Promoting the persistence of Indigenous students through teaching at the Cultural Interface

Martin, Gregory, Nakata, Vicky, Nakata, Martin, and Day, Andrew (2017) Promoting the persistence of Indigenous students through teaching at the Cultural Interface. Studies in Higher Education, 42 (7). pp. 1158-1173.

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Abstract

The promise of higher education remains elusive for many Indigenous students in Australia. To date, institutional efforts to improve the persistence and retention of Indigenous students have been largely piecemeal, poorly integrated and designed to remediate skill deficits. Yet, market-led expansion of Australian higher education is driving curricular reform and demands for accountability and quality. Despite this, very little is known about how teaching and pedagogy can be used to support the learning and persistence of Indigenous students. In this context, the paper provides a reconceptualization of current debates and positions that are currently bound up within the limitations of questionable binary divides and oppositions, for example, educational psychology/sociology, transmission/critical or decolonial pedagogies and Indigenous/Western Knowledge. Nakata’s concept of the Cultural Interface is mobilized to acknowledge some of the nuances and complexities that emerge when Indigenous and Western knowledge systems come into convergence within the higher education classroom.

Item ID: 56853
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1470-174X
Keywords: Indegenous, teacher knowledge, pedagogy, persistence, Cultural Interface
Copyright Information: © 2015 Society for Research into Higher Education
Funders: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Projects and Grants: ARC DI120100021
Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2019 23:30
FoR Codes: 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4502 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education > 450203 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational methods @ 100%
SEO Codes: 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9399 Other Education and Training > 939901 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education @ 100%
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