PEARL: A Reflective Story About Decolonising Pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies

Elizabeth Mackinlay

doi:10.1017/jie.2012.10

Authors

Elizabeth Mackinlay The University of Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2012.10

Keywords:

PEARL, decolonisation, Indigenous Australian studies, autoethnography

Abstract

In this article, I take a creative and autoethnographic approach to reflect upon processes of decolonisation in Indigenous Australian studies classrooms. Positioning myself as a non-Indigenous educator, I take the reader on a journey through my search for pedagogy which makes space for the colonial, difficult and messy politics of race, whiteness and knowledge to be actively challenged, deconstructed and reimagined in this context as PEARL.

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