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How is Civics and Citizenship Education taught? Comparative Perspectives
Posted by: Principal/Editor on March 20, 2015
Aporia Atheneum©
School for Paradoxes in Education
- Homeschooling boomed last year. But these 4 charts show it was on the rise before COVIDIn New South Wales and Victoria the number of students being home educated increased by 20% in 2020 (1,224 extra children) compared with 2019. But the rise has been evidenced for a decade.
- The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanationUniversities and the international education sector have developed a number of concrete plans to bring international students to Australia. But they have all been shelved without a clear explanation.
- Less than half of Australian adults know how to identify misinformation onlineThe first nationally representative survey to investigate the media literacy needs, attitudes and experiences of Australian adults shows they need more help with understanding media.
- Indigenous scholars struggle to be heard in the mainstream. Here's how journal editors and reviewers can helpMainstream academic publishing presents many obstacles to Indigenous authors, especially the conventional peer review process — but there are ways to overcome this.
- UN warns COVID-19 is `roaring back' as Yemen faces famine April 15, 2021The UN humanitarian chief warned on Thursday (Apr 15) that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic “roaring back” in recent weeks as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a large-scale famine.
- In fight against COVID-19, Portugal continues to cautiously ease lockdown April 15, 2021Most Portuguese regions will enter the third phase of easing the COVID-19 lockdown next week, but stricter rules will stay in place in municipalities where transmission rates remain high, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Thursday.
- US judge turns up heat on Mexican drug baron wanted by FBI April 15, 2021A US judge authorized the seizure Thursday of five properties belonging to one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, Mexican drug baron Rafael Caro Quintero.
- Argentina ICU staff bracing for next wave of COVID-19 admissions April 15, 2021At an ICU unit in a low-income Buenos Aires suburb, exhausted staff are bracing for a new wave of coronavirus admissions.
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