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Dr Raymond Nichol
BA (Hons), MA by Research (Monash), PhD (La Trobe), TPTC (Burwood), MACE, FAAS

Senior Lecturer, Social Science Education
Co-ordinator, International

Room/Location: 3.13 Education
Ph: 5444 7329
Fx: 5444 7800
Email: r.nichol@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Areas

• Humanities and Citizenship Education
• Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education
• Australian Studies, particularly cultural, social and political issues
• Educational and social science research methodology

Research Interests

• Indigenous Pedagogy and Education, in Australia and Melanesia
• Ethnographic and action research, in Australia, Melanesia, Singapore and Japan
• Citizenship education
• Primary social studies: planning, implementation and evaluation

Recent Publications and Presentations

• Nichol, R. and Sim, J. (2007) 'Singaporean Citizenship, National Education And Social Studies: Control, Constraints, Contradictions and Possibilities', Citizenship Teaching and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 1, April.
• Nichol, R. (2006) 'Social Studies, Citizenship and National Education in Singapore' The Social Educator, Vol 24, No 1, March.
• Nichol, R (2006/5) Socialization, Land and Citizenship Among Aboriginal Australians: Reconciling Indigenous and Western Forms of Education. The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, USA.
• 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
• 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.

Conference Papers

• 'Ownership of Knowledge: Issues Affecting Indigenous Education and Pedagogy in Australia and Melanesia'
• Ownership and Appropriation, A joint international conference of the ASA, the ASAANZ and the AAS, University of Auckland, New Zealand, December 2008.
• 'Pedagogical Issues Affecting Indigenous Citizenship and Education in Australia and Melanesia', Making a Difference: Multidimensional Citizenship Education in a Changing World. Social Educators Association of Australia Biennial Conference, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, January, 2008.
• 'Growing up in the Ashes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues Affecting Indigenous Education', International Conference, School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives, New Delhi, India, December 2007.
• 'On Reconciling Indigenous and Western Forms of Education.' Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, University of London, November 2007.
• 'Social Studies, Citizenship and National Education in Singapore: Constraints, Contradictions and Possibilities', Social Education Association of Australia (SEAA) Conference, Brisbane, January 2006.
• 'Learning from Anthropology: Indigenous perspectives on content and pedagogy for social studies', Social Studies Symposium 2003, Establishing New Frontiers: Social Studies in the 21st Century, National Institute of Education, Singapore, March, 2003
• 'To Grow Up In The Ashes: Researching Indigenous Pedagogy in Aboriginal Australia', Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 9), Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September, 2002
• '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, January, 2001.
• 'Indigenous Culture and Pedagogy: Cult or Continuity?' Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, La Trobe University, September, 2001.
• '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.