1st Edition

Post-Imperial Perspectives on Indigenous Education Lessons from Japan and Australia

Edited By Peter Anderson, Koji Maeda, Zane M. Diamond, Chizu Sato Copyright 2021
302 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Japan and Australia, where it has heralded change in the rights of Indigenous Peoples to have their histories, cultures, and lifeways taught in culturally appropriate and respectful ways in mainstream education systems. The book examines the impact of imposed education on Indigenous Peoples’... Read more

Chapter 1: Introducing Indigenous education in Japan and Australia

Part I: Historical perspectives on Indigenous education, Indigenous higher education, and teacher education in Japan and Australia

Chapter 2: An Indigenous history of education in Japan and Australia

Chapter 3: The place of Indigenous Peoples in multicultural education: Policies, debates and practices in Australia and Japan

Chapter 4: Higher education in Japan and the history of Ainu demands

Chapter 5: Indigenous higher education in historical context in Australia

Part II: After UNDRIP: Japanese and Australian responses and possibilities

Chapter 6: Challenges and responses to UNDRIP in Australian and Japanese Indigenous education

Chapter 7: Embracing and resisting Indigenist perspectives in Australian pre-service teacher education

Chapter 8: Teacher education issues in Okinawa

Chapter 9: Questioning current issues in the higher education sector for Japan’s Ainu People

Chapter 10: Stabilizing and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities

Part III: Considering post-imperial Indigenous education in Japan and Australia

Chapter 11: The significance of building an Ainu-led higher education system and the empowerment of the Indigenous Ainu

Chapter 12: The usefulness of the idea and concept of reconciliation for guiding Australian Indigenous higher education in the postcolonial, post-imperial world

Biography

Peter J. Anderson is Professor and Executive Director of the Carumba Institute at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

Koji Maeda is Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Waseda University, Tokyo.

Zane M. Diamond is Professor at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne.

Chizu Sato is Professor at International Christian University, Tokyo.