Deborah Netolicky talks with Associate Professor Kevin Lowe about Aboriginal education research and practice in Australia, including the role and power of curriculum, the ‘making of teachers’, the importance of listening to the voices of Indigenous people and engaging community. Kevin is a Gubbi Gubbi man from southeast Queensland. He is a Scientia Associate Professor and Indigenous Fellow at the University of New South Wales, with experience in education as a teacher, administrator and lecturer. He has expertise in working with Aboriginal community organisations on establishing Aboriginal language policy and school curriculum implementation. Recently Kevin has worked with colleagues to review research across key areas of schooling and established the Aboriginal Voices project and is Lead Chief Researcher in the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project.

Want to know more?

- Kevin’s ORCiD profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2982-6565

- Article on the Aboriginal Voices Project: https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?tag=aboriginal-voices-project

- On the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/general/3m-gift-improve-education-outcomes-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-students

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- Kevin: @DrKevinLowe on Twitter.

- Deb: @debsnet on Twitter and @theeeduflaneuse on Instagram.

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