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Hradsky, Danielle – History of Education, 2022
Contemporary Australian curricula require teachers to promote reconciliation through the teaching of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages. Engaging with First Nations knowledges and histories in education comes with a very complex and historically layered legacy. This paper examines the role of education in the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Conflict Resolution, Indigenous Populations
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Variyan, George – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2019
The evolution of teachers' identities in Australia highlights the struggles between state and civic over the control of schooling and also the contingent nature of the teacher identity itself. A genealogical analysis of this history makes visible these contingencies, but more importantly suggests that little reckoning has been afforded to…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, School Administration, Educational History, Transformative Learning
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Phillips, Sandra R.; Archer-Lean, Clare – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
First Nations writing within English literary studies risks contemporary colonisation if encountered as a literary object for close reading without context or reflection on the role of the reader. This article will explore the processes involved in constructing an innovative reading practice amongst tertiary students to counter the potential for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, College Students, Social Bias
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Windle, Joel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article examines shifts in the meaning and relevance of institutionalised knowledge about social inequalities as it circulates globally. In so doing, it contributes to research critiquing an unequal geopolitics of knowledge that grants greatest authority to theories produced in the global north (Connell, 2007; Mignolo, 2003). I discuss the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Criticism, Ethnography, Power Structure
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McLeod, Julie – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
This article examines citizenship education and pedagogies for learning to be a citizen in the interwar years in Australia. These discussions bore the influence of progressive education and its emancipatory promises. Against this, I explore the "dividing practices" of citizenship education and the ways normative descriptions of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Educational History
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Dei, George Sefa; Kempf, Arlo – International Education, 2006
Professor George Sefa Dei has written and taught extensively in the fields of anti-colonialism and anti-racism. His latest work on the subject is "Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance," co-edited with Arlo Kempf for Sense Publishers (2006). Dei and Kempf are also co-authoring a forthcoming volume on anti-colonial…
Descriptors: Historiography, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, African Studies
Burns, Robin – 1980
The evolution of development studies as a formal academic teaching and research endeavor is traced. "Development" is related here to "decolonialization." Attention is directed to: the sociopolitical and economic aspects of the society; the cultural (educational and historical) aspects or frameworks within which particular…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations