Indigenising curriculum in Business education

Abstract

This paper focuses upon one Australian university's embedding of Indigenous curriculum strategy as a case study for understanding why Indigenous leadership is crucial for moving institutional commitments forward. The task of embedding Indigenous content into established western discipline curriculum, taught almost exclusively by non-Indigenous academics, requires grounded Indigenous leadership upheld by the institution and individual academic collaborators. Ranzijn et al (2008) outlined five main inhibitors to developing culturally engaged curriculum - lack of institutional commitment; dependence on individual discretionary effort and goodwill; assuming that Indigenous departments in Univers..