EDST1108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eurocentrism, Moodle
9 Jun 2018
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1. 26/02/18 Introduction
Perspective, position, and power
• Educators - important position within power structures
Indigenous Education
• Knowledge and understanding acquired through cultural interface - different
cultural perspectives having conversations with one another
• Teachers should not just reproduce dominant narrative (white western)
• Should recognise the relationship we share with Indigenous Australians
• Perspective and understanding - shaped by media, education (narrow and
limited)
Course goals / remember
• Understanding of self, education, culture, society may be challenged /
confronted (might be unsettling)
• Understand that discussion of Indigenous education is in a non-Indigenous
dominated setting
• Rethink/conceptualize ‘imagined history’
• Examine your location in story
• Who has the authority to legitimise history / truth?
Knowing, knowledge, and the unknown
• How is knowledge constructed? Who legitimises it? How?
• Fabrication of events - writing, texts, paintings - history may be rewritten
through text and narrative construction
• Ideas and truths are contestable - how are some narratives so dominant at
others’ expense?
• Historical and cultural points of view effect current knowledge
• All knowledge systems are contestable (Western / eurocentric)
• Multiple forms of knowledge exist - related to cultural empathy
• Consider structure and organisation of education and knowledge
• Knowledge is (re)constructed in ways that serve particular interests and
perspectives - elements of narratives may be omitted or reconstructed
• Counternarratives - speak back and provide alternative perspectives
READING: Stanesby and Thomas, moodle
HELPFUL RESOURCE: Appropriate and inappropriate terminology
https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/indigenous-terminology
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