Openness and reciprocity: Indigenous community requirements for hosting university students

Philip R Crane; Mark Brough; Tarita Fisher

doi:10.1080/07294360.2019.1576593

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Openness and reciprocity: Indigenous community requirements for hosting university students

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Openness and reciprocity: Indigenous community requirements for hosting university students

Philip R Crane, Mark Brough and Tarita Fisher

Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.38(4), pp.703-716

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1576593

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Abstract

work integrated learning

Indigenous education

community partnership

yarning

student placement

Although there is a substantial literature critical of the colonising discourses of higher education in both teaching and learning and research, there has been relatively little commentary about work integrated learning (WIL) from an Indigenous perspective. Currently, the higher education discourse of WIL is dominated by a teaching and learning perspective, which focuses almost entirely on the benefits to the student and/or the educational institution. This leaves the Indigenous community experience invisible and continues to reinforce a neo-colonial relationship between higher education providers and Indigenous people. This article reports the findings of a study undertaken in partnership with the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg in Queensland, Australia, which sought to understand the community experience of students undertaking WIL within Cherbourg. Twenty yarns, undertaken by a research assistant employed from the community, provided the basis for identifying key meanings and requirements of the community in their hosting of higher education students. The recent experience of students by the community was found to be positive with reciprocity, openness and practical benefit over time being central concerns. The study concludes that WIL with Indigenous agencies and communities requires decolonising, temporal and relational frames to be employed in the process of negotiating the purpose and processes of higher education student engagement.

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Title: Openness and reciprocity: Indigenous community requirements for hosting university students
Authors: Philip R Crane (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Social Sciences
Mark Brough (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Tarita Fisher (Author) - Cherbourg Health Service
Publication details: Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.38(4), pp.703-716
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2019.1576593
ISSN: 0729-4360
Copyright note: Copyright © 2019 The Authors. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Higher Education Research & Development 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07294360.2019.1576593
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450991402621
Output Type: Journal article

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