The Importance Of Indigenous Education Essay

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    background and become Westernized through education. Cynthia’s altering alienation from and acclimation to the different tiers of society parallel her progress through the Caribbean school system. As Cynthia rises above one tier of society and enters the next, she realizes that she will be unable to return to her origins, which leaves her feeling alienated from her “mother country”. Her feelings of alienation increase as she becomes more aware…

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    various types of appropriation such as fashion, art and music, this essay will focus on fashion appropriation of Indigenous Americans (also known as Native Americans). Fashion appropriation of Indigenous Americans refers to the adoption of cultural elements such as war bonnets, totem poles and tribal markings, used on clothing, hair or decoration. Fashion appropriation of the Indigenous is not foreign (Lynskey, 2014), established companies such as Urban Outfitters and Paul Frank Industries had…

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    Indigenous Education

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    Education for the majority of Indigenous students is a daily struggle. The author has discovered that literacy in particular is difficult for Indigenous students to comprehend. Harrison and Sellwood (2016) points out, average literacy scores for Indigenous students are much lower than that of Australian students as a whole. The author believes educators are faced with the challenge to adjust their strategies to help increase the literacy levels of Indigenous students. Ordinary teaching practices…

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    current issue impacting Aboriginal children in E.C. settings is that the families of Aboriginal children often feel disconnected with or excluded from the E.C service, as did the Indigenous Melbourne father of two young girls who eventually found their "safe place" at Bubup Wilam (as seen in the youtube video). And yet for Indigenous people family is central in their lives (Fleer, 2004). Fleer (p.59, 2004) writes, "the child is a composite of an extended family, community and set of cultural…

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    The acceptable definition of Indigenous people according to indigenouspeople.net are people defined in international or national legislation as having a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory, and their cultural of historical ties to a particular territory, and their cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations that are often politically dominant. The resolution 70/232 was adopted at the seventieth session of the General Assembly on…

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    over forty thousands years, Australian Indigenous Studies or “the study of and about the Indigenous peoples” (Nakata, 2006) is a relatively new discipline in the country’s academy. Since the introduction of the subject considered the first one relating to this matter at tertiary level in 1968 (Bourke and Bourke, 2006, p. 101), Indigenous Studies has entered into mainstream education and has now become “an expansive field of study in inquiry” at higher education (Nakata, 2006). Some argue that as…

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    Standard Australian English is not a first language for Indigenous students and in fact the most common language spoken by Aboriginal Australians is Aboriginal English (AE). Why do we need Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and how can teachers assist students to attain the essential language to break down barriers to a mainstream world? Aboriginal English is derived from Aboriginal languages with…

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    Tully's Argument Analysis

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    Before significant change in the Indigenous incarnation system, there needs to be a shift in the jurisdictional control of Indigenous affairs. There are many different Indigenous nation that exist in Canada with “diverse governmental traditions, territories and aspirations” (Hogg 192) James Tully’s argument for renegotiating treaty-federalist relations is a potentially viable solution of a multitude of nations that would remain flexible and accommodating unique governmental traditions. The…

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    Tokenism In Education

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    Including Indigenous content in the subject of science can seem like a complicated task for teachers and there is sometimes the question of how to avoid tokenism in the teachings because as teachers we do not want to include Indigenous content in a way that is lacking in awareness of actual Indigenous knowledges in science. A good start to not making Indigenous knowledges not seem like tokenism when teaching it is to look at the two sciences and to not to treat them like they are binaries.…

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    Indigenous education across Australia has been gradually improving as we become more aware; however it is still drastically behind the standards of non-indigenous students. Therefore it is our responsibility as teachers to become aware of continual issues that have arisen and address them to enable progress. We must examine the ways in which we can Engage and encourage learning within our English classrooms. Before we begin I must tell you my personal experiences and explain why this is an…

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