A project designed to reconnect Indigenous youth to the Wiradjuri language and culture, run through Charles Sturt University (CSU), has been recognised in the 2012 Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council Elders Awards.

Parents who have feared sending their babies to childcare too early can rest a little easier, according to a research project led by a CSU academic

One of Australia’s largest educators of primary and secondary school teachers, CSU is updating its undergraduate teacher education courses to better reflect the needs of modern school systems, schools and pupils.

A leading researcher in mathematics education is warning about the pitfalls of over-emphaising the importance of the National Assessment Plan of Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).

A CSU education expert will reach for examples from the past and present to help explain some of the challenges for modern Australian education, particularly the concept of ‘praxis’, or morally committed action, in school education in a public lecture in Albury, NSW.

What happens outside the schoolyard may hold the key to improving the learning outcomes for young African refugees, according to CSU research.

Challenging the predominant view in the media about popular culture affecting young people only in detrimental ways, the research of a PhD recently awarded to a CSU lecturer argues that popular culture engages young people in complex and multiple lessons about identity and their place in the world.

A senior CSU education expert recommends parents, grandparents and early childhood educators should use play time to help develop mathematical concepts in young children.

Professional educators can gain a global perspective of teaching and learning when CSU offers its Master of International Education (School Leadership) to students from around the world through distance education in 2012.