Hosts: Dr Don Carter & Associate Professor Jane Hunter https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-arts-and-social-sciences/podcasts Don & Jane are members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. They have spent decades involved with education in schools as classroom teachers, head teachers, policy advisors, curriculum experts, course developers, partners in school-based research studies and the advancement of undergraduate and postgraduate teachers including inservice teacher professional learning.
Latest episodes
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56 min
Talking Teachers and Youth on the Streets with Amy Gill: live at UTS FASStival
Hosts Jane Hunter and Don Carter interview Youth of the Streets (YOTS) leader Amy Gill who has many years’ experience working with young people outside mainstream schooling.YOTS is…
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29 min
Maths education in Australian schools with Jill Brown
Dr Jill Brown is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at Deakin University. She is a former maths teachers and current maths educator and education researcher.Jill is in…
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29 min
The media taking note to improve practice with Erin Morley
Erin Morley is the editor of Education Review and Campus Review both of which report on current issues in school-based education and higher education respectively. A graduate of th…
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34 min
AI in schools with Rose Luckin
Professor Rose Luckin is an internationally respected academic and influential communicator across multiple stakeholders about the future of education and technology, particularly…
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32 min
New CEO of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority with Stephen Gniel
Stephen Gniel was appointed CEO of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) in July 2024. Previously, he has held senior leadership roles in both Victo…
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32 min
What matters in Indigenous teacher education in Australia with Marnee Shay
Marnee Shay is an Associate Professor and a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She is an Aboriginal woman whose maternal family i…
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26 min
Trusting teacher professionalism and teacher judgement with Susan Groundwater-Smith AM
Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of Australia's greatest academic practitioners who has remained close to practitioners in schools. She has over 50 years of teaching and ac…
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38 min
Ministerial Matters with Jason Clare
Jason Clare is the Federal Minister for Education - he has held the portfolio since 2022. In this episode, Minister Clare responds to our questions on initial teacher education, hi…
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22 min
Indigenous teachers in schools with Randall Mumbulla
Randall Mumbulla is a final year teacher education student in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) Program at the University of Technology Sydney. Randall was also one of the winner…
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32 min
A former Director General looks back to look forward with Dr Ken Boston
Dr Ken Boston began his professional career as a university lecturer, after being awarded his PhD in Earth Sciences. He then went into the education bureaucracy to go on to a disti…
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27 min
Exceptional teachers for disadvantaged schools with Jo Lampert
Jo Lampert is a Professor of Social Inclusion and Teacher Education and Director of the Commonwealth and State supported NEXUS alternative pathway into teaching. NEXUS is a communi…
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33 min
New teacher perspective with Gabrielle Zolezzi
Gabrielle Zolezzi is a classroom teacher with experience working in both the public and private sectors of education. In her first six years of teaching, she has moved between full…
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30 min
Teacher expertise with Jessica Gerard and Jessica Holloway
Associate Professor Jessica Gerard works at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne where she researches the changing formations, and lived experience, of s…
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29 min
Power and education with Professor Adrian Piccoli
Adrian is a former NSW Minister of Education, and previous director of the Gonski Institute at UNSW. In this episode, Adrian responds to our questions on who holds power in educati…
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27 min
Voice from the classroom with Julie Moon
Julie is a recently retired classroom teacher, union member, and advocate for public education. We speak about her many decades of classroom experience and what she believes early…
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26 min
Teacher Education and the Teacher Shortage with Emeritus Professor Alan Reid
Alan is one of Australia’s leading education research scholars. In this third episode we talk to him about the damaging effects of neo-liberalism on education and why policy in Aus…
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24 min
School Funding and the Teacher Shortage with Chris Bonnor
Chris is an education commentator and former school principal. He is a longtime campaigner for public education and his recent publications both in books and online opinion pieces…
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23 min
Schools and the Australian Media with Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline is a senior writer and regular columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. In this fifth episode we ask about her own unique writing processes which…
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20 min
The State of Play in Schools and Union Solutions with Correna Haythorpe
Correna became Federal President of the Australian Education Union in February 2015. She has spent 17 years teaching in public primary schools. As President of the AEU, she led the…