School Exclusion and Settler Colonialism: A Critical History
Critical education scholars in Australia are increasingly grappling with the role of racism in contemporary school systems. This project will explore the historical systems and conditions that shape this present. In partnership with the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition (NIYEC), the project team will develop a critical counternarrative of Australian schooling that exposes contemporary imperatives for truth-telling about Australian schooling, and decolonial reforms that prioritise structural justice for First Nations’ students. Crucially, the project will produce an initial report to inform NIYEC’s advocacy work in this space.
Project team
- Dr Mati Keynes, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Project Lead
- Samara Hand, PhD Candidate University of NSW & Co-Founder/Learning Programs, Director National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition (NIYEC), Researcher
- Dr Beth Marsden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Researcher
- Dr Archie Thomas, Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, Researcher