Indigenous languages & education: Do we have the right agenda?
Nakata, N.M. (2024) Indigenous languages & education: Do we have the right agenda? Australian Educational Researcher, 51. pp. 719-732.
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Abstract
The language and cultural priorities in Australian Indigenous education have been priority areas since the inaugural national Indigenous education policy was launched in 1989. For over thirty years, these priorities have sat awkwardly in the largely non-Indigenous teaching profession and classroom teachers continue to struggle with how to embed these priorities into the education process, despite the efforts of Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and their elaborations for application at curriculum and practice levels. In this article, I suggest that these language and cultural priorities are at cross-purposes with education priorities, and neither have helped to curb the demise of our Indigenous languages nor improved Indigenous students’ educational outcomes.
Item ID: | 79002 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 2210-5328 |
Keywords: | Indigenous education, Indigenous languages |
Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2023 04:11 |
FoR Codes: | 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history > 450108 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander linguistics and languages @ 100% |
SEO Codes: | 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies @ 100% |
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