Australia Association for Research in Education
Indigenous Curriculum
Welcome to the third #AARE2023 blog of the conference
We update during the day! The following post is by Babak Dadvand, La Trobe University Navigating Australia’s Teacher …
How to stop racism in class: burn it off
“You’re like the token black kid in the class”: the continued need for Indigenisation of curriculum to support …
Indigenous voices: why we urgently need windows and mirrors
Could you see yourself reflected in your English classroom? I would like you to take yourself back in time for a moment. Take yourself back to your high school English classroom. I want you to imagine the books you studied. Think of their titles and who they were by. Think about what you learnt and …
‘My attitude COMPLETELY changed’: why universities should move new teachers from resentment to respect for Indigenous Australia as we vote on the Voice
Editor’s note: One of the biggest challenges in Australian education is how we embed an understanding of Indigenous …
Patience, persistence and persuasion: the how-to of Indigenous curriculum practice
‘I can’t breathe’. As the Black Lives Matter movement gathered global momentum these words became a familiar refrain; forever linked to the African American man whose life was extinguished by police on a city street in 2020. Few recall the same words uttered by an Aboriginal man in a police cell in Sydney in 2015, …
Be brave: how to Indigenise the curriculum
Acknowledgement: I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live and work and pay my respect to Elders past and present. Western Sydney University acknowledges the Darug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal) and Wiradjuri peoples and thanks them for their support of its work in their lands. I …