Towards a Theory of Negotiating Difference in Indigenous Teacher EducationCarol Reid, Lecturer, Academic Coordinator, Aboriginal Rural Education Program, Faculty of Education, UWS, Macarthur. AbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between culture and education in indigenous teacher education. The investigation arises from a general question regarding the impact of changing processes of racialisation on indigenous education in Australia and Canada. A review of the literature on race, culture and inequality in education in the post-war period reveals that the relationship of culture to education has been articulated as culture-as-impediment and/or culture-as-celebration. This paper argues that the race-relations problematic which contributed to the way in which we approached issues of 'race' and inequality, continues to shape our understanding of culture and inequality in education. Recent debates have been concerned with 'culturalist' accounts of inequality in Aboriginal education in Australia arising from this methodology. This paper will explore the dimensions of an alternative approach based on the notion of culture-as-produced. This will then provide a framework for analysing the negotiation of difference in indigenous teacher education in Australia and Canada. |
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