Doing decolonisation: cultural reconnection as political resistance in schooling

Weuffen, Sara; Lowe, Kevin; Moodie, Nikki; Fricker, Aleryk

doi:10.1007/s13384-022-00603-7

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“…The final paper by Weuffen, Lowe, Moodie, and Fricker (2022b) titled Doing decolonisation: Cultural reconnection as political resistance in schooling pulls together the empirical data from the four papers (Burgess, et al, 2022;Fricker et al, 2022;Weuffen et al, 2022aWeuffen et al, , 2022bWeuffen et al, , 2022c in this special issue to analyse how Aboriginal students experience schooling in Australia today. They highlight that notions of community, relationality, healing, and change tend to be at the centre of schooling practices but mobilised along a race-based dichotomy.…”

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Identity matters: Aboriginal educational sovereignty and futurity pushing back on the logic of elimination

2023

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This paper situates the context of the Aboriginal Voices: The state of Aboriginal student experiences in Australian secondary school project special issue of The Australian Educational Researcher in the wider context of First Nations educational research. It outlines the contribution to scholarship that each of the papers within the special issue makes towards developing a more nuanced, research-informed, and deeper understanding about the current state of Aboriginal education in Australia from the voices of those at the coalface. In doing so, this editorial overview highlights that while racism is still rampant across the education sector, and Aboriginal Peoples continue to face deficit discourses about their being and academic capabilities, a new era of sovereign activism is being mobilised by Aboriginal Peoples, and their allies, to drive educational change.

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Identity matters: Aboriginal educational sovereignty and futurity pushing back on the logic of elimination

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“…This is powerfully illustrated by a special issue in this journal last year, in which researchers from various African nations explored perspectives on integrating indigenous knowledge systems in higher education through a decolonisation framework (see Woldegiorgis & Turner, 2023). Weuffen et al (2023) suggest, 'The term decolonising has been used increasingly to describe a process of speaking back to, and taking action against, deficit paternalistic and racist discourses permeating settler-colonial structures' (p. 148). In Australia, they argue, these actions, or the doing of decolonising work, 'is about taking an ethico-political standpoint for recognising and prioritising First Nations sovereignty and undertaking practical actions to interrupt settler-colonial racist discourses' (Weuffen et al, 2023, p. 149).…”

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