Learning Country in Landscape Architecture: Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Respect and Appreciation (1st ed. 2021)

Synopsis

This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia. Australian tertiary education has little engaged with Indigenous peoples and their Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and the respectful translation of their Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary education learning. In contrast, while there has been a dearth of discussion and research on this topic pertaining to the tertiary sector, the secondary school sector has passionately pursued this topic. There is an uneasiness by the tertiary sector to engage in this realm, overwhelmed already by the imperatives of the Commonwealth’s ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative to advance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tertiary education successes and appointments of Indigenous academics. As a consequence, the teaching of Indigenous Knowledge Systems relevant to professional disciplines, particularly landscape architecture where it is most apt, is overlooked and similarly little addressed in the relevant professional institute education accreditation standards.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789811588761

Related ISBNs:

9789811588754

Publisher:

Springer Singapore, Singapore

Date of Addition:

04/18/21

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Education, Earth Sciences

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

David S. Jones