Listening from the Heart: Rewriting the Teaching of English with First Nations Voices

This book aims to explain some key concepts in cultural competence while also providing text recommendations and resources to use in the English classroom. The book therefore operates on two levels:

1. personal development and cultural competence training for teachers;
2. and practical lesson and unit ideas using First Nations texts, topics and ways of learning.

The book also answers some Frequently Asked Questions troubling educators across Australia, without judgement or offence.

Chapters include 

• terminology
• key protocols
• background information
• First Nations worldviews
• culturaly responsive classrooms
• cross-disciplinary approaches
• genre studies with First Nations literature

About the Author

Cara Shipp is a Wiradjuri/Welsh woman (descending from the Lamb and Shipp families in Central Western NSW) and is currently Head of Senior School, Years 10-12, at Silkwood School on the Gold Coast, QLD. She has previously run alternative educational programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students; held Head Teacher English/HASS/Languages positions; and served as President, Vice President and Editor with the ACT Association for the Teaching of English (ACTATE) and AATE National Council. Cara has completed a Master of Education focusing on Aboriginal literacy and regularly presents at local and National conferences on incorporating First Nations perspectives into the English curriculum.