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- Title: Can We Move Beyond 'Indigenous Good, Non-Indigenous Bad' in Thinking About People and the Environment?(Report)
- Author : Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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Introduction The suggestion that the answer to a question about the historical relationships between people and the environment can be reduced to Indigenous good/non-Indigenous bad raises some questions about what is occurring around the Victorian Outdoor and Environmental Studies (OES) curriculum to enable such a pat answer. There is a need for caution when using students' exam responses to make inferences about curriculum and the way it is taught. However, in this paper I use the OES curriculum as a context to examine some of the broader social processes at work that may be informing what Bucknell & Mannion (2007) perceive to be such a uniformly reductionist response of Indigenous good/non-Indigenous bad. Curriculum does not stand alone; rather it is "shaped by and reflects the content and organisation of society, including the distribution and relationships of power" (Reid, 2004, p. 59). As such, curriculum documents are a rich site to explore the content and organisation of society. I would suggest that the OES curriclum is not unique in producing a 'pat' response of Indigenous good/non-Indigenous bad, but rather, this response reflects broader social discourses. The intent of this paper is to explore the content and organisation of society through the OES curriculum, rather than a critique of this curriculum area as such.
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