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0000-0002-3349-7805
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University of Newcastle Australia
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Publisher: HERMES History Education Research Network
Date: 06-03-2023
DOI: 10.52289/HEJ10.103
Abstract: Educators have long been aware of the role that schools, and specific school subjects, play in nation-building, including the ways in which national consciousness is perceived to be shaped within the classroom. This makes the historical narratives that future history teachers mobilise of particular interest to researchers. This paper draws on research from the Remembering Australia’s Past (RAP) project conducted with pre-service History teachers from the University of Newcastle, who studied history at school during the period of the ‘history wars’ (Clark, 2008). Drawing on a methodology developed by Létourneau (2006), 97 pre-service History teachers (consisting of 27 males and 70 females, the overwhelming majority of whom identified as either or both European and Anglo-Celtic) were asked to “Tell us the history of Australia in your own words.” The participants were given 45 minutes to write their personal account of the nation’s past. The analysis of the stories of the nation collected from the pre-service teachers, reveal that they have largely adopted popular discourses circulating in contemporary Australian society, demonstrating that our pre-service History teachers are successful consumers of public history in general, and the dominant discourses of Australia’s past in particular and that given the opportunity, it is these dominant discourses that they readily mobilise. This underscores the importance of engaging public history directly in the classroom, in order to assist pre-service history teachers to deconstruct the narratives ‘truths’ they have inherited and taken for granted.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.1068/A41266
Abstract: This paper focuses on the enduring traces of colonialism within the Australian nation-state and the ongoing challenges to Aboriginal peoples' rights, especially land rights. We try to make sense of contemporary federal government and New South Wales state, or provincial, government policy changes which connect land use, access and ownership to social welfare, and which target Aboriginal peoples in remote, or outback, areas and the inner city. We connect these two policy initiatives by pointing to the tension between social and planning policies, conceptions of landownership, and the notion of Aboriginal self-determination. We try to understand the rationale and enactment of these policies through the idea of policy incursions. We argue that policy incursions represent a constellation of settler nationalism, the enactment of a white national imaginary, and the exploitation of crisis that reinscribe Aboriginal people in 21st-century Australia as objects of state policy, while marginalising them as subjects of the state.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Date: 27-05-2014
Publisher: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Date: 27-05-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-08-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2022
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-04-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2019
Start Date: 2006
End Date: 2007
Funder: Charles Sturt University
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2005
End Date: 2006
Funder: University of Newcastle Australia
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2010
End Date: 2010
Funder: University of Newcastle Australia
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