2025 ATEA Conference

2025 ATEA Conference

CURTIN UNIVERSITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
2nd – 4th July 2025 (ECR/HDR Day - 01 July) BENTLEY CAMPUS

Teacher Education and Teaching: Making a difference for today

ATEA’s 2025 Conference will be hosted by Curtin University in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja (Perth Western Australia) from 2^nd to 4^th July 2025. The conference will be held in partnership with the University of Western Australia with support from all universities in Western Australia.

The conference theme centres on how teacher education and teaching makes a positive difference. As an ATEA community, we aim to promote, share and celebrate the work of teacher educators, educational researchers and teachers across the breadth of education. Key areas of focus are responding to continual reforms in initial teacher education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, inclusion, diversity and equity, partnerships, profession of teaching, and creativity and innovation education.

The conference offers a safe and inclusive environment to speak to the important and impactful work being undertaken in education and to counter the criticisms. There will be opportunities to discuss significant challenges faced by teacher education and education with responses for action formulated.

Conference Theme and Strands:

Responding to continual reforms in Initial Teacher Education – This theme explores the opportunities and challenges arising from responding to reforms in Initial Teacher Education along with the profession of teaching and the impacts of reform on this.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education – This theme celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education. Impactful learning and teaching approaches and programs and research are example areas of focus.
Equity, diversity and inclusion – This theme focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion in learning and teaching and teacher education.
Partnerships with schools, early learning centres, communities and families – This theme explores teacher education and partnering with schools, early learning centres, communities and families.
Change, creativity and innovation in education – Changes in education, creativity and innovation are explored in this theme. Technology, social media, creative and innovative learning and teaching approaches, educational research methods and more broadly changes in the teaching profession are examples of included areas.