This paper aims to understand excellence in education through Indigenous peoples’ perspectives regarding how excellence in Indigenous education is (or could be) enacted in schools.
The theme this year for National Reconciliation Week is ‘Now more than ever’. We need change in Indigenous education now more than ever. We share our research on excellence in Indigenous education where we ask big questions about what is needed to shift Indigenous education from gaps to excellence.
A study exploring what excellence in Indigenous education is, or could be, has sparked a national dialogue about shifting ideology and practice in Indigenous education from gaps to excellence.
What is excellence in Indigenous education? And, how is it conceptualised in practice? In this article, researchers from the University of Queensland, Dr Marnee Shay, Dr Jodie Miller and Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed, share details of their pilot study in Queensland schools that explored these questions.
The aim of this research was to generate new understandings of excellence in Indigenous education that focused on excellence as defined by Indigenous peoples and establish best educational practices from 12 QLD school sites.
The overall aim is to contribute to a cultural shift within the policy, scholarly and practitioner purviews that is Indigenous-led and underpinned by self-determination.
