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Raymond Nichol
TPTC Burwood, BA (Hons), MA by Research Monash, MACE, FAAS

Senior Lecturer
Course Co-ordinator Bachelor/Graduate Diploma In Educational Studies

Room/Location: 3.15C Education
Ph: 5444 7329
Fx: 5444 7800
Email: r.nichol@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Areas

• Studies of Society and Environment
• Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education
• Australian Studies, particularly cultural, social and political issues
• Research Methodology

Research Interests

• Indigenous Pedagogy and Education
• Ethnographic and action research, in Australia, Japan and South-East Asia.
• Citizenship education
• Primary social studies: planning, implementation and evaluation

Recent Publications and Presentations

Nichol, R (2005) Socialization, Land and Citizenship Among Aboriginal Australians: Reconciling Indigenous and Western Forms of Education. Mellen Press, New York.

Nichol, R, and Robinson, J (2000) 'Pedagogical Challenges in Making Mathematics Relevant for Indigenous Australians' International Journal of Mathematical Research in Science and Technology, Vol. 31, No. 4, 495-504.

Nichol, R (2000) 'Comparative Styles of Learning: Australia and Japan- A Study of Kikokushijo, Returnees to Japanese Education from periods of study in Australia' Working Paper of the Centre for Australian Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, April.

Main, D., Fennell, R., and Nichol, R., (2000) 'Reconciling Indigenous pedagogy and health sciences to promote Indigenous health', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol 24, No 2, p. 211-215.

Nichol, R (2000) 'We Grow Them Up in the Ashes: The Place of Indigenous Pedagogy in Education for Reconciliation', Refereed Paper, presented and published in the Proceedings, Australian Indigenous Education Conference, 'Learning Better Together', Edith Cowan University and ATSIC, Fremantle, WA, April.

Brew, C., and Nichol, R., (2001) 'The Beginning TeaApril 18, 2008nts and recent graduates, Institute for Education, La Trobe University, Bendigo, December.

Nichol, R. (2004) 'To Grow Up In The Ashes: Responses of Indigenous Teachers to a Pedagogy for Social Education', The Social Educator, Vol 22, No 1

• Conference Papers
  

  'The Place of Indigenous Pedagogy in Education for Reconciliation', Australian Indigenous Education Conference, 'Learning Better Together', Edith Cowan University and ATSIC, Fremantle, WA, April 2000: Refereed Paper.

  'The Disempowered Facilitator as Empowering Change Agent : An Australian - Indonesian Case Study of Action Research in Education', [refereed paper with Michael Faulkner] The 5th Action Learning, Action Research, Process Management, and 9th Participatory Action Research World Congress, Ballarat University, 10-14th September 2000

  'Fair Go, Fair Share, Fair Say, Fair Content- Pedagogies for Indigenous Education', Social Education Association of Australia 2001 Biennial National Conference, 'Empowering Our Youth - Celebrating Federation,' Manning Clarke Centre, ANU, Canberra, 24-27 January, 2001

  'Indigenous Culture and Pedagogy: Cult or Continuity?' Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, La Trobe University, 27-29 September, 2001

  "To Grow Up In The Ashes: Researching Indigenous Pedagogy in Aboriginal Australia" [refereed paper] Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 9), September 9th to 13th, 2002, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

  "Learning from Anthropology: Indigenous perspectives on content and pedagogy for social studies", A Paper presented to the Social Studies Symposium 2003, Establishing New Frontiers: Social Studies in the 21st Century, National Institute of Education, Singapore, March, 2003

  "Rethinking Anthropological and Indigenous Perspectives: Responses of Indigenous teachers to a pedagogy for social education", [refereed paper] Social Education Association of Australia (SEAA) Biennial Conference, "Social Education for a Changing World", Rydges Hotel, Melbourne, July, 2003. Published in The Social Educator, 2004

  "Social Studies, Citizenship and National Education in Singapore: Constraints, Contradictions and Possibilities", [refereed paper] Social Education Association of Australia (SEAA) Conference, Brisbane, January 2006.