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Title: Both-ways learning : the development of an Indigenous Bachelor of Teaching
Related: Change: transformations in education, Vol. 6, Issue 2, p.67-74
Publisher: University of Sydney
Date: 2003
Author/Creator: Hughes, Ross
Author/Creator: Fleet, Alma
Author/Creator: Nicholls, Jennifer
Description: Preparation of qualified Indigenous early childhood teachers is essential to the success of community based early childhood services. This paper explains the development of a program designed to support such teachers. The Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Services) program is unique in offering a professionally recognised teaching qualification in early childhood to Indigenous Australians. It targets mature-aged people who are working in early childhood settings such as childcare centres and preschools. Many who undertake the degree have extensive professional experience but have not had access to a program which allows them to remain within their community and in employment while studying. The program has been offered at Macquarie University since 1998 and now draws students from four states. A key characteristic of the program is that it embeds 'both-ways' learning, a pedagogy which recognises all participants as both teachers and learners.
Description: 8 page(s)
Subject Keyword: teacher education
Subject Keyword: curriculum
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal education
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/9563
Identifier: ISSN:1441-9319
Identifier: mq-rm-2003017808
Language: eng
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