Tasha Riley
Biographic Data
| ID | 636644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tasha Riley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Riley |
| SIGNATURE | RILEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7867-983X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From sandstone to screen
Indigenous students in remote areas face challenges accessing technology and digital literacy, hindering their educational and career opportunities. However, a Queensland Cape York Peninsula community addresses this challenge by leveraging cultural heritage and innovative citizen science to cultivate the next generation of digital leaders. The region is home to some of the world’s most impressive rock art galleries, documenting the traditions of …
The Sisyphean continuum
Using the symbolism of what we consider to be a ‘Sisyphean continuum’, in this paper the Anglosphere countries of Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Australia are grouped to strategically reveal the shared challenges Indigenous peoples encounter in racial-colonial education systems. Fittingly, parallels are drawn between the punitive loop the mythical figure Sisyphus was doomed to. For Indigenous peoples bound up in dominant educational …
To be seen and heard
Around the world, youth expressing their voices and interests are often unfairly dismissed, portrayed by settler-colonial systems as divergent from White-patriarchal standards. With space and opportunity, however, young people have proven effective in utilising their polyvocality —the multiplicity of their voices and interests—to agitate dominant systems and advocate for change. Amplification of student polyvocality by teachers in classrooms has …
Enhancing intercultural education
Navigating Eurocentric teacher education settings presents significant challenges for both educators and learners, particularly when engaging with issues of race, privilege, and Indigenous perspectives. This paper draws on interviews with 16 Indigenous experts from Australia, Canada, the US, and New Zealand, woven together with reflective practice from compulsory Indigenous studies courses in Queensland, Australia. Our analysis reveals three key …
Creating confirming classrooms
Weaving stories of strength
Teachers have professional obligations to incorporate Indigenous perspectives in their teaching but face challenges due to Western-centric priorities in schools, denying students the benefits gained from Indigenous knowledge. A study conducted with 16 Indigenous educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States offers unique insights into negotiating this problem. The Weaving Stories of Strength project synthesises Indigenous a…
From yarning circles to zoom
Inclusive Indigenous Education is geared towards shifting worldviews, sharing agendas, and preparing social-justice-oriented educators. With this comes the expectation that pre-service teachers will leave supportive education programs prepared to teach sensitive issues related to Indigeneity. Yet, with the onset of COVID-19, systemic changes were made to accommodate demands of online learning, requiring initial teacher educators to consider how o…
Navigating a pathway of professional learning
Indigenous Health Workforce
Indigenous people have an integral role to play in improving Indigenous health outcomes by leading and being a part of the health workforce. Educating Indigenous health professionals is hence of great importance. Indigenous health students are not always acknowledged for their multiple professional and community roles and how these can affect their university education experience and success. This paper hence examines the experiences of 27 Indige…
Coming to know collectively
This experimental article provides an immanent alternative to the neo-positivist outcomes-driven turn currently cannibalising the Academy. It offers a stitched together, multiphrenic creature, formed in darkness, gore and toil; a co-generative performance embodying coming-to-know as a process of creative co-inquiry. It writes into existence an ungainly and seductive creature who is the speciation of a curious collective who met regularly to explo…
Pathways for remembering and recognising indigenous thought in education
In Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education: Philosophies of Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha (Land), Sandra D. Styres invites us on a journey towards a better understanding of the ways in which Indigenous philosophies of education are informed and connected to land and language in ways that are continually regenerated and reconceptualised within a contemporary Canadian context. Styres begins by taking us to a looko…
Exceeding Expectations
Although Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers, administrators, and educational policy makers have made efforts to improve Indigenous educational outcomes, slow progress limits the opportunities available to Indigenous learners and perpetuates social and economic disadvantage. Prior Canadian studies demonstrate that some teachers attribute low ability and adverse life circumstances to Indigenous students, possibly influencing classroom placement…
“I Know I'm Generalizing but…”
This qualitative study focuses on the potential influence students’ English as a second language (ESL) status has on teachers’ placement decisions. Specifically, the study examines 21 teachers’ responses to and decisions regarding fictional student record cards. Findings reveal that some teachers’ placement decisions were influenced by factors beyond a student's academic achievement, such as a student's ethnicity or ESL status. This study demonst…
Into the community and not on the shelf
This paper describes the process involved in creating a community-based training curriculum designed to build capacity and foster new knowledge in support of HIV/AIDS education. Highlighted are the challenges and triumphs incurred while working with community and academic partners to ensure the production of an adaptable curriculum designed to accommodate diverse teaching and learning styles. The curriculum provides teachers, community leaders an…
Boys are Like Puppies, Girls Aim to Please
Since teachers’ decisions and behaviour potentially influence learners’ future academic and occupational status, it is imperative that these decisions be unbiased. In the study reported here, 21 teachers were invited to place 24 fictional student record cards into regular, advanced, or supplementary learning assistance classes. Study findings revealed that teachers’ perceptions of the differences between male and female learners were clearly defi…
Raising Awareness to Transcend Disciplines
The issue of low graduation rates among Indigenous learners transcends borders. Some argue that racism and discrimination in schools and in wider society impede the success of Indigenous learners. Although teachers may not intend to make discriminatory decisions based on a learner's ascribed characteristics, research has demonstrated that teachers are capable of making biased decisions that deny opportunities to Indigenous learners. After reflect…
Preservice Teachers’ Discriminatory Judgments
Having pursued policies of human rights and multiculturalism, Canadians regard themselves as tolerant. Yet some critics say that when it comes to Aboriginals, Canadians seem xenophobic and discriminatory. This study is the first empirical test of whether Canadian preservice teachers’ judgments about the performance of Aboriginal students are discriminatory. Fifty preservice teachers were asked to assess the records of 24 students and recommend th…
Raising Awareness to Transcend Disciplines
The issue of low graduation rates among Indigenous learners transcends borders. Some argue that racism and discrimination in schools and in wider society impede the success of Indigenous learners. Although teachers may not intend to make discriminatory decisions based on a learner's ascribed characteristics, research has demonstrated that teachers are capable of making biased decisions that deny opportunities to Indigenous learners. After reflect…
Weaving stories of strength
Teachers have professional obligations to incorporate Indigenous perspectives in their teaching but face challenges due to Western-centric priorities in schools, denying students the benefits gained from Indigenous knowledge. A study conducted with 16 Indigenous educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States offers unique insights into negotiating this problem. The Weaving Stories of Strength project synthesises Indigenous a…
Exceeding Expectations
Although Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers, administrators, and educational policy makers have made efforts to improve Indigenous educational outcomes, slow progress limits the opportunities available to Indigenous learners and perpetuates social and economic disadvantage. Prior Canadian studies demonstrate that some teachers attribute low ability and adverse life circumstances to Indigenous students, possibly influencing classroom placement…
Boys are Like Puppies, Girls Aim to Please
Since teachers’ decisions and behaviour potentially influence learners’ future academic and occupational status, it is imperative that these decisions be unbiased. In the study reported here, 21 teachers were invited to place 24 fictional student record cards into regular, advanced, or supplementary learning assistance classes. Study findings revealed that teachers’ perceptions of the differences between male and female learners were clearly defi…
Preservice Teachers’ Discriminatory Judgments
Having pursued policies of human rights and multiculturalism, Canadians regard themselves as tolerant. Yet some critics say that when it comes to Aboriginals, Canadians seem xenophobic and discriminatory. This study is the first empirical test of whether Canadian preservice teachers’ judgments about the performance of Aboriginal students are discriminatory. Fifty preservice teachers were asked to assess the records of 24 students and recommend th…
From yarning circles to zoom
Inclusive Indigenous Education is geared towards shifting worldviews, sharing agendas, and preparing social-justice-oriented educators. With this comes the expectation that pre-service teachers will leave supportive education programs prepared to teach sensitive issues related to Indigeneity. Yet, with the onset of COVID-19, systemic changes were made to accommodate demands of online learning, requiring initial teacher educators to consider how o…
Preservice Teachers’ Discriminatory Judgments
Having pursued policies of human rights and multiculturalism, Canadians regard themselves as tolerant. Yet some critics say that when it comes to Aboriginals, Canadians seem xenophobic and discriminatory. This study is the first empirical test of whether Canadian preservice teachers’ judgments about the performance of Aboriginal students are discriminatory. Fifty preservice teachers were asked to assess the records of 24 students and recommend th…
Into the community and not on the shelf
This paper describes the process involved in creating a community-based training curriculum designed to build capacity and foster new knowledge in support of HIV/AIDS education. Highlighted are the challenges and triumphs incurred while working with community and academic partners to ensure the production of an adaptable curriculum designed to accommodate diverse teaching and learning styles. The curriculum provides teachers, community leaders an…
Boys are Like Puppies, Girls Aim to Please
Since teachers’ decisions and behaviour potentially influence learners’ future academic and occupational status, it is imperative that these decisions be unbiased. In the study reported here, 21 teachers were invited to place 24 fictional student record cards into regular, advanced, or supplementary learning assistance classes. Study findings revealed that teachers’ perceptions of the differences between male and female learners were clearly defi…
Raising Awareness to Transcend Disciplines
The issue of low graduation rates among Indigenous learners transcends borders. Some argue that racism and discrimination in schools and in wider society impede the success of Indigenous learners. Although teachers may not intend to make discriminatory decisions based on a learner's ascribed characteristics, research has demonstrated that teachers are capable of making biased decisions that deny opportunities to Indigenous learners. After reflect…
“I Know I'm Generalizing but…”
This qualitative study focuses on the potential influence students’ English as a second language (ESL) status has on teachers’ placement decisions. Specifically, the study examines 21 teachers’ responses to and decisions regarding fictional student record cards. Findings reveal that some teachers’ placement decisions were influenced by factors beyond a student's academic achievement, such as a student's ethnicity or ESL status. This study demonst…
Pathways for remembering and recognising indigenous thought in education
In Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education: Philosophies of Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha (Land), Sandra D. Styres invites us on a journey towards a better understanding of the ways in which Indigenous philosophies of education are informed and connected to land and language in ways that are continually regenerated and reconceptualised within a contemporary Canadian context. Styres begins by taking us to a looko…
Exceeding Expectations
Although Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers, administrators, and educational policy makers have made efforts to improve Indigenous educational outcomes, slow progress limits the opportunities available to Indigenous learners and perpetuates social and economic disadvantage. Prior Canadian studies demonstrate that some teachers attribute low ability and adverse life circumstances to Indigenous students, possibly influencing classroom placement…
Indigenous Health Workforce
Indigenous people have an integral role to play in improving Indigenous health outcomes by leading and being a part of the health workforce. Educating Indigenous health professionals is hence of great importance. Indigenous health students are not always acknowledged for their multiple professional and community roles and how these can affect their university education experience and success. This paper hence examines the experiences of 27 Indige…
Coming to know collectively
This experimental article provides an immanent alternative to the neo-positivist outcomes-driven turn currently cannibalising the Academy. It offers a stitched together, multiphrenic creature, formed in darkness, gore and toil; a co-generative performance embodying coming-to-know as a process of creative co-inquiry. It writes into existence an ungainly and seductive creature who is the speciation of a curious collective who met regularly to explo…
From yarning circles to zoom
Inclusive Indigenous Education is geared towards shifting worldviews, sharing agendas, and preparing social-justice-oriented educators. With this comes the expectation that pre-service teachers will leave supportive education programs prepared to teach sensitive issues related to Indigeneity. Yet, with the onset of COVID-19, systemic changes were made to accommodate demands of online learning, requiring initial teacher educators to consider how o…
Navigating a pathway of professional learning
Weaving stories of strength
Teachers have professional obligations to incorporate Indigenous perspectives in their teaching but face challenges due to Western-centric priorities in schools, denying students the benefits gained from Indigenous knowledge. A study conducted with 16 Indigenous educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States offers unique insights into negotiating this problem. The Weaving Stories of Strength project synthesises Indigenous a…
From sandstone to screen
Indigenous students in remote areas face challenges accessing technology and digital literacy, hindering their educational and career opportunities. However, a Queensland Cape York Peninsula community addresses this challenge by leveraging cultural heritage and innovative citizen science to cultivate the next generation of digital leaders. The region is home to some of the world’s most impressive rock art galleries, documenting the traditions of …
The Sisyphean continuum
Using the symbolism of what we consider to be a ‘Sisyphean continuum’, in this paper the Anglosphere countries of Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Australia are grouped to strategically reveal the shared challenges Indigenous peoples encounter in racial-colonial education systems. Fittingly, parallels are drawn between the punitive loop the mythical figure Sisyphus was doomed to. For Indigenous peoples bound up in dominant educational …
To be seen and heard
Around the world, youth expressing their voices and interests are often unfairly dismissed, portrayed by settler-colonial systems as divergent from White-patriarchal standards. With space and opportunity, however, young people have proven effective in utilising their polyvocality —the multiplicity of their voices and interests—to agitate dominant systems and advocate for change. Amplification of student polyvocality by teachers in classrooms has …
Enhancing intercultural education
Navigating Eurocentric teacher education settings presents significant challenges for both educators and learners, particularly when engaging with issues of race, privilege, and Indigenous perspectives. This paper draws on interviews with 16 Indigenous experts from Australia, Canada, the US, and New Zealand, woven together with reflective practice from compulsory Indigenous studies courses in Queensland, Australia. Our analysis reveals three key …
Creating confirming classrooms
Pedagogy (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Indigenous and Place-Based Education (5 works) · Indigenous Education (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works)