Course overview
The aim of this course is to build awareness of Australian schooling as a settler colonising institution that sustains intersectional inequalities, which can be challenged through socio-politically informed teaching. The course builds intellectual and lived understanding of culturally responsive teaching as a powerful counterpoint to ongoing coloniality, which is anti-racist, dialogic, relational, place-based, applicable across learning areas, and which centres First Nations sovereignties as our fundamental starting point. The course develops teacher dispositions, knowledge and skills which are applied to policy interpretation, curriculum co-construction, and relational teaching. Attention is drawn to the shared responsibilities of all Australians to unlearn deficit intersectional beliefs and practices which prevent collective flourishing through schooling, with core attention on teaching as a unifying force.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the knowledge and skills required to advance First Nations educational sovereignties for collective benefit.
- Explain and justify curriculum and pedagogical practices that advance First Nations educational sovereignty for collective flourishing.
- Advance understandings of culturally responsive teaching as a socio-political orientation that respects the values and democratic rights of Aboriginal youth and the sovereignties of Aboriginal First Nations through schooling as a core cultural experience for all Australians.