Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Workshop

Welcome everyone! We are very excited to provide a workshop on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy that derived from evidence-based findings from several Australian Research Council projects. We look forward to working with you as valuable colleagues in this action research process.

• 10.00 Introduction to Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Professor Rigney AM, Emeritus Professor Hattam)

• 10.20 What is your pedagogical challenge? [individual 5 mins/ small group 15mins. Large group 5 mins]

• 10.45 What is a hopeful idea from CRP that responds to the challenge? [individual 5 mins ..small group formed around hopeful ideas chosen, 15 min discussion, large group share 10min]

• 11.15 What could you do differently? [individual 5 mins/ small group 15mins .. large group 5 mins]

• 11.40 General discussion, how might you incorporate CRP into your own teaching program?

Eminent Professor Rigney is a descendant of the Narungga, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri peoples of South Australia. Dr Lester-Irabinna Rigney is esteemed Professor of Education and Co-Chair of the Pedagogies for Justice Research group in the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, based in the Education Futures, Academic Unit at the University of South Australia. He is Distinguished Fellow at Deakin University and previous Distinguished Fellow at Kings College, London. In 2021 Professor Rigney was appointed member in the General Division (AM) for significant service to Indigenous Education and to social inclusion research. He is a member of the Centro Loris Malaguzzi Scientific Committee, for the Foundation Reggio Emilia Children, Italy. Current boards include Telstra Foundation; and the Federal Ministerial Reference Group - Universities Accord by Ministerial appointment The Honorable Jason Clare MP to review the higher Education sector. One of Australia’s most respected Aboriginal educationalists he is a leading authority on culturally responsive pedagogies. He is well published and has led several research teams funded by the Australian Research Council and other competitive grants including: culturally responsive schooling; Indigenist Research Epistemologies; Addressing the Gap between Policy and Implementation: Strategies for Improving Educational Outcomes of Indigenous Students; and Towards an Australian culturally responsive pedagogy. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4756-2399 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-2399

Robert Hattam is an Emeritus Professor for Educational Justice in Education Futures and the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion at the University of South Australia. His research has focused on teachers’ work, critical and reconciliation pedagogies, refugees, and socially just school reform. He has been involved in Australian Research Council funded projects on teachers’ learning in the devolving school; early school leaving; and middle schooling; Re-thinking Reconciliation and Pedagogy in Unsettling Times; ‘Redesigning pedagogies in the North; ‘Schooling, Globalisation and Refugees in Queensland; Negotiating A Space Within The Nation: The Case of Ngarrindjeri; Educational Leadership and turnaround literacy pedagogies; Towards an Australian culturally responsive pedagogy, and the culturally responsive school.

To get an introduction to culturally responsive pedagogies, we recommend reading one or more of the following papers, prior to our first workshop. Gay’s article is probably a good one to start with. (Please access them via this page from the TAG site)

Gay, G. (2002). Preparing for culturally responsive teaching. Journal of Teacher Education, 53(2), 106-116.

Santoro, N (2009) Teaching in culturally diverse contexts: what knowledge about ‘self’ and ‘others’ do teachers need? Journal of Education for Teaching, 35(1), 33-45.

Morrison, A. , Rigney, L.-I., Hattam, R., & Diplock, A. (2019). Toward an Australian culturally responsive pedagogy: A narrative review of the literature: University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia. (We suggest pp 13-34)

Host or Publisher University of South Australia