Reading: Learning and the Importance of Knowing: Student Perspectives on Centralising Indigenous Knowledge in their Preparation as Teachers
Question: What is the importance of knowledge in understanding the indigenous perspectives on the social practices of racism, dominant cultures superiority, ignorance and the blame factor?
Reading: The Challenge to Deculturalisation: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Schooling of Indigenous Children in Australia and the USA
Ethnicity is a phenomenon that surfaces in different institutions worldwide. The education sector is among these institutions. In the United States and Australia, indigenous children are susceptible to ethnicity in their schooling. The discourses of this ethnicity are significant to the schooling of these children. Settler societies in Australia and the USA evoked differential opinions concerning indigenous populations and incoming populations. In most cases, these opinions and invasions disrupted the organizations and operations of ...
