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Rioux, Joël; Ewing, Bronwyn; Cooper, Tom J. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2021
This research article addresses an important issue related to how teachers can support Aboriginal secondary school students' learning of science. Drawn from a larger project that investigated the study of vertebrates using Queensland Indigenous knowledges and Montessori Linnaean materials to engage Indigenous secondary school students, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Science Education
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Rioux, Joel; Ewing, Bronwyn; Cooper, Tom J. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2018
This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the integration of Aboriginal and Western knowledge into science learning in a Montessori classroom in regional Queensland, Australia. Drawing on the local knowledge of fauna of community members, the study explored the teaching of science to 12 year 8-9 students in an Aboriginal…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Biology, Science Curriculum
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Warren, Elizabeth; Cooper, Tom J.; Baturo, Annette – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2004
This study examined teachers' perceptions of the role of teacher aides in mathematics classrooms in rural and remote Indigenous communities. Twelve teachers from three schools in rural and remote Queensland participated in the study. The results from the first year of the project indicated that there were differences in how these teachers worked…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Aides, Mathematics Instruction, Indigenous Populations