Australian Indigenous Education

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Education

Learning in the Homelands

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

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Education

Boosting early learning for Indigenous children

Identifying developmental difficulties in young children from remote Aboriginal communities early boosts their chances of success later in life, and a new tool is helping

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Politics & Society

Closing the Gap: time for traction on the ground

After almost a decade of updates we look at what really needs to change to Close the Gap

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Politics & Society

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Book extract

New Indigenous middle class finds place in modern economy

Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi man Stan Grant reflects on the limitations of racial identity, and the unprecedented numbers of Indigenous Australians taking their places in the modern economy

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