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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2012

Elizabeth Mackinlay  and
Katelyn Barney
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Affiliation:
The School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia
Katelyn Barney*
Affiliation:
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland, Australia
*
address for correspondence: Katelyn Barney, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia. Email: k.barney@uq.edu.au
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Indigenous Australian studies, also called Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, is an expanding discipline in universities across Australia (Nakata, 2004). As a discipline in its own right, Indigenous Australian studies plays an important role in teaching students about Australia's colonial history and benefits both non-Indigenous and Indigenous students by teaching them about Australia's rich and shared cultural heritage (Craven, 1999, pp. 23–25). Such teaching and learning seeks to actively discuss and deconstruct historical and contemporary entanglements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and, in doing so, help build better working relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. As educators in this discipline, it is important for us to find pedagogical approaches which make space for these topics to be accessed, understood, discussed and engaged with in meaningful ways.

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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. 1 - 9
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Copyright © The Authors 2012

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