Decolonising Australian History Education (eBook, PDF)

Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the 'History Wars'
Redaktion: Cairns, Rebecca; Weuffen, Sara; Fricker, Aleryk

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides guidance on applying practical strategies for decolonising learning and teaching, and moving beyond the 'history wars'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040049051
• Artikelnr.: 70558931

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Interrogating decolonising curriculum inquiry 1. Decolonising the
thin veneer of 'the history wars' on unceded lands 2. Mobilising
interculturality and transformative narratives to disrupt traditional
historical narratives in Australian history education and curriculum 3.
Cinematic Virtual Reality as truth telling tool: Using technology to
restore First Nations presence in regional school history curriculum 4.
Challenging the Cult of Forgetfulness: Embedding Sovereign First Nations
Voices into an Australian History Textbook 5. White possession and the
'Mongolian Octopus': Examining the curricular practices that shape
Asia-related Australian history 6. Truth Commissions and History Education:
Liberal and Decolonial Perspectives Part 2: Emerging decolonising teaching
practices 7. What did you do in the History Wars, Mummy? White teachers
decolonising Australian curriculum... and themselves 8. Acknowledging First
Nations history and culture in Primary school environments 9. "Peeling off
the final scab of thinking that everything's fine": Exposing the poison of
Australian education's colonising history through drama-based learning 10.
Decolonialisation in pedagogical practice towards truth telling in an Early
Childhood service 11. Decolonising teaching practice for working
cross-culturally: Foundational threshold concepts for non-Indigenous
teachers in Australia 12. Decolonial futures: What's next for history in
Australian schools?