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Distraction in Australian Language Education Policy: A Call to Re-Centre Language Rights
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Carly Steele; Rhonda Oliver – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
In this paper, we provide an overview of the policies that have existed in relation to Australian First Nations students' languages, and English language and literacy learning before exploring how the politics of distraction manifests in this context. We then share our findings of an analysis of Australian language education policies for First…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Civil Rights, Equal Education
Balanda Talk: My Ideological Becoming as an English Literacy Teacher of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse First Nations Australian Students
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Delphine, Tim – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
Teaching English literacy in First Nations Australian communities is bound up with the policy aim of improving the social and economic outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the desire to acknowledge, recognise and respect their unique cultural identities, languages and knowledges. But for English literacy teachers working…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes