TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Indigenous student outcomes through improved teacher education
T2 - the views of Indigenous educators
AU - Woodroffe, Tracy
PY - 2020/6/21
Y1 - 2020/6/21
N2 - This article describes an alternative approach to improving Indigenous student outcomes through improved teacher education, expressed through the views of Indigenous educators. The strategies required relate to the need for a cultural shift within the current Australian education system identified by Indigenous educators. The research demonstrates how connections between Westernised education systems and knowledge of Indigenous educators provide a locus of potential for the improved educational outcomes of Indigenous students. Indigenous educators’ knowledge about teaching, and their specialist knowledge about Indigenous content place them in a position of epistemological privilege. The vehicle for change in the interests of Indigenous students is teacher education and the driving force of untapped potential is Indigenous educators.
AB - This article describes an alternative approach to improving Indigenous student outcomes through improved teacher education, expressed through the views of Indigenous educators. The strategies required relate to the need for a cultural shift within the current Australian education system identified by Indigenous educators. The research demonstrates how connections between Westernised education systems and knowledge of Indigenous educators provide a locus of potential for the improved educational outcomes of Indigenous students. Indigenous educators’ knowledge about teaching, and their specialist knowledge about Indigenous content place them in a position of epistemological privilege. The vehicle for change in the interests of Indigenous students is teacher education and the driving force of untapped potential is Indigenous educators.
KW - Indigenous education
KW - Indigenous educators
KW - Indigenous knowledge
KW - student academic outcomes
KW - teacher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086736723&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1177180120929688
DO - 10.1177/1177180120929688
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086736723
VL - 16
SP - 146
EP - 152
JO - AlterNative
JF - AlterNative
SN - 1177-1801
IS - 2
ER -