Joanne Burke

Expressions of interest are sought from very experienced science education academics with strong research profiles for the role of Co-Editor-in-Chief of Australasian Science Education Research Association’s (ASERA) journal Research In Science Education (RISE). After 3 years, Associate Professor Ange Fitzgerald is stepping down, and a co-Editor is sought to work with Associate Professor Kim Nichols …

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Dear ASERA member, if you are in charge of a primary science unit in an Initial Teacher Education course, you are invited to participate in a new study of design practice in ITE. Jenny will be attending ASERA in Adelaide so if you would like more information about the project or agree to being interviewed …

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Monash University’s, Faculty of Education invite you to listen to a podcast with Science Education researcher, Sara Tolbert from Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, NZ). Sara talks about her work in supporting Indigenous knowledge and place-based learning in school, feminist approaches to teaching as care-work, and what we can learn from the classroom ritual …

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The Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) editorial team arecalling for papers for a special issue about Community Science Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: June 15, 2021. Issue Date for Manuscript Invitations: July 15, 2021. Submission Deadline for Invited Manuscripts: November 15, 2021. More details https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tea.21690

We report the very sad news that Allan Harrison passed away on Saturday 17 April 2021. Since 2004, Allan had suffered from Parkinson’s disease which curtailed his very promising academic career when he was on the cusp of being considered for a professorship in science education. After teaching science in Years 8-12 for 23 years …

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