ABSTRACT
What matters in education is a book, a moment in a movement, and a collective roar into the abyss of the international education narrative. Like educational practice throughout the world, this book builds on the stories, perspectives and research of those who have come before. Australia is a country with a national curriculum, but implemented by disparate state education systems with different levels of autonomy. Australia, perhaps shackled to its colonial past, is inclined to follow other countries such as the UK and the US in its education policy and practice. Education is a vast human and economic resource that is relentlessly changing. Students and their thinking are often invisible in the measurement of educational impact. In education discourse some voices and groups have been privileged, while others have been marginalised, ignored or silenced. We have been deliberate in our attempts to include contributions from a balance of education sectors and from authors diverse in gender, race, role and experience.
