Intergenerational strength: How to showcase Indigenous resilience when reading First Nations literature in subject English

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Thomson, Amy. 2024. "Intergenerational strength: How to showcase Indigenous resilience when reading First Nations literature in subject English." Metaphor. 2024 (3), pp. 20-26.
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Intergenerational strength: How to showcase Indigenous resilience when reading First Nations literature in subject English

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AuthorsThomson, Amy
Journal TitleMetaphor
Journal Citation2024 (3), pp. 20-26
Number of Pages7
Year2024
PublisherEnglish Teachers Association of Qld Inc.
Place of PublicationAustralia
ISSN1440-0022
Web Address (URL)https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.T2024070400006101818969687?casa_token=vRQyKbxUCEoAAAAA%3A64LWd6Mv9nS7sKnAzxYe09qMH8E9uQOHPzOKnyhwHsOLqyOCMZ7WVkVKZOxyOFAUHoMQN52DgZ3HP70
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English teachers are uniquely positioned regarding possibilities for how to embed First Nationsperspectives (Worrell, 2024). This is due to the availability and versatility of numerous texts authoredby Indigenous peoples (Worrell, 2024). Engaging with these texts meaningfully can effectively promotereconciliation and healing (Shipp, 2021). Despite the opportunities to embed Indigenous perspectives,many Indigenous scholars have challenged the privileged position of Subject English due to its tendencyto adhere to the dominant norm and silence Indigenous voices (Hogarth, 2022; Worrell, 2024; Phillipset al., 2022; Thomson, 2023b). Some have said English, as a curriculum area, has continued to work asa tool of the settler-colonial system (Worrell, 2024; Wolfe, 2006) as it has established and maintainedcolonial norms in education (Hogarth, 2019; Thomson, 2023b). This paper seeks to provide practicalways to address these critiques through providing strategies for how to showcase Indigenous resiliencewhen reading First Nations literature in Subject English.

KeywordsFirst Nations literature; Subject English
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ANZSRC Field of Research 2020450201. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum and pedagogy
390104. English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
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