Journal Article

Looking forward looking black: making the case for a radical rethink of strategies for success in Indigenous higher education

Stajic, Janet, Brough, Mark, Askew, Deborah, Bond, Chelsea, Springer, Shannon, Mukandi, Bryan

2020

Overview

This study takes a retrospective look at the educational experiences of Indigenous health professionals who graduated from The University of Queensland's Indigenous Health Program between 1994 and 2005, to understand the enablers for growing an Indigenous health workforce capable of advancing the health of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the qualitative accounts of 31 students and 9 staff members, this paper examines the enablers to educational success at this time, juxtaposed against current Indigenising agendas in higher education, of aspiration and capacity building alongside the task of embedding Indigenous knowledges within curricula. We look back not as a call to return to Indigenous-specific cohort courses but rather reconsider both the measures of and strategies for success in Indigenous higher education, within health and beyond, interrogating the ideological assumptions that inform them.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland
• Subject: Aboriginal education / Aboriginal health / Aboriginal health workers / Aboriginal knowledge / Aboriginal students / Alumni / Aspiration / Capacity Building / Capacity building approach / College Science / Curricula / Educational Experience / Educational Needs / Foreign Countries / Health Education / Health Personnel / Health Programs / Health workforce / Higher Education / Indigenisation / Indigenous health / Indigenous Knowledge / Indigenous knowledges / Indigenous peoples / Indigenous Personnel / Indigenous Populations / Labor Force Development / Labour force development / Medical personnel / Native education / Part 1: Special Issue / Primary Health Care / Prior Learning / Professional Recognition / Professional training / Qualitative research / Self Management / Sovereignty / Success / Time / Torres Strait Islander health / Torres Strait Islander health workers / Torres Strait Islander knowledge / Torres Strait Islander students / University curriculum / Workforce