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Successful Sustainable Literacy Practice For Indigenous Students, Nola Purdie
Successful Sustainable Literacy Practice For Indigenous Students, Nola Purdie
Indigenous Education Research
The author discusses current approaches to the literacy education of Indigenous students within the context of best practice literacy education for all students. Issues addressed include: Literacy and disadvantaged groups; Literacy programs for Indigenous Australian Students; Teachers and literacy learning; Assessment and measurement of literacy learning; and good literacy curriculum.
Family Involvement Strategies At The Meskwaki Settlement School, Carol Gary Meyer
Family Involvement Strategies At The Meskwaki Settlement School, Carol Gary Meyer
Graduate Research Papers
When parents become involved in the education of their child research shows positive results for parents and children. However, not all parents know how to be meaningfully involved, and those that are involved may not understand all that is happening in their child's education.
At the Meskwaki Settlement School being meaningfully involved is an important issue to parents. There is a past history of fear of education due to forced removal to boarding schools far from families and cultural ties. There is a need for parents to connect not only with their child in the school but also with the …