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'Recently I listened to an Indigenous educator respond to the draft Australian Curriculum and it would be hard to have been in that audience and not be infected by the sheer relief expressed, that at last the knowledges of Indigenous peoples will be brought into the curriculum in a consistent and self-conscious manner. This at least is the potential of the curriculum, as this educator saw it. While most of us at the forum were expressing disappointment about what we saw before us as an atomised, technicist approach to English in the consultation draft, with its attendant matrix of strands, standards and levels, here was a firm reminder of the nature of 'standpoint'. Despite many of the criticisms voiced about the Australian curriculum, and the sense of opportunity lost for an imaginative national discussion about what we value as important learning, I've heard no one question the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives...' (From author's introduction, 31)
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Australian Voices : Presence and Absence in the Senior Literature Classroom
Subjects:
- The Ghostly Haunting of White Shame in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon 2006 single work criticism
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- No Sugar 1980 single work drama
- Proximate Reading : Australian Literature in Transnational Reading Frameworks 2010 single work criticism
- Telling Stories : Australian Literature in a National English Curriculum 2008 single work criticism
- Benang Extracts 2001 extract novel
- The Dreaming and Other Essays 2009 selected work criticism
- Ten Canoes 2006 single work film/TV
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- Carpentaria 2006 single work novel
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