1st Edition
Critical Studies and the International Field of Indigenous Education Research
Introduction: Can we keep up with the aspirations of Indigenous education?
Greg Vass and Melitta Hogarth
1. Identifying and working through settler ignorance
Carla Rice, Susan D. Dion, Hannah Fowlie and Andrea Breen
2. Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence
Liana MacDonald and Joanna Kidman
3. Community according to whom? An analysis of how indigenous ‘community’ is defined in Australia’s Through Growth to Achievement 2018 report on equity in education
Marnee Shay and Jo Lampert
4. Deficit discourses and teachers’ work: the case of an early career teacher in a remote Indigenous school
Meghan Stacey
5. The untold story of middle-class Indigenous Australian school students who aspire to university
Sally Patfield, Jennifer Gore, Leanne Fray and Maree Gruppetta
6. Shaming the silences: Indigenous Graduate Attributes and the privileging of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices
Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Susan Page and Michelle Trudgett
7. On the land gathering: education for reconciliation
Lilach Marom and Curtis Rattray
8.Indigenous education sovereignty: another way of ‘doing’ education
Michelle Bishop
Biography
Greg Vass is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. His research interests are focused on investigating policy enactment through teaching and learning practices. Central to this research is addressing the cultural politics of schooling and knowledge-making practices that shape the experiences of teacher and learner identities in the classroom.
Melitta Hogarth is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include the translation of policy to practice, particularly in the area of Indigenous education. Integral to this research is investigating how to best support educators to engage with Indigenous knowledge and peoples to ensure the nation building aspirations of curriculum and policy is possible.
