Australian Aboriginal knowledges and service learning

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Blair, Nerida Ann. (2016). Australian Aboriginal knowledges and service learning. In In B.-L. Bartleet, D. Bennett and A. Power & N. Sunderland (Ed.). Engaging first peoples in arts-based service learning: Towards respectful and mutually beneficial educational practices pp. 99 - 117 Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22153-3_7
AuthorsBlair, Nerida Ann
EditorsB.-L. Bartleet, D. Bennett and A. Power & N. Sunderland
Abstract

Australian Aboriginal Knowings are fundamentally different to Western Knowledges. Different, not inferior and not superior. This chapter will Story these differences. It will Story these differences using metaphor; a Brick wall for Western Knowledge and a Waterlily for Australian Aboriginal Knowings. It will explore the contested space between these two worlds; the space that Aboriginal educators exist and operate within. It will explore the domain of Aboriginal expressions of Knowing through performative mediums. It is in this space that we see the most powerfully communicated understandings and expressions of Aboriginal Knowings. This chapter is not about content. It is about process. It is about philosophically understanding the depth of the most ancient cultures and peoples and our Storys. It is about finding, accepting and strategizing the discomfort: the zone of colliding trajectories, the contested zone—the zone between Aboriginal Knowings and Western Knowledges.

KeywordsAustralian Aboriginal education; Aboriginal worldviews; Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies; Story and narrative
Page range99 - 117
Year2016
Book titleEngaging first peoples in arts-based service learning: Towards respectful and mutually beneficial educational practices
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Place of publicationSwitzerland
SeriesLandscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
ISBN9783319221526
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22153-3_7
Research GroupSchool of Education
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