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Singing up Country in Academia: Teacher Education Academics and Preservice Teachers’ Experience with Yuin Country University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+ University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 2017 Singing up Country in academia: teacher education academics and preservice teachers’ experience with Yuin Country Anthony McKnight University of Wollongong, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1 University of Wollongong Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorise you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of the author. Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. Recommended Citation McKnight, Anthony, Singing up Country in academia: teacher education academics and preservice teachers’ experience with Yuin Country, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Education, University of Wollongong, 2017. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/72 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Indigenous Australians are advised that this article may include images or names of people now deceased. Continue Singing Up Country in Academia: Teacher education academics and preservice teachers’ experience with Yuin Country A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree Doctor of Philosophy from University of Wollongong by Anthony McKnight Bach. Ed. (HPE), M. Ed 2017 1 Declaration I, Anthony David Blake McKnight, declare that this thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the conferral of the degree Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Social Sciences – School of Education, from the University of Wollongong, is wholly my own work unless otherwise referenced or acknowledged. This document has not been submitted for qualifications at any other academic institution. Anthony D. B. McKnight 3rd March, 2017 2 Acknowledgements / dedication I really enjoy all forms of swimming and this passion started by being immersed in water at the start of my life’s journey. One of the bodies of water where I am currently swimming is in a pool called academia. The pool is man-made and so are many of the processes to keep it clean, however it is still full of water. For me to have been able to spend so much time in this pool and the natural swimming pools on Country, I need to acknowledge and be very thankful to some very important people and beings in my life: my family. I need to especially thank my wife, Carol, and our children, Jeremy, Lily and Ben, who have had to put up with me during my journey of doing a thesis: one big hug. Numerous hugs of thank you also need to be sent to all the people and beings that are part of my family and community. To my supervisors, Professor Jan Wright and Professor Valerie Harwood, a very big hug each and thanks. A masterful pairing that helped me in all the directions, techniques and discipline required to assist me to be able to swim in a chlorinated pool. It has meant a lot, too deadly. Another important thank you, to be sent out, is directed to all the people that have supported me at various times throughout this period, whether it was a big or small contribution, a reference or a yarn, they were all very significant. Well Uncle, thanks old fella. To my Ancestors and Ancients thank you, especially Gulaga and Biamanga: thank you Mother. Thanks Country for the slaps, the hugs, tears, laughter, tests and elation, but more importantly, thank you for the teachings. 3 Terminology Aboriginal: A generalised term for the various Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Bundi: Traditional weapon. Growled: Getting in serious trouble by being told off for doing the wrong thing and/or not doing something that you should be doing. Indigenous: Aboriginal peoples / First Nation peoples in an international context Mingadhuga Mingayung: My Mother Your Mother. Reminder Bird: An Aboriginal guide, friend and support person for non-Aboriginal people engaging in a relationship with Country when in academia and outside. Tripartation: A spiritual passageway between Yuin and Western knowledge site and dualities. ~: Represents a mental and spiritual umbilical cord that connects and separates dualities at the same time. Yuin Country: “Extends from the Snowy River in the South to the escarpment of Wollongong, our northern boundary, and then out to the Southern Tablelands. Our Country follows the coast down and into Victoria” (Harrison M.D. and McConchie, 2009, p. 15). 4 Thesis by Compilation This thesis by compilation has three distinct published journal articles that are listed below. The three distinct papers have been published in three significant educational journals. The three publications have been purposely placed and linked into the overall thesis in a logical and coherent manner to meet the University of Wollongong Higher Degree Research guidelines for a thesis by compilation. (For further information see http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@raid/documents/doc/uow1938 39.pdf) Publications Statement This thesis includes chapters that have been written as the following journal articles: Chapter Four: McKnight A. D. (2015). Mingadhuga Mingayung: Respecting Country through Mother Mountain’s Stories in order to share her reculturing voice in Western academic structures. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(3), 276–290. Chapter Five: McKnight. A. D. (2016). Preservice Teachers’ Learning with Yuin Country: Becoming Respectful Teachers in Aboriginal Education. Asian Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 44(2) 110-124. Chapter Six: McKnight A. D. (2016). Meeting Country and self to initiate an embodiment of knowledge: Embedding a process for Aboriginal perspectives. Australian Journal Of Indigenous Education, 45(1), 11-22. 5 Abstract Aboriginal knowledge in this dissertation has been intentionally argued as a living entity that moves and shifts like any living entity, such as wind, trees, people, water and sand, because the traditional Aboriginal knowledge system are these entities. Ever since Aboriginal knowledge has come into contact with Western knowledge, Aboriginal knowledge has moved in a form of relationality as it is placed into our epistemological, ontological and pedagogical pattern thinking and feeling. Through a process of colonisation, Western knowledge attempted to remove this relatedness (Martin 2008) of oneness and responsibility of taking care of Country. This study examines the movement of Yuin traditional knowledge and Western knowledge within six teacher education academics and twenty preservice education students. This knowledge was shared through a cultural experience called Mingadhuga Mingayung - My Mother Your Mother. The Mingadhuga Mingayung approach was designed to engage the participants in a Yuin education structure and setting to start experiencing ‘tripartation’, a spiritual passageway between Yuin and the participants’ own Western knowledge. Further to this intent was to research how this relationship developed to encourage respectful behaviour and appropriate educational/personal practice to reculturalise Aboriginal perspective in their teaching curriculum. The problem explored in this study is whether non-Aboriginal people can create their own relationship with Yuin Country; to see how this relationship with Yuin Country could occur through cultural and knowledge connections through similarities. It also explored the aspects of Western knowledge, which needed to be separated or dislocated while the academics were immersed in Country’s teachings. My teachings from Yuin Country as/with the Yuin old peoples’ teachings and actions were used to explore, utilise and challenge Bhabha’s (2004) third space. This was done to enhance an understanding of the knowledge relationships and feelings present within the in-between space and the movement within/around/throughout/across Western and Yuin knowledge. The research located and explored the colonial 6 residues that could hinder the knowledge relationships, while at the same time searching for connections, similarities and places for respectful separations. The ‘methodology of relationship’ utilised in this study exemplifies a Yuin Country- led process and approach in relationship with Indigenous and Western academic methods. My role as ‘observer-participant’ demonstrates the importance to equally observe both the participants’ and Country’s input during the data collection and analysis. Metaphorically the methodology took the form of a Songline with the potential to become an actual academic Storyline/Songline
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