Publications

Indigenous science education

• Border crossings: Understanding differing worldviews of science through the Northern Territory science curriculum (GASAT/IOSTE, Perth, 1997)
• Beyond bush tucker: Implementing Indigenous perspectives through the science curriculum (with Jane Anlezark and Didamain Uibo, CONASTA47, Darwin, 1998)
• Interfacing Western science and Indigenous knowledge: A Northern Territory perspective (with Mark Linkson, ASERA30, Rotorua, NZ, 1999)
• Where are Indigenous peoples and their knowledge in the reforming of learning, curriculum and pedagogy? (UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand, 1999)
• Providing teacher support materials for curriculum developments incorporating intercultural understandings in teaching science (with Mark Linkson, ASERA31, Fremantle, 2000)
• Revitalising Indigenous science education: A synthesis of the Northern Territory experience (NTIER, Darwin, 2000)
• 'Compliance' in health: Learning lessons from indigenous science education (with Fred McConnel, AMA Conference, Darwin, 2000)
• Why I think indigenous science should be included in the school science curriculum (ASERA32, Sydney, 2001)
• The role of culture brokers in intercultural science education: A research proposal (ASERA34, Melbourne, 2003)
• An affirmation of the place of indigenous knowledge in developing globalised science curriculum (Indigenous Science Network, 2004)
• Teaching science to Indigenous student: Teacher as culture broker or is it something else? (NARST, Vancouver, 2004)
• "Teachers as culture brokers": Work in progress (ASERA35, Armidale, 2004 - this is a Powerpoint presentation, not a paper)
• Lost in a sea of literacy: Numeracy and Indigenous adults (12th Annual Conference of Adults Learning Mathematics, Melbourne, 2005)
• Engaging with Australian Indigenous science (CONASTA 54, Melbourne, 2005 - website)
• Writing about Australian Indigenous Science for a junior secondary textbook: Some considerations (ASERA36, Hamilton, NZ, 2005)
• Language-Culture Incommensurability in Science in Non-Asian Indigenous Peoples (Workshop on Southeast Asian and Japanese cultural influences on the understanding of scientific concepts, Penang, Malaysia, 2005)
• Editorial: Indigenous ways of knowing and the Australian Curriculum: Science (Indigenous Science Network Bulletin, 13(2), 1-2, April 2010)
• Working cross-culturally in indigenous science education (Doctoral dissertation, University of Waikato)
• Identity learning, culture shock and border crossing into effective teaching in indigenous science education (ASERA42, Adelaide, 2011, pdf format)
• Engaging with indigenous knowledges in science classrooms (with Lorraine Williams, CONASTA60, Darwin, 2011 - notes and PowerPoint  presentation )
• Both-way science education teaching at an indigenous tertiary institution (ASERA43, Sunshine Coast, 2012, pdf format)

Field trips

• Factors influencing secondary science teachers to organise and conduct field trips
• Evaluating teachers' perceptions of programs at a field study centre