‘Settled reconciliation’ in education policy and practice: How celebrations of reconciliation can silence Indigenous diversity and agency, and perpetuate racism
Seminar
Abstract Since Australia’s formal reconciliation process began almost thirty years ago, the education system has been viewed as having a critical role in un-silencing Australia’s past by increasing the awareness of children and young people to diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Disruption in First Nations Education
Seminar
Abstract Education is often described as the single most important key in turning around social disadvantage and economic marginalisation as well as in bolstering cultural affirmation and environmental care. And yet, do current policy settings in education meet the needs and aspirations of…
Indigenous-led verification of environmental, social and cultural outcomes of carbon farming.
Seminar
Abstract Carbon farming is an opportunity for on-going ‘untied’ income for Indigenous communities. The Australian Government through the Emissions Solution Fund buys Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) for ‘lowest cost abatement’. If carbon farming demonstrates environmental, social and…
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX
Seminar
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX Policy making is changing in the social media age, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Indigenous Affairs. Social media has empowered a diverse range of Indigenous people to have a voice in policy issues,…
Crown-Indigenous Relations in Canada: Advancing Reconciliation, Recognizing Rights, and Respecting Indigenous Self-Determination
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Diverse Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now known as Canada for untold millennia. Since at least the early 17th century, they have been living alongside European colonizers, settlers, their descendants, and eventually new Canadians from all over the world. What began as a series…
Building Indigenous post-graduate pipelines: Some strategies for success
Seminar
Abstract The Universities Australia Indigenous Strategy 2017 - 2020 sets a broadly ambitious agenda for achievement in Indigenous Higher education. Aspirational targets for access, retention and success of undergraduate students were established, with concomitant institutional commitment. There is…
From mission control to Aboriginal control?: The ‘safety zone’ and bilingual education at Shepherdson College, Galiwin’ku, 1973-1983
Seminar
Abstract A confluence of factors brought bilingual education to some remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory throughout the 1970s—including the work of missionary linguists in assisting to develop literacy in a small number of Aboriginal languages. However, what remains…