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Brotherhood and belonging: creating pedagogic spaces for positive discourses of Aboriginal youth

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dc.contributor.authorCominos, N.
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell, D.
dc.contributor.authorGloede, K.
dc.contributor.editorHabib, S.
dc.contributor.editorWard, M.
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractRepresentations of Aboriginal youth in Australia are typically characterised by deficit discourses often in relation to normative, Eurocentric educational criteria. They are described as maladapted learners, living in disengaged communities, without identifiable or recognisable literacy or numeracy practices. This chapter argues that through sport Aboriginal youth are demonstrating alternative ways of being and belonging, which avoid facile Western-traditional binary classifications, and that bringing this emerging discourse into the classroom context valorises Aboriginal voices. In a novel pilot study, the on-field language of young Aboriginal players of Australian rules football was recorded and transcribed. Language mapping of the transcripts showed that the students and their coaches developed a cohesive team identity through the consistent use of specific interpersonal tokens of solidarity and leadership. Positive discourse analysis offers a forward-looking, constructive theoretical framework through which the voices, practices and context of Aboriginal youth can be described and valorised, casting them as agents of social change. The chapter proposes an alternative pedagogy which gives students a way into previously inaccessible academic literacies and teaches them how to use those literacies to create counter narratives which inform a sense of belonging in traditional classroom contexts and beyond.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Youth, place and theories of belonging, 2019 / Habib, S., Ward, M. (ed./s), Ch.8, pp.92-108
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780203712412-8
dc.identifier.isbn9781138559622
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/138461
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSociological Futures
dc.rightsCopyright 2019 The Authors Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available after 1 April 2021
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712412
dc.subjectAboriginal youth
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.titleBrotherhood and belonging: creating pedagogic spaces for positive discourses of Aboriginal youth
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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