Rationale
Toward an Australian Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.
Three rationales:
1. Improving learning outcomes for Indigenous students: international problem especially for Pan Pacific settler colonial countries.
2. Learning to Live in Culturally Diverse Societies: increasingly culturally diverse societies and superdiverse classrooms.
3. De-colonising education in Australia: Australia’s historical and contemporary establishment is one of settler colonialism.
Rationale 1: Improving Indigenous student learning
The huge discrepancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous student success at school, by any measure, is an urgent international problem.
Rationale 2: Responding to super-diverse classrooms
Australia is an increasingly culturally diverse country, there is good evidence that cultural diversity does contribute significantly to our economy and society, and we make claims about high levels of community harmony and cohesion.
Rationale 3: De-colonising education in Australia
Rationale Video
Professor Robert Hattam discussing the Rationale.