education

Teachers' Worth

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Sat, 09/01/2021 - 12:34


In this essay I discuss the nature of teaching and the circumstances of teachers' work and lives. It was written as a submission to the 2020 Inquiry Valuing the Teaching Profession, sponsored by the NSW Teachers' Federation. The essay builds on recent debates and writing about teachers, on my experience as a researcher concerned with school education, and on what I have learned as a teacher in the tertiary sector.

 

Teachers' Worth

Teachers' cultural position

A night with the Vice Chancellors – the export of education services. A repost from June 19, 2015

https://johnmenadue.com/holiday-a-night-with-the-vice-chancellors-the-export-of…
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Fri, 30/12/2022 - 04:57
In 2015, education services earned an export income for Australia of over $16 b. p.a. Those export services were expected to increase to $31 b. p.a. by 2020 from about 600,000 overseas students. Education was our fourth largest export behind iron ore, coal and natural gas. It is our major services export, ahead of tourism. Continue reading »

Morton wins Grawemeyer Award in Education

https://dailynous.com/2022/12/08/morton-wins-grawemeyer-award-in-education/
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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 02:58
Jennifer Morton, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Education. Professor Morton was recognized for the ideas put forward in her 2019 book, Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press). The Grawemeyer Awards, administered by the University of Louisville, “pays tribute to the power of creative ideas, emphasizing the impact a single idea can have on the world.” Bestowed in several fields, each award includes a prize of $100,000. From the award announcement: The dream of achieving success by attending college is deeply flawed for some, says Morton, a first-generation college student who left Peru to attend Princeton.
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