Baiyai -- Meeting Place of Two Parties: The Pedagogical Literacy Relationship

Baiyai is an Aboriginal word from the Wiradjuri language meaning the 'meeting place of two parties'. It is the name then given to an action research project which focussed on the classroom practices of teachers of Aboriginal students in schools in both urban and rural contexts. The project aimed to consider how changes to the pedagogical relationships, and the pedagogical literacy relationship between teachers and students especially, might bring about more productive classroom practices in general and improved student literacy standards in particular.