Education

Educators need to take initiative to fill gaps in their learning so our next generation can know true Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

I run a media, training and consultancy company called IndigenousX. It is 100% Indigenous owned and staffed. We work on local, regional, national, and international…

Some will say that it’s too political, but right now is an opportunity for everyone to back the proposed change in the school curriculum

Being the first in the family to go to university has meant that I have been away from my family for a long time. I’ve missed birthdays, funerals, family gatherings and other life events in between.

Pro vice-chancellor of Indigenous strategy and leadership at the University of Newcastle, Nathan Towney, says the values system that underpins knowledge will determine how individuals and communities view the power generated and then influence how they use this power.

Children ask vital questions of the world which expose accepted ‘truths’. On 26 January, we contrast Australian displays of amnesia with Aboriginal truth-telling

Cultural Competence training or Cultural Awareness training, whatever it is called, should not be positioned as punishment. If Student Evaluation Surveys on mandatory courses tells any academic anything, it is that people made to participate in a space they are not willingly entering will not actively engage and will actively resist.

Our ancestors navigated across the land using the stars and the planets, they recognised the link between the phases of the moon and the tides. They predicted changes in the weather and identified the variable nature of distant stars in the night sky.

Despite being highly qualified within the academic system, and sovereign beings of these unceded lands, Indigenous academic women are often positioned as ‘black performer’ by their fellow academics and colleagues.

Culture, science and education are three of my key passions and have been as long as I can remember. To me, these are a logical combination – culture provides the lens through which we see the world, science the knowledge, and education how we share both.

Kup Murris is a specialised cooking technique used throughout Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands). An earth oven filled with stones and firewood to cook our meats and seasonal vegetables.  Every step of preparing a Kup Murri is a well thought out process, where each material is carefully selected to ensure our produce and staples are cooked to perfection.

In spite of the recommendations of increasing Indigenous researchers and research across this mid-career funding and ensuring that projects have Indigenous researchers attached to them, the ARC still hasn’t addressed this.

Applications for the Indigenous Girls' STEM Academy are open until the 25th August 2019.

Indigenous education is so much more than some dot art and a ‘cultural’ song you found from the Wiggles

“It is 2019 and yet the number of Indigenous educators has not improved much”

The Indigenous STEM Awards recognise, reward and celebrate the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and scientists who are studying and working in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field.

As an Indigenous psychologist who has spent the better part of the past twenty years working solidly in Aboriginal suicide, I keep getting asked “What are the causes of Indigenous suicides?”

Krystal De Napoli is a Gomeroi woman and astrophysics student at Monash University.