The re-creation and resolution of the 'problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority

Maxwell, Jacinta, Lowe, Kevin, and Salter, Peta (2018) The re-creation and resolution of the 'problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority. Australian Educational Researcher, 45 (2). pp. 161-177.

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DOI: 10.1007/s13384-017-0254-7

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the 'problem' of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education represented in the Australian Curriculum's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross-curriculum priority. Looking beyond particular curriculum content, we uncover the policy discourses that construct (and reconstruct) the cross-curriculum priority. In the years after the Australian Curriculum's creation, curriculum authors have moulded the priority from an initiative without a clear purpose into a purported solution to the 'Indigenous problem' of educational underachievement, student resistance and disengagement. As the cross-curriculum priority was created and subsequently reframed, the 'problem' of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education has thereby been manifested in policy, strategised as curriculum content and precipitated in the cross-curriculum priority. These policy problematisations perpetuate contemporary racialisation and actively construct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, histories and knowledges as deficient.


Item ID:	53514
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2210-5328
Keywords:	policy problematisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, Indigenous education, Australian curriculum, cross-curriculum priority
Date Deposited:	09 May 2018 07:35
FoR Codes:	45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4502 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education > 450201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum and pedagogy @ 50% 39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development @ 50%
SEO Codes:	93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9303 Curriculum > 930302 Syllabus and Curriculum Development @ 50% 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9399 Other Education and Training > 939901 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education @ 50%
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