“Our Stories About Teaching and Learning”: What Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Northern Australia Say About Teaching and Their Learning

• In Event: Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: Indigenous Schools and Schooling and the Power of Educational Research

Abstract

The study described here presents the outcomes of the first phase of a three phase research initiative which arises in response to this cultural denial to support a move towards a better understanding of classroom practices that have value in the learning of Aboriginal and Torres Strait students. The following questions guided our research: (1) What do Indigenous students identify as success? and (2) What pedagogical and social interactions at the classroom level influence their learning? The study concludes by presenting an Effective Teaching Profile for Indigenous students based upon the data gathered in this study.

Authors

• Brian Ellis Lewthwaite, James Cook University - Australia

• Helen Joanna Boon, James Cook University - Australia

• Cathy Day, Catholic Education Townsvillle

• Alfred B. Osborne, James Cook University - Australia