TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,Neil
TI  - Country teaches: the clinical significance of the local in the Australian history curriculum
SN  - 00049441
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Sage
KW  - History
KW  -  Australian history
KW  -  History teaching
KW  -  Indigenous cultures
N2  - This article develops the case for a greater focus on the teaching of local histories in the Australian Curriculum: History. It takes as its starting point an Indigenous epistemology that understands knowledge to be embedded in the land. This connection between knowledge and country is used to examine recent literature on whether the teaching of history in schools can succeed in the context of the new Australian history curriculum. Various proposals from academics to develop a framework that can be used to select appropriate content and approaches to teaching history in Australia are explored. It questions whether a geographically dispersed and diverse body of students can ever be engaged with knowledge that is often taught far from the place of its making. This article eschews the traditional concepts used by historians to teach and interpret history, in order to observe how the country can teach the student
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944113495505
ER  -