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Fricker, Aleryk; Moodie, Nikki; Burgess, Cathie – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
For over a century, since Aboriginal children were permitted to access mainstream Australian schools, there has been a significant gap in academic achievement between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. Community engagement by schools is recognised as a key factor in Aboriginal student success, but school approaches to community engagement…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Community Involvement
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Welton, Anjalé; Mansfield, Katherine Cumings – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Critical policy analysis (CPA) is a means by which to critique policy and promote agency, equity, and justice. However, most CPA scholars examine political discourse from a distance rather than actively participate in political processes. Meanwhile, there is a growing interest in community-engaged research whereby academics partner with community…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Community Involvement, Empowerment, Citizen Participation
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Burgess, Catherine; Bishop, Michelle; Lowe, Kevin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Little research exists about Indigenous-led teacher professional learning to improve skills in developing culturally responsive practices in schooling. This paper addresses a noticeable gap in the literature, that of Indigenous people mentoring non-Indigenous teachers to develop culturally responsive pedagogies. In the Australian context, the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries
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Gatwiri, Kathomi; Mapedzahama, Virginia – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: On June 21, 2021, a motion was introduced to the Australian Senate calling on the federal government to reject critical race theory (CRT) from the national curriculum, claiming that CRT is divisive and racist. This was allegedly sparked by revisions to the national school curriculum, which included a more accurate reflection of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Race, Trauma
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Singh, David – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
This is a reflective piece that examines the nature of racial complaint with reference to Dr. Kris Rallah-Baker's concerns about the racism that characterised his medical education. It will further examine the anti-racist campaign that sprung up in support of Rallah-Baker with a view to illustrating the limits of conventional critical race theory…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Critical Theory, Race, Ophthalmology
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Sumithran, Suma; Chowdhury, Raqib; Barnes, Melissa – Qualitative Research Journal, 2023
Purpose: Adult student identities within EAL (English as an Additional Language) classrooms have often been positioned as static, homogenised and exoticised within scholarly literature. Within such positioning, teachers have embraced pedagogical practices which classify students by country of origin and represent student identities within binaries…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moodie, Nikki; Fricker, Aleryk – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The Aboriginal Voices project has sought to understand how Aboriginal students and parents tackle pervasive discourses that largely characterise these students as failures, disinterested in education, or without aspiration. This paper presents the conceptual and methodological approach to a multi-site case study of six whole-school communities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Academic Failure
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Elliott, Victoria; Hodgson, John – English in Education, 2021
This note reports the results of a Delphi panel priority setting exercise for English education research. An initial item-generating survey of 75 English education academics and teachers worldwide was conducted; a thematic analysis of responses generated 31 potential priorities for future research. An adapted Delphi panel consisting of 44 English…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Needs, English Instruction, English Teachers
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Street, Catherine; Smith, James; Robertson, Kim; Guenther, John; Motlap, Shane; Ludwig, Wendy; Woodroffe, Tracy; Gillan, Kevin; Ober, Robyn; Larkin, Steve; Shannon, Valda; Hill, Gabrielle – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This article critically examines definitions of policy 'success' in the context of historical Indigenous higher education policy in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia. We begin by summarising applications of the often-used but arbitrary, rarely-critiqued terms 'policy success' and 'what works'. The paper chronologically articulates what…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Indigenous Populations, Educational History
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Vass, Greg – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
This article engages with methodological concerns connected to insider education research and the "race-symmetry" shared between the researcher and teacher participants. To do this, race critical reflexive strategies are utilized to show how and why this practice productively contributed to the knowledge about race making constructed in…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Research, Race
Gabriel, Deborah, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2020
A sequel to 'Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British academia' (2017). These research case studies by Black women academics describe the transformative work of contributors to the Ivory Tower project, adding intersectional voices from the United States, Canada and Australia, and LGBTQ perspectives.…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Group Teachers, Women Faculty, College Faculty
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Hollinsworth, David; Raciti, Maria; Carter, Jennifer – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Indigenous Australian identities are enmeshed in racializing discourses that often occlude diversity, hybridity, and intersectionality. Australians who self-identify as Aboriginal are often disbelieved by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, or confront hierarchies of authenticity. Critical analysis of focus groups with undergraduate…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Self Concept, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Ferfolja, Tania, Ed.; Diaz, Criss Jones, Ed.; Ullman, Jacqueline, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2018
Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices introduces readers to the contemporary classroom through the lens of sociological theory. By compelling readers to think critically and reflexively this book helps future teachers create a welcoming and equitable learning…
Descriptors: Sociology, Social Theories, Educational Practices, Critical Theory
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Webb, Sue; Faine, Miriam; Pardy, John; Roy, Reshmi – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Vocational Education and Training (VET) in a policy and institutional sense plays an important role in the migration experiences of people who settle in Australia. This article draws on qualitative empirical work using narrative accounts from VET practitioners along with a cross section of ethnically diverse migrants to reveal how race and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Career Education
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Harvey, Andrew; Mallman, Mark – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
This paper explores the experiences of new migrants in Australian higher education, based on interviews conducted across two regional university campuses in 2017. New migrants, particularly from refugee backgrounds, often have limited university access and face specific challenges throughout and beyond their university experiences.…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Migrants, Higher Education, College Students
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