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Difficult Dialogues in the South: Questions about Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2017

Martin Nakata
Martin Nakata*
Affiliation:
Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
*
address for correspondence: Martin Nakata, Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia. Email: martin.nakata@jcu.edu.au
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Abstract

This is a reflective opinion piece, on our efforts in Australia to achieve alignment between the goals of Indigenous self-determination, Indigenous studies programmes and decolonising theory for an open and critical dialogue in south–south scholarship agendas. In this spirit, extant approaches to Indigenous studies in the Australian higher education context are questioned, the scholarship recruited for this is challenged, and its advocated role in the education of all students is raised as a major concern.

Keywords

Indigenous studiesdecolonisationcritical dialogue
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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 47 , Special Issue 1: South-South Dialogues: Global Approaches to Decolonial Pedagogies , August 2018 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2017 

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Footnotes

This article is based on research work supported by the Australian Research Council Grant IN120100021.

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