Indigenous Narratives of Success
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Indigenous Narratives of Success

Building Positive and Effective Communication in Group Conversation

By Janice A Stewart.
Foreword by Jackie Huggins and Sam Watson.
ISBN: 978-1921214-51-6 A5 272pp
AUD $59.50 + p&p.

Written in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tertiary students. Cover art by Mayrah Yarraga Dreise.

About

In this text, Jan Stewart accomplishes a two-fold task: a methodological challenge of co-constructing, with a group of students, a research-based account of Indigenous success in an Australian university. This book is as much about a methodology for conversing with others and listening to their voices as it is about Indigenous narratives of success. This is a finely grained and highly readable study. It provides valuable insights for the research community as well as for those interested in Indigenous students’ experiences of traversing spaces between their university studies, their backgrounds, and their ways of being Indigenous.

Pam Christie
Assoc Professor, The University of Queensland , & UNESCO Chair of Teacher Education for Diversity and Development, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Jan's passion, commitment and interpersonal skill and her supportive interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students is clear. Her work demonstrates a respectful, reciprocal and reflective relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues working together on a shared project. It presents a model for future research practice. To this end, then, this is a project of reconciliation.

Professor Jo-Anne Reid
President: Australian Association for Research in Education

Jan Stewart is a non-Indigenous Australian living in Brisbane with her husband, Harrie; she has three adult sons, Richard, Paul and Ross. She is a retired primary teacher with 25 years teaching experience and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, a Bachelor of Education (Hons) and a Doctorate in Indigenous Education from the University of Queensland. Jan is currently associated with the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at The University of Queensland.

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • A Co-researcher Speaks (Jayde Fuller)
  • Foreword (Sam Watson)
  • And forward (Jackie Huggins)
  • Preface
  • Positioning of Indigenous Students' Voices in the Research Text
  • Presentation of Indigenous Students' Voices
  • Difficulties with Tense
  • Terminology

Part One: Lie of the Land

  1. Selling the Scene—a Storied Landscape
  2. Our Stories in the Context of the University Environment
  3. Situating the Research Field

Part Two: Charting a Course of Exploration and Orientation in Research Methodology

  1. Choosing a Methodological Route—the Narrative Inquirer
  2. Voice and Representation in Indigenous Australian Research
  3. Exploring and Selecting Conversation Group Method
  4. A Methodological Pathway Built on Grounded Theory
  5. "Being Successful"
  6. Negotiating Place
  7. Re-claiming and Re-naming Marques of Place
  8. Reflections: Dialogical Steps in the Narrative Phases of Conversation Groups
  • Endnotes
  • Appendices
  • Index

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