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Gwendalyn Webb – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
This research aimed to explore the conversations between Aboriginal children and their educators in early childhood contexts. The research particularly focused on the relevance of these conversations for developing children's identity. Participants were Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children and educators, who participated in conversations in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Indigenous Populations, Early Childhood Teachers, Children
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Wolf, Maryanne; Ullman-Shade, Catherine; Gottwald, Stephanie – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
This essay is about the improbable emergence of written language six millennia ago that gave rise to the even more improbable, highly sophisticated reading brain of the twenty-first century. How it emerged and what it comprises--both in its most basic iteration in the very young reader and in its most elaborated iteration in the expert reader--is…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia
Eades, Diana – 1993
This report focuses on the teaching of English to Aboriginal children in primary schools in Australia. A definition and analysis of dialectal differences between Aboriginal (Australian) English and Standard (Australian) English is offered that includes the phonological, morpho-syntactic, lexico-semantic, and pragmatic differences of the Aboriginal…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Creoles