Stewart Riddle
@stewartriddle.com
Professor in education. The more I learn, the less I understand.
Abstracts have been extended to 8 December for the Relation-Centered Education Network Conference at Griffith University (Gold Coast) in June 2026.
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Abstracts have been extended to 8 December for the Relation-Centered Education Network Conference at Griffith University (Gold Coast) in June 2026.
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
If you find yourself close to Stirling (UK) on 19 Jan 2026, come along to this free research event on curricular justice in a complex world!
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www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
October 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you find yourself close to Stirling (UK) on 19 Jan 2026, come along to this free research event on curricular justice in a complex world!
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Anyone know a maths teacher who is looking for some part-time teaching in Term 4, Years 7 - 9? Please get in touch (principal@omniacademies.qld.edu.au)!
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Anyone know a maths teacher who is looking for some part-time teaching in Term 4, Years 7 - 9? Please get in touch (principal@omniacademies.qld.edu.au)!
The Relation-Centred Education Network Conference is going to be at the Gold Coast next year (15–17 June 2026). This is a really great, dare I say 'relational' conference! Call for papers now open =)
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
September 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The Relation-Centred Education Network Conference is going to be at the Gold Coast next year (15–17 June 2026). This is a really great, dare I say 'relational' conference! Call for papers now open =)
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716
'What if ... we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds ... and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?'
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
'What if ... we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds ... and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?'
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Reposted by Stewart Riddle
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
Reposted by Stewart Riddle
This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza.
This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people.
Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society.
The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide
(🎥 Gaza Notice)
This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people.
Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society.
The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide
(🎥 Gaza Notice)
July 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Stewart Riddle
Alderaan never even existed", says Darth Vader
Totally responsible headline, The Age
Totally responsible headline, The Age
July 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Alderaan never even existed", says Darth Vader
Totally responsible headline, The Age
Totally responsible headline, The Age
Reposted by Stewart Riddle
Adani was given free reign by both major parties to open up dangerous thermal coal mining in the Galilee basin.
They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent
Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Adani was given free reign by both major parties to open up dangerous thermal coal mining in the Galilee basin.
They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Who wants to take over running The Australian Educational Researcher from me at the end of the year? It's a great journal, with a wonderful team, which publishes high-quality education research.
Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...
Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...
July 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Who wants to take over running The Australian Educational Researcher from me at the end of the year? It's a great journal, with a wonderful team, which publishes high-quality education research.
Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...
Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...
'According to latest UN assessments, 95% of Gaza’s schools have sustained some level of damage to their buildings. Approximately 400 schools were classified as having suffered a “direct hit”.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources
Exclusive: More schools identified as targets after controls on IDF action against Hamas operatives at civilian sites loosened
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
'According to latest UN assessments, 95% of Gaza’s schools have sustained some level of damage to their buildings. Approximately 400 schools were classified as having suffered a “direct hit”.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Charter schools seem like a good idea at first glance, but they have mixed outcomes and come at a cost to a vibrant, public education system. I share some of my concerns in this piece, which looks at the current push in NZ for charter schools.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Why NZ is embracing a controversial school system rejected by Australia
New Zealand is opening a series of charter schools and giving them "considerable flexibility" when it comes to the curriculum, but education scholars point to the US as they warn against the policy.
www.abc.net.au
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Charter schools seem like a good idea at first glance, but they have mixed outcomes and come at a cost to a vibrant, public education system. I share some of my concerns in this piece, which looks at the current push in NZ for charter schools.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Really looking forward to being part of the SCEAA Conference on 'Place, Democratic Participation, and the Futures of Citizenship Education at JCU Townsville next month (27/28 June).
www.sceaa.org.au/conference20...
www.sceaa.org.au/conference20...
SCEAA Conference 2025
SCEAA and James Cook University invite individuals with a keen interest democratic citizenship education to SCEAA's 2025 Conference Place, Democratic Participation, and the Futures of Citizenship Educ...
www.sceaa.org.au
May 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Really looking forward to being part of the SCEAA Conference on 'Place, Democratic Participation, and the Futures of Citizenship Education at JCU Townsville next month (27/28 June).
www.sceaa.org.au/conference20...
www.sceaa.org.au/conference20...
School funding might be sorted, but there is still lots to be done to make schools liveable for teachers and students. Here be my thoughts on the matter.
theconversation.com/labor-settle...
theconversation.com/labor-settle...
Labor settled the ‘funding wars’ just before the election. Here are 4 big issues schools still face
Now Labor has been returned for a second term, what should its priorities be for schools?
theconversation.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
School funding might be sorted, but there is still lots to be done to make schools liveable for teachers and students. Here be my thoughts on the matter.
theconversation.com/labor-settle...
theconversation.com/labor-settle...
'Anyone who thinks we can standardise our way to an education system that will prepare our young people for the turbulent times they’re going to navigate, hasn’t been paying attention for at least 20 years.'
Truths being told here by @nicolemockler.bsky.social
blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...
Truths being told here by @nicolemockler.bsky.social
blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...
Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on teaching
Reinstate trust in the teaching profession. That might just be the perfect place to start in fixing the teacher shortage.
blog.aare.edu.au
April 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
'Anyone who thinks we can standardise our way to an education system that will prepare our young people for the turbulent times they’re going to navigate, hasn’t been paying attention for at least 20 years.'
Truths being told here by @nicolemockler.bsky.social
blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...
Truths being told here by @nicolemockler.bsky.social
blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...
New paper on teachers as double agents with Michelle McCarthy and Andrew Hickey.
Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New paper on teachers as double agents with Michelle McCarthy and Andrew Hickey.
Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The focus on schools as knowledge-distribution machines ignores the complexity of their care work and community importance, especially during times of (increasingly common) crisis.
blog.aare.edu.au/schooling-no...
blog.aare.edu.au/schooling-no...
Schooling now in a crisis: Inky darkness, crippling anxieties, overreactions, love, care and glorious beauty
Schooling in a crisis? How do conduct “education research” in these times? Education is a part our lives - but it's not separate.
blog.aare.edu.au
March 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The focus on schools as knowledge-distribution machines ignores the complexity of their care work and community importance, especially during times of (increasingly common) crisis.
blog.aare.edu.au/schooling-no...
blog.aare.edu.au/schooling-no...
"Students learn all kinds of other things in the classroom and everywhere else at school. They learn about themselves, the world, how the world treats them, and how they can and should treat others. Students are, in other words, co-producers of learning."
insidestory.org.au/the-trickle-...
insidestory.org.au/the-trickle-...
The trickle-down theory of schooling • Dean Ashenden
An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there
insidestory.org.au
March 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"Students learn all kinds of other things in the classroom and everywhere else at school. They learn about themselves, the world, how the world treats them, and how they can and should treat others. Students are, in other words, co-producers of learning."
insidestory.org.au/the-trickle-...
insidestory.org.au/the-trickle-...
Here are my thoughts on the 'full and fair' funding announcement today for NSW schools. They just have to wait another 10 years!
theconversation.com/nsw-has-fina...
theconversation.com/nsw-has-fina...
NSW has finally struck a school funding deal. What does this mean for schools and students?
The results of the reforms will not be felt for some time. Underfunded schools will continue to be underfunded for years to come.
theconversation.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Here are my thoughts on the 'full and fair' funding announcement today for NSW schools. They just have to wait another 10 years!
theconversation.com/nsw-has-fina...
theconversation.com/nsw-has-fina...
Going to confess to a total fanboy moment...
After listening to triple j for 30 years, I was beyond excited to be invited onto the Hack program to talk about the importance of civics and democratic engagement.
The piece is 20 minutes into the show: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
After listening to triple j for 30 years, I was beyond excited to be invited onto the Hack program to talk about the importance of civics and democratic engagement.
The piece is 20 minutes into the show: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
FULL SHOW: checking your poo, understanding democracy + an interest rate cut - triple j
Interest rates have dropped for the first time since 2020. It might not feel important, but it’ll affect what you pay in rent, the cost of buying a home, and even who the next Prime Minister is...
A...
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Going to confess to a total fanboy moment...
After listening to triple j for 30 years, I was beyond excited to be invited onto the Hack program to talk about the importance of civics and democratic engagement.
The piece is 20 minutes into the show: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
After listening to triple j for 30 years, I was beyond excited to be invited onto the Hack program to talk about the importance of civics and democratic engagement.
The piece is 20 minutes into the show: www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
We need to help young people to become critical and creative citizens. Things aren’t going great.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results
National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.
www.abc.net.au
February 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We need to help young people to become critical and creative citizens. Things aren’t going great.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Love ending the week with a new paper! This one is a collaboration with Charlie Thomson and Andrew Hickey on hip-hop pedagogy and affinity groups, drawn from Charlie's really interesting doctoral study.
January 31, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Love ending the week with a new paper! This one is a collaboration with Charlie Thomson and Andrew Hickey on hip-hop pedagogy and affinity groups, drawn from Charlie's really interesting doctoral study.
Dear English teaching pals,
Come and teach future English teachers with me!
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Come and teach future English teachers with me!
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January 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Dear English teaching pals,
Come and teach future English teachers with me!
usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...
Come and teach future English teachers with me!
usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...
Really pleased to see Part II of the 'New Perspectives on Curriculum and Democracy' special issue out in the world!
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
January 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Really pleased to see Part II of the 'New Perspectives on Curriculum and Democracy' special issue out in the world!
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
link.springer.com/journal/4129...