2025 UniSA Teaching and Learning Breakfast Series

Indigenising the Curriculum: In Practice

PRESENTER: Professor Tracey Bunda (University of Queensland) Recipient of the 2024 AAUT Career Achievement Award

ABSTRACT: Indigenising Curriculum is a recent intervention within higher education, one that seeks to recognise the multiple knowledge systems that exist within the nation. In the presentation Professor Bunda discusses the Indigenising Curriculum practice undertaken at the University of Queensland during the last 3 years. Her discussion will outline matters that are inclusive of Indigenous engagement; policy framing; governance considerations; principles for Indigenising curriculum development; appropriate pedagogies and resource development. Time shall be set aside in the presentation for questions.

In preparation for the presentation, participants may wish to listen to the following podcast series

https://indigenisingcurriculum.podbean.com/

BIO: Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman and grew up on the lands of the Jagera/Jugera/Yuggerapul peoples. She was recently awarded the 2024 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)

Tracey is the University of Queensland Professor of Indigenous Education and has recently undertaken the role of Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement).

During her extensive 4-decade career she has held senior Indigenous leadership roles in each of the universities in which she worked. Professor Bunda’s research interests are informed by critical theoretical approaches for understanding how race and power ideologically manifest. She is a CI for ARC grants that investigate Indigenous Futures (Centre of Excellence); the Climate Child (SCU) and a UQ Linkage for Peer Parent and Family Advocacy in Australian Child Protection

Her most recent co-authored book with Louise Phillips is Storying Social Movement’s (2023) and she is the co- host, with Associate Professor Katelyn Barney, of the podcast series Indigenising the curriculum in

Professor Bunda proudly mentors the next generation of young Aboriginal scholars and learners to embody excellence as an Ancestral tradition of cultural continuity.

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