Contexts and Strategies for Writing with Urban Aboriginal and Islander Students
Keywords:
talk, reading, audienceAbstract
There is no more promising way of increasing the closeness of subcultural groups to their own roots and culture “than by cherishing and nourishing the speech of the home and the neighbourhood and by helping it to find the kind of expression in story, poem, play, which can communicate the spirit of the subculture to a multicultural audience.”
References
Anderson S.H. and Butler S. (1982 ): Language and power in the classroom: an interview with Harold Rosen. English Journal, vol.71, No.3, March, pp. 24–28.
Britton J. (1982 ): Prospect and Retrospect. London : Heinemann Educational Books
Donaldson M. (1978 ): Children‘s Minds. London: Fontana/Croom Helm.
Edelsky C. and Smith K. (1984 ): Is that writing–or are those marks jusafigment of your curriculum?Language Arts, vol.61, No. 1, Jan. pp. 24–32.
Fanon F. (1967 ): The Wretched of the Earth. Harmondsworth : Penguin.
Fesl E. (1984 ): The irrelevance of literacy. Education News. vol.18, No. 10, July pp. 14– 15.
Freire P. (1972 ): Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Harmondsworth : Penguin.
Fiore K. and Elsasser N. (1981 ): Through writing we transform our world: thirdworld women and literacy. Humanities and Society, vol.4, No. 4, pp. 395–418.
Gere A.R. (1981 ): A cultural perspective on talking and writing. In Kroll B.M. and Van R.J. (Eds) Exploring Speaking – Writing Relationships: Connections and Contrasts. Illinois: NOTE. pp. 111 –123.
Graves D. (1983 ): Writing: Teachers and Children at Work. New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books .
Hughes P. (1984 ): Towards a new pedagogy. Education News. vol.18, No. 11, Aug. pp. 46–48.
Kantor K.J. and Rubin D.L. (1981 ): Between speaking and writing: processes of differentiation. In Kroll B.M. and Van R.J. (Eds): Exploring Speaking – Writing Relationships: Connections and Contrasts. Illinois: NOTE. pp. 55 –81.
Kroll B.M. (1981 ): Developmental relationships between speaking and writing. In Kroll B.M. and Van R.J. (Eds): Exploring Speaking – Writing Relationships: Connections and Contrasts. Illinois: NOTE. pp. 32 –54.
McGarvie N. (1984 ): Strategies for Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Schools. Queensland : Department of Education.
Moffett J. (1968 ): Teaching the Universe of Discourse. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company.
National Aboriginal EducationCommittee ( 1968): Rationale, aims and objectives in Aboriginal Education. In Sherwood J. (Ed.): Aboriginal Education: Issues and Innovations. Perth : Creative Research, pp. 61– 66
Protherough R. (1983 ): Encouraging Writing.London, Methuen .
Shnukal A. (1982 ): Why Torres Strait ‘broken English’ is not English. Paper presented at the Second Annual Workshop of the Aboriginal Languages Association, Batchelor, N.T., April 1982.
Smith F. (1982 ): Writing and the Writer. London : Heinemann Educational Books.
Stubbs M. (1982 ): Language and Literacy. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Tough J. (1977 ): Talking and Learning. London: Ward Lock Educational.
Watson M. (1982 ): Black Reflections. Wattle Park : Education Information Retrieval Service.
Wells G. (1981 ): Learning through Interaction: The Study of Language Development . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Westall R. (1979 ): The author in the classroom. The Use of English. Autumn, 1979. pp. 5–14.
