Community-based educational models in Indigenous Australian and diaspora contexts

Intercultural learning thrives beyond the confines of formal education, particularly within community-driven and informal educational models. This talk explores how Indigenous Australian and diaspora communities foster rich, reciprocal knowledge-sharing through storytelling, lived experience and relational learning. Community-driven education, rooted in Country, kinship networks and intergenerational knowledge transmission, challenges Eurocentric pedagogies by positioning ways of knowing and being at the forefront.

Facilitator:

Dr Nick Ruddell is a Māori researcher within the School of Indigenous Australian Studies at Charles Sturt. Nick works to understand intercultural systems and enjoys looking at approaches that assist and monitor how peoples, institutions and communities can exchange and respect knowledge and perspectives, particularly inside the contested space between Western and Indigenous knowledge systems.