Conference paper
Indigenous students at university: Is teaching still a colonising process?
Australian Association for Research in Education
AARE 2001 International Education Research Conference. Crossing Borders: New Frontiers for Educational Research (Fremantle, Western Australia, 02/12/2001–06/12/2001)
2001
Abstract
As a teacher educator I encourage my students to develop culturally inclusive pedagogies, and also see it as my responsibility to practise them myself. However, I have found that my position as a culturally inclusive practitioner is rarely tested in my work in a university setting. While universities are welcoming increasingly diverse groups of students into their midst, most of the students I encounter share cultural capital with me. This paper is an exploration of a 'critical incident' when the presence in my class of an Indigenous Australian student; a culturally "different" student; challenged me to act according to my stated position as a culturally inclusive teacher. I shall outline my reflections on this experience, using post-colonial theory as a framework to examine the colonising nature of my pedagogy, and invite discussion of the possibilities for a more culturally inclusive definition of what is acceptable as teaching and learning in universities.
Details
- Title
- Indigenous students at university: Is teaching still a colonising process?
- Authors/Creators
- J. Pearce (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- AARE 2001 International Education Research Conference. Crossing Borders: New Frontiers for Educational Research (Fremantle, Western Australia, 02/12/2001–06/12/2001)
- Publisher
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- Identifiers
- 991005541163307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Note
- Appears In: AARE Conference Abstracts 2001
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