Literary Research in an Aboriginal Community: What Can it Tell Us Teachers?
AbstractThis paper reports on a longitudinal literacy study conducted
in a rural town in New South Wales. The study covers a period
of 5 1/2 years. Requested by the Aboriginal community in the
town, the study comprehensively surveyed the emergent literacy
knowledge of the whole year intake of pre-school children at
a local Aboriginal pre-school over a period of 18 months, following
the children through to the end of their Kindergarten year at
primary school. Four years later, the children's literacy knowledge
was once again assessed and the predictive value of the pre-school
tasks used a number had strong predictive qualities which have
implications for intervention processes for teachers and schools.
The predictive qualities of these particular task also holds
true for other international cross-cultural research adding to
both teachers and theorists knowledge about cross-cultural aspects
of literacy. Teachers' Changing Attitudes: Essentials for Anti-Racist TeachingAbstractAttitude Change Research has much to offer teachers and schools interested in anti-racist teaching. This paper centres on presenting a model of teaching for changing negative racist attitudes which may be applied at all levels of education. I will examine the way racial attitudes develop, look briefly at what various people have said are the best ways of changing and developing attitudes which help positive intergroup relations and present a model of attitude change synthesised from these sources. In the rest of the session I will demonstrate and discuss various teaching techniques which have proven to be effective in changing racial attitudes. |
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