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Kusabs, Julian Rawiri – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: Recent trends in Western civics education have attempted to secure democratic institutions from perceived threats. This paper investigates how political securitisation historically operated within civics textbooks in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. It further evaluates how Maori, Aboriginal and other Indigenous peoples were variably…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Textbooks
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Moore, Robyn – Review of Education, 2021
Although multiculturalism replaced the White Australia Policy in the 1970s, the Australian nation continues to be imagined predominantly as a White space from which Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders and peoples of non-White immigrant heritage are excluded. Whereas White people's positioning as Australian is secure and taken for granted,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias