Indigenous postgraduate education: intercultural perspectives

Edited book


Trimmer, Karen, Hoven, Debra and Keskitalo, Pigga (ed.) 2020. Indigenous postgraduate education: intercultural perspectives. Charlotte, NC, United States. Information Age Publishing.
Book Title

Indigenous postgraduate education: intercultural perspectives

Book CategoryEdited book
ERA Publisher ID2212
EditorsTrimmer, Karen, Hoven, Debra and Keskitalo, Pigga
Number of Pages304
SeriesResearch in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives
Year2020
PublisherInformation Age Publishing
Place of PublicationCharlotte, NC, United States
ISBN9781648021107
9781648021114
Web Address (URL)https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p2DxDwAAQBAJ&hl=en
Abstract

This book focuses on Indigenous participation in postgraduate education. The collaborating editors, from the contexts of Australian, Canadian and Nordic postgraduate education, have brought together voices of Indigenous postgraduate students and researchers about strategies to support postgraduate education for Indigenous students globally and to promote sustainable solution-focused and change-focused strategies to support Indigenous postgraduate students. The role of higher education institutions in meeting the needs of Indigenous students is considered by contributing scholars, including issues related to postgraduate education pedagogies, flexible learning and technologies. On a more fundamental level the book provides a valuable resource by giving voice to Indigenous postgraduate students themselves who share directly the stories of their experience, their inspirations and difficulties in undertaking postgraduate study. This component of the book gives precedence to the issues most relevant and important to students themselves for consideration by universities and researchers. Bringing the topic and the voices of Indigenous students clearly into the public domain provides a catalyst for discussion of the issues and potential strategies to assist future Indigenous postgraduate students.

This book will assist higher education providers to develop understanding of how Indigenous postgraduate students and researchers negotiate research cultures and agendas that permeate higher education from the past to ensure the experience of postgraduate students is both rich in regard to data to be collected and culturally safe in approach; what connections, gaps and contradictions occur at the intersections between past models of postgraduate study and emerging theories around intercultural perspectives, including the impact of cultural and linguistic differences on Indigenous students' learning experiences; how Indigenous students’ and researchers’ personal and professional understandings, beliefs and experiences about what typifies knowledge and research or adds value to postgraduate studies are constructed, shared or challenged; and how higher education institutions manage the potential challenges and risks of developing pedagogies to ensure that they give voice and power to Indigenous postgraduate students.

KeywordsAboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, First Nation, Metis, Inuit, Sami, Indigenous postgraduate students, Indigenous postgraduate education
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390401. Comparative and cross-cultural education
390303. Higher education
450299. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education not elsewhere classified
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Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
Byline AffiliationsSchool of Education
Athabasca University, Canada
Sami University of Applied Sciences, Norway
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