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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
Harrison, Neil – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This position paper develops the case for a greater focus on the teaching of local histories in the Australian Curriculum: History. It takes as its starting point an Indigenous epistemology that understands knowledge to be embedded in the land. This connection between knowledge and country is used to examine recent literature on whether the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Local History, National Curriculum
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Harrison, Neil – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
This article develops the case for a greater focus on the teaching of local histories in the Australian Curriculum: History. It takes as its starting point an Indigenous epistemology that understands knowledge to be embedded in the land. This connection between knowledge and country is used to examine recent literature on whether the teaching of…
Descriptors: Local History, History Instruction, Epistemology, National Curriculum