Noting the need to support Western teachers in Australia in their quest to work with
indigenous children in more culturally appropriate ways to close the literacy gap between …

This research draws on the reflections from group discussions with indigenous families and
interviews with early childhood educators and community stakeholders from five First …

THE MAIN AIM OF THE Bridging the Gap project was to encourage Indigenous families to
use a home book-reading program to minimise the disadvantage often experienced by their …

There is a growing awareness that some children transition into formal schooling more
readily than others. Compelling evidence indicates that children familiar with the skills and …

EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN PARENTS, teachers and the community have
universally been heralded as crucial to improving young Indigenous Australians' …

This paper reports on one aspect of a collaborative early childhood literacy research project
in New South Wales, Australia, where two government departments and three universities …

Socio-cultural theory has provided researchers with a powerful cultural tool for examining
many taken-for-granted practices within early childhood education (Wertsch 1991). In …

The way in which we view literacy impacts on how we view the process of literacy learning
as well as how we view infants as literacy learners. If literacy is viewed narrowly as a set of …

If young adults in remote Indigenous Australian communities are to acquire the knowledge
and skills necessary to participate effectively in mature roles in their own and the wider …

Web pagesr Indigenous Australian students enhanced their literacy and technology skills,
thousands of years before European colonization and the introduction of electronic …