Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education An Introduction for the Teaching Profession

Judith Ketchell is a proud Torres Strait Islander woman who has balanced her own family of five wonderful children and two grandchildren. She graduated as a teacher in Townsville in 1982 and has worked in remote, rural and urban school communities throughout Queensland. Teaching has always been her destiny, and her rewarding career has provided her with many opportunities to take on various leadership positions across the P–12 sectors of schooling; but more importantly, it has created a vehicle for Indigenous participation in decision making. Judith has worked extensively developing curriculum at the local, state and national level and more recently established a curriculum frame that builds upon the foundation of Torres Strait