Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 [Review Essay] Australian Indigenous Studies: Research and Practice
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'Australian Indigenous studies: research and practice is an important and timely intervention into the scholarship currently informing the design and delivery of Indigenous studies in school curricula. Aimed primarily at school teachers and guided by the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority and the Australian Institute for School Teaching, the book offers a critical response to the ideological orthodoxies evident in both contemporary Indigenous studies curricula and approaches to teaching Indigenous students and their dependence on one-dimensional, culturally over-determined representations of ‘the Indigenous’ as they are promulgated by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. These representations and their continued reproduction — across various educational, governmental and other sites — typically construct indigeneity as radically different from and incommensurate with its non-Indigenous other, and it is this static binaristic notion of indigeneity that Australian Indigenous studies challenges. In making its alternative case for intercultural Indigenous studies, the book calls upon readers to complicate conventional understandings of indigeneity as a mode of identity construction and to recognise that it is simultaneously informed and made ambiguous by location-specific cultural, historical and other experiences, diverse intersubjective interactions and other intersecting layers of identity.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2017 12379672 2017 periodical issue

    'In May this year one group of leaders at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention made yet another heartfelt plea from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be heard. Their statement is an attempt to influence public opinion about the nature of the problem by telling a broad audience that Aboriginal disadvantage does not have to be intractable. The Uluru statement may prove to be an influential voice in the public discourse about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues. We don’t know whether people will hear this time. We don't know whether the statement from Uluru has identified the right way to go.' (Editorial introduction)

    2017
    pg. 99-100
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