AIATSIS Research
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Resources
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Education, history and cultural transmission
Researchers:
Dr Geoffrey Gray | Valerie Cooms | Jeanine Leane |
Current projects:
- The dominant portrayals of Indigenous people in mainstream literature and how such images impact on the use of texts by Indigenous authors in educational settings
- Teaching strategies and pedagogy that can successfully be initiated and implemented in the tertiary sector to address the historical accretions of previous images of Aboriginality on non-Indigenous students, particularly those in the area of pre-service teaching
- Teaching resources and approached that seek common ground between Indigenous communities/cultures and mainstream education providers
- Australia’s war time history from two perspectives:
- An edited collection on Australian and New Zealand ‘scholars at war’; and
- Indigenous loyalty during WWII: Loyalty at sword point;
- Research and publication of results from research on the history of Australian anthropology:
- The ‘frontier’ encounter and intercultural relationships between Indigenous peoples and anthropologists – 1920s-1950: Entanglements and Ruptures: the ethnographic frontier.
- Collection practices amongst anthropologists and others: What a stick of tobacco bought? food and collecting;
- Australia anthropology: ‘Contesting ethnographic authority: Mountford and the Berndts, 1948’
- • Archival research and writing on the implementation and Objectives of Federal and State Indigenous policies in Queensland between 1965 and 1975
Concluding projects:
- The history of Indigenous involvement in the cattle industry
- The encounter between Indigenous peoples and anthropologists
- Rations nutrition and health: historical study
- The secret life of RM & CH Berndt
- Indigenous early childhood education transitions project
Research partners: Department of Education (WA)