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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER EDUCATION AN INTRODUCTION FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION SECOND EDITION
Prepare pre-service teachers for the unique environment they will face when educating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
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DATE PUBLISHED: July 2015 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781107463844
ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER EDUCATION AN INTRODUCTION FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Written by a team of highly regarded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators and researchers
CONTENTS 1. A brief history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia 2. The stolen generations: What does this mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people today? 3. Delivering the promise: empowering teachers to empower students
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education enables future teachers to understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education within a social, cultural and historical context and uses compelling stories and practical strategies to empower both student and teacher.
4. Your professional experience and becoming professional about working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and communities 5. The ‘silent apartheid’ as the practitioner’s blindspot 6. Tagai State College - navigating towards a successful future: a case study 7. Maths as storytelling: Maths is beautiful 8. Information and communication technologies in the classroom: Implications and considerations 9. Language and literacy 10. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies in the classroom 11. Engaging Indigenous students: The important relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and their teachers
The second edition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: An Introduction for the Teaching Profession prepares students for the unique environment they will face when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at early childhood, primary and secondary levels.
NEW TO THIS EDITION Updates to connect to the Australian Curriculum A new chapter explores Torres Strait Island schools as a case example. Author, Judy Ketchell, is Principal of 14 schools across the Torres Strait Islands Expanded to include information on fostering the unique talents of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people Updated throughout to address the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, crosscurriculum priority Reflection on classroom practices
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
WHY CHOOSE THIS TEXT Unique and accessible, this book places a great emphasis on the cross-curriculum Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures with sample activities and programs Each chapter opens with powerful anecdote to open, connecting the classroom to real-world issues All contributors are Indigenous Australians, highly qualified academics and experts on their selected topics This is the only Indigenous Education text to cover Torres Strait Islander content
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS John Williams-Mozley, Christopher Matthews, Jaky Troy, Mark Rose, Peter Radoll, Christine Evans, Jeannie Herbert, Judith Ketchell, Peter Buckskin, Kaye Price, Ned David, Steve Foster, Stephanie Savage
Dr Kaye Price is an Aboriginal woman from Tasmania who has co-authored material for use in teaching Aboriginal Studies and Torres Strait Islander Studies and most recently edited Knowledge of Life (2015) and the second edition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: A resource for the teaching profession (2015). She works with Professor Peter Buckskin and Professor Emeritus Paul Hughes to manage the More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers [in Australian schools] Initiative (MATSITI) and was a member of the AITSL ‘Improving Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Project’. As a member of the MATSITI team, she assisted in developing the 3 Rs of Teaching: Respect, Relationships, Reconciliation – a national project to design and develop a unit outline and content to support the provision of ITE to improve teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Kaye has extensive experience in the areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia, and culturally responsive curriculum with 40 indigenous groups in the Philippines. She has worked extensively with ACARA, was Australia’s NAIDOC Scholar of the Year in 2005, named an Education Warrior in 2008 and is an Indigenous Education Ambassador and a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators. She is a reference group member of the Excellence and Equity in Maths: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Achievement and Tertiary Aspirations in Mathematics Project.