Preface Author biographies Chapter 1 Introduction: constituting the space for embedding Indigenous perspectives PART A: INVESTIGATION AND REFLECTION Chapter 2 Indigenous knowledge perspectives: making space in the Australian centre Chapter 3 Aboriginal early childhood: past, present, and future Chapter 4 'Enraged Aborigines' at the Embassy Ball: Media representations of Indigenous Australia Chapter 5 Seeing the invisible, and confronting culture: from pre-service teacher to graduate PART B: LEARNING ABOUT TEACHING Chapter 6 Becoming a socially just teacher: walking the talk Chapter 7 Teaching and textual spaces in Indigenous education: a Murri school perspective Chapter 8 Learning from the past, in policy and practice OUR HOUSE: A SHORT STORY BY CAER STANESBY PART C: SCHOOL PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Chapter 9 An Interview with Annie and Jasmin Chapter 10 Community connections in education: Community Durithunga- yarning in circle on Country, our way Chapter 11 Indigenous knowledge and effective parent-school partnerships: issues and insights Index
Jean Phillips is a Murri woman (Wakka Wakka) from south east Queensland. Originally trained as a primary school teacher, she now researches and teaches in Indigenous education. Her PhD examines how resistance was articulated, rationalised and managed by non-Indigenous students in compulsory Indigenous studies. She is particularly interested in the interaction between Indigenous knowledge systems and western colonial traditions particularly with regard to colonial identity construction and intellectual authority, pedagogy and spirituality.
Although born in Toronto, Canada, Jo Lampert has been living in Queensland for the past 17 years. For most of this time, she has been working in Indigenous education and involved in teaching, research and curriculum development. Currently she is a researcher and teacher in the School of Cultural and Language Studies at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. She was involved in the development and teaching of a compulsory Indigenous Education unit within the Faculty of Education there. She has an ongoing commitment to embedding Indigenous perspectives throughout the curriculum.
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