The Australian Educational Researcher (AER) is the international, peer reviewed journal published by the Australian Association for Research in Education. The Australian Educational Researcher is published three times a year and is a Thomson (ISI) indexed journal. The aim of AER is to: - Promote understandings of educational issues through the publication of original research. - Inform education policy through the publication of papers utilising a range of research methodologies and addressing issues of theory and practice. - Provide a research forum for education researchers to debate current problems and issues. - Provide an international and national perspective on education research through the publication of original quantitative and qualitative research and papers that are methodologically or theoretically innovative. AER welcomes contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on any level of education. .