Robyn Parkes-Sandri
GradDipEd(Prim&Preschool) BCAE, BEd Griff., MEd Washington, MFineArts(Writing) Vermont Coll
Position: Lecturer in Early Years Education
Office: C2.18
Tel: +61 7 5430 1286
Fax: +61 7 5456 5004
Email: rsandri@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Early Years Inclusivity and Leadership
- Indigenous Education
- Early Years Mathematics
Research areas
- Indigenous transition to school
- Cultural inclusivity and democratic participation in the classroom
- Human rights and Indigenous children
- Whiteness
Profile
Ms Robyn Parkes Sandri is the granddaughter of a Stolen Generation Aboriginal woman from the Gungarri people in south west Queensland. Robyn trained as an early childhood teacher in Queensland and has taught in Australia, England and America. She has lectured in Education, Research and Writing in the United States for 10 years. She returned to Australia to work in Indigenous Education and Human Rights issues.
She is also a published fiction author. Her fiction and academic practice focus on the theme of people “fitting” and “finding home”, which reflects her own quest to find her place “across cultures”.