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Tina Daniel

Tina Daniel

Dr Tina Daniel is a researcher at Deakin University who focuses on the teaching of early reading, social justice and humanitarian approaches to teaching and learning.

NSW Year 1 students use their knowledge of phonics to spell on their whiteboards. Victorian primary school students are not necessarily taught reading using phonics.

Dud teachers? In Victoria, it’s the lack of phonics that’s the problem

Federal acting education minister Stuart Robert blames teachers for the decline in Australian students’ academic results. Meanwhile, primary school students in this state are denied scientifically proven phonics-based reading education.

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