closing the gap

School exclusion may increase youth incarceration rates

Many Indigenous boys aged 10 to 17 years are receiving lengthy suspensions from school, and research suggests young Indigenous people…

7 years ago

Is Indigenous education policy being deliberately stalled?

A lack of real progression in the area of Indigenous education since its first policy in 1989 points to a…

7 years ago

Call for more Indigenous teachers to ‘close the gap’

With Close the Gap Day behind us, we may allow the mismatch of opportunity and subsequent educational outcomes to peter…

7 years ago

Teaching with Indigenous resources

Teaching Aboriginal studies is especially difficult if you are non-Aboriginal. Very little in your education or experience has prepared you…

7 years ago

Could two-way learning close the gap?

Both-ways learning could just 'close the gap', and allow teachers of Indigenous students to 'draw on two necessarily separate domains…

7 years ago

Our Languages Matter: NAIDOC theme good fit for Indigenous students

NAIDOC 2017 theme, Our Languages Matter, focuses on the importance, resilience and richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.

7 years ago

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