Solid Indigenous Foundation
Early Voyagers
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Great wars
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Great wars
Emerging sciences & disciplines
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Great wars
Developing approaches and methods
Emerging sciences & disciplines
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Great wars
Growing corpus on Indigenous Australians
Developing approaches and methods
Emerging sciences & disciplines
Our core foundations
Early voyagers
Missionaries
Colonial outposts
Great wars
Growing corpus on Indigenous Australians
Developing approaches and methods
Emerging sciences & disciplines
How these interface with our core foundations is key
Layers of histories over Our core foundations
Breaking through the barriers
Australian Indigenous Studies
• 1. The original and traditional disciplinary approach for specialisation, which is Indigenous Studies Electives and Major and Minor sequences offered through humanities faculties, Indigenous schools and centres
• 2. Embedding Indigenous content and perspectives in the disciplines, where this is relevant in a particular course or program. More recently, this call is being urged across all disciplines.
• 3. Mandatory stand-alone pre-service courses in the key professions that impact Indigenous future wellbeing, such as education, health etc.
• 4. Cultural competency frameworks through professional development of staff and the development of graduate attributes.
Teaching & Learning practice in Indigenous Studies
• ..what conceptual interpretation of self-determination is expressed in these educational choices ?
Decolonising approaches in Australian Indigenous Studies
• Our allegiances to a politic of difference and cultural rights
• “Instead of being open-ended pursuits of knowledge, many disciplines have become self-circumscribed in their aims and methods in ways that appear ontological. By this I mean that many disciplines lose sight of themselves as efforts to understand the world and have collapsed into the hubris of asserting themselves as the world.” (Gordon, 2006, p. 8)
Layers of histories over Our core foundations
Breaking through the barriers
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