Now in its fourth edition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education is an indispensable resource for pre-service and practising teachers. The practical, engaging guide introduces learners to key considerations for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and communities in educational settings. Every chapter has been comprehensively revised, integrating updated references to the current Australian Curriculum for primary and secondary school educators. The book is shaped by the distinct voices of the authors, with their stories providing a meaningful personal opening to each chapter. New chapters significantly broaden the scope of content, exploring topics such as deaf and disability inclusion, poetic inquiry, boarding school education, performing arts and new digital technologies. Written by highly respected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators and academics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education continues to be essential reading for pre-service teachers and practising teachers at any career stage.
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This book continues to be essential reading for pre-service teachers and practising teachers at any career stage.
Foreword Professor Leanne Holt; Preface;
1. A brief history of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia Kaye Price;
2.
The Stolen Generations: what does this mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children and young people today? John Williams-Mozley;
3. Your
professional experience and becoming professional about working with
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and communities Christine
Evans;
4. A road less travelled Mark Rose;
5. Deaf and disability inclusion
in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education Scott Avery;
6. Poetic
Lines: a yindyamarra-informed Indigenous poetic inquiry methodology Jessa
Rogers;
7. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding education: why it
matters Jessa Rogers;
8. Maths as storytelling: maths is beautiful
Christopher Matthews;
9. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories
and Cultures Cross-Curriculum Priority: cultural responsiveness in science
education Joe Sambono;
10. Digital-cultural pedagogy: fusing cultural
immersion and practice with digital design and production Rhett Loban;
11.
Language and literacy Jaky Troy in association with Kaye Price and Lindsay
McCabe;
12. A little corroboree of their own Blayne Welsh;
13. Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies in the classroom Kaye Price; Appendix A.
Perspectives; Appendix B. AC table with relevant content descriptions and
elaborations; Appendix C. Take a book any book.
Kaye Price AM is an Aboriginal woman from Tasmania who has co-authored material for use in teaching Aboriginal Studies and Torres Strait Islander Studies across the education spectrum. She has extensive experience in the areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia, having lectured at the University of Canberra, Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Southern Queensland, and in culturally responsive curriculum with 40 Indigenous groups in the Philippines. She is Elder in Residence with the Young Indigenous Women's STEM Academy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, was Australia's NAIDOC Scholar of the Year in 2004, 2006 ACT NAIDOC Scholar of the Year and ACT Senior Australian of the Year in 2007. Kaye was also named an Education Warrior in 2008. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for significant service to education, particularly through Indigenous teaching initiatives. Jessa Rogers GAICD MAIATSIS is a Wiradjuri researcher, educator and board director with over fifteen years' teaching experience in schools and tertiary education. She is an associate professor of Indigenous education at the University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow (DE230100140). Her research focuses on Indigenous research methods and methodologies, and Indigenous peoples' experiences of education. Her cultural connections are to the Wiradjuri nation and, through marriage, her whanau connections are to Ngti Kauwhata, Ngti Raukawa and Waikato-Tainui in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lindsay McCabe is a palawa woman who grew up on Dharug Country in Western Sydney. In 2019, she was awarded the Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Prize for Academic Excellence and she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2025. Lindsay is an associate lecturer in criminology in Western Sydney University's School of Social Sciences. Her research background is in critical analysis of the experiences of Aboriginal families in New South Wales who have become engaged with the coronial system through the death of a loved one. She is a staunch advocate for Aboriginal families who are faced with the bureaucracy of the coronial system.
