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Solid Indigenous Foundation

Early Voyagers

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Great wars

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Great wars

Emerging sciences & disciplines

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Great wars

Developing approaches and methods

Emerging sciences & disciplines

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Great wars

Growing corpus on Indigenous Australians

Developing approaches and methods

Emerging sciences & disciplines

Our core foundations

Early voyagers

Missionaries

Colonial outposts

Great wars

Growing corpus on Indigenous Australians

Developing approaches and methods

Emerging sciences & disciplines

How these interface with our core foundations is key

Layers of histories over Our core foundations

Breaking through the barriers

Australian Indigenous Studies

• 1. The original and traditional disciplinary approach for specialisation, which is Indigenous Studies Electives and Major and Minor sequences offered through humanities faculties, Indigenous schools and centres

• 2. Embedding Indigenous content and perspectives in the disciplines, where this is relevant in a particular course or program. More recently, this call is being urged across all disciplines.

• 3. Mandatory stand-alone pre-service courses in the key professions that impact Indigenous future wellbeing, such as education, health etc.

• 4. Cultural competency frameworks through professional development of staff and the development of graduate attributes.

Teaching & Learning practice in Indigenous Studies

• ..what conceptual interpretation of self-determination is expressed in these educational choices ?

Decolonising approaches in Australian Indigenous Studies

• Our allegiances to a politic of difference and cultural rights

• “Instead of being open-ended pursuits of knowledge, many disciplines have become self-circumscribed in their aims and methods in ways that appear ontological. By this I mean that many disciplines lose sight of themselves as efforts to understand the world and have collapsed into the hubris of asserting themselves as the world.” (Gordon, 2006, p. 8)

Layers of histories over Our core foundations

Breaking through the barriers