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Announcing: 2021 OOF-TAS Collective Symposium

The 2021 OOF-TAS Collective symposium will be held online, September 13-14. Last year’s online symposium enabled more people to attend. This year we hope to have similar discussions. We hope to be close to submitting our second editted book, and publishing our Special Issue.

Announcing: 2020 OOF-TAS Collective Symposium

The 2020 sym[osium moved to online as a zoom conference, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be an exciting development and allow for greater participation. 

An outcome of this meeting will be to prepare a proposal for an edited book to be published in late 2021 that showcases the breadth and depth of research and theorising on out-of-field teaching emerging from the OOF-TAS Collective.  The edited book will show that there is research happening worldwide that is contributing data, theorisation and insights that have implications for practice, research and policy.

Notes on the 2018 TAS-OOF Collective Symposium

What a wonderful two days! Thanks so much to everybody for being open and willing to participate in a friendly and rigorous conversation about various aspects of OOF teaching. I felt this year there was a good range of discussion around a range of subject areas, and focus on different elements of experiences of teachers, school leaders, as well as how to assist teachers with PD. There were good discussions around policy issues too.

We will produce a proceedings this year, to be added to the 2018 symposium page when available.

Notice the change name: OOF-TAS

At the symposium the group decided that the label of 'out-of-field' needed to be more prominent on the website. An interim dual name of OOF-TAS has been added to hopefully make it easier to find when searching for teaching out-of-field. A new name will be discussed at the next symposium.