EduResearch Matters February 27, 2025 By Andrew J. Martin, Keiko C.P. Bostwick, Tracy L. Durksen, Rose Amazan, Kevin Lowe and Sara Weuffen
Aboriginal Perspectives in the Curriculum: Many teachers feel they lack the necessary skills and knowledge to teach Aboriginal perspectives, even though it’s a cross-curriculum priority. Researchers have sought to identify effective strategies to assist teachers, including how to meaningfully incorporate such perspectives into classroom learning and respond to the needs of local Aboriginal communities. It is vital for promoting mutual respect and understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members of society.
Alongside research into the skills and knowledge needed to teach Aboriginal perspectives effectively, we suggest that understanding teachers’ motivation towards working with Aboriginal perspectives is a valuable avenue to explore. Taking self-efficacy as a motivational case in point, teachers lack the confidence to teach Aboriginal perspectives. This lack of confidence has been observed to impact their students’ own motivation for learning, including their Aboriginal students’ motivation.
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