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Aboriginal Community-Based Educators Teaching the Teachers: Learning from Country in the City
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Katrina Thorpe; Cathie Burgess; Suzanne Egan; Valerie Harwood – Springer, 2025
This book showcases the transformative impact of Aboriginal community-based educators teaching local histories and cultures to preservice teachers. It details the 'Learning from Country in the City' teaching and research project, which follows preservice teachers who participated in immersive 'Learning from Country' experiences in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Place Based Education
Pre-Service Teachers' Experiences, Interests and Confidence in Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences
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Hannah Deehan; James Deehan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
With education research focused heavily on literacy, numeracy and STEM, our understanding of HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) is comparatively underdeveloped. HASS disciplines, such as Geography, History and Civics, not only contextualise learning in other disciplines, but are vital to ensuring that society is prepared to face complex social,…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Social Sciences, Preservice Teachers, Interests
Narratives of Place and Land: Teaching Indigenous Histories in Australian and New Zealand Teacher Education
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Manning, Richard; Harrison, Neil – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This article offers a trans-Tasman critique of approaches to the teaching of history in New Zealand and Australia. Taking knowledge out of place and time and presenting it in textbooks is a conflicted task for schooling in both countries. The disembodiment of knowledge in history books has led students to the proclamation that the teaching of…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
Place-Consciousness and Bronfenbrenner's "Ecological Systems Model": A Discussion of Recurring Issues That Undermine the Teaching of Indigenous Histories in New Zealand and Australian Schools
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Manning, Richard F. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2017
This article draws upon a "tale from the feld" (Van Maanen, 1988) to encourage New Zealand and Australian teachers of history and social studies to appraise how their own perceptions of place and teaching about Indigenous peoples' histories impact upon their students' learning. Moreover, it explains why Uri Bronfenbrenner's (1979)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Heritage Education, Local History