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"I Wonder What Lies beyond That Horizon?"
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Fergie, Doseena – Australian Journal of Education, 2018
The horizon can mean many things to individuals. The author gives an account of those within her 'sphere of influence' who enabled her to stand on their broad shoulders to face the challenges and bask in the joys within the tertiary sector and, around the world. Having been raised in an atmosphere of colonisation where assimilation was the norm,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Ethnicity
The Centrality of Aboriginal Cultural Workshops and Experiential Learning in a Pre-Service Teacher Education Course: A Regional Victorian University Case Study
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Weuffen, Sara L.; Cahir, Fred; Pickford, Aunty Marjorie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This paper discusses a cross-cultural pedagogical approach, couched in a theory-practice nexus, used at a Victorian regional university to guide non-Indigenous pre-service teachers' (PSTs) engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and cultures. We have drawn on qualitative and statistical data, and current issues in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Workshops, Experiential Learning
Indigenous Tertiary Education--We Are All Learning: Both-Ways Pedagogy in the Northern Territory of Australia
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Bat, Melodie; Kilgariff, Claire; Doe, Tina – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
In this new era in tertiary education in Australia, the opportunity exists not only to meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and thus redress low access and participation rates, but also to build a system that privileges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and ways of learning. To be able to do such a thing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Monoculture on the Intellectual Landscape: Research Performance Evaluation
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Ruth, Damian – London Review of Education, 2010
The metaphor of "monoculture on the intellectual landscape" is used to analyse the effects of large-scale research management regimes. The metaphor of "monoculture on the intellectual landscape", derived from Shiva's "monocultures of the mind", is developed and illustrated with respect to gender and ethnicity. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Administration, Performance Based Assessment, Figurative Language
When We Become People with a History
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Kerwin, Dale Wayne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
Aboriginal children learn a two-way pedagogy and most Aboriginal learners have to engage in bicultural and bilingual education to succeed in the dominant educational setting. Aboriginal Australians pride themselves on being Aboriginal, however Aboriginal epistemology and ontology are never considered as true methodologies within a dominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups, Cultural Differences