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PEARL: A Reflective Story About Decolonising Pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2012

Elizabeth Mackinlay
Elizabeth Mackinlay*
Affiliation:
School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia
*
address for correspondence: Elizabeth Mackinlay, School of Education, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia. Email: e.mackinlay@uq.edu.au
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Abstract

In this article, I take a creative and autoethnographic approach to reflect upon processes of decolonisation in Indigenous Australian studies classrooms. Positioning myself as a non-Indigenous educator, I take the reader on a journey through my search for pedagogy which makes space for the colonial, difficult and messy politics of race, whiteness and knowledge to be actively challenged, deconstructed and reimagined in this context as PEARL.

Keywords

PEARLdecolonisationIndigenous Australian studiesautoethnography
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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 41 , Special Issue 1: Pearls not problems: Transforming pedagogy in Indigenous Australian studies in the context of higher education , August 2012 , pp. 67 - 74
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Copyright © The Authors 2012

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