Post-Imperial Perspectives on Indigenous Education: Lessons from Japan and Australia

ISBN-13: 9780367553074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 302 str.

Opis

This book explores the impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Japan and Australia, where it has heralded change in the rights of Indigenous peoples to have their histories, cultures and lifeways taught in culturally appropriate and respectful ways in mainstream education systems.

Spis treści

1: Introducing Indigenous Education in Japan and Australia  Part I: Historical perspectives on Indigenous education, Indigenous higher education, and teacher education in Japan and Australia  2: An Indigenous history of education in Japan and Australia  3: The place of Indigenous Peoples in multicultural education: Policies, debates and practices in Australia and Japan  4: Higher education in Japan and the history of Ainu demands  5: Indigenous higher education in historical context in Australia  Part II: After UNDRIP: Japanese and Australian responses and possibilities  6: Challenges and responses to UNDRIP in Australian and Japanese Indigenous education  7: Embracing and resisting Indigenist perspectives in Australian pre-service teacher education  8: Teacher education issues in Okinawa  9: Questioning current issues in the higher education sector for Japan’s Ainu People  10: Stabilizing and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities  Part III: Considering post-imperial Indigenous education in Japan and Australia  11: The significance of building an Ainu-led higher education system and the empowerment of the Indigenous Ainu  12: The usefulness of the idea and concept of reconciliation for guiding Australian Indigenous higher education in the postcolonial, post-imperial world