ACER UPDATE
Research Conference 2008
Research Conference 2008 will take place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland from 10-12 August 2008. The theme of the conference will be Educating for Effective Participation - Citizenship and work: what the research says. Conference speakers will include Professor Richard Sweet of SweetGroup, ACT; Professor Stuart Macintyre of Harvard University and Suzanne Mellor and Gabrielle Matters of ACER. Further information on the conference will be added to the conference webpage as it becomes available. Information available to date is included in the conference flyer.
Australian Education Review 53
Australian Education Review 53 will elaborate on issues raised by Research Conference 2007 - The Leadership Challenge: Improving learning in schools. The review argues for an emphasis on continuity, independence, community and heterogeneity, to balance the current overemphasis on constant change, dependence, individualism and homogeneity. Successful school leaders avoid the much promoted one-size-fits-all approach to leadership, and become an independent rather than a dependent variable in their school. They can take the opportunity to create communities of professional learners.
Australian Education Review 53 is written by Professor Bill Mulford, Professor and Director of the Leadership for Learning Research Group, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania. It will be available early in 2008. For further information about the Australian Education Review series visit the AER website.
Conference proceedings available online
The full conference proceedings and individual papers from Research Conference 2007 - The Leadership Challenge: Improving learning in schools are now available online.
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