Post-Imperial Perspectives on Indigenous Education

Peter J. Anderson is Professor and Executive Director of the Carumba Institute at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.Koji Maeda is Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Waseda University, Tokyo.Zane M. Diamond is Professor at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne.Chizu Sato is Professor at International Christian University, Tokyo.

• 1: Introducing Indigenous Education in Japan and Australia Part I: Historical perspectives on Indigenous education, Indigenous higher education, and teacher education in Japan and Australia 2: An Indigenous history of education in Japan and Australia 3: The place of Indigenous Peoples in multicultural education: Policies, debates and practices in Australia and Japan 4: Higher education in Japan and the history of Ainu demands 5: Indigenous higher education in historical context in Australia Part II: After UNDRIP: Japanese and Australian responses and possibilities 6: Challenges and responses to UNDRIP in Australian and Japanese Indigenous education 7: Embracing and resisting Indigenist perspectives in Australian pre-service teacher education 8: Teacher education issues in Okinawa 9: Questioning current issues in the higher education sector for Japan’s Ainu People 10: Stabilizing and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities Part III: Considering post-imperial Indigenous education in Japan and Australia 11: The significance of building an Ainu-led higher education system and the empowerment of the Indigenous Ainu 12: The usefulness of the idea and concept of reconciliation for guiding Australian Indigenous higher education in the postcolonial, post-imperial world