Report
New Media Resources for Indigenous Researcher Training
Australian Learning & Teaching Council
2011
Abstract
Indigenous research students have significantly reduced participation in the academy compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. The (Australian) Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council identified the need to pursue strategies that are pedagogically in line with Indigenous Knowledge(s) practice and that promote alternative methods of merging the community experience of Indigenous research students with sound research training (James and Devlin 2006). This fellowship program has aimed to respond to this dire situation by stimulating Indigenous research students and their supervisors to consider how new media forms of dissemination, such as image/sound, film, exhibition and digital media, may form culturally appropriate alternatives or adjuncts to the linear, written thesis form. Working within the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education's Both-ways philosophy, this program has reviewed and articulated current knowledge practice with the aim of encouraging multi-disciplinary Indigenous Knowledge(s) outcomes across the higher education sector. Using a framework of development and dissemination, this program has sought to articulate strategies for Indigenous research students and their supervisory teams to achieve meaningful goals in their research training, by engaging the epistemologies and cultural knowledge they bring to the academy, while challenging a perception of remediation.
Details
- Title
- New Media Resources for Indigenous Researcher Training
- Authors
- Sandy O'Sullivan (Author) - Batchelor Institute
- Publisher
- Australian Learning & Teaching Council
- Date published
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9781921856754
- Copyright note
- Copyright © ALTC 2011. This work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Australia Licence. Under this Licence you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and to make derivative works.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451358802621
- Output Type
- Report
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