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Weuffen, Sara; Lowe, Kevin; Burgess, Cathie; Thompson, Katherine – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Since contact, there has been a foundation of inhospitable interactions between the original sovereign peoples of the Australian continent and Eurpoean arrivals. Despite government policies appearing to shift from assimilative practices to reconciliation processes in the latter half of the 20th Century, ongoing interactions continue to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education
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Lowe, Kevin; Skrebneva, Iliana; Burgess, Cathie; Harrison, Neil; Vass, Greg – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
2020 looms large for Indigenous education in Australia, with the 'Refreshed' "Close the Gap" strategy hanging over the collective heads of schools, Indigenous students and their families. After a decade of promises, there is now an acknowledgement within the government that programmes to improve student outcomes in literacy, numeracy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
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Burgess, Cathie; Lowe, Kevin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
In Australia, pervasive deficit representations and positioning of Aboriginal peoples continue to impact on teachers' capacity to meaningfully embed Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogies into their teaching. This sits within a policy context driven by standardization, competition and market forces focused on closing the gap between Aboriginal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Policy