Beth Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tharawal Aboriginal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflecting on Team Teaching
The Implications of Statements by Aboriginal Leaders for Language Teaching in Aboriginal Schools
In the Plenary Address to the Cross Cultural Issues in Educational Linguistics Conference held at Batchelor in 1987, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Principal at Yirrkala Community School, expressed the hope that a school using 'both-ways' curriculum would help Aboriginal people regain control of their lives. Among other things he states, If you have control of both languages you have double power.(Yunupingu, 1987, p.4
Language and Mathematics in Some Aboriginal Classrooms
Classroom talk often consists of teachers' questions and commands and children's responses or answers. While this may not be the best approach to learning it is nevertheless very common. In this paper, some of the talk that occurred in some Aboriginal classrooms (Graham, 1987) has been examined to see just what children were saying (and therefore thinking) and if teacher talk was focusing on the things children need to know if they are to learn m…
Aboriginal Teachers and Bicultural Schooling
Aboriginal teacher training', 'Aboriginalisation of staffing in Aboriginal schools', 'Aboriginal self-determination in schooling', 'bicultural education', 'Aboriginal control of schools', 'Aboriginal excellence in the 3Rs' are all phrases used by people with some commitment to seeing Aboriginal interests achieved through schooling. These statements in relation to traditionally oriented Aboriginal schools are often used as if they all contained mu…
Finding Meaning in Maths
Many teachers involved in school education of Aboriginal children have, for a variety of complex reasons, found it difficult to design programs that begin with the things children know and move to those things that children have to learn. All too frequently school education offered to Aboriginal children has been conceived in Western terms and delivered in our language. Programs designed for children from mainstream Australia have simply been tra…
Distance or Difference in Aboriginal Education
The majority of the 27,000 Aborigines in the Northern Territory live in remote communities and on cattle stations, or are grouped around some of the smaller rural towns that are scattered through the 1,347,500 square kilometres of the Northern Territory. These extremely isolated communities may vary in size from, say, one hundred to over one thousand people. There is vast climatic and geographical variation, too, between the tropical communities …
Can We Count On Maths
Would you like a hot dog? The Aboriginal man, who was on his first visit to a city and to whom the question was addressed, looked amazed and then responded, "Can I come and have a look?". He soon discovered that 'hot dogs' were not what his grasp of English and the mental picture it had conjured up - of a cooked canine - had led him to believe. A rather relieved young man enjoyed his first 'hot dog'. An amusing incident at the time, but how often…
Building a Bridge to English Literacy in Aboriginal Bilingual Education Programs
The aim of bilingual education is to develop a person who can think, speak, read, write and act appropriately in the language and culture of both his home and the wider society. Therefore, although for sound educational reasons the first formal reading experiences of children in a bilingual program are provided in their mother-tongue and these activities are maintained and extended throughout the child's school life, at an appropriate time a brid…
Starting Where They Are
Bilingual education programs are being developed in some remote Aboriginal communities that have retained their own languages and a high degree of traditional orientation. As bilingual education in the Northern Territory is today beginning really to mean bilingual/bicultural education, this means that Aboriginal teachers are expected to act in different ways from when they worked as Teacher "Aides" and assisted in programs that were solely based …
Finding Meaning in Maths
Many teachers involved in school education of Aboriginal children have, for a variety of complex reasons, found it difficult to design programs that begin with the things children know and move to those things that children have to learn. All too frequently school education offered to Aboriginal children has been conceived in Western terms and delivered in our language. Programs designed for children from mainstream Australia have simply been tra…
Distance or Difference in Aboriginal Education
The majority of the 27,000 Aborigines in the Northern Territory live in remote communities and on cattle stations, or are grouped around some of the smaller rural towns that are scattered through the 1,347,500 square kilometres of the Northern Territory. These extremely isolated communities may vary in size from, say, one hundred to over one thousand people. There is vast climatic and geographical variation, too, between the tropical communities …
Aboriginal Teachers and Bicultural Schooling
Aboriginal teacher training', 'Aboriginalisation of staffing in Aboriginal schools', 'Aboriginal self-determination in schooling', 'bicultural education', 'Aboriginal control of schools', 'Aboriginal excellence in the 3Rs' are all phrases used by people with some commitment to seeing Aboriginal interests achieved through schooling. These statements in relation to traditionally oriented Aboriginal schools are often used as if they all contained mu…
Building a Bridge to English Literacy in Aboriginal Bilingual Education Programs
The aim of bilingual education is to develop a person who can think, speak, read, write and act appropriately in the language and culture of both his home and the wider society. Therefore, although for sound educational reasons the first formal reading experiences of children in a bilingual program are provided in their mother-tongue and these activities are maintained and extended throughout the child's school life, at an appropriate time a brid…
Building a Bridge to English Literacy in Aboriginal Bilingual Education Programs
The aim of bilingual education is to develop a person who can think, speak, read, write and act appropriately in the language and culture of both his home and the wider society. Therefore, although for sound educational reasons the first formal reading experiences of children in a bilingual program are provided in their mother-tongue and these activities are maintained and extended throughout the child's school life, at an appropriate time a brid…
Starting Where They Are
Bilingual education programs are being developed in some remote Aboriginal communities that have retained their own languages and a high degree of traditional orientation. As bilingual education in the Northern Territory is today beginning really to mean bilingual/bicultural education, this means that Aboriginal teachers are expected to act in different ways from when they worked as Teacher "Aides" and assisted in programs that were solely based …
Distance or Difference in Aboriginal Education
The majority of the 27,000 Aborigines in the Northern Territory live in remote communities and on cattle stations, or are grouped around some of the smaller rural towns that are scattered through the 1,347,500 square kilometres of the Northern Territory. These extremely isolated communities may vary in size from, say, one hundred to over one thousand people. There is vast climatic and geographical variation, too, between the tropical communities …
Can We Count On Maths
Would you like a hot dog? The Aboriginal man, who was on his first visit to a city and to whom the question was addressed, looked amazed and then responded, "Can I come and have a look?". He soon discovered that 'hot dogs' were not what his grasp of English and the mental picture it had conjured up - of a cooked canine - had led him to believe. A rather relieved young man enjoyed his first 'hot dog'. An amusing incident at the time, but how often…
Finding Meaning in Maths
Many teachers involved in school education of Aboriginal children have, for a variety of complex reasons, found it difficult to design programs that begin with the things children know and move to those things that children have to learn. All too frequently school education offered to Aboriginal children has been conceived in Western terms and delivered in our language. Programs designed for children from mainstream Australia have simply been tra…
Aboriginal Teachers and Bicultural Schooling
Aboriginal teacher training', 'Aboriginalisation of staffing in Aboriginal schools', 'Aboriginal self-determination in schooling', 'bicultural education', 'Aboriginal control of schools', 'Aboriginal excellence in the 3Rs' are all phrases used by people with some commitment to seeing Aboriginal interests achieved through schooling. These statements in relation to traditionally oriented Aboriginal schools are often used as if they all contained mu…
Language and Mathematics in Some Aboriginal Classrooms
Classroom talk often consists of teachers' questions and commands and children's responses or answers. While this may not be the best approach to learning it is nevertheless very common. In this paper, some of the talk that occurred in some Aboriginal classrooms (Graham, 1987) has been examined to see just what children were saying (and therefore thinking) and if teacher talk was focusing on the things children need to know if they are to learn m…
The Implications of Statements by Aboriginal Leaders for Language Teaching in Aboriginal Schools
In the Plenary Address to the Cross Cultural Issues in Educational Linguistics Conference held at Batchelor in 1987, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Principal at Yirrkala Community School, expressed the hope that a school using 'both-ways' curriculum would help Aboriginal people regain control of their lives. Among other things he states, If you have control of both languages you have double power.(Yunupingu, 1987, p.4
Reflecting on Team Teaching
Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Project commissioning (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · Education Systems and Policy (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)