Hosts Jane Hunter and Don Carter interview Youth of the Streets (YOTS) leader Amy Gill who has many years’ experience working with young people outside mainstream schooling.

YOTS is often a last chance to gain an education. Compassion, patience and optimism are Amy’s trademark. Anyone interested in how Amy and her staff have turned many lives around makes for compelling listening.

William Verity, producer of this podcast offers his podcast tips and tricks, and there is even a 30 second rant on ‘hot education issues’ with the audience.

This podcast episode was a live event at FASStival, the annual celebration of activities, programs and creative work conducted in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), held in December 2024.

Credits

Hosts: Associate Professor Don Carter and Associate Professor Jane Hunter, members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

Producer: William Verity from Verity Media.

Made on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation, with respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

Erin Morley is the editor of Education Review and Campus Review both of which report on current issues in school-based education and higher education respectively. A graduate of the University of Wollongong, Erin completed her internship at the Illawarra Mercury, where she investigated the lack of childcare vacancies by phoning 100 childcare centres within 70km of Wollongong.

Throughout 2023, Erin investigated and produced news for the health sector through Nursing Review and Aged Care Insite.

Show Notes

Knijnik, J., Hunter, J. & Paterson, C. (December 2024). Paper presentation: Education and democracy in schools through the lens of the Australian print media: a decadal examination at AARE Annual Conference, Macquarie University.

Hopwood, N., Palmer, T. A., Koh, G. A., Lai, M. Y., Dong, Y., Loch, S., & Yu, K. (2024). Understanding student emotions when completing assessment: technological, teacher and student perspectives. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 1-16.

Maher, D., & Young, K. (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Literacy Development in K–12 Schools. In Creative AI Tools and Ethical Implications in Teaching and Learning (pp. 80-98). IGI Global.

Manuel, J., Carter, D., (2020). The English Teacher’s Handbook A-Z (2nd Edn). Phoenix Education.

Mockler, N. (2022). Constructing teacher identities: How the print media define and present teachers and their work. London: Bloomsbury.

Nationwide News Pty Ltd. (2024). Education Review.

Credits

Hosts: Associate Professor Don Carter and Associate Professor Jane Hunter, members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

Producer: William Verity from Verity Media.

Made on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation, with respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

Dr Jill Brown is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at Deakin University. She is a former maths teachers and current maths educator and education researcher.

Jill is internationally recognised for her research where her interests include researching the teaching, learning, and assessing of real-world applications and mathematical modelling, mathematical thinking and reasoning, functions in technology-rich environments, affordances, zone theory, and anything that furthers our understanding of teaching and learning mathematics. She was an elected member on the International Executive of the International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (ICTMA), 2013-2022.

Show Notes

Brown, J. (2024). Explicit teaching mandate – a pushback now is critical, AARE EduResearch Matters, April.

Brown, J. P. (2024). Challenging Tasks: Opportunities for Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Volume II: Invited Lectures (pp. 77-92).

Brown, J. P., Stillman, G. A., Galbraith, P. L., & Ng, K. E. D. (2024). Mathematical modelling of real-world phenomena. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2020–2023, 29-57.

Brown, J. et al (Ed). (2023). Affordances for learning to teach mathematics: the case of out of filed teachers. Methodological approaches to STEM education research. 4:1-19. Cambridge Scholars.

Gabriel, F. (2022). Maths anxiety–and how to overcome it. Significance, 19(1), 34-35.

Credits

Hosts: Associate Professor Don Carter and Associate Professor Jane Hunter, members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

Producer: William Verity from Verity Media.

Made on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation, with respect to Elders past, present and emerging.