ARC Discovery Project

Disciplinarity, knowledge and schooling: Analysing and improving integrated, cumulative learning in classrooms

This project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant

Prof Peter Freebody, Prof J.R. Martin, Dr K.A. Maton

For Australia to enhance its educational and professional standing, it needs growing levels of intellectual expertise and flexibility among school graduates, who now operate in workplaces that are rapidly evolving intellectually and technologically. This project will contribute to research, debate, and practice, by focusing on sustained integrated knowledge-building, but it also aims to offer practitioners and authorities an enhanced, locally-grown evidence for educational decisions, practice, and policy. While the motivations for the project are theoretical, professional, and methodological, they arise from a recognition of the economic and cultural importance of intellectually strong citizens in an increasingly demanding global setting.

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