Professor Peter Buckskin

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Other projects

More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers Initiative (MATSITI)

MATSITI - a four year national scheme to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people entering and remaining in professional teaching positions in Australian schools.

The $7.5 million MATSITI Initiative was announced by the then Commonwealth Minister for Schools, Early Childhood and Youth, the Hon. Peter Garrett MP, in July 2011 and was funded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The project concluded on 31 May 2016 with reporting commitments concluding 24 June 2016. 

Respect, Relationships and Reconciliation (RRR)

RRR: - an on-line module to support the provision of initial teacher education to improve teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education.

In response to a request for proposal from the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) in 2013; UniSA along with consortium partners Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE), University of Southern Queensland and La Trobe University successfully tendered for $385,000 project.

AITSL have provided an additional $85,000 to complete and release the project in June 2016.

Excellence and Equity in Maths: Indigenous Student Achievement and Tertiary Aspirations in Mathematics 

In 2014, the MATSITI team was successful in winning $783,000 in Federal Government funding from the Australian Maths and Science Partnerships Program (AMSPP). This project was led in partnership with the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers.

The three-year national project aims to achieve mathematics excellence and equity in schooling and tertiary education choices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The initiative aims to:

• close the gap in achievement in numeracy and mathematics education between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and the total student population in Australian schools; and
• address the under-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in higher education, particularly in mathematics and the sciences. 

Accelerating Indigenous Higher Education

In 2015, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium [Aboriginal Corporation] (NATSIHEC) was identified as the key mechanism for engagement regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education. As Chair, Professor Buckskin secured $335,000 from the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training funding for the Accelerating Indigenous Higher Education project for 2016. The project aims to engage experts and leaders in university and industry to:

• determine approaches to improve Indigenous outcomes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM);
• increase the Indigenous academic workforce; and
• support whole-of-university approaches to improving Indigenous higher education outcomes.

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ResearcherID or Scopus

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Chapters

Conferences

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Other outputs

Conferences

2015 - Buckskin, P, ‘Claiming the Space: Building Cultural Integrity in the Western Academy by respecting the place of Indigenous Knowledges, Insights and Understandings’, Indigenous Content in Education Symposium.

2015 - Buckskin, P, ‘Advancing Reconciliation in Early Childhood Education and Care’, Early Childhood Australia Reconciliation Symposium.

2015 - Buckskin, P, ‘A Generation of Change: Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation’, United Nations Youth South Australian Conference.

2014 - Buckskin, P, ‘Teaching for Cultural Diversity: Australian Indigenous Perspectives in Curriculum and Workforce Quality’, 17th United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (UNESCO-APEID) International Conference.

2013 - Buckskin, P, ‘Policy to Praxis: addressing the tension between what happens inside versus what happens outside the school gates?’ Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual International Conference.

2013 - Buckskin, P, ‘Does the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority pass the cultural integrity test?’ Australian Curriculum Studies Association Biennial Curriculum Conference.

2013 - Buckskin, P, ‘Connecting the dots for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners … Australian Curriculum; National Standards for Teachers and Leaders; and Closing the Gap’, Department of Education, Western Australia.

2013 - Buckskin, P, ‘The elephant in the Australian staff room: Introducing race into debates over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational outcomes’, Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) International Conference.

Aboriginal Knowledges; Race and Racism; International Perspectives and Perceptions; Reconciliation; Aboriginal Education; Public Policy