Cultural Perspectives on Indigenous Students’ Reading Performance

22.03.2023

Englisch

9789811997891

Springer Singapore

Nein

Gui Ying Annie Yang-Heim

205

Gebundene Ausgabe

A Participatory and Exploratory Case Study at a Regional School in Australia

Dr Gui Ying Annie Yang-Heim is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Ball State University in the United States of America (USA). Currently, she teaches Literacy Instructions, and Social Justice for Early Childhood and Elementary Education, at the university. She attained her PhD degree, specializing in Curriculum and Professional Studies, from University of South Australia, Australia, in 2021. As a school teacher for over a decade, Dr Yang-Heim has taught various subjects, primarily Literacy and Numeracy, from Kindergarten to High School in China, Australia, and the USA. She has presented research papers at international conferences, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference, and also has research articles published in journals. Dr Yang-Heim has acted as a regular proposal reviewer for journals and conferences. She also serves as an Area Chair for International Research on Literacy Learning and Teaching (Area 12) of the LRA - Literacy Research Association. Her research interests focuses on developing the Pluralistic Model, and using this model to explore the learning needs of Early Childhood/Elementary students from diverse cultural, linguistic, racial, and socio-economic backgrounds; and identifying ways to work with pre-service and in-service teachers to cater for the needs of these underrepresented young children in the dominant school settings, with an intent to creating an inclusive and equitable learning environment in which all students can thrive.

cultural capital, critical meta-analysis, indigenous education, reading in English as a second language, reading in English as a additional language, early years of schooling, qualitative procedure, participatory and exploratory case studies, teacher research, hermeneutic interpretation, decolonialised educational system, cultural capital and Indigenous students’ schooling, Indigenous students, Indigenous students' reading performance

CFC - Alphabetisierung JN - Pädagogik JNG - Frühkindliche Pflege & Bildung JHB - Soziologie

235 mm

15.5 cm