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Ms Frances Wyld

Position: Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies - Education Ms Frances Wyld
Division/Portfolio: Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
School/Unit: The Unaipon School
Campus: City West Campus
Office: Y2-27
Telephone: +61 8 830 20914
Fax: +61 8 830 27034
Email: Frances_dot_Wyld_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Frances.Wyld


Hi, welcome to my home page. My name is Frances and I am a lecturer for the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research and I am descended from the Martu People in Western Australia. I have worked with DUCIER for 3 years and have a background in the Social Sciences. My doctorate with the School of Communications is the story of Aboriginal women in academia.


I teach the following courses

ABT 15Aborigines, History and Colonialism
HUMS 2010Aborigines, History and Colonialism
HUMS 1050Society, State and the Individual


Professional associations

NTEU Indigenous Tertiary Education Policy Committee

Indigenous Women and Educational Leadership

NTEU Indigenous Education Policy Committee


Qualifications

Master of Education Studies

Graduate Certificate in Education

Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Management


Research interests

  • Indigenous Education
  • Access and Equity for Indigenous People
  • Indigenous Epistemologies
  • Learning Pathways

Research publications

Lushington, Kurt, Cook, Jackie, Steen, Tangi, Wyld, Frances, and Snowden, Collette (2009) 'Designing PODcasts to Provide Spoken-Word Health Information for the Oral Culture of Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities' in The International Journal of the Book, CG Publisher http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.279

Wyld, F (2009) 'Introduction, Kiss the Dirt:Knowing Place' in Baylis, T-A 'Kiss the Dirt'.

Wyld, F et al (2008) 'After the Apology' in NTEU Frontline Vol 16 http://www.nteu.org.au/publications/frontline/vol16

Wyld, F (2007) 'Using an Indigenous worldview for action learning and action research to create equity in education' in Action Learning Action Research Journal 12 (2)

Conference Presentation: 'Pedagogies of Resilience' at the Worlds Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education, Melbourne 2008

Conference Presentation: 'Networking Towards Critical Mass on the Far West Coast of South Australia' at the Desert Knowledge Symposium, Alice Springs 2008

Conference Presentation: 'Creating agents for social justice by embedding Aboriginal perspectives in the curriculum.' at the Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Knowledge Conference, Sydney 2007




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