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Associate Professor Mark Rose Director, Centre for Indigenous Education University Of Melbourne. ‘ 21 st Century Curriculum: Taking Bearings’. My Journey.
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Associate Professor Mark Rose Director, Centre for Indigenous Education University Of Melbourne
Career Highlights1978 First teaching assignment1983 First principalship1996 Principal KODE & VAEAI COM1997 Dep Director RMIT - MBA Programs2001 Stolen Generations Task Force2003 Vacsal Leadership Program Co Chair – Deaths in Custody2004 IHEAC & AVCC2005 AGM Dept of Education & Training2006 Director – CIE Chair WIPC-E Knowledge Cttee
This paper promotes the contention that cultural genocide as the progeny of colonialism is so insidious that as a wily beast it has turned on the ‘dispossessors’ who are now themselves being dispossessed through what is in reality a ‘Silent Apartheid’. The ‘Silent Apartheid’ is a knowledge or intellectual segregation that targets one of the last bastions of colonial endeavour, the ‘colonisation of the mind’.
The silence of this apartheid is aided by its invisibility. In it there are no segregated buses, schools, diners or washrooms on which to target rage, but rather an ever consuming intangible ignorance which is harder to recognise. The phenomenon simply put is that non-Indigenous Australians as a result of their world standard education know very little about Indigenous Australia and as such cut themselves off from the cultural and spiritual heritageof the land they reside upon.
Dysfunctional Educational Practisesas a result ofthe Great Silent Apartheid
Racism by Cotton WoolExoticismMissionaryParallelismPopulist Professional PracticeAbrogation of Responsibility via WorkforceEducational Ethnic Profiling
OH LUCKY MAN“If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world You are a lucky man If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains You are a lucky man”Oh Lucky Man! (1972) (written by Alan Price)