Abstract
Aboriginal Australian peoples have a continuous oral culture, which has changed over millennia, and continues to develop in contemporary Australia. Despite political movements towards reconciliation, and the recognition of Aboriginal cultures and rights, educational curriculum in Australia fails to engage with the a priori profundity and depth of living Aboriginal cultures. In order to address the profound disconnect between Western and Aboriginal philosophies, this chapter considers the arts-based Aboriginal onto-epistemology of 'thinking through Country' (Somerville, 2013) alongside a 'flat ontology' derived from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, and A.N. Whitehead's process philosophy. The aim is to propose ways to transform the Australian educational curriculum at the intersection of Western and Aboriginal understandings of coming to know the world.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Art, Artists and Pedagogy: Philosophy and the Arts in Education |
| Editors | Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta, David R. Cole |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 71-82 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315143880 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138500518 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Aboriginal Australians
- culture
- oral tradition
- curriculum change
- Australia