Transforming Indigenous Higher Education

Privileging Culture, Identity and Self-Determination

Marion Kickett, Pat Dudgeon, Trevor Satour, Darryl Kickett, Anita Lee Hong, Glenis Grogan, Dennis Eggington, Jill Abdullah, Melony Darroch, Rae-Lee Griffin, Roz Walker, Ernie Stringer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000817287
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

An engaging guide for future best-practice, this book provides an illuminating account of how the innovative programs of education and research at one Centre for Aboriginal Studies made a demonstrably positive difference in the lives of Indigenous students.

Written by the experts involved, the book provides detailed descriptions of these ground-breaking education and research programs that saw an increase in the number of Indigenous graduates emerging from the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University. Each chapter documents a different stage in the development and delivery of these programs and demonstrates how innovative and culturally appropriate principles of teaching, learning and organizational processes empowered participants to make a real difference in the lives of their families and communities. The book also addresses the challenges faced by such programs and the counterproductive pressures of market-based economic policies, highlighting the need to create an environment attuned to Aboriginal desires for social justice, self-management and self-determination.

As a celebration of genuine success in higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and a guide on how to improve practice in the future, this book is an essential resource for all professionals and policy makers looking to make a real difference in the lives of Indigenous peoples.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgement to Country (Boodja)
• Reconciliation
• Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Enhancing Aboriginal Access to Higher Education 1976–1986
• 2 A Centre for Aboriginal Studies: Education for Self-Management and Self-Determination 1985–1989
• 3 Decolonizing Aboriginal Course and Program Development 1987–1997
• 4 Empowering Indigenous People: The Power of Educational Innovation 1989–1995
• 5 Situating Indigenous Knowledges Within the University 1996–2006
• 6 Changing Policies and Priorities: The University as a Corporation in the 21st Century
• 7 The Challenges of the Future: Incorporating Aboriginal Strengths and Resilience
• Index