Education Policy Up North and Down Under: Indigenous Education Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and Australia

• In Event: Roundtable Session 56
  In Roundtable Session: Invigorating Indigenous Identities and Pedagogies

Abstract

This research uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) and postcolonial theory to investigate the discourses of globalization and self-determination in selected Indigenous educational policies from three countries. Policies regarding educational strategies for Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, First Nations, Métis and Inuit in Canada and Aboriginal Australians lend themselves to comparison, as these three settler societies share colonial pasts. More specifically, the research examines the tensions between the discourses of globalization and of local indigenous peoples striving for forms of self-determination through education, located in contemporary educational policies. Explicit contributions of my research include the identification of connections between the discourses of self-determination and globalization, as well as an opportunity for cross cultural interaction and engagement.

Author

• Marra Neilson, University of Auckland