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The Australian Aboriginal View Of Giftedness, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Kathleen Gibson
The Australian Aboriginal View Of Giftedness, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Kathleen Gibson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
To write a chapter on the conceptions of giftedness held by the indigenous people of Australia presents particular challenges to the authors. In framing this chapter, we are mindful that the structure of the book has looked at language as a defining aspect of culture but there is no single Aboriginal language (or culture) and the majority of Aboriginal people speak as their first language either Aboriginal English, a dialect of English, or one of three Kriols, the Aboriginal term for the creole languages (Sandefur, 1986) that have evolved following English settlement of Australia. Even if we were to look …
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Cambourne and Turbill trace the growth, change and finally marginalisation of progressive approaches to literacy education by examining whole language philosophy in Australia from the 1960s to the present. Using a critical lens, Cambourne and Turbill describe how whole language has been positioned throughout the last nearly 50 years in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Cambourne and Turbill offer a personal history of whole language in Australia and draw connections of the educational changes occurring in their country to other western democracies. Their insights are valuable in order to examine other grass roots programs and to better understand how …