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Australian Universities, Indigenization, Whiteness, and Settler Colonial Epistemic Violence
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Bennett, B and Menzel, K and Prehn, J and Gates, TG, Australian Universities, Indigenization, Whiteness, and Settler Colonial Epistemic Violence, Handbook of Critical Whiteness: Deconstructing Dominant Discourses Across Disciplines, Springer, J Ravulo, K Olcon, T Dune, A Workman, and P Liamputtong (ed), Singapore, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9789811916120 (2023) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0
Abstract
This chapter argues that despite numerous strategies, reports, and scholarship, Australian universities are still largely based on White Western worldviews and as a result continue to perpetrate and perpetuate settler colonial epistemic violence. To overcome the current settler colonial epistemic violence exerted by tertiary education providers, genuine relationships with First Nation peoples and communities need to be established, and space must be made for these communities to speak for themselves within the academy. Universities and governments should follow by providing appropriate allocation of resources for the indigenization of curricula and governance structures, within faculties and campuses. If this is achieved, the Australian tertiary education sector will become an international leader by deconstructing Whiteness, providing a greater educational experience, and exposing graduates to multiple worldviews. We address social work as a discipline and suggest ways forward.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, First Nations, cultural responsiveness, curricula, tertiary education, settler colonialism, epistemology |
| Research Division: | Indigenous Studies |
| Research Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community |
| Research Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work and social justice |
| Objective Division: | Indigenous |
| Objective Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture |
| Objective Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge |
| UTAS Author: | Prehn, J (Dr Jacob Prehn) |
| ID Code: | 154995 |
| Year Published: | 2023 |
| Deposited By: | Social Work |
| Deposited On: | 2023-01-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2023-01-23 |
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