Description
Product ID: | 9781032346953 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Transforming Indigenous Higher Education |
Subtitle: | Privileging Culture, Identity and Self-Determination |
Authors: | Author: Anita Lee Hong, Trevor Satour, Rae-Lee Griffin, Pat Dudgeon, Melony Darroch, Marion Kickett, Jill Abdullah, Glenis Grogan, Dennis Eggington, Darryl Kickett |
Page Count: | 214 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Anthropology, Higher education, tertiary education, Teaching skills and techniques, Anthropology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Teaching skills & techniques |
Description: | 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 to the lives of Indigenous students. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-03-15 |