10.00-11.20
Plenary
session | Opening: President of WAIER, Dr Sonja Kuzich
Panel Presentation: Chaired by Dr Sonja Kuzich
Cheryl Kickett-Tucker (Curtin University), Julian Chen (Curtin University), Mathilda Joubert (Sheridan Institute of Higher Education) and Greg Thompson (Queensland University of Technology) [ Details and photos ]
| LT 101 |
| Time | Session presenters | Title | Room |
11.30-11.55
Parallel 1 | Maria Outtrim | Encouraging female teachers to become principals in Catholic composite secondary schools in WA | Room 201 |
| Ali Hayes and Laura Perry | The social and cultural capital of refugee-background students: An Australian case for an 'asset view' | Room 202 |
| Manal M. Alanazi, Toni Dobinson and Sender Dovchin | Language and online identity among Saudi youth | Computer Lab 203 |
| Nikki Fairhurst, Rachel Sheffield and Rekha Koul | Experiences of women in STEM: Personal narratives illustrating the fluidity and nuances of the STEM pipeline | Room 301 |
| Carol Carter, Paul Gardner, Sonja Kuzich, Lisa Paris, Von Sawers and Jia White | "What makes a school, a good school?" Sharing themes, principles and values for successful schooling | Room 302 |
11.55-12.20
Parallel 2 | Daniel Groenewald | High-performing school executive teams | Room 201 |
| Liberty Carter, Helen Dempsey and Alison Hilton | From recruitment to retention: Building cultural capital with Sub-Saharan African teachers in the Australian education system | Room 202 |
| Amal Alhajri | Online peer feedback in Arabic as an additional language (AAL) writing: Practices and perceptions | Computer Lab 203 |
| Michelle de Kok, Karen Murcia, Geoffrey Lowe and Audrey Cooke | The influence of digitalisation on children's creative agency and STEM engagement | Room 301 |
| Saul Karnovsky | Rethinking educator wellbeing: Moving beyond self care | Room 302 |
12.20-12.45
Parallel 3 | Samsu Alam | The role of principals in developing school-based curriculum (Merdeka Curriculum) in Indonesia: Experiences, challenges, and enablers | Room 201 |
| Tetiana Bogachenko and Rachel Burke | The use of formal and informal learning resources by displaced people from Ukraine in Australia: Educational capital and 'exchange rates' in (re)settlement | Room 202 |
| Julian Chen, Kim Andreassen, Bri McKenzie and Wendy Cumming-Potvin | Stop demonising drag: LGBTQA+ inclusive education practices | Computer Lab 203 |
| Keryn Sturrock, Amanda Woods-McConney and Dorit Maor | Implementing science inquiry pedagogy in upper primary and lower secondary classrooms | Room 301 |
| Kathryn Dehle, Helen Dempsey, Sandi Fielder and Chad Morrison | How school-based teacher educators work between universities and schools: Teaching performance assessments as boundary objects | Room 302 |
| 12.45-1.25 | Lunch | Foyer |
1.30-1.55
Parallel 4 | Nila Tanzil | The influence of school libraries using the Room to Read library model on rural school communities in the Nagekeo District, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia | Room 201 |
| Jennifer Moyle | Can you be whatever you want? An autoethnographic and pictorial narrative mapping of parameters of possibility | Room 202 |
| Jodie Sanders | An exploration of the effects of extended reality (XR) on creativity in an Australian secondary school context | Computer Lab 203 |
| Mabel Rolt, Wendy Cumming-Potvin and Rebecca Bennett | Gender (in)equity and women's experiences with STEM leadership in Western Australia's private sector | Room 301 |
| Liana Luyt | Conditions supporting and maintaining the effective incorporation of the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum | Room 302 |
1.55-2.20
Parallel 5 | Anne-Maree Hays | Factors affecting the selection of novels for study in Western Australian secondary English classrooms: Understanding teacher choices | Room 201 |
| Sophie Karangaroa | Keep on keeping on: Indigenous self-determination for Noongar and Maori university students | Room 202 |
| Sinead Wilson | Digital technologies and the early childhood sector: Are we fostering digital capabilities and agency in young children? | Computer Lab 203 |
| Rajeshree Thanapal | Factors affecting mathematics teacher beliefs and pedagogical practices when implementing inquiry-based learning | Room 301 |
| Leonie Menzel and Pauline Roberts | Using an "ePortfolio of evidence" to demonstrate achievement of national standards | Room 302 |
2.20-2.45
Parallel 6 | Kelly Ilich | Teaching algorithmic literacy: Investigating teachers' capabilities to provide algorithmic literacy education in Australian schools | Room 201 |
| Tamara Reads | Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered: A trip through the ethics approval labyrinth | Room 202 |
| Belinda Schmolke | Positive veteran mathematics and science teachers in WA | Room 301 |
| Thomas Jones | Western Australian public secondary school principals' perspectives on student services teams | Room 302 |
| 2.45-3.00 | Afternoon break | Foyer |
3.05-3.30
Parallel 7 | Dwi Suatman | Investigating the design and impact of professional learning and development provided to widyaiswaras in Indonesia | Room 201 |
| Janene Sproul and Kirsten Lambert | University gardens and student mental health | Room 202 |
| Larysa Chybis | Ukrainian migrant teachers' lived experiences of professional transition in Australia | Room 301 |
| Naqin Xie | Something from my garden: An arts-based enquiry into the impacts of expert mentoring on beginning arts teacher experience | Room 302 |
3.30-3.55
Parallel 8 | Craig Butler | Uncovering the depths of VET teacher identity | Room 201 |
| Una Carrabba | Autoethnography as writing practice and research methodology | Room 202 |
| Stephanie C. Milford, Lynette Vernon, Nicola Johnson and Joseph J. Scott | Parents as first educators: A mixed-methods study of self-efficacy, shame and self-stigma about children's digital device use | Room 301 |
| Fiona Currey | Professional learning as a strategy for empowering teachers to shift classroom cultures to embrace learner agency | Room 302 |
4.00 onward
Sundowner | [WAIER Postgraduate Awards], [Early Career Award], [ACER WAIER Research Grant], [WAIER-Fogarty Foundation Postgraduate Student Prize], [WAIER Fellowship Award] and Raffle draw | Foyer |
