Indigenous Education

Discover ACER’s work on integrating First Nations’ cultures, histories and knowledges into the learning process, and promoting reconciliation.

4 Apr 2019

early childhood

Little J & Big Cuz – supporting successful transitions to school

Celebrating the research of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Research Conference 2018 closes in Sydney

From inspiration to award win: Little J & Big Cuz’s journey to the Logies

Children embrace Little J and Big Cuz

Looking for the X factors in Indigenous early education

Early education for Indigenous students should begin from a place of strength, by focusing on students’ potential, interests, abilities, knowledge and capacities, rather than their limits.

Consumer and financial literacy for Indigenous learners

Indigenous students’ beliefs about science

Boarding schools and Indigenous learners in the Northern Territory

21 Mar 2017

Building empowering partnerships between schools and communities

Gina Milgate explores the importance of relationships and leadership in developing empowering partnerships between schools and communities that help build capacity and cultural capital.

10 Mar 2017

Little J and Big Cuz coming soon to classrooms

When Little J and Big Cuz arrive on our screens in late April they will bring with them a raft of resources to help incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the classroom.

21 Feb 2017

Measuring Indigenous childhood development in remote Australia

Through its involvement in the Science of Learning Research Centre, ACER is supporting research to investigate the accuracy of a tool that measures the developmental status of young children in remote Indigenous Australian contexts.

19 Jan 2017

A positive start: Using television to support Indigenous learning

Research shows that educational television programs can support a successful transition from home to school for young Indigenous children and their families, and improve long-term outcomes for Indigenous students.

15 Dec 2016

Revisiting the research: Indigenous student absenteeism

Reasons for student absenteeism are complex and contextual but are generally a combination of individual, family, community and school factors, according to a 2010 report.

29 Nov 2016

What can TIMSS tell us about the average Australian classroom?

Sue Thomson explores what the results from an international assessment of mathematics and science reveal about the students in a typical Australian classroom.

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