Professor Peter Buckskin PSM FACE Dean and Head of School

1. INDIGENOUS EDUCATION OUTCOMES: Are the Answers in the Mainstream? Professor Peter Buckskin PSM FACE Dean and Head of School David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research

2. Governments continue to manage Indigenous education in an environment of crisis and blame

3. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP) • equality of access to educational services • equity of educational participation • equitable and appropriate educational outcomes • involvement of Indigenous people

4. Yes we need a revolution • Engagement • Cultural competency • Indigenous workers • Indigenous advice

5. Teacher and Learner • Cultural competency • -Teacher pre service/post service • Principals • Bureaucrats • Value the learner • Language • relationship between teacher/student

6. Community Engagement • Engage locally • -early childhood education programs • -health and education compacts 0-8 aged children • Advise nationally • -listen to Indigenous educators • -establish a National Indigenous Teaching/Learning Council

7. Can we close the gap? • Yes we can!