期刊名称：Australian and International Journal of Rural Education
印刷版ISSN：1839-7387
出版年度：2019
期号：January
出版社：Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia Inc. (SPERA)
摘要：Introduction Aboriginal people in Australia have one of the world's longest and most continuous civilizations. Although there is considerable diversity, many share strong cultural ties embedded in and passed on through oral traditions. In addition, a high proportion of individuals are multilingual and speak a range of languages, creoles and/or dialects (Eades, 2013). Despite all this, as a cultural group they are also one of the most disadvantaged people in the world (Warburton & Chambers, 2007). In general they have a low socio-economic status, with their unemployment rate three times that of non-Aboriginal people (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). Also when compared to non-Aboriginal people on average they die younger and suffer higher levels of ill health (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). From an educational perspective, Aboriginal school students, especially those living in rural and remote areas, achieve below the national standard in oral language, literacy and numeracy (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2012). A variety of reasons have been proffered for this situation including a lack of culturally appropriate curricula, and teaching practices and assessment protocols that do not take account of Aboriginal ways of learning nor their linguistic diversity (Guenther, Disbray, & Osborne, 2015; Hall, 2018; Hardy, 2013; Maxwell, Lowe & Slater, 2018; Pirbhai-lllich, 2010; Shay & Wickes, 2017; Wigglesworth, Simpson, & Loakes, 2011). For instance, Oliver, Rochecouste, Vanderford and Grote (2011) reported on teachers' lack of awareness about the language background of Aboriginal students, especially those educators who have not received appropriate professional development, and the consequence this has for their students in terms of how they are taught and then assessed. Malcolm (2001) describes how deficit linguistic views are pervasive not only in schools, but in society more generally and he goes on to describe how this has an ongoing negative impact on Aboriginal students.
