Search Results - Australian Aboriginal identity

Development and validation of the Australian Aboriginal racial identity and self-esteem survey for 8-12 year old children (IRISE-C) by Kickett-Tucker, Cheryl, Christensen, D., Lawrence, D., Zubrick, S., Johnson, D., Stanley, F.

“…Furthermore, there are no instruments developed with cultural appropriateness when exploring the identity and self-esteem of the Australian Aboriginal population, especially children. …”
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The Social, Cultural and Historical Context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians by Dudgeon, P., Wright, M., Paradies, Y., Garvey, Darren, Walker, I.

“…To understand the contemporary life of Indigenous Australians, a historical and cultural background is essential. …”
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Meaning, identity and wellness : the experience of living and working in Australian nursing homes. by Kingsley, Anthea E.

“…In addition multiple other sources of data were accessed: residents and staff from three suburban Australian nursing homes; personal and professional memoirs of life and work in Australian nursing homes; novels depicting characters faced with nursing home life; and research report on the needs of elderly Aboriginal people also faced with nursing home admission.Data were collected using a diverse range of techniques: self dialogue, participant-observation, informal, semi-structured, and group interviews, analysis of staff journal entries, and analysis of the textual material - memoirs, novels, and the research report.The findings indicate that nursing home residents experience a sense of meaning when they are able to maintain a sense of connection with an enduring sense of self. …”
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Do Traditional Culture and Identity Promote the Wellbeing of Indigenous Australians? Evidence from the 2008 NATSISS by Dockery, Alfred Michael

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CulturePad: Connecting Aboriginal children and school to Aboriginal language and culture through the use of technology by Pagram, J., Campbell,, A., Cooper, Martin

“…Yet most traditional Australian languages are in serious decline, while English language literacy levels among Aboriginal children remain well below those for other Australians. …”
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“It would give you a space to be yourself”: The role for interior design in increasing Aboriginal student sense of belonging in Western Australian boarding schools by Whettingsteel, Emma

“…This thesis explored the role of interior design in Aboriginal students' sense of belonging in Western Australian boarding schools. …”
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Aboriginal social, cultural and historical contexts by Dudgeon, W., Wright, M., Paradies, Y., Garvey, Darren, Walker, I.

“…To understand the contemporary life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, a historical and cultural background is essential. …”
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Connecting the Dots: Case Studies into the ‘Invisible Presence’ of Aboriginal People Living in Victoria by Coyle, Jessi

“…As key markers of Australian national identity, the case studies demonstrate the importance of white belonging to identity construction and argue that Aboriginal Victorians are necessarily invisibly present within the settler colonial present (Veracini, 2015).…”
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Policy Mobilities of Exclusion: Implications of Australian Disability Pension Retraction for Indigenous Australians by Soldatic, Karen

“…This article undertakes a critical analysis of disability income retraction in Australia since the early 2000s and examines these changes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with disability by focusing on Article 20 of the CRPD, the right to personal mobility, a core right for people with disabilities and Indigenous peoples. …”
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Facilitating Cultural Transformation: Redefining Indigenous identity through Architecture by Lommerse, Marina

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Cardioactive compounds from the Australian plant genus, Eremophila (Myoporaceae). by Pennacchio, Marcello

“…For over 40 000 years, the Australian Aboriginal people relied on native plants as a source of medicinal agents. …”
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“so much about myself I didn’t understand”: rememory and the problematics of a lost identity in Sally Morgan’s My Place by Raihanah M.M., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus

“…This paper presents the problems of a lost identity in My Place, an Australian aboriginal autobiography by Sally Morgan. …”
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Borderline anxieties: what whitening the Irish has to do with keeping out asylum seekers by Stratton, Jon

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The Green Frog and Desalination: A Nyungar Metaphor for the (Mis-) Management of Water Resources, Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia by McDonald, E., Coldrick, B., Christensen, William

“…This article outlines the key findings of a study commissioned by the Western Australian Department of Environment (as of July 1, 2006 the Department of Environment and Conservation) to investigate Aboriginal cultural values associated with groundwater-related environmental features and processes on an aquifer known as the 'Gnangara Mound' in Perth's northern metropolitan region. (1) The traditional owners of this region are part of the wider Nyungar (also spelt Nyoongar) population of south-western Australia (see Baines 1988; Birdsall 1988; Sansom 1983 and Toussaint 1992 for discussion of Nyungar history, identity and culture). …”
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‘Stop Measuring Black Kids with a White Stick’: Translanguaging for Classroom Assessment by Steele, Carly, Dovchin, Sender, Oliver, Rhonda

“…We begin by examining the concept of translanguaging and show how Australian Aboriginal students can move fluidly between their various linguistic resources, dialects and repertoires to make meaning, express their thoughts, understandings and feelings, create their identities, and do so in often playful and creative ways. …”
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Multicultural Australia – a critical examination of Australia’s COVID-19 communication strategy by Wolf, Katharina

“…Australia is the home of the world’s oldest continuous culture; Aboriginal Australians are recognised as the world’s oldest civilization. …”
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Indigenous ambivalent figure in Jack Davis’s Play, The Dreamers by Hadaegh, Bahee, Heidari, Himan

“…History of Australian Aboriginal’s colonisation, exploitation and assimilation has had ill effects on the performance of Indigenous gender relations, challenged the heteronormative conception of gender and directed Aboriginal people into shaping marginalised type of masculinities and femininities. …”
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Small screen technology use among Indigenous Boarding School adolescents in remote regions of Western Australia by Johnson, Genevieve, Oliver, Rhonda

“…Whether the same is true for Australian Aboriginal youth is less clear as there is a dearth of research in this regard. …”
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Exploration through “Dyche”: an indigenous study of Yoikana and That Deadman Dance by Joison, S. Frank, Rathna, P.

“…Raj’s novel, Yoikana and Australian Aboriginal writer Kim Scott’s novel, That Deadman Dance. …”
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