Australian Indigenous Education

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Research

Fifty words at a time, this project is helping to preserve Australia’s Indigenous languages

The 50 Words Project is documenting Australia’s Indigenous languages by recording 50 everyday words in as many as possible. It now has 100 languages online, free for anyone to explore and learn

Education

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Research

The truth about First Nations children and schooling has been told, retold and ignored

Three major inquiries over 35 years have reached the same conclusion: Australia's education system functions as a tool of colonial harm. So why hasn't it produced justice?

Education

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Research

Djambatj Dhukarr – Walking the Road to Excellence Together

For fifteen years, teacher candidates from Melbourne have learned on Yolŋu Country in bilingual classrooms, showing what respectful collaboration between universities and Indigenous communities can look like

Education

What education for Indigenous Futures could look like

As NAIDOC week celebrates the theme 'Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud', the conditions are ripe for increased First Language learning across Australia’s schools

Arts & Culture

In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began

An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history

Education

Australian teachers shouldn’t be afraid to teach Indigenous Knowledge

The Australian Curriculum’s deeper engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures is a matter of national importance

Education

New education pathways for Indigenous Australians

Barriers to education can be broken down when we support the diverse ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people develop, produce and translate knowledge

Education

Getting racism out of the classroom

Schools are part of a system of colonial rule that is not easily overwritten; the education system and teachers must work to understand and challenge structural racism

Arts & Culture

50 words in Australian Indigenous languages

A new online resource – the 50 Words Project – makes words from local Indigenous languages available for every Australian to hear and learn

Education

Learning in the Homelands

In the Indigenous Homelands of East Arnhem Land, pre-service teachers are learning the value of place and listening