EDST1108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Keith Windschuttle, Civilizing Mission, Social Reproduction
9 Jun 2018
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6. 9/04/18 Unknowing an ‘imagined history’
• Moving towards AITSL 2.4
Educational goals
• Melbourne declaration on educational goals 2008
• Promote equity and excellence
• All young Australians become active learners
Embedding Indigenous perspectives in teaching and learning
• Cross-curricular priorities → must provide opportunities for all learners to
deepen their knowledge of Indigenous culture / history etc.
• Value and respect
Revisiting concerns with an imagined history
• Historicising whiteness
• Constructed narrative was established
Aboriginal Sovereignty
• Tent embassy
Perspectives of the day
• Social Darwinism
• Eugenics
Perspectives of today
• The fabrication of Aboriginal history - Keith Windschuttle
Contestations over creating an imagined community
• The Nation is a social construct
• Education is a key site of social reproduction
Indigenous peoples through history: debunking the ‘peaceful settler’ story
• Timeline of government policy approaches
• Extermination
• Segregation
• Christianisation
• Assimilation
• Self-determination
• Reconciliation
Extermination → the frontier wars
• Resistance - 1792
Segregation - ‘for their protection’
• British government royal commission in 1837 recommended a ‘protectorate’
system
• Monitoring of everything
Christianisation - a ‘civilising mission’
• Education based on Christian doctrine and generally limited to year 4
• Characterised by abuse and trauma
• Focus on preparation for manual labour (serving white interests)
Assimilation - fear of Indigenous Australians
• Seeking to ‘absorb’ Indigenous into white population - breed them out
Post 1967 referendum
• Constitutional reform
• No longer flora and fauna
• Federal legislation for the first time
Un/re-learning history
• History is a part of the present - manifested in symbols, celebrations,
remembrances, events - and is involved in the reinforcement of cultural
values
• Knowledge about and representation of “Others”
• Why do you view people the way you do?
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Document Summary
9/04/18 unknowing an imagined history", moving towards aitsl 2. 4. Educational goals: melbourne declaration on educational goals 2008, promote equity and excellence, all young australians become active learners. Embedding indigenous perspectives in teaching and learning: cross-curricular priorities must provide opportunities for all learners to deepen their knowledge of indigenous culture / history etc, value and respect. Revisiting concerns with an imagined history: historicising whiteness, constructed narrative was established. Perspectives of the day: social darwinism, eugenics. Perspectives of today: the fabrication of aboriginal history - keith windschuttle. Contestations over creating an imagined community: the nation is a social construct, education is a key site of social reproduction. Indigenous peoples through history: debunking the peaceful settler" story: timeline of government policy approaches, extermination, segregation, christianisation, assimilation, self-determination, reconciliation. Extermination the frontier wars: resistance - 1792. Segregation - for their protection": british government royal commission in 1837 recommended a protectorate" system, monitoring of everything.
