Margot Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4277381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margot Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margot |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Government of the Northern Territory |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Treading on sacred ground? Confronting the Anzac myth in higher education
The Anzac legend, with its firm grip on popular abstractions of Australian history, nationhood, and identity, incites trepidation in the university History teacher like few other topics. Casting a critical eye over the Anzac metanarrative can also be disquieting for students unfamiliar with scholarly History and method because their conceptions of identity, both individual and national, are disrupted. In the tertiary classroom, popular understand…
Achievement gaps in Australia: What Naplan reveals about education inequality in Australia
Drawing on approaches used by Gillborn (2008 Gillborn, D. 2008. Racism and education. Coincidence or conspiracy?, Abingdon: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), this article examines results from the most recent version of Australian national testing (NAPLAN) in Years 3, 5 and 9, operating since 2008. It analyses the inequality of achievement between indigenous and non-indigenous students in the States and Territories, with particular refer…
Language Nests in New Zealand. Implications for the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Context
In the past ten years there has been an increasing interest in early childhood education in Aboriginal communities, particularly for 4-year-olds and under. The reasons for this are varied. One of the main reasons is the existence of the Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) where Aboriginal people in remote communities receive the equivalent of the unemployment benefit in exchange for work and training, usually four hours per day for fi…
Achievement gaps in Australia: What Naplan reveals about education inequality in Australia
Drawing on approaches used by Gillborn (2008 Gillborn, D. 2008. Racism and education. Coincidence or conspiracy?, Abingdon: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), this article examines results from the most recent version of Australian national testing (NAPLAN) in Years 3, 5 and 9, operating since 2008. It analyses the inequality of achievement between indigenous and non-indigenous students in the States and Territories, with particular refer…
Treading on sacred ground? Confronting the Anzac myth in higher education
The Anzac legend, with its firm grip on popular abstractions of Australian history, nationhood, and identity, incites trepidation in the university History teacher like few other topics. Casting a critical eye over the Anzac metanarrative can also be disquieting for students unfamiliar with scholarly History and method because their conceptions of identity, both individual and national, are disrupted. In the tertiary classroom, popular understand…
Language Nests in New Zealand. Implications for the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Context
In the past ten years there has been an increasing interest in early childhood education in Aboriginal communities, particularly for 4-year-olds and under. The reasons for this are varied. One of the main reasons is the existence of the Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) where Aboriginal people in remote communities receive the equivalent of the unemployment benefit in exchange for work and training, usually four hours per day for fi…
Achievement gaps in Australia: What Naplan reveals about education inequality in Australia
Drawing on approaches used by Gillborn (2008 Gillborn, D. 2008. Racism and education. Coincidence or conspiracy?, Abingdon: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), this article examines results from the most recent version of Australian national testing (NAPLAN) in Years 3, 5 and 9, operating since 2008. It analyses the inequality of achievement between indigenous and non-indigenous students in the States and Territories, with particular refer…
Treading on sacred ground? Confronting the Anzac myth in higher education
The Anzac legend, with its firm grip on popular abstractions of Australian history, nationhood, and identity, incites trepidation in the university History teacher like few other topics. Casting a critical eye over the Anzac metanarrative can also be disquieting for students unfamiliar with scholarly History and method because their conceptions of identity, both individual and national, are disrupted. In the tertiary classroom, popular understand…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Education Systems and Policy (2 works) · Indigenous and Place-Based Education (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)