All's Well at Milingimbi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2116998 |
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| Authors | Doug McClay (corresponding author), Harri (0000-0001-9373-289X), Sue Harris |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Publication date | 1980-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1326-0111 • E-ISSN: 2049-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s031058220001124x |
| OpenAlex | W2484475560 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
One day a teacher came to me declaring he was totally unable to teach oral English to his Grade 1 class. A young teacher in trouble. Of course I must give a demonstration lesson. I sat the children on chairs in a circle and started out with the patter, 'I'm David, you're Fred', 'I'm David, you're Jane', 'I'm David, you're Bill'. As we proceeded I noticed one lad, even by this early stage, was attempting hand-stands on his chair. 'Come on. Stop that nonsense and sit down', I growled, after my quieter pleadings had been ignored. The little five-year-old, knowing virtually no English, stopped, looked me straight in the eye, then grinning, gave himself three light pats on the bottom and sat down. I got out of that lesson as fast as I could, hoping the teacher was satisfied with the demonstration. He wasn't
Art · Epistemology · Mathematics education · Media studies · Nonsense · Sociology · Visual arts · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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