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Lynette Riley
Lynette Riley is a Wiradjuri & Kamilaroi woman from Dubbo and Moree. She is currently employed as Senior Lecturer and Academic Co-ordinator in the Koori Centre, University of Sydney.
Lynette has over 30 years working experience in Aboriginal education and administration within primary school, high school, TAFE, state office and within Universities. As an Aboriginal person Lynette has been required not to just theorise about what was occurring to Aboriginal children, and communities or the interwoven interactions with non-Aboriginal people, communities and organisations, but rather to be actively involved in developing and researching new solutions in order to effect lasting change for Aboriginal communities.
Qualifications
Dip Teach (Infants/Primary), Grad Dip (Aboriginal Education)
Grants
ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme 2007-2010
Thesis Title
Conditions for Success to Enhance Aboriginal Education
Supervisors
Professor Rhonda Craven & Associate Professor Geoff Munns
Abstract
Aboriginal students remain the most educationally disadvantaged Australians. Interventions have often failed to penetrate the classroom door and as such educators are as yet unable to help Aboriginal primary students achieve commensurate educational outcomes as their non-Indigenous peers. This research seeks to elucidate the conditions for success for primary Aboriginal students to achieve effective academic achievement, school engagement, wellbeing, and participation outcomes at the individual, classroom, school, home, and community levels. This will result in building the capacity of Aboriginal Education, schooling, and Aboriginal communities and contribute to Aboriginal students fulfilling their full potential.
Publications
Riley, L. (2009) AARE Conference, December 2009, Canberra, “The Impact of the Education Revolution on Aboriginal Education - Mapping of the Literature & Research against Government Policy directions.”
Riley-Mundine, L. (2007) Untapping Resources for Indigenous Students. In Knipe, S. Middle Years Schooling. Frenchs Forest: Pearson Educational Australia.
