Maxwell, Jacinta and Lowe, Kevin and Salter, Peta (2018) The re-creation and resolution of the ‘problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority. The Australian Educational Researcher, 45 (2). pp. 161-177. ISSN 0311-6999
Abstract
This paper focuses on the ‘problem’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education represented in the Australian Curriculum’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross-curriculum priority. Looking beyond particular curriculum content, we uncover the policy discourses that construct (and reconstruct) the cross-curriculum priority. In the years after the Australian Curriculum’s creation, curriculum authors have moulded the priority from an initiative without a clear purpose into a purported solution to the ‘Indigenous problem’ of educational underachievement, student resistance and disengagement. As the cross-curriculum priority was created and subsequently reframed, the ‘problem’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education has thereby been manifested in policy, strategised as curriculum content and precipitated in the cross-curriculum priority. These policy problematisations perpetuate contemporary racialisation and actively construct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, histories and knowledges as deficient.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Published online 09/01/18. Permanent restricted access to ArticleFirst version in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education (1 Jul 2013 - 30 Jun 2019) |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education (1 Jul 2013 - 30 Jun 2019) |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2018 04:07 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2021 04:26 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | policy problematisation; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education; Indigenous education; Australian curriculum; cross-curriculum priority |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 13 Education > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development 13 Education > 1301 Education Systems > 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori) 13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education 13 Education > 1301 Education Systems > 130106 Secondary Education |
| Socio-Economic Objectives (2008): | C Society > 93 Education and Training > 9303 Curriculum > 930301 Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum C Society > 93 Education and Training > 9303 Curriculum > 930302 Syllabus and Curriculum Development |
| Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-017-0254-7 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/33594 |
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