SDG Detail

INED8040 - Global Indigenous Education

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Project description

While exploring education from the perspectives of Indigenous people in Australia and in other parts of the world you will gain a better understanding how education has been used as a tool for the colonial project. This unit focuses on education and Indigenous people from Australia, Aotearoa (NZ), Canada and the United States. These particular countries cover hundreds of distinctive Indigenous communities who exist across contemporary national boundaries and geo-political divisions. Although these communities are linguistically and culturally diverse, they nevertheless share common colonial histories of dispossession and ongoing political, economic and social marginalisation and subjugation.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Critically examine the Declaration of Human Rights and demonstrate an understanding of its impact on Indigenous peoples throughout the world. 2. Demonstrate a strong theoretical basis of the historical injustices Indigenous peoples throughout the world have faced and the impact this has had on their education. 3. Understand the ways in which Indigenous peoples continue to teach Indigenous knowledges. 4. Understand the impact of colonisation on the diverse cultures and knowledges of Indigenous peoples globally. 5. Understand the concept of �global solidarity� and the continuity of Indigenous activism. 6. Demonstrated high level of written communication skills including structuring and supporting an academic argument. 7. Confidently use online communication forums and engage in informed interactive learning.