Select Publications
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', in Flip the System Australia, Routledge, pp. 124 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429429620-18
, 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, 'Can Personal Learning Pathways (PLPs) truly improve Indigenous education outcomes?', ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2025.2562575
, 2025, 'A framework for teachers’ culturally responsive teaching beliefs: Links to motivation to teach Aboriginal curriculum and relationships with Aboriginal students', Teaching and Teacher Education, 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2025.105020
, 2025, 'Curriculum as policy deception: a critical analysis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge inclusion in the Australian Curriculum', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 2561 - 2582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00824-6
, 2025, 'Teachers’ motivation to teach Aboriginal perspectives in the curriculum: links with their Aboriginal students’ academic motivation', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 1637 - 1662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00779-0
, 2025, 'Conceptualising culturally nourishing pedagogies for professional learning in Australian schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 627 - 646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00733-0
, 2025, 'Transforming practices in aboriginal education through teachers’ professional learning conversations', Teaching and Teacher Education, 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104900
, 2025, 'Conceptualising culturally nourishing school leadership', Journal of Educational Administration and History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2025.2542829
, 2025, 'Exclusion of curriculum justice from the 2021 review of the Australian curriculum: powerful knowledge remains unquestioned', Journal of Curriculum Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2025.2544584
, 2025, 'First Nations students’ perceptions of the enablers of and barriers to success in Australian higher education: a systematic review', Australian Educational Researcher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00905-6
, 2025, 'Reconsidering engagement: aligning teacher qualities with Indigenous students’ aspirations and needs', Educational Research, 67, pp. 20 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2024.2438644
, 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, '“Sometimes perception will suffice”: Indigenous Knowledges and the Australian Curriculum', Curriculum Inquiry, 54, pp. 377 - 399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2025.2471494
, 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, '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