(2017). Te Marautanga o Aotearoa: History of a National M√§ori Curriculum. Curriculum Matters, v13 p8-20. This article offers brief commentary on the development of "Te Marautanga o Aotearoa", which is the official statement of M√§ori-medium school curriculum policy. From our perspective as three M√§ori educators who have been involved in its development for over 20 years, we combine our experiences to tell the story of this unique indigenous M√§ori curriculum… [Direct]
(2019). The Gift of Indian Higher Learning Traditions to the Global Research University. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, v39 n2 p177-189. The paper begins with a brief vignette of Angkor Wat in Cambodia as a great center of learning, and then highlights the traditions of Indian monastic institutions which had deeply influenced its development. It then turns the main features of the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, showing how they created a space for women's scholarship to flourish. The next section focuses on the development of shuyuan or academies in China that arose out of the patterns of Buddhist monasteries, demonstrating another aspect of their progressive influence. Throughout the paper comparisons are made with the European university tradition, and the conclusion considers the gifts these learning traditions could bring to the global research university…. [Direct]
(2019). Inquiring about Values: Enhancing Consultation through Critical Research Ethics. set: Research Information for Teachers, n3 p28-35. If schools wish to be more inclusive by reflecting the communities they serve, paying deliberate attention to embedded values can be helpful. This article describes thinking and actions set in a school with a history of attending to values. It suggests that when consulting on values, the ethics of critical research can enhance the process of inquiry. This happens if the values that are present in how we inquire are brought to the surface to complement the values-based information we learn. This is not an easy matter. It is a journey that involves a balance between leadership and consultation, and that prioritises listening as widely as possible in ways that can lead to change…. [Direct]
(2019). Exploring Continuities between Family Engagement and Well-Being in Aboriginal Head Start Programs in Canada. Infants and Young Children, v32 n1 p60-74 Jan-Mar. Children and families receive maximum benefits from early childhood programs when families are actively engaged. "Parental involvement" is an established feature of Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) in Canada, and there is interest in increasing the knowledge on how AHSUNC sites engage with parents and families. This qualitative study generated knowledge and insights into the nature of family engagement in AHSUNC programs. From May to November 2016, semistructured interviews were undertaken with 26 participants in AHSUNC programs across British Columbia. Participants included parents (n = 10); Elders (n = 6), and AHSUNC program coordinators and family workers (n = 10). Findings illustrate a nuanced, relational, and strengths-based approach to family engagement that included AHSUNC program staff being responsive to the influence of broader social and structural factors on families' everyday lives and program engagement. Findings highlight how… [Direct]
(1998). Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, March 21-23, 1996). IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, Volume 2. This edited volume of conference papers contains the following titles: "Presentation: Realism and Idealism in Language Conflict and Their Resolution" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "Legal and Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "The Linguistic Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Witnesses, Victims, and Defendants" (Kate Storey); "Great Mischiefs–An Historical Look at Language Legislation" (Ruth Morris); "The Criminalization of Spanish in the United States" (Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza); "Towards Consensus? Standard English in the National Curriculum" (Joan Swann); "Beyond Anglo-Saxon Confederation: The Clash of World Hegemonies in the Language Ideologies of Arthur Balfour and Woodrow Wilson" (Chris Andre); "Anatomy of the English-Only Movement: Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in the United States" (James Crawford); "The Courts, the Legislature…
(2022). Interrogating Intercultural Competence through a "Pedagogy of Interruption": A Metasynthesis of Intercultural Outreach Projects in Music Teacher Education. Research Studies in Music Education, v44 n2 p380-398 Jul. Highlighting the need for teacher education programs to respond to rapidly diversifying societies, this article reports a qualitative metasynthesis of intercultural outreach projects in music teacher education, conceptualizing these projects as a "pedagogy of interruption." Results show that such outreach projects interrupt the individualistic frame of music teacher education, the known difference, the logic of teaching, and the understanding of what intercultural teacher competence is, rather moving toward letting the context teach. The complex relational work involved in intercultural outreach projects can be seen to establish spaces for framing learning within professional self-reflexivity, embracing uncertainty and trusting relational becomings through an investment in the political and moral aspects of teacher education and intercultural theorization. The article argues that intercultural outreach projects and theorization can be taken as a healthy test for… [Direct]
(2023). "Natoonikew Aansaamb": Searching Together for Learning and Resurgence. Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, v6 p17-27. The Professional Project Administrator Program (PPA) is an employment-focused online program offered in partnership with Indigenous communities in Western Canada. Based on the findings from the research conducted after the program completion, we discuss two key components that contributed to a meaningful learning experience and to the success of the program: wrap-around support and cultural learning. Through m√©tissage, an arts-based approach to knowledge sharing, we present Natoonikew Aansaamb (searching together), where we have woven together different voices and stories that offer a glimpse of the learning experience. Greater inquiry and engagement with diverse Indigenous perspectives is the way for educators to design, implement, and assess learning for all students with intention and in a good way. [Articles in this journal were presented at the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching.]… [PDF]
(2024). Community Solutions for Schooling Engagement: Two Australian Case Studies. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v32 n3 p657-674. This paper draws together data from two projects on schooling dis/engagement in Australia. One project focused on mainstream schools and the strategies employed to retain and engage young people in learning, whereas the other explored the growing sector of alternative/flexible education for similar solutions. We found interesting parallels. For example, rich, relevant curricula delivered through innovative pedagogies alongside positive staff/student relationships were key elements in schooling engagement across both sectors. Those findings have been published elsewhere. This paper focuses on the contributions to schooling engagement that may be derived from mutually beneficial school/community relationships. Here, we examine one mainstream high school and one flexi secondary school, both situated in remote geolocations, that established bespoke school/community partnerships in response to local needs. The data from each site provide blueprints for other schools that wish to tap into… [Direct]
(2016). Enhancing Intercultural Engagement through Service Learning and Music Making with Indigenous Communities in Australia. Research Studies in Music Education, v38 n2 p173-191 Dec. This article explores the potential for music making activities such as jamming, song writing, and performance to act as a medium for intercultural connection and relationship building during service learning programs with Indigenous communities in Australia. To set the context, the paper begins with an overview of current international perspectives on service learning and then moves towards a theoretical and practical discussion of how these processes, politics, and learning outcomes arise when intercultural engagement is used in service learning programs. The paper then extends this discussion to consider the ways in which shared music making can bring a sense of intercultural "proximity" that has the potential to evoke deep learning experiences for all involved in the service learning activity. These learning experiences arise from three different "facings" in the process of making music together: facing others together; facing each other; facing ourselves. In… [Direct]
(2021). Revitalization of Oral Traditions in Tasikmalaya District as a Learning Media to Plant Character Education Values and Multicultural Insights of Students. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, v17 n3 p1379-1391. Oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency are classified into types of fairy tales, legends, and myths. The three types of oral traditions are spread in 39 sub-districts in Tasikmalaya Regency. Not all of the oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency are well documented, this is due to the lack of oral tradition researchers in Tasikmalaya Regency. This study aims to describe: 1) revitalization of oral transmission in Tasikmalaya Regency; 2) education value in oral tradition in Tasikmalaya Regency; 3) character values that need to be embedded in children/students; 4) character education based on psychological/moral development of children/students; and 5) students' multicultural insights. The research method used in this research is the micro ethnographic method with qualitative research. Data collection techniques used are observation, interview, and documentation. Based on the results of research and analysis on the revitalization of oral traditions, it was found that 1) oral traditions… [PDF]
(2021). Textbooks Based on Local Wisdom to Improve Reading and Writing Skills of Elementary School Students. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, v10 n3 p886-892 Sep. Many elementary students still find it difficult to understand the literature content used and it automatically affects their reading and writing skills. However, the adjustment of literature with local wisdom-based content needs to be considered as a supporting tool. This study aimed to improve reading and writing skills using textbook based on local wisdom. The sample was grade 4 of elementary school students who selected using purposive random sampling. This research used a nonequivalent control group design through the experiment and control classes. Data were collected through writing and reading skills test of 32 students in each class and analyzed using N-gain to describe the treatment effect. The results showed that textbooks based on local wisdom were more effective than teaching materials that were not integrated by local wisdom at improving students' reading and writing skills. In the future, this study is a reference for teachers to apply local wisdom to other learning… [PDF]
(2021). Changing Terms, Not Trends: A Critical Investigation into Children's & Young Adult Literature Publishing & Its Effect in Curriculum & Pedagogy. Language and Literacy Spectrum, v31 n1 Article 2 Jun. The central argument proposed within this article is that while recent publishing trends in children's and adolescent literature have changed for the better (Cooperative Children's Book Center, 2020) and research about the importance of diverse reading experiences for students has become concentrated, centered, and validated (Adichie, 2009; Bishop, 1990; Ebarvia et al., 2020; Parker, 2020; Thomas, 2016; Tschida et al., 2014) many schools are still struggling with changing or hesitant to change the texts centered in classrooms with youth. In the end, this article provides practical steps that practicing teachers can take in order to feature the voices and narratives of historically marginalized individuals within literacy classrooms…. [PDF]
(2021). Schools Celebrating Place and Community: A Study of Two Rural Schools in Bangladesh and New Zealand. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, v31 n3 p81-95. This paper, by a Bangladeshi and a New Zealander, brings together narrative inquiry studies of the leadership initiatives in two quite different rural schools, in Bangladesh and New Zealand respectively. The schools are in communities that might be considered as significantly underprivileged, and generationally alienated from education, within their own countries. Those communities, however, have richness of different kinds. The schools have explored and found ways of connecting with that richness and their experiences can offer ideas to others in diverse locations, including the urban. Both cases are sites of an adventurous approach to meeting the needs of their students. Both illustrate how a rich learning environment can be created when the needs, aspirations and resources of the local environment and community are investigated, attended to and utilised. The paper reports the context and innovations in both schools. In doing so it highlights the dangers of homogenising national… [Direct]
(2021). Toward a Reflexive Mathematics Education within Local and Global Relations: Thinking from Critical Scholarship on Mathematics Education within the Sociopolitical, Global Citizenship Education and Decoloniality. Research in Mathematics Education, v23 n3 p323-337. Education commonly is positioned as central to developing citizens who can address so-called global challenges. Responses are identifiable in global citizenship education, which may recruit mathematics into interdisciplinary relationships, and within mathematics education itself. However, if notions of the global and local, the citizen, mathematics, and mathematics education, are brought together uncritically, responses may inadvertently reproduce the inequities they seek to disrupt. In this conceptual article, we interrogate how and with what implications these notions are given meaning in mathematics education. We also think toward notions of place, subjectivity, relations, mathematics, and mathematics education, in a way that recognises power and differences that matter, without one place being synonymous with the universal, and one peoples considered superior. We articulate these ideas in questions for provoking scholar-practitioners' critical, reflexive thinking. For our… [Direct]
(2016). The Community Strength Model: A Proposal to Invest in Existing Aboriginal Intellectual Capital. in education, v22 n1 p22-41 Spr. Indigenous communities have strengths and wisdom beyond Westernized culture's recognition and understanding. However, there continues to be significant difference in literacy and life skills between Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults. In this article, I reflect on a project that investigated how technology could best support adult literacy learners in an Australian Indigenous community. The project provided insights into how local people perceive the concept of literacy and the significant role it plays in critical thinking and quality decision making. The aim of my research was to create a set of principles to support adult literacy learners, which could be interpreted and applied on a global level. From this project, a new theoretical framework–the Community Strength Model–emerged. The cyclical model serves as a tool to assist researchers with conceptualizing the collective process of learning within an Indigenous culture, where being true to Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous… [PDF]