Indigenous Practical Theology Symposium (Advanced) (DA9002W)

Content

This unit aims to develop students understanding of a range of issues facing indigenous peoples in various parts of the world and will explore ideas and points of view in response to these issues. Students will be given opportunity to develop advanced skills, ideas and techniques that equip them for cross-cultural work.

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

Online synchronous discussions, forums, reading exercises, then face to face presentation at forum and engagement in forum

Indicative Bibliography

• Archibald, Linda. Decolonization and healing: Indigenous experiences in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Greenland. anberra: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2006.
• Denzin, Norman K., Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies. Sage, 2008.
• Fixico, Donald L., The American Indian Mind in a Linear World, New York: Routledge, 2003
• Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts. University of Toronto Press, 2010.
• Mar, Tracey Banivanua. Decolonisation and the Pacific: indigenous globalisation and the ends of empire. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Nakata, Martin N. Disciplining the savages, savaging the disciplines. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007.
• Price, Kaye. Knowledge of Life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Rynkiewich, Michael., Soul, Self and Society: A Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2011
• Stonechild, Blair, The New Buffalo: The struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006.
• Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Second edition. ed. London: Zed Books, 2012.

Assessment