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Connecting with kids who don’t want to engage

Angry Birds, Mario Kart, or Animal Crossing ¬– they’re popular digital games that have captured the attention of children the world over. But in a pre-school environment, games like these could distract your kids from engaging in the curriculum, unless you have a teacher who is willing to bend the rules, say University of South Australia researchers.

Screening of Under Cover

Please join us for a screening of the film Under Cover as well as a panel discussion on the key themes.

Advancing Equity through Collaborations with Children and Youth

Professor Liz Todd’s important work has implications for South Australian schools, education systems, children’s services, and youth organisations. It connects with valued agendas of child and youth citizenship, partnerships for change, and social inclusion.

Women alienated from STEM careers by entrenched workplace cultures

Women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and maths are still fighting an uphill battle in Australian workplaces, despite a spike in girls studying STEM subjects in schools and universities.

Political Life in South Australia in the 1870's

In this public lecture Professor Alan Reid AM explores political life in South Australia in the 1870s, particularly the lives and contributions of the seven Premiers during that decade.

Education policy across contexts: Complexifying global, national and local scalar relations

This presentation draws upon three examples of educational policy reform in three very different contexts – Ghana, China and Australia – to show how scalar relations between the global, national and local are intricately imbricated within specific reform settings, at the same time that such relations are revealed as incredibly varied between settings.

Video for Teachers/Teaching Practice

The goals of the symposium are to bring together people interested in using video for improving practice in their teaching or in their research about teaching and to showcase work being done with video for improving practice across the University. 

Humanising international education requires 360-degree support

As university students settle into semester one, education experts at the University of South Australia are calling for broader community supports to prioritise the health, wellbeing, and social connection of international students as they live and study in Australia.

Traversing Old and New Literacies

What is the state of play with literacy in our digital networked age? Is the book dead or just transformed? How should we relate to literacies of other times and places?

Quality Teaching Rounds: What are they and why are they so impactful for teachers, teaching and student outcomes?

Quality Teaching Rounds: What are they and why are they so impactful for teachers, teaching and student outcomes?

New UniSA study to boost support for early career teachers

A new University of South Australia research project hopes to boost retention of early career teachers by investigating how improved induction programs can better support new teachers in the classroom.

ARC Discovery grants will explore innovations in education, self-healing concrete, machine learning and families at risk

Bourdieu and Educational Research: Book Series and Book Launches

Bourdieu and Educational Research: Book Series and Book Launches

Teachers at breaking point: Why working in S.A. schools is getting tougher

Teachers at breaking point: Why working in South Australian schools is getting tougher

2022 de Lissa Oration - Young children's rights to safe places, and what difference does the digital make?

2022 de Lissa Oration - Young children's rights to safe places, and what difference does the digital make?

Stopping child sexual exploitation

Online grooming, false identities, and broken trust – they’re all a part of one of the fastest growing global crimes: child sexual exploitation. But hidden beneath fear, shame, and betrayal, this horrific abuse continues to devastate Australian families.

Child sexual exploitation: How it's defined, how to identify it and how to respond to it.

Did you know, child sexual exploitation is now one of the fastest growing global crimes?

Aboriginal Education Futures

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta and Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney will participate in a forum on Aboriginal Education Futures to help us to rethink education and shape its future in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity

Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena

Dr Frank Serafini is UniSA’s visiting research fellow who will be presenting at this seminar as part of the CRESI Methodology and Workshop Series

Shaping a Democracy: South Australian politics and its leaders in the 1860's

In this lecture Professor Alan Reid explores political life in South Australia in the 1860s.

Bi-/multilingualism in education: Inclusion, conflict prevention and pandemic

'Bi-/multilingualism in education: inclusion, conflict prevention & pandemic' presented by Dr Michael B. Paradowski - Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw.