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Neither This nor That: The Challenge of Social Justice for Non-Indigenous English Teachers in First Nations Australian Education Contexts
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Tim Delphine; Glenn Auld; Julianne Lynch; Joanne O'Mara – English in Education, 2024
This article examines and critiques gap-based education policies that are based on statistical and reductive conceptualisations of success for First Nations students in Australia. The policy desire to achieve social justice underpinned by parity of outcomes across a range of life indicators (including standardised English literacy) between First…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Policy, Achievement Gap
' … If My Family Didn't Play Football … We Would Literally Have Pretty Much Nothing': How High School Aboriginal Students Continue Culture through Rugby League and Australian Football
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Williams, John; Pill, Shane; Evans, John; Davies, Michael – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
Contemporarily Australian Indigenous peoples are portrayed by white Australians according to deficit understandings. As well as being inaccurate, this depiction, as part of a long-term civilising process, is an expression of 'fantasy-laden thinking' [Mennell, S., & Goudsblom, J. (1998). Introduction. In S. Mennell & J. Goudsblom (Eds.),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Social Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes