Proposed Reforms & Future Directions
Understanding the problem of student disengagement is only part of the work. This collection brings together the proposals, frameworks and emerging practices that are attempting to reshape secondary schooling in response to the evidence.
From high-level arguments about the purpose of education reform through to practical models that schools and systems are trialling now. Technology is considered not as an end in itself but as one lever among several for personalising learning and building student agency.
Learners Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students. (BOOK)
- Zhao, Y.
- 2022
Decades of education reform have tinkered with curriculum, assessment and teaching methods — and largely failed to move the dial. In Learners Without...
How to Build an Adaptive Education System: Evolving Culture and Building Adaptive Capacity in Schools.
- Brown, A. & Runge, D.
- 2023
The uncomfortable truth at the centre of this book is that student disengagement is not a student problem — it is a system problem. When young people...
Why holistic learning and why now? Findings from the AISSA’s Innovative Models for the Recognition of Holistic Learning Project
- CSE
- 2025
This report documents findings from a multi-year project with South Australian independent schools exploring what holistic learning looks like in practice and...
A new politics for transforming education: Towards an effective way forward
- Valerie Hannon & Anthony MacKay (CSE Learning Education Series)
- 2023
Drawing on interviews with former education ministers and senior policy advisers from eight countries, this paper argues that the central obstacle to education...