Celebrating First Nations Languages and Language Learning in Australian Schools

Carly Steele is a non-Indigenous applied linguist and qualified teacher with experience in diverse educational contexts. She holds the position of Senior Lecturer and Master of Education course coordinator in the School of Education at Curtin University, Perth. Her research focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies. Robyn Ober is a Mamu/Djirribal woman from North Queensland. She is the Indigenous research practice leader at Batchelor Institute. Her research focus and expertise is on both-ways pedagogy, working to combine Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing, being and learning in teaching practice and research. Rhonda Oliver has researched extensively in the areas of second language and dialect acquisition, and task-based language learning. Her recent work includes studies within Australian Aboriginal education settings. She co-edited the award-winning textbook Indigenous Education in Australia Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures.