1st Edition
Decolonising Australian History Education Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the ‘History Wars’
1. The thin veneer of 'the history wars’ on unceded lands
Aleryk Fricker, Rebecca Cairns and Sara Weuffen
2. Truth commissions, transitional justice, and history education
Mati Keynes
3. “Peeling off the final scab of thinking that everything’s fine”: Exposing the poison of Australian education’s colonising history through drama-based learning
Danielle Hradsky
4. Challenging the Great Australian Silence
Aleryk Fricker
5. Positionality: The foundational threshold concept for decolonising teaching practices
Sara Weuffen
6. Learning, unlearning, and relearning history in an early childhood education
Carolyn Briggs, Karen Anderson and Ann Slater
7. "Mummy, what did YOU do in the history wars?" White teachers decolonising Australian curriculum… and themselves
Lucinda McKnight
8. Acknowledging First Nations perspectives in primary schools
Kate Harvie
9. Doing intercultural history: A framework for history teachers
Kerri Anne Garrard
10. Examining invasion and possession narratives through Asia-related history
Rebecca Cairns
11. Decolonising the teaching of local history
Will King
12. Decolonial futures for history in Australian schools
Sara Weuffen, Rebecca Cairns and Aleryk Fricker
Biography
Rebecca Cairns lives and works on Wadawurrung Country as a non-Indigenous researcher and senior lecturer at the Deakin University School of Education. Prior to this, she taught in secondary schools. Her curriculum inquiry research examines the complexities of how we do curriculum, focusing on history education, studies of Asia, and decolonising practices.
Aleryk Fricker is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung academic. His research focus is on Indigenous Education and decolonising education practices in Australia to enable all students in Australia to benefit from accessing the oldest pedagogies and teaching knowledges in the world.
Sara Weuffen is a teacher-researcher expert in cross/intercultural education between First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous people in Australia. As a non-Indigenous woman born on Gundijtmara Country (Warrnambool) and living on Wadawurrung Country (Ballarat), she specialises in supporting other non-Indigenous people to develop critical consciousness via curriculum analysis and pedagogical enhancement.
"This book offers fresh perspectives, interrogations, and insights into potential ways forward for educators. The authors lucidly inform and reflect contemporary public debates, as well as emerging historiographical debates, about the future of (de)colonising Australian history education. The pages turn themselves."
Fred Cahir, Professor in Australian History, Federation University, Australia.
