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Griffith Review #75
Learning Curves
What can we learn about learning?
Australians have one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. What represents a 'good’ education in a country with an increasingly segmented school system and a tertiary sector that faces profound uncertainties, both financial and existential?
Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves explores the full spectrum of educational experiences from preschool to postgrad, from private to public, and from sandstone to the school of life.
How has the global information age reshaped our knowledge institutions? What potential and possibilities lie in embracing Australia’s vast repositories of First Nations’ knowledge? Are traditional subjects arts, humanities, social sciences – still relevant in an increasingly contested field? And what do those engaged in the different aspects of learning – students, teachers, policymakers - make of their experiences?
Learning Curves navigates a range of life-long learning pathways, and explores the necessity of rupture and transformation along the way.
Contributors include:
Gabbie Stroud - Tegan Bennett Daylight - Lisa Fuller - Bri Lee - Erin Hortle - Miriam Sved - Gwilym Croucher - Catherine Ball - Pasi Sahlberg - Cath Keenan - Winnie Dunn - Andrew Leigh
Australians have one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. What represents a 'good’ education in a country with an increasingly segmented school system and a tertiary sector that faces profound uncertainties, both financial and existential?
Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves explores the full spectrum of educational experiences from preschool to postgrad, from private to public, and from sandstone to the school of life.
How has the global information age reshaped our knowledge institutions? What potential and possibilities lie in embracing Australia’s vast repositories of First Nations’ knowledge? Are traditional subjects arts, humanities, social sciences – still relevant in an increasingly contested field? And what do those engaged in the different aspects of learning – students, teachers, policymakers - make of their experiences?
Learning Curves navigates a range of life-long learning pathways, and explores the necessity of rupture and transformation along the way.
Contributors include:
Gabbie Stroud - Tegan Bennett Daylight - Lisa Fuller - Bri Lee - Erin Hortle - Miriam Sved - Gwilym Croucher - Catherine Ball - Pasi Sahlberg - Cath Keenan - Winnie Dunn - Andrew Leigh
- GenresNonfiction
265 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2022
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About the author
Ashley Hay
42 books222 followersAshley Hay’s new novel, A Hundred Small Lessons, was published in Australia, the US and the UK and was shortlisted for categories in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards.
Set in her new home city of Brisbane, it traces the intertwined lives of two women from different generations through a story of love, and of life. It takes account of what it means to be mother or daughter; father or son and tells a rich and intimate story of how we feel what it is to be human, and how place can transform who we are.
Her previous novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, was published in Australia, the UK, the US, and is heading for translation into Italian, French and Dutch. It won the Colin Roderick Prize (awarded by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies), as well as the People's Choice award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize, and was also longlisted for both the Miles Franklin and Nita B. Kibble awards.
Her first novel, The Body in the Clouds (2010), was shortlisted for categories in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the NSW and WA premier’s prizes, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Her previous books span fiction and non-fiction and include Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions (2002), Museum (2007; with visual artist Robyn Stacey), and Best Australian Science Writing 2014 (as editor)s
A writer for more than 20 years, her essays and short stories have appeared in volumes including the Griffith Review, Best Australian Essays (2003), Best Australian Short Stories (2012), and Best Australian Science Writing (2012), and have been awarded various accolades in Australia and overseas. In 2016, she received the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.
Set in her new home city of Brisbane, it traces the intertwined lives of two women from different generations through a story of love, and of life. It takes account of what it means to be mother or daughter; father or son and tells a rich and intimate story of how we feel what it is to be human, and how place can transform who we are.
Her previous novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, was published in Australia, the UK, the US, and is heading for translation into Italian, French and Dutch. It won the Colin Roderick Prize (awarded by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies), as well as the People's Choice award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize, and was also longlisted for both the Miles Franklin and Nita B. Kibble awards.
Her first novel, The Body in the Clouds (2010), was shortlisted for categories in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the NSW and WA premier’s prizes, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Her previous books span fiction and non-fiction and include Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions (2002), Museum (2007; with visual artist Robyn Stacey), and Best Australian Science Writing 2014 (as editor)s
A writer for more than 20 years, her essays and short stories have appeared in volumes including the Griffith Review, Best Australian Essays (2003), Best Australian Short Stories (2012), and Best Australian Science Writing (2012), and have been awarded various accolades in Australia and overseas. In 2016, she received the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.
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