Seeding success for Aboriginal students

![CDATA[Despite a willingness by stakeholders to address Aboriginal education disadvantage and recent successes in outcomes, Australian education largely continues to fail to provide Aboriginal Australians with commensurate educational outcomes and life opportunities as their non-Aboriginal peers. Well-intentioned and widely presumed assumptions about what works to seed success for Aboriginal students seem to prevail and are often unquestionably accepted and implemented as making a real difference in the absence of tangible proof and systemic results. Whilst a diversity of interventions have been implemented they are small-scale in nature, have not been rigorously tested, often rely on a deficit model as opposed to what works for successful students, and have not resulted in fuelling systemic change. In part this failure can be attributed to a dearth of quality Indigenous Education research. Theory, research, and practice are all inextricably intertwined; neglect in any one area will undermine the others. In this presentation some new potential powerful turning points for Aboriginal Education based on research evidence are discussed and a representation of a model for seeding success for Aboriginal students synthesising this research proposed.]]