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Books
2010, Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney
,2007, Facilitating strong school and community partnerships in Aboriginal education, NSW Board of Studies
,2006, Talking each other’s lingo: The Aboriginal Languages K - 10 Syllabus and its role in language revival in NSW, NSW Board of Studies
,2002, The need for community consultation to assist in the development of Aboriginal languages in schools
,1999, Issues impacting on the improvement of educational opportunities for Aboriginal boys in school, University of Sydney
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Indigenist policy analysis: The Uluru Statement from the Heart as a road map towards recognising Indigenous sovereignty in Indigenous education', in Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method, Routledge, London, pp. 59 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-7
,2023, 'Developing a Systematic Methodology to Explore Research in Indigenous Education', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 19 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_2
,2023, 'Improving School Engagement with Indigenous Communities', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 83 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_5
,2023, 'Interrogating Indigenous Student Literacy Programs', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 181 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_10
,2023, 'Knowing in Being: An Understanding of Indigenous Knowledge in Its Relationship to Reality Through Enacted Curriculum', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 125 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_7
,2023, 'Making a Difference in Educational Outcomes for Remote First Nations Students', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 229 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_12
,2023, 'Professional Learning and Teacher Identity in Indigenous Education', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 103 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_6
,2023, 'The Aboriginal Voices Project: What Matters, and Who Counts, in Indigenous Education', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_1
,2023, 'The Benefit of Indigenous Cultural Programs in Schools', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 41 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_3
,2023, 'The Foundations Required for First Nations Education in Australia', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 265 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_14
,2023, 'What Does Quality Teaching Look Like for Indigenous Australian Students and How Do We Know?', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 161 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_9
,2023, 'What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Analysing Indigenous Education Policy as Discourse', in Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research, Springer International Publishing, pp. 245 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_13
,2022, 'Indigenous (Aboriginal, First Nations) students overcoming academic adversity', in Overcoming Adversity in Education, Routledge, pp. 211 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003180029-19
,2021, 'Refusing Reconciliation in Indigenous Curriculum', in Green B; Roberts P; Brennan M (ed.), Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry, Palgrave, Chem, Switzland, pp. 71 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61667-0_5
,2019, 'Aboriginal voices: Social justice and transforming aboriginal education', in Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice, pp. 97 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26484-0_7
,2019, 'Aboriginal Voices: Social Justice and Transforming Aboriginal Education', in Freebody K; Goodwin S; Proctor H (ed.), Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 97 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26484-0
,2019, 'Authentic engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content in the P-6 Australian Curriculum', in Green D; Price D (ed.), Making humanities and social sciences come alive, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 307 - 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108692779.022
,2019, 'Leaning with connection: shifting teachers’ practice through authentic engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities', in Netolicky D; Andrews J; Paterson C (ed.), Flip the system Australia : what matters in education, Routledge, pp. 124 - 132
,2018, 'Learning with connection: Shifting teachers' practice through authentic engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities', in Flip the System Australia: What Matters in Education, pp. 124 - 132
,2016, 'Key factors in the renewal of Aboriginal languages in NSW', in Austin PK; Koch H; Simpson J (ed.), Language, land and song, EL Publishing, London, pp. 523 - 538
,2014, 'Interview: Kevin Lowe', in Couzens V; Eira C; Stebbins T (ed.), Tyama-teeyt yookapa, Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, Fitzroy, VIC, pp. 135 - 150
,2011, 'A Critique of school and Aboriginal community partnerships', in Purdie N; Milgate G; Bell HR (ed.), Two way teaching and learning, ACER Press, Camberwell, VIC, pp. 13 - 32
,2011, 'Enhancing quality and equity in mathematics education for Australian Indigenous students', in Atweh B; Graven M; Secada W; Valero P (ed.), Mapping Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 365 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9803-0_26
,2010, 'Re-awakening Australian languages Introduction', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), RE-AWAKENING LANGUAGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE REVITALISATION OF AUSTRALIA'S INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, SYDNEY UNIV PRESS, pp. XXV - XXX, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000308671300002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'Emergency language documentation teams: the Cape York Peninsula experience', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), Re-Awakening Languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 418 - 432
,2010, 'Introduction: re-awakening Australian languages', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), Re-awakening languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. xxv - xxx
,2010, 'So you want to work with community? Principles and strategies for school leaders affecting the establishment of Aboriginal language programs', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), Re-awakening languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 194 - 209
,2010, 'Sounds, spelling and learning to read an Aboriginal language', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), Re-awakening languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 281 - 292
,2008, 'Walking the talk', in Leading from the edge, South Australian Centre for Leaders in Education, pp. 35 - 46
,Edited Books
Lowe K, (ed.), 2023, Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research: Implications for Policy and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzland, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9
Journal articles
2025, 'Transforming practices in aboriginal education through teachers’ professional learning conversations', Teaching and Teacher Education, 155, pp. 104900 - 104900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104900
,2024, 'Educators engaged in curriculum work: Encounters with relationally responsive curriculum practices', Curriculum Journal, 35, pp. 91 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/curj.231
,2024, 'Conceptualising culturally nourishing pedagogies for professional learning in Australian schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00733-0
,2024, 'Pathways to progress?–collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education', Critical Studies in Education, 65, pp. 312 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2275771
,2024, 'Teachers’ motivation to teach Aboriginal perspectives in the curriculum: links with their Aboriginal students’ academic motivation', Australian Educational Researcher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00779-0
,2024, 'The need for First Nations pedagogical narratives: epistemic inertia and complicity in (re)creating settler-colonial education', Journal of Curriculum Studies, 56, pp. 58 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2294723
,2024, 'Transforming schooling practices for First Nations learners: culturally nourishing schooling in conversation with the theory of practice architectures', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37, pp. 2236 - 2250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2318265
,2023, '“You get to ‘feel’ your culture”: Aboriginal students speaking back to deficit discourses in Australian schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 33 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00598-1
,2023, 'Doing decolonisation: cultural reconnection as political resistance in schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 147 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00603-7
,2023, 'Identity matters: Aboriginal educational sovereignty and futurity pushing back on the logic of elimination', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00608-w
,2023, 'Inclusive, colour-blind, and deficit: Understanding teachers' contradictory views of Aboriginal students’ participation in education', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 89 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00517-4
,2023, 'Sovereign and pseudo-hosts: The politics of hospitality for negotiating culturally nourishing schools', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 131 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00599-0
,2023, 'Australian aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ motivation to continue in senior science: An expectancy value theory and intersectional identity approach', Contemporary Educational Psychology, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102125
,2023, 'Primary to high school transition planning for students with disability: A systematic review', International Journal of Educational Research, 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102188
,2022, 'Rhetoric vs Reality: The Disconnect between Policy and Practice for Teachers Implementing Aboriginal Education in their Schools', Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/EPAA.30.6175
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