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Re-imaging Aboriginal leadership in higher education – A new Indigenous research paradigm.

Authors :
Ford, Linda Payi
Guthadjaka, Kathy Gotha
Daymangu, James Walung
Danganbar, Bettina
Baker, Colin
Ford, Chloe
Ford, Emily
Thompson, Nicole
Ford, Mark
Wallace, Ruth
St Clair, Marianne
Murtagh, David
Source :
Australian Journal of Education (Sage Publications Ltd.). Nov2018, Vol. 62 Issue 3, p276-288. 13p.
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

This article focuses on leadership by women in Indigenous research in the higher education sector of Australia. The research that provided the context for this exploration of Indigenous women's leadership involved archiving ceremonial cultural knowledge from the Daly and Wagait regions of the Northern Territory. The article introduces the concept of Aboriginal corporeality and the struggle within colonial Australia and through to the present to prevent its erasure from Australia's history. This struggle is referenced in the paradigm shifts underway in Indigenist research. The article acknowledges the past commitments of powerful Aboriginal women to the advancement of their clans' people under the new circumstances that they had to confront from the 1880s. It is argued that the cultural agenda of these women prepared the ground for the advances in Indigenist research reported in this article. The article concludes with an example of the close, culturally significant partnership that was forged by the research project across two Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00049441
Volume :
62
Issue :
3
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Australian Journal of Education (Sage Publications Ltd.)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
133717386
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944118808364