Practitioner research is defined as systematic inquiry-based efforts directed towards creating
and extending professional knowledge and associated understandings of professional …

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 …

This article discusses some outcomes of an inter-cultural, participative research study that
used a narrative inquiry approach with Aboriginal early childhood educators. A common …

Drawing on Vygotsky's (1997a) concept of fossilized behavior, this study examines the
cultural fault lines between the imagined community (Anderson, 1991) of early childhood …

In Queensland, there is little research that speaks to the historical experiences of schooling.
Aboriginal education remains a part of the silenced history of Aboriginal people. This thesis …

Previously, I completed a library project which focused on preserving the knowledge
available within the Central Gippsland Indigenous community. This thesis extends this work …

This paper describes research currently being conducted in the Gippsland region of Victoria,
Australia. I recorded a range of stories acknowledging that valuable information was …