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Six members of the Burwood science education group and two amazing student interns have formed Team Viridescent as part of the Green Impact Program offered by Deakin Sustainability. We are challenging ourselves to achieve GOLD with the following innovations: Promoting the University’s Sustainability website pages and the Organisational Sustainability at Deakin to colleagues and students: […]

Tuesday 23 July saw the launch of the exciting 100 Jobs of the Future project through the website www.100jobsofthefuture.com.  This project involved collaboration between academics at Deakin and Griffith University working in partnership with Ford Australia. Deakin academics in the project included Russell Tytler, Peta White, Dineli Mather and Trevor McCandless. The project involved the

Professor MaryKay Orgill (University of Nevada) is visiting the School of Life & Environmental Sciences this Friday (19th July), at Waurn Ponds campus, to present a seminar.

Seminar title: Supporting the Science Learning of All Students: Science Identity and Equitable Assessment in Chemistry

Early July 2019, several of the Deakin Science education team are attending and presenting at the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) conference in Queenstown, New Zealand. These are the program highlights… Presentations Exploring the Possibilities of STEM Integration in Secondary School Curriculum in Taiwan and Australia by Su-Chi Fang, Lihua Xu Enriching Maths and

We are calling for teacher educators and classroom teachers (from all classroom contexts) to respond to the call for contributions towards a research book on interdisciplinary work in drama and science in education.

On a cold wintery night in June, 2019, our colleague, Professor David Clarke, was honoured at Melbourne University.

You can download poster paintings of women in STEM from Women You Should Know. They were commissioned by the Nevertheless podcast. “The women featured serve as amazing role models in their fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM as it’s often referred to).“

Associate Professor Linda Hobbs, lead author of the report Girls’ Future – Our Future, chats with Jo Earp from Teacher Magazine about the study which looked at the decline in the participation rates of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects and girls’ engagement in STEM at school. You can listen to the podcast

Senior Lecturer has written a fascinating article on Teaching Out of Field, on the 13th of April, for The Conversation. Out-of-field teaching is a reality that many schools must manage. Increasing the supply of teachers to meet demand, while critical to ensuring we have the right sort of teachers in the schools in most need,