Overview
- Focuses on Australia’s First Nations truth, voice, recognition, diversity, and respect
- Explains how knowledge of Australian First Nations culture and learning can be seen through a new conceptual lens
- Suggests how art and education can act as ‘healing’ and a way forward towards a more inclusive civil society
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The intent of this book focuses on Australia’s First Nations truth, voice, recognition, diversity, and respect. Hope O’Chin explains that knowledge about Australian First Nations culture and learning can be seen through new conceptual lens, which she refers to as an Ontology of Dreaming Hope for Australians. The book proposes to move from ontological propositions embedded in pedagogies and methodologies that center on the relevance of Indigenous epistemes and ways of doing. O’Chin offers a conceptual framing for engaging with Indigenous peoples, and forming communities of belongingness and relationality. She offers suggestions for ways in which art and education can act as ‘healing’ and a way forward towards a more inclusive civil society. Reflexive practice, ethnographic principles, and action research is described in a way that methodologies provide an understanding of a sense of Belonging. O'Chin argues that theoretical research, art, and educational practice can addto the value of determining a strategy of Indigenous art investment within Australia, and to address how art and education can be used to validate contemporary expression of Aboriginality within contemporary Australian society. Ultimately, the book is about Indigenous strengths and what Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing can offer, and how one might go about honouring and working in this way respectfully.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hope O’Chin is a Kabi-Kabi, Wakka-Wakka, Koa, Gugu-Yalanji elder, educator, and artist. She obtained her PhD from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. She has worked within Government and the Private Sector, and, within the Education Sector as a Teacher, Executive Administrator, Tutor, Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer. As an artist, Hope has more than 45 exhibitions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Epistemology of Belongingness
Book Subtitle: Dreaming A First Nation’s Ontology of Hope
Authors: Hope O'Chin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32288-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32287-7Published: 24 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32290-7Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32288-4Published: 23 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 231
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Ontology, Philosophy of Education, Education, general