Education for productive futures: a white woman learning from Aboriginal voices
Carnes,R 2013, Education for productive futures: a white woman learning from Aboriginal voices, in VET Research At the Edge – Training for Diversity and Change, Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association,.
High incarceration rates of Aboriginal Western Australians leads to between 1800 and 2000 Aboriginal prisoners at any one time. Despite this little is written or noted in Australian peer reviewed academic literature about education provision to Aboriginal prisoners. "Closing the Gap: learning from and privileging Aboriginal voices to learn what helps and hinders educationin WA prisons" is a PhD project nearing submission. It has been conducted in partnership with the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee as we ll as with the support of a local community legalservice. The findings are relevant beyond a prison context.This paper specifically focuses on how understandings of the concept of productivity can differ. Itconsiders what might or might not be helpful in achieving productive educational and trainingoutcomes in Western Australian prisons for Indigenous individuals, families and communities. Itrelies heavily on the words of the author's teachers; the Aboriginal participants in the project alongside Indigenous authors and academics. The paper concludes by considering implications for developing and evaluating training programs in more flexible ways that respect diversity.
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I was affiliated with Murdoch Uni at this time. My paper is under Abstract 65 http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/AVETRA13_0065_Final-Paper.pdf
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130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education 160201 Causes and Prevention of Crime 200211 Postcolonial Studies
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