Author: Dr M Keynes
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Interview with Umeå University about research visit
What could your collaboration lead to? I hope it leads to development of an international evidence-base about the teaching of Indigenous and minoritised histories in settler colonial contexts and deepens opportunities to share and showcase teacher practice and innovation in this space. Read the full interview here (scroll down for English).
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Yoorrook social justice hearings wrap up
The team at Yoorrook recently published this helpful wrap up of the recent Social Justice Hearings block. These hearings into the systemic injustices faced by First Peoples in education, health, housing and the economy. During the education hearings, I talked about how Victoria’s curriculum has been a potent and favoured tool of governments to legitimate…
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Expert Witness Testimony at the Yoorrook Justice Commission
On June 3, Mati appeared as an expert witness at the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s ‘Social Justice Hearings’ to give testimony about the Victorian school system including its treatment of First Peoples. The commission referenced ‘The School Exclusion Project’ report (seeded by the Australian Centre funding in 2023) which Mati produced with the National Indigenous Youth Coalition and a team of…
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For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling
Education is an important part of societal change, but what are the best ways to include truth-telling in the Australian curriculum? I was glad to share some of my latest research on truth-telling with Pursuit as part of their series of truth-telling to mark publication of a new history of the University, Dhoombak Goobgoowana – A…
Dr. Matthew R. Keynes 