Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100113

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100113

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Talking knowledge, doing learning: the early years. An enduring problem in Indigenous schooling is the discrepancy in outcomes compared to mainstream children, but little is known about one crucial factor: the role of Indigenous ways of speaking and their ways of engaging with knowledge and learning. This ground-breaking project aims to compare preparatory school students in two urban settings: a mainstream school and a school with high Indigenous enrolments. The project also seeks to examine learning in children's homes to establish how the flow of knowledge is managed in Indigenous and mainstream families. By investigating these four settings, it is expected to provide important evidence for understanding how language and cultural ways of knowing contribute to the discrepancy in schooling outcomes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2015

End Date: 30-11-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $204,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Discourse and Pragmatics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Communication Across Languages and Culture |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Discourse and Pragmatics | Linguistics

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