Lessons from a face-to-face meeting on embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives: 'a contract of intimacy'

Jo Lampert, Bruce Burnett, Rebecca Martin, Lisa McCrea

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Abstract

This paper presents the findings from a conversation between an Aboriginal educator and a non-Indigenous pre-service educator about the importance and complexities of building productive partnerships. Although the participants focused on the challenges and benefits of building relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators and non-Indigenous educators in Australian early years settings, the more significant outcome of the meeting was the personal connection two young women were able to make when a friendship began to develop. The project was intended to enable an opportunity for the participants 'to engage in reflexivity on their pedagogic work', something Mills (2012) understands as crucial to the support of social justice and transformation in the classroom.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)82-88
Number of pages7
JournalAustralasian Journal of Early Childhood
Volume39
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes

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