The re-creation and resolution of the ‘problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority

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Maxwell, Jacinta, Lowe, Kevin and Salter, Peta. 2018. "The re-creation and resolution of the ‘problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority." The Australian Educational Researcher. 45 (2), pp. 161-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-017-0254-7
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The re-creation and resolution of the ‘problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority

ERA Journal ID20008
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsMaxwell, Jacinta (Author), Lowe, Kevin (Author) and Salter, Peta (Author)
Journal TitleThe Australian Educational Researcher
Journal Citation45 (2), pp. 161-177
Number of Pages17
Year2018
PublisherSpringer
Place of PublicationNetherlands
ISSN0311-6999
2210-5328
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-017-0254-7
Web Address (URL)https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13384-017-0254-7#citeas
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This paper focuses on the ‘problem’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education represented in the Australian Curriculum’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross-curriculum priority. Looking beyond particular curriculum content, we uncover the policy discourses that construct (and reconstruct) the cross-curriculum priority. In the years after the Australian Curriculum’s creation, curriculum authors have moulded the priority from an initiative without a clear purpose into a purported solution to the ‘Indigenous problem’ of educational underachievement, student resistance and disengagement. As the cross-curriculum priority was created and subsequently reframed, the ‘problem’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education has thereby been manifested in policy, strategised as curriculum content and precipitated in the cross-curriculum priority. These policy problematisations perpetuate contemporary racialisation and actively construct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, histories and knowledges as deficient.

Keywordspolicy problematisation; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education; Indigenous education; Australian curriculum; cross-curriculum priority
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
390304. Primary education
450299. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education not elsewhere classified
390306. Secondary education
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Byline AffiliationsSchool of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education
Macquarie University
James Cook University
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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