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Monday Jul 13, 2009

History Teachers Association of Australia annual conference, July 2009

Click here to download my Data Presentation slides (.pdf 4.2 MB)

Click here to download the handout with references

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Saturday Dec 06, 2008

(Anti)racism and Pedagogy conference 5 December 2008

This was a conference presented by the Hawke institute at UniSA together with the indigenous research institute at Flinders Uni. See the conference program here

Abstracts and speaker bios are here

Unfortunately the second speaker, Linda Smith from NZ was unwell and not able to be at the conference. The other speakers were excellent, although Professors Alhuwalia and Soudein were both a bit esoteric.

Main insights from this conference: Is 'race' a social construct or is it 'real'. If it is 'real', then anti-racism is the ethical way to go. If race is just a social structure then anti-racism is an absurd position, because it implies that race exists. Rather, the abolition of racial categories, including 'white', is the way to go.

This abolitionist POV is promoted by some scholars and a website (not recently updated).

 

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Nigel Mitchell


My teaching interests are English Language, Literacy, History, SOSE, Holocaust/Shoah studies, Studies of Religion and Religious Education. I am also ...