Dr Sam Osborne

Associate Director: Regional Engagement UniSA Education Futures

Mawson Lakes Campus (G3-09)
tel +61 8 830 23151

email Samuel.Osborne@unisa.edu.au

Alternative contact

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Sam Osborne has worked in Aboriginal Education since 1995 including Principal at Ernabella Anangu School in the remote north west of South Australia. He has worked in school leadership programs and a range of roles including corporation interpreting, consulting, research and evaluation. From 2011-2015 he was a Senior Research Fellow (UniSA) within the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) on the Remote Education Systems (RES) project. Completing a PhD in 2017, he is currently the Associate Director, Regional Engagement (APY Lands) coordinating UniSA's APY Hub and Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Language and Culture programs. Sam's current research focus includes Culturally Responsive Pedagogies,... Read more

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Research

Research focus

Specialist Studies in Education
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Education Systems
Language, Communication and Culture
Other Education

Highlights

Water Literacies research project (Dr Kathy Paige)

Culturally Responsive Pedagogies (ARC research project, Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Professor Rob Hattam)

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2018	Osborne, S, Guenther, J, King, L, Lester, K, Ken, S & Lester, R 2018, Centring Anangu Voices: a research project exploring how Nyangatjatjara College might better strengthen Anangu aspirations through education, Ninti One, Australia. Open access
2017	Osborne, S 2017, 'Kulini: Framing ethical listening and power-sensitive dialogue in remote Aboriginal education and research', Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social contexts, vol. 22, pp. 26-37. Open access 6
2016	Guenther, J, Disbray, S & Osborne, S 2016, Red dirt education: a compilation of learnings from the remote education systems project, Ninti One Limited, Australia. Open access
2015	Osborne, S 2015, 'Families as foundation: Anangu perspectives on what else matters in remote education', UNESCO Observatory Journal: Multi-disciplinary Research in the Arts, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-23. Open access
2015	Osborne, S 2015, 'Learning from Anangu histories: Population centralisation and decentralisation influences and the provision of schooling in tri-state remote communities', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 127-138. 5 2

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Guenther, J, Rigney, L-I, Osborne, S, Lowe, K & Moodie, N 2023, 'The Foundations Required for First Nations Education in Australia', in Moodie, N, Lowe, K, Dixon, R, Trimmer, K (eds), Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research. Postcolonial Studies in Education., Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland :, ch. 14, pp. 265-284. 1
2023	Osborne, S 2023, 'Kulini: ethical listening and the curse of the externally imagined', in L Rigney (ed.), Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice, Routledge, UK, ch. 13, pp. 149-161.
2021	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2021, 'Can boarding be better? Ethical dilemmas for policy-makers, education providers and evidence-makers', in P Roberts & M Fuqua (eds), Ruraling education research; Connections between rurality and the disciplines of educational research, Springer, Singapore, ch. 10, pp. 145-158.
2021	Osborne, S 2021, 'Aboriginal agency, knowledge, and voice: centring Kulintja Southern methodologies', A Sociolinguistics of the South, Routledge, US, ch. 13, pp. 233-248. Open access 2
2020	Gale, MA, Bleby, D, Kulyuru, N & Osborne, S 2020, 'The Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara summer school: Kulila! Nyawa! Arkala! Framing Aboriginal language learning pedagogy within a University Language intensive model', in J Fornasiero et al. (eds), Intersections in Language Planning and Policy, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 30, pp. 491-505. Open access 2
2019	Paige, K, Lloyd, D & Osborne, S 2019, 'Educating for sustainability: theoretical and practical insights for preservice educators', in D Green & D Price (eds.), Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive: Early Years and Primary Education, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 19, pp. 343-360.
2018	Guenther, J, Disbray, S & Osborne, S 2018, '"It's just teasing": responding to conflict in remote Australian schools', in PT Slee, G Skrzypeic & C Cefai (eds), Child and adolescent well-being and violence prevention in schools, Routledge, London, ch. 12, pp. 118-128. Open access
2018	Guenther, J, Williams, EM, Osborne, S & Williams, E 2018, 'Decolonising colonial education researchers in 'near remote' parts of Australia', in G Vass, J Maxwell, S Rudolph et al. (eds), The relationality of race in education research, Routledge, New York, US, ch. 9, pp. 108-119.
2017	Guenther, J, Disbray, S, Benveniste, T & Osborne, S 2017, ''Red Dirt' schools and pathways into higher education', in J Frawley, S Larkin & JA Smith (eds), Indigenous pathways, transitions and participation in higher education: from policy to practice, Springer Open, Singapore, ch. 15, pp. 251-270. Open access 13

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Paige, K, O'Keeffe, L & Osborne, S 2024, 'Silence is not an option: pre-service teachers embedding first nation knowledge and practices in primary/middle mathematics and science', International Journal of Science Education, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 28-45. Open access 2 1 43
2022	Biesta, G, Heugh, K, Cervinkova, H, Rasinski, L, Osborne, S, Forde, D, Wrench, A, Carter, J, Safstrom, CA, Soong, H, O'Keeffe, S, Paige, K, Rigney, L-I, O'Toole, L, Hattam, R, Peters, MA & Tesar, M 2022, 'Philosophy of education in a new key: publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1216-1233. Open access 31 28 8
2022	Guenther, J, Osborne, S, Corrie, S, Rigney, LI & Lowe, K 2022, 'The Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS): why invest in a strategy that reduces attendance?', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1-22. Open access
2022	Osborne, S, Guenther, J, Ken, S, King, L & Lester, K 2022, 'Centring Anangu voices on work: a contextualised response to red dirt thinking', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1-20. Open access 3 2
2021	Guenther, J, Ober, R, Osborne, S & Williamson-Kefu, M 2021, 'Enacting socially just and transformative education through classroom pedagogy', Pedagogy Culture and Society, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 611-630. Open access 11 9
2020	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'A response to 'Yes, DI did it'', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 412-413.
2020	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'Choice-less choice for rural boarding students and their families', Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 111-126. Open access
2020	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'Did DI do it? Response to a rejoinder', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 173-175. 1
2020	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'Did DI do it? The impact of a programme designed to improve literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote schools', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 163-170. Open access 12 13 49
2020	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'Red dirt education leaders 'caught in the middle': priorities for local and nonlocal leaders in remote schools', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 57-69. Open access 9 7 1
2020	Guenther, J, Benveniste, T, Redman-MacLaren, M, Mander, D, McCalman, J, O'Bryan, M, Osborne, S & Stewart, R 2020, 'Thinking with theory as a policy evaluation tool: the case of boarding schools for remote First Nations students', Evaluation Journal of Australasia, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 34-52. Open access 13 2
2020	O'Bryan, M, Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2020, 'Rural and remote boarding', Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. I-IV. Open access
2020	Osborne, S, Lester, K, Tjitayi, K, Burton, R & Minutjukur, M 2020, 'Red dirt thinking on first language and culturally responsive pedagogies in Anangu schools', Rural Society: The Journal of Research Into Rural and Regional Social Issues in Australia, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 204-218. Open access 2 1 2
2019	O'Keeffe, L, Paige, K & Osborne, S 2019, 'Getting started: exploring pre-service teachers' confidence and knowledge of culturally responsive pedagogy in teaching mathematics and science', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. Open access 17 11
2019	Osborne, S, Paige, K, Hattam, R, Rigney, L-I & Morrison, A 2019, 'Strengthening Australian Aboriginal participation in university STEM programs: a Northern Territory perspective', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 40. no 1, pp. 49-67. 9 9 4
2018	Osborne, S, Rigney, L-I, Benveniste, T, Guenther, J & Disbray, S 2018, 'Mapping boarding school opportunities for Aboriginal students from the Central Land Council region of Northern Territory', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 162-178. Open access 13 8
2018	Paige, K, Lloyd, D, Caldwell, D, Comber, B, O'Keeffe, L, Osborne, S & Roetman, P 2018, 'Futures in primary science education-connecting students to place and ecojustice', Visions for Sustainability, vol. 9, pp. 49-59. Open access
2017	Guenther, J, Osborne, S, Arnott, A & McRae-Williams, E 2017, 'Hearing the voice of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander training stakeholders using research methodologies and theoretical frames of reference', Race, Ethnicity and Education, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 197-208. Open access 21 16 1
2017	Osborne, S 2017, 'Kulini: Framing ethical listening and power-sensitive dialogue in remote Aboriginal education and research', Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social contexts, vol. 22, pp. 26-37. Open access 6
2016	Osborne, S 2016, 'Cultural capacity and development: the case for flexible, interdisciplinary research in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities', Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social contexts, no. 19, pp. 46-63. Open access
2015	Guenther, J, Disbray, S & Osborne, S 2015, 'Building on 'red dirt' perspectives: what counts as important for remote education?', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 194-206. 44 24 1
2015	Guenther, J, Halsey, J & Osborne, S 2015, 'From paradise to beyond: Geographical constructs and how they shape education in the bush', Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 62-79.
2015	Osborne, S 2015, 'Families as foundation: Anangu perspectives on what else matters in remote education', UNESCO Observatory Journal: Multi-disciplinary Research in the Arts, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-23. Open access
2015	Osborne, S 2015, 'Learning from Anangu histories: Population centralisation and decentralisation influences and the provision of schooling in tri-state remote communities', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 127-138. 5 2
2014	Burton, R & Osborne, S 2014, 'At the heart of learning (series paper 4 of 4): Kuranyu-kutu nyakula nyaan nyanganyi? Imagining the future', Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 33-44. 19
2014	Guenther, J, Bat, M & Osborne, S 2014, 'Red dirt thinking on remote educational advantage', Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, vol.24, no.1, pp 51-67.
2014	Guenther, J, Disbray, S & Osborne, S 2014, 'Digging up the (red) dirt on education: one shovel at a time', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol. 17, no, 4, pp. 40-56.
2014	Minutjukur, M & Osborne, S 2014, 'At the heart of learning (series paper 2 of 4): Witulya mulapa nganana mantjintjaku: From cultural devastation to cultural reinvention', Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 15-22.
2014	Osborne, S 2014, 'At the heart of learning (series paper 1 of 4): putuna kulini: the trouble with "hearing"', Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-11. Open access 11
2014	Tjitayi, K & Osborne, S 2014, 'At the heart of learning (series paper 3 of 4): Kurunta kanyintja: holding knowledge in our spirit', Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 23-32.
2013	Guenther, J, Bat, M & Osborne, S 2013, 'Red dirt thinking on educational disadvantage', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 100-110. Open access 36 29
2013	Osborne, S & Guenther, J 2013, 'Red dirt thinking on aspiration and success', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 42, no. 2 pp. 88-99. 46 32
2013	Osborne, S & Guenther, J 2013, 'Red dirt thinking on power, pedagogy and paradigms: reframing the dialogue in remote education', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 111-122. 15 11
2013	Osborne, S 2013, 'Kulintja nganampa maa-kunpuntjaku (strengthening our thinking): place-based approaches to mental health and wellbeing in Anangu schools', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 42, no. 2, pp.182-193. Open access 14 12
2013	Osborne, S 2013, 'Learning versus education: Rethinking learning in Anangu schools', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 42, no. 2 pp. 171-181. 10 9

Conferences

Year	Output
2017	Guenther, J & Osborne, S 2017, 'Red Dirt education leaders' perceptions about what is important for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education.', AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference, AIATSIS, pp. 1-18. Open access
2014	Guenther, J, Osborne, S, Arnott, A, McCrae, WE & Disbray, S 2014, 'Amplifying the voice of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander VET stakeholders using research methodologies', AVETRA 17th Annual Conference, AVETRA, pp. 1-12. Open access
2014	Guenther, J, Osborne, S, Milgate, G & O'Beirne, P 2014, 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspirations and expectations of schooling in very remote Australian schools', AARE-NZARE - Speaking back through research, Australian Association for Research in Education, pp. 1-15. Open access
2014	Lester, K, Minutjukur, M, Osborne, S & Tjitayi, K 2014, 'Red dirt curriculum: reimagining remote education', Sidney Myer Rural Lecture 3, Flinders University, pp. 1-28. Open access

Reports

Year	Output
2019	Guenther, J, Ober, R, Osborne, S & Williamson-Kefu, M 2019, Principles for teacher professional development research report., Australians Together, Australia. Open access
2018	Osborne, S, Guenther, J, King, L, Lester, K, Ken, S & Lester, R 2018, Centring Anangu Voices: a research project exploring how Nyangatjatjara College might better strengthen Anangu aspirations through education, Ninti One, Australia. Open access
2018	Paige, K, Caldwell, D, Elliott, K, O'Keeffe, L, Osborne, S, Roetman, P, Lloyd, D, Comber, B & Gosnell, S 2018, Fresh water literacies: transdisciplinary learning for place and eco justice, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access
2016	Guenther, J, Disbray, S & Osborne, S 2016, Red dirt education: a compilation of learnings from the remote education systems project, Ninti One Limited, Australia. Open access
2016	Paige, K, Hattam, R, Rigney, L-I, Osborne, S & Morrison, A 2016, Strengthening indigenous participation and practice in STEM: university initiatives for equity and excellence, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Board and Advisory positions:

Current:

Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation

Australian Languages Working Group (DECD)

SACE Aboriginal Education Strategy Working Party

2012 - 2014 Warlpiri Education Training Trust (WETT) Advisory Board

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Amata Anangu School	AUSTRALIA
Anangu Ministry Council (APY Lands)	AUSTRALIA
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands	AUSTRALIA
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)	AUSTRALIA
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education	AUSTRALIA
Beijing Normal University	CHINA
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Charles Darwin University	AUSTRALIA
Department for Education	UNITED KINGDOM
Department of Education	PHILIPPINES
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Iwiri Aboriginal Corporation	AUSTRALIA
James Cook University	AUSTRALIA
Maynooth University	IRELAND
Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Education Committee	AUSTRALIA
Principals Australia Institute	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
University of Lower Silesia	POLAND
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Education Advisory Member Reconciliation SA	2021
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2021
School to Work Transition Advisory Group Empowered Communities, NPY Region	2021
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2020
School to Work Transition Advisory Group Empowered Communities, NPY Region	2020
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2019
School to Work Transition Advisory Group Empowered Communities, NPY Region	2019
Youth and Education Advisory Empowered Communities, NPY region	2019
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2018
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2018
Member, Aboriginal Education Strategy Working Party SACE Board of South Australia	2018
Member, Australian Languages Working Group Department for Education (DECD), Government of South Australia	2018
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2017
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2017
Member, Aboriginal Education Strategy Working Party SACE Board of South Australia	2017
Member, Australian Languages Working Group Department for Education (DECD), Government of South Australia	2017
Independent Director (Education) Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation	2016
Advisory Board Member Warlpiri Education Training Trust (WETT)	2014
Special Recognition for outstanding contribution to Indigenous education in the Northern Territory Association for Independent Schools of the Northern Territory	2014
Advisory Board Member Warlpiri Education Training Trust (WETT)	2013
Advisory Board Member Warlpiri Education Training Trust (WETT)	2012

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
109406 - Using home languages in mainstream linguistically diverse primary classrooms in Australia	Current
110000A - Southern Multilingualisms, Knowledges, and Decolonising Education	Current
110000B - Southern Multilingualisms, Knowledges, and Decolonising Education	Current
Learning from First Nations Peoples through listening and storywork: Towards First Nations education transformation	Current
Anangu literacy practices unsettle northern models of literacy	Completed
Culturally responsive possibilities: leaders¿ voices in remote Indigenous schools	Completed
Steel rails run across my body: a compositional poethics of coloniality and the Australian railways	Completed

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School to Work Transition Advisory Group

Independent Director (Education)

School to Work Transition Advisory Group

Independent Director (Education)

School to Work Transition Advisory Group

Youth and Education Advisory

Independent Director (Education)

Independent Director (Education)

Member, Aboriginal Education Strategy Working Party

Member, Australian Languages Working Group

Independent Director (Education)

Independent Director (Education)

Member, Aboriginal Education Strategy Working Party

Member, Australian Languages Working Group

Independent Director (Education)

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Special Recognition for outstanding contribution to Indigenous education in the Northern Territory

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