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Pearls, Not Problems: Exploring Transformative Education in Indigenous Australian Studies
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth; Barney, Katelyn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
This article explores the shift in terminology that occurred in a 2-year Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded curriculum renewal project that set out to broadly explore current teaching and learning practice in Indigenous Australian studies (www.teaching4change.edu.au). While we started with the term "Problem-Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Program Descriptions, Teaching Methods
Utilising PEARL to Teach Indigenous Art History: A Canadian Example
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Robertson, Carmen – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
This article explores the concepts advanced from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project, "Exploring Problem-Based Learning pedagogy as transformative education in Indigenous Australian Studies". As an Indigenous art historian teaching at a mainstream university in Canada, I am constantly reflecting on how to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Interdisciplinary Approach, Courses
PEARL: A Reflective Story about Decolonising Pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
In this article, I take a creative and autoethnographic approach to reflect upon processes of decolonisation in Indigenous Australian studies classrooms. Positioning myself as a non-Indigenous educator, I take the reader on a journey through my search for pedagogy which makes space for the colonial, difficult and messy politics of race, whiteness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Reflection, Ethnography
Conflicting Knowledges: Barriers to Language Continuation in the Kimberley
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Bedford, Patsy Ngalu; Casson, Siobhan K. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2010
The Kimberley Language Resource Centre (KLRC) earned its status over three decades as the representative body for Kimberley languages. In 2004, the organisation started to respond to grassroots concerns about the lack of language speakers in the younger generations. Aboriginal people are also connecting loss of languages to loss of bio-cultural…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition
Both-Ways: Learning from Yesterday, Celebrating Today, Strengthening Tomorrow
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Ober, Robyn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2009
This paper will discuss "both-ways" as the philosophy which underpins course programs and operations at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, the only tertiary institution in Australia that caters exclusively to Indigenous students. This paper draws on recent research undertaken by the author focusing on the following…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods
Pursuing Indigenous-Inclusive Curriculum in Social Work Tertiary Education: Feeling My Way as a Non-Indigenous Educator
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Gair, Susan – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The retention and completion rates of Indigenous students undertaking tertiary studies continue to be disappointing. The contribution of Eurocentric curricula to such an outcome has been proposed in the Australian and international literature. Remaining very conscious of my status as a white, female, social work educator teaching at a regional…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Social Work, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations