Teachers, Time, Staff and Money: Committing to Community Consultation in High Schools
State and Federal education departments have increasingly recognised the importance of community consultation in the development of school curricula, and the requirement for teachers to consult with Indigenous communities is explicit in many curriculum documents. This article re...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland
2012-01-01
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| Series: | The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education |
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| Online Access: | https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article/view/75 |
| Summary: | State and Federal education departments have increasingly recognised the importance of community consultation
in the development of school curricula, and the requirement for teachers to consult with Indigenous
communities is explicit in many curriculum documents. This article reports the findings of research into how
teachers of senior Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies are engaging with consultation as part of
their work. As Australia moves towards full implementation of a national curriculum that requires the
embedding of Indigenous perspectives across all subjects, an understanding of how teachers are currently
experiencing community consultation is particularly important.
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| ISSN: | 2049-7784 |