ORCID Profile
0000-0001-9928-2121
Current Organisations
Queensland University of Technology
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Griffith University
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Research Topics
In Research Link Australia (RLA), "Research Topics" refer to ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes. These topics are either sourced from ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes listed in researchers' related grants or generated by a large language model (LLM) based on their publications.
Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies | Curriculum and Pedagogy | Cultural Studies | Teacher Education: Vocational Education And Training | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy | Curriculum Theory And Development | Curriculum Studies: Mathematics Education
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Teaching and Instruction not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education | Learner and Learning Processes | Employment | Vocational education and training |
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Publications
Making sense of a trial Maths intervention program for students with disability in Australia: Interim report
Publisher: Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.
Date: 10-2016
The development of case studies to evaluate the usefulness of teaching interactions in one-to-one teaching of early number
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2016
Minimally Invasive Radio-Guided Surgery for Recurrent Thyroid Cancer Using Iodine-123
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 2005
Rich and purposeful mathematical knowledge of mothers and children in a Torres Strait Islander community
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-01-2014
Direct instruction in mathematics: issues for schools with high indigenous enrolments: a literature review
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 2011
Theorizing participation, engagement and community for primary and secondary mathematics classrooms
Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Date: 2017
Indigenous students transitioning to school: responses to pre-foundational mathematics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-11-2014
Preservice Teachers as Document Detectives
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 06-2020
Reasonable adjustments in learning programs: Teaching length, mass and capacity to students with intellectual disability
Publisher: Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.
Date: 10-2017
Indigenous Young People in Australia’s Justice System
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
The Montessori method, Aboriginal students and Linnaean zoology taxonomy teaching: Three-staged lesson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 28-06-2021
DOI: 10.1017/JIE.2019.10
Abstract: Abstract This research article addresses an important issue related to how teachers can support Aboriginal secondary school students' learning of science. Drawn from a larger project that investigated the study of vertebrates using Queensland Indigenous knowledges and Montessori Linnaean materials to engage Indigenous secondary school students, this article focuses on the three-staged lessons from that study. Using an Action Research approach and working with participants from one secondary high school in regional Queensland with a high Indigenous population, there were several important findings. First, the materials and the three-staged lessons generated interest in learning Eurocentric science knowledge. Second, repetition, freedom and unhurried inclusion of foreign science knowledges strengthened students' Aboriginal personal identity as well as identities as science learners. Third, privileging of local Aboriginal knowledge and animal language gave rise to meaningful and contextualised Linnaean lessons and culturally responsive practices.
The Proposition: Towards Culturally Appropriate Education in Juvenile Detention
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times - Conference Proceedings
Publisher: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.18452/13578
Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Juvenile Detention
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Cultural and Educational Responsibility for Indigenous Young People in Detention: Critical Reality
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Funds of knowledge of sorting and patterning: Networks of exchange in a torres strait Island community
Publisher: The University of Queensland
Date: 22-01-2012
DOI: 10.1017/JIE.2012.20
Abstract: This article focuses on the funds of knowledge that are mathematical in nature and how they might be used to support parents and children with their learning of mathematics that is taught and learned in the early years of school. Funds of knowledges are those that have been historically and culturally accumulated into a body of knowledge and skills essential for people's functioning and wellbeing. Drawing on community research design, where the process of learning is owned and framed by the community and its people, a consultative meeting was held to discuss the pilot project.
Embedding Aboriginal perspectives and knowledge in the biology curriculum: The little porky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-07-2018
DOI: 10.1017/JIE.2017.12
Abstract: This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the integration of Aboriginal and Western knowledge into science learning in a Montessori classroom in regional Queensland, Australia. Drawing on the local knowledge of fauna of community members, the study explored the teaching of science to 12-year 8–9 students in an Aboriginal independent high school in Queensland. The overall study covered 83 lessons that included an initial Short-beaked echidna study. It applied thematic analysis to data to explore the effect of this integrated approach on students’ pride in heritage, cultural knowledge, learning and the Linnaean zoology taxonomy. Results revealed that the contextualisation of Aboriginal and Western science knowledge strengthened students’ Aboriginal personal identity as well as identities as science learners and status of local Aboriginal knowledge.
Educating Indigenous Children in Australian Juvenile Justice Systems
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Theorizing critical discourse theory and analysis for investigating mathematics classrooms
Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Date: 2017
Culturally responsive pedagogies and perspectives in mathematics
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-02-2021
Working with incarcerated indigenous and low socioeconomic status youth and their teachers to improve learning outcomes in mathematics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-08-2018
Enhancing maths teachers' pedagogy in special schools in Queensland Australia
Publisher: The University of British Columbia
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.14288/1.0402129
Direct instruction in mathematics: Issues for schools with high indigenous enrolments: A literature review
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 12-2011
Contextualising the Teaching and Learning of Measurement within Torres Strait Islander Schools
Publisher: The University of Queensland
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1375/S1326011100000880
Abstract: Abstract A one-year mathematics project that focused on measurement was conducted with six Torres Strait Islander schools and communities. Its key focus was to contextualise the teaching and learning of measurement within the students' culture, communities and home languages. Six teachers and two teacher aides participated in the project. This paper reports on the findings from the teachers' and teacher aides' survey questionnaire used in the first Professional Development session to identify: a) teachers' experience of teaching in the Torres Strait Islands, b) teachers' beliefs about effective ways to teach Torres Strait Islander students, and c) contexualising measurement within Torres Strait Islander culture, communities and home languages. A wide range of differing levels of knowledge and understanding about how to contextualise measurement to support student learning were identified and analysed. For ex le, an Indigenous teacher claimed that mathematics and the environment are relational, that is, they are not discrete and in isolation from one another, rather they interconnect with mathematical ideas emerging from the environment of the Torres Strait communities.
The identification of teaching interactions used in one-to-one teaching of number in the early years of schooling
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-01-2016
Reform of Education in Juvenile Justice: Opportunities and Obstacles
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Indigenous Students in Juvenile Detention
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
An exploration of assessment approaches in a vocational and education training courses in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-08-2017
Contextualising Aboriginal faunal stories with the Linnaean taxonomy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 15-07-2022
DOI: 10.55146/AJIE.2022.7
Abstract: This article explores the contextualising of local Aboriginal animal stories with the zoology curriculum in Queensland at one independent high school, where students’ learning potential often remains untapped. Contextualisation, encompasses heritage, cultural knowledge, country and Linnaean zoology taxonomy to form a culturally responsive pedagogy that supports students’ learning and pride in their heritage. To illustrate how students can learn in culturally responsive ways, a sinuous path encompassing six phases for collecting local faunal stories was necessary, prior to delivering the Linnaean zoology taxonomy. Elders’ animal stories were documented and then contextualised into classificatory materials to integrate local faunal knowledge. Drawing on an Indigenist Research Framework including storytelling, talking circles, interviewing and Action Research methodology, transcribing, retranscribing and restorying was used to explore the effect of a culturally responsive approach on students’ culture, and knowledge of local fauna. Findings indicated that the local animal stories became the foundation for the development of a First Classification of Animal Kingdom chart from the non-Aboriginal animal knowledge tradition which tapped into students’ learning potential through elders’ stories about local culture. Real-life storytelling on country is preferable as such contexts provide meaningful learning for students, rather than in decontextualised classroom spaces.
Point: Rethinking education for children in juvenile detention centres
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2021
Counterpoint: These children matter and so does their education
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2021
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Related Funding Activities
Skilling Indigenous Australia: Effective Numeracy Learning For Employment By Regional And Remote Indigenous Students In Vocational Education And Training Courses
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0989663
Start Date: 09-2009
End Date: 06-2014
Amount: $837,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Indigenous - Grant ID: IN150100045
Start Date: 06-2016
End Date: 06-2022
Amount: $450,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity