Indigenous education: Creating classrooms of tomorrow today

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At the recent 2011 Research Conference “Indigenous Education: Pathways to success”, Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, (Dean of Aboriginal Education, Director of the Wilto Yerlo Centre at Adelaide University) presented a talk on “Indigenous education: Creating classrooms of tomorrow today.”  The presentation highlights:

•  the characteristics of curriculum, policy and pedagogy for future schooling of Indigenous children.

• It uses national and international literature to explore 21st century learning that seeks to revolutionise the way teachers and students are educated.
• It highlights that Indigenous students live in a multi-tasking, multifaceted, technology-driven, diverse, rapidly changing world which is far removed from the world faced by most of their teachers at the time they entered adulthood.

This is an excellent resource for educators as it highlights opportunities that can create and sustain positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students.  The full-text of his presentation can be accessed at:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2011_-_Indigenous_education-_Creating_classrooms_of_tomorrow_today.pdf&chrome=true&pli=1