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  • Inclusion/exclusion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students: Understanding how ‘We’ matters

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    Demosthenous, Catherine
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    Demosthenous, Catherine
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    The inclusion of Indigenous people in universities is an important policy issue, as evidenced by the Review of Higher Education and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which is currently underway. While the Review aims to collectively address access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in universities to ensure parity in the sector, a key contributor to those outcomes is that of participation. This article examines a focus group interaction in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are yarning about their experiences of participating in university life, using ...
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    The inclusion of Indigenous people in universities is an important policy issue, as evidenced by the Review of Higher Education and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which is currently underway. While the Review aims to collectively address access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in universities to ensure parity in the sector, a key contributor to those outcomes is that of participation. This article examines a focus group interaction in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are yarning about their experiences of participating in university life, using Ethnomethodology (EM) and its analytic methods. Premised on the understanding that language is action, the study examines the students' use of personal pronouns and particularly the first person pronoun 'we', using the inclusive/exclusive distinction. Applying this pronominal system here provides insights into the notion of inclusion/exclusion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Australian higher education, and for understanding how 'we' matter(s) in everyday university life.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Social Inclusion
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.pneumonia.org.au/index.php/inclusion/article/viewArticle/200
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2012. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website. The online version of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/
    Subject
    Linguistics not elsewhere classified
    Social Work
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47078
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    • Journal articles

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    • Gold Coast
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    • Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
    First Peoples of Australia
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