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Educating Australia official book launch
Date and time
Location
Piazza, Level 5, Kwong Lee Dow Building
234 Queensberry St Carlton, Victoria 3010 AustraliaDescription
Join us as Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Gill Callister, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Education and Training, officially launch Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade, edited by Tom Bentley and Dr Glenn Savage.
Drawing directly on the Graduate School’s world-class research, innovation and policy analysis, Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade Ahead is a forward-looking guide to questions that will be central to Australia’s educational debates and our performance in the years ahead.
With chapters across the school-age education landscape, the book proposes new evidence-based directions for change in teaching, assessment, curriculum, funding and system-wide collaboration. It includes chapters from emerging scholars and leading Australian and international education experts including: Laureate Professor John Hattie and Professors Patrick Griffin, Field Rickards, Fazal Rizvi, Collette Tayler and Lyn Yates.
The launch will be followed by discussion over drinks.