Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2025 Conference

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2025 Conference is organized by Think Business Events and will be held from Nov 30 - Dec 04, 2025 at University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.

Description:
The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) invites delegates to consider the conference theme ‘New Connections and Directions for Educational Research’. As we continue to adapt to a rapidly changing world and to major reforms across education sectors nationally and internationally, What new connections can and should be made? What new directions can and should we pursue?

As Australia’s peak national professional association for educational research, the AARE annual conference has long been an important space where connections are forged and solidified. This year, the idea of ‘connections’ speaks to the way the conference offers an opportunity to connect:

• The past to the present as we seek to change the future;
• Theories, methodologies, disciplines, sectors, and organisations that have often been separated despite shared goals;
• Colleagues from around the world – students, teachers, academics and others, across the career spectrum.

At the same time, the focus on ‘directions’ offers a chance to explore and advance discussions about the future of educational research and the educational sector more broadly. What’s needed next amid the myriad reforms in early childhood, school, vocational and higher education? We seek rigorous evidence and thoughtful argument to inform debate about all educational matters. Knowing that science is unsettled, we need new angles, new explorations, and new ways of thinking as we undertake research and scholarship in education to enhance practice, processes and policy at all levels.