far I have come as an expert – and an opinionated one, too –…